Grateful Dead Capital Center, Landover, MD 9/2/88 Complete Show

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

He can make that guitar cry tears I swear ! One of my favs , 🙁☹️😔🐰🐇💦🌹🥀👻⚡️🕊️💥☄️🪽⛈️✌️🫶🏼😢🥲😍🥰😘

[@Sbannmarie]

Yes he can! 😢

[@jktunney]

clicked on this becuz of jer's shirt

[@togaroc345]

me too..lol

[@petegrady9905]

yeah, how can you not?

[@Rockandrollgeerage]

Jake Tunney looks like Jerry and Bob got a two for one special at Kohls

[@Rockandrollgeerage]

Vee K. wtf, i made a joke go fuck yourself you fuckn freak

[@veek.6463]

And what you say about others becomes what is said about you. Enjoy being viewed as a walking two for one at Kohl's I guess. Bummer. One day you'll get it sorted. Be nice. It's the root of your happiness.

[@darrencsullivan]

One of the craziest nights of my life. Sometimes, you can live a lifetime in a single day.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

At a GRATEFUL DEAD show, that is totally possible ❣❣❣👏🎯💯👏

[@augustwest5273]

Cap Center and for the next few years, some great shows. March run, sept runs, the up the east coast , a special time.

[@paulsnow2509]

Springfield '76 was one of mine.

[@janicepohl9264]

TRUTH

[@larsfreeman1426]

i had an interesting night and day before on the lot... damndest thing... couldnt sleep :)

[@chrischandler6995]

I was in my first week of college in New Orleans.I flew up to D.C. took the train to George Washington University to drop off my stuff.Took a train to Landover.Started walking to the show when some beautiful people picked me up.After being stuck in massive traffic on the road,I asked if it was cool to jump out since they were all getting in tomorrow.They said full of love&energy "go run have a great show".I jumped out and ran fast to the Capital Center.Handed my ticket to the door attendent ,found my seat .Waiting was my brother and two good friends.We hugged&kissed;50 seconds at most passed, lights out band walks out He'll In A Bucket rages!!! A day flying,running,Living down to the minute;pure magic!!!

[@demeoanthony1810]

That’s fucking beautiful man!!!! Talk about living life of life’s terms and catching a break ✌️

[@nmmbg]

My first show!!! Thanks so much for posting!!!

[@mboggs3010]

This was my first tour awesome memories!

[@bongodave13]

I was there. My 27th birthday. I got my present the next night, though, with that unexpected Ripple. Such great memories. A great time and place to be!

[@spuddougherty7860]

140 shows and this is in my top 5. Ripple was a crazy bust out but this show was sooo great!

[@MorningView4]

The coolest place in the world to be I’d say. Happy you had such a killer 27th bday. Cheers!

[@absolutelypositively]

@@spuddougherty7860 i thought Saturday night (ripple) was the best of the bunch. Just goes to show how each show could be special for various personal reasons. This is a great show tho. No doubt there.

[@tabathastaples7884]

Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Pastor Murray is an Anointed Servant of GOD who teaches the Word of GOD with Authority!!!!!!!

[@tomzeman5964]

Had Jerry been a gardener he'd plant a paradise for every note he played a seed was planted in our hearts.

[@seanspainhour2521]

My first ever Dead show - Thank you so much for sharing!

[@guineveregruntle6746]

I made the 4 night run in Landover. Incredible shows!

[@spuddougherty7860]

140 shows...definitely in my top 5...the Cap Center and Spectrum were always good to me!

[@michaelsteding7720]

They always did satisfy the soul in Philly and DC.

[@thomasnichols5565]

Great show, the last fall show at The Cap Centre in Landover, MD.... still the loudest crowd noise was that Rubein & Cherise from 1991 at that venue=1st time played by The Omnipinent Grateful Dead

[@chrisdeffx6548]

My first show! I remember running down the stairs to the floor during Hiabucket. Several dimensions opened up during Sunshine. ye oww.....I had no idea what I was getting into. Spent all 5 nights (they took a night off) in the parking lot.

[@rscottmurray]

my first show as well! so nice to be able to watch it here. cheers and thanks for posting Kevin

[@nmmbg]

mine too!!! and only TLEO and Dire Wolf...

[@ezm69]

I’d just turned 18 and it was my first run where I could do the whole thing. All 4 shows were great and a great scene in the parking lots.

[@mjsmith11]

My first show as well!

[@spuddougherty7860]

Man...thats a good 1st show!

[@gordoksel]

Oh yeah now I remember being there. Good job younger self for stocking the memory shelves with some good nuggets for the hard times. 👍👉❤

[@MrBobbystyles]

Jerry loved to scuba dive and the peace he could find in Hawaii

[@gregorythomas2674]

Yeah that is what i thought when i saw him in that shirt I had to click and see how he played. Not the best show but only caught a tune or two and as we know they can vary tightness during show. But to the point, felt like he was sharing a bit of himself in the shirt and something he was excited about and as u said found peace in. In the end he summed it all up in this show "there's nothing you can hold for very long"

[@carldietz7349]

I think he found more peace under the waves than in public!! 😆

[@garyheninger1876]

@@gregorythomas2674 Z, 8

[@danielkeene3852]

@@carldietz7349 The sea life didn't pester him or fawn over his presence. If the only place I could go to get some peace and quiet and just a normal natural environment was under the ocean's surface, I would be doing that as well.

[@pmayer]

That's a gem. Thanks for creating and posting it.

[@rexhaney7281]

thanks man I'm a dead head I'll be a dead head after life is over man there's nothing else for me to be in to live for his dad Thanks brother

[@drewkoslow3467]

Awesome post. First time I've seen this video or heard the crispy soundboard since the show. Many thanks Kevin and Charlie!

[@jonathanandrewwatkinsartpoetry]

Thank you for the upload, Kevin. Very nicely done!

[@gregbuie63]

This was my first show... The first of many to follow... And still many to go

[@mattyboyb523]

Beautiful Man !! This show was absolutely dynamite!! The energy was insane!! Just watch Jerry swaying to Stella Blue

[@davedread2333]

30 yrs ago today...My 1st of many shows!!!!

[@freebornstan]

I am overwhelmed by this! Some of the best sync work and the video? WOW! Cheers to to you brother! Thank you soooooooo much!

[@home2443]

wait! he produced this? by slicing a new soundtrack to the video?

[@freebornstan]

Thanks for posting this! Very cool! I was at 2 of the shows but not this one. Got the Ripple show! The Bucket-Love Each Other opener is top notch!

[@BeansMaskSheen]

this was my first Dead show! thanks so much!

[@DennisCampbell777]

I was there. the Ripple shows. Very nice. Thanks to all involved from the band to Charlie Miller to you Kevin.

[@BrokedownHouseProd]

Not sure where you got the idea that Voodoonola had anything to do with this video. Taped & Provided by Ian Production Consultant: Markiki Capture & Edit by P.Togos Synch & Author by Kevin Tobin As you can see he didn't, but I bet it will be up on his channel in a couple days

[@DennisCampbell777]

Sorry Kevin. I mixed you guys up....honest mistake. Thanks again.

[@adamziccardi9138]

Great tape. It's amazing that this was almost 30 years ago...

[@emalerocket]

They always sound good to me at the capital center. esp the mid 70's shows. Thanks Kevin for posing this one---

[@Gratefulbob]

Muchas Garcias

[@jasonpope9284]

Thx a million for this! I have the sbd audio and have read several articles on the shirt.

[@christodt6668]

Jerry rocking the Casual Friday look!

[@Sbannmarie]

Brent was magic on that keyboard!

[@deadreckoning6288]

So talented. 80s Dead with Brent was peak. 💀

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Well it’s almost 10:30 pm for me rite now so I’m in bed having a Grateful time ! Thank u Mr. Tobin ! 🌹🐰🐇🥀☄️⚡️💥🪽🕊️✌️🫶🏼

[@levinemarcj]

I was there. First night of the tour.

[@veek.6463]

Well I'll say it then- that is a very passionate Stella Blue. Loved it.

[@usarmyveteran177]

I was at this show while stationed at Fort Meade, Md. One of my first. This is when I found out that I was god eating some bbq chicken on acid in the parking lot and chasing it down with beer and nitrous oxide. What a hoot.

[@randyboone3503]

A day after my 21st birthday. Was at all 4 shows and actually had row 2, 3, and 16 floor tix from GDTS (I think I put "it's my 21st birthday" on the index card and some sister in San Raphael smiled on me). And yes, my gift was the next night with the One More Sat Night > Ripple encore as another dude said down below. Without love in the dream it'll never come true.

[@MrGrbee]

Thanks Kevin. Grateful for the visuals. Hey Hunter, how absoLute truths can you pack into one song? It all rolls into one. Nothing comes for free. There’s nothing you can hold for very long. And of course, it seems like all this life was just a dream.

[@charlesclark8568]

was there. One of about 30 cap centre shows for a md head

[@nowhereman6130]

They went deep this night and so did I. Nice shirt Jerry!

[@Spherian7]

Excellent version of "Althea".

[@Bluecollar711]

I was literally right behind you at the show

[@jantinucci]

Always a special show when they played They Love Each Other (TLEO for us tapers.. :)

[@trinimendo-humboldt8934]

you are kiddin' right? They love each other?????

[@MrForestExplorer]

I love that song and this version is very nice. The band is in the zone.

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

NAK 300s shotguns into a D-5 :)

[@samiam7342]

i love that song!

[@absolutelypositively]

TLEO is a fine song. I was always glad to hear it at Dead shows. Including this one!

[@rgo5609]

This was another one of those magical nights !

[@user-nk8ni9xs5e]

Drove down from NY state with a buddy of mine.. I was still pining for "the" girl I thought I was going to marry that dumped me the year before...i had left the scene for her three years before, head over heels in love and believing I was someone I ended up not being. There will always be the nostalgic feeling for her but this show, what happened during it and, the lesson that was taught me directly afterward began a transformation that continues to this day and I'm thankful for it. Sponge, Weezie & Wild Bill..."What Rooster?"

[@jonnydarkroast]

Wow .. I was outside listening through the walls with my buddy Pat. Made it in the next night though and we all know what that was :):):) Wow what I would not give to go back to this run ..

[@JackARoe1964]

I was there, awesome!

[@reginaloffland-fy8iz]

I also clicked on this show because of that shirt!!

[@stanleymarch354]

for those who need better sound and louder get an audio enhancer the sound really comes alive again in surround!! its an app..

[@stanleymarch354]

DFX is the one I like and I listen to music 24/7

[@laurencebritt8771]

What a night I remember the show because I went with a friend who is no longer with us lightning Lou when you went out with Lou there was always a story to tell there was none like him. I miss him and those Capital Center shows.

[@Pun2404]

This was on my 4th Birthday

[@jonkiparsky7369]

The hell, was Garcia headed for a date after the show?

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

He mite of thought that I was there because I made lots of trips to , RI ,NY, Mass, Conn. ,DC , Chigcargo , Ohio , Jamaica , San Francisco , + so on plus a few more but I’m tired so I have to stop ! Sorry but I’ll b back ! 🌹🐰🐇⚡️🕊️💥🪽💧🥀👻👽🪐🛸🚀☄️☀️⭐️⛈️💦 it’s been very rainy where I live !

[@lisaf2751]

My 1ST EVER AND I MET THE BEST FRIENDS EVER 22:28 TILLTHIS DAY GODBLESS

[@DAVINOENTERPRISES]

A+

[@baronsnobolla6393]

Jerry's black t shirts must have all been in the wash :)

[@chrisrutherford9216]

The red one too

[@dirtsurf1]

Has anyone else talked much about the parallels between 77,78,79 and 87,88,and 89? To me those three sets of years seem so similar. The 7's were the start of something good the 8's were my favorite and the 9's are tight and kind of the last good stuff... Maybe I overthink this:)

[@bhaktabilly4669]

interesting to note that jerry was "sober" during some of those later years

[@trinimendo-humboldt8934]

durtsurf I think you're overthinking

[@trinimendo-humboldt8934]

Bhakta Billy nah,it was after Brent died that Jerry really gave up, you could Jerry would have rather been anywhere else but onstage with the GD

[@tonydanis1480]

TriniMendo-Humboldt oh, Jerry very much wanted to be onstage. he just didn't want Vince onstage with him :-)

[@trinimendo-humboldt8934]

Tony Danis Trust me if Jerry didn't want Vince in the band, he would have never played song 1 with the GD. Jerry lost interest in the whole scene about the time Brent passed. And the music was never the same again. Not even remotely close.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

This is my niece + Bobbys song when they were together , he told me he would of married her if she had not already done that so broken heart for him but then my niece realized her mistake to late so he went to marry a virgin who waited for him until she was 21 ! He is still married to her plus my niece stayed with her husband also but he will play this when ever she called him secretly ! ❤❤

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Crying in the rain ,rain go away ! For my niece !

[@jamesmoad7283]

Well Wow!!

[@Spherian7]

I like the shirt - It's like a cool Hawaiian vacation party, and everyone's invited!

[@cronk707]

"Listen to the Dead. It's good for the soul. Parish was Garcia's right hand man, one of his best friends along with John Kahn, and his roadie for all his bands. don't shop at kohl's. " Ahmen.

[@absolutelypositively]

@Koreen Cole Hahahaha...LOL...thanks for the laugh!

[@daveyboy8907]

Killer stella blue..

[@nikoniko4457]

Let it Grow on fire!

[@jeffriley2218]

This sounds darn good

[@hpatss4966]

Great work, killer sound on here ; fabulous but the taper was behind a lot of dancers (at least for the first set) a bit distracting at times. Limits the shots considerably still pretty cool.

[@danh367]

I was drinking last night with a biker...

[@jonswenk8073]

Surfs Up Jerry !! Althea !! ❤

[@Captainkrunk420]

Whoaa never seen bobby use the casio fro an entire show!

[@thejamnasium6447]

Jerry looking quite stylish

[@paw1dawg]

My first of about 165 shows.

[@fordprefect7316]

Jerry's got some goat vibes going on during althea.😊

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

No matter what I got to help Jerry b carried + I had his guitar in my hand then Steve took it all away from me but I never mentioned it until during COVID to tell my niece Bobbys girl about but she wondered y I never told her , all I could say , I don’t know because I don’t know where I went after that nite ! It’s still lost to me after all these years I can’t remember only what I said to u y’all !!❤

[@stnz908]

Happy New Year sisters & brothers

[@helbitkelbit1790]

They finally tore this place down. The Prince George's police , were some of the worse I've ever had to deal with.

[@Eric777-71]

Hey, Eric here dig this at Landover this run,a cop ended up taking me and my girlfriend to the store to get beer (somehow I don't know how) but that's what ended up happening, and he was super cool about it!!he didn't mess with us at all!! Just a little thing I remember from 88 Landover ✌️🎼🎶🎶🎶😋

[@rancholuna6507]

I wasn't there

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I got to say that I never have seen Jerry so dressed up ? Maybe it was for me but I think I had left him but we both never really knew it , I decided it when we were together high on my coke + hugging so hard together that we didn’t want to stop but Steve kept pounding on the door so I had to make Jerry aware that he was late to get on stage ! Steve told me I couldn’t come to anymore shows if he could do anything about it because we had to help Jerry to the stairs so he figured I did something awful bad to him I guess ? I would never do anything to him , my soulmate to love forever ! 🌹🐰🐇🥀🕊️☄️🪽☀️👻🤩👽🪐🛸🚀💥⚡️☄️⭐️👻

[@vincethompson82]

like jake, I also clicked cause of the shirt. grate click. looks like sales of In The Dark afforded them some new threads. ha.

[@samiam7342]

wow jerry got dressed up for this show!

[@stevenlawrence9930]

Definitely, not his regular black T! 🎉

[@samiam7342]

@@stevenlawrence9930 dark blue not black...

[@paularata3945]

Also Phil Lesh on bass

[@ChrisMelfa]

Might of even been Phils s 50th b day that 3 day stop. Unbroken chain.

[@ahnanda68]

I'm not sure when this particular show was either but it sure looks darn familiar and I often have dreams of them especially with the imagination 😍 take 5 😎 box of rain 😇💙⚡️❤️

[@stanleymarch354]

I do too, often.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I just have to add 1 more thing that Me + Jerry were telepathic together so not much between us had to b said just that look of love ,

[@sterlingmartin3212]

I think it a bit strange how when Jerry came back from the 86 coma, he was totally shredding!!!

[@edwardsmith3084]

He had to learn guitar from scratch. I think he was experimenting with styles and testing his limits

[@home2443]

I think that at essence Jerry had a very powerful and fully formed unique personality

[@user-nv2tl9cd4e]

He cleaned up for a bit and told the raven not so fast and was glad to beat the reaper ,,saw it and all the positive energy pulled him through ?? Until it didnt😢

[@DLinberg]

If you can’t get on board with Hawaiian shirt Jerry I don’t know what to tell you

[@TheGravygun]

surely looks like rain

[@ThePooneil]

Maybe Garcia lost a bet with Weir and had to wear it?

[@DennisCampbell777]

Weir bet Jerry fifty bucks that he would forget the words to Ripple at these shows. He didn't and word has it Weir never paid up!

[@analogman69]

Garcia or Weir didn't know they were playing Ripple to that afternoon. They hosted a "make a wish" kid that show. When he was talking to Jerry he was asked his favorite song. It was Ripple. Jerry said they see what they could do. This was pre internet so a team was sent out to find a songbook. This is mentioned in several books.

[@DennisCampbell777]

A songbook? Jerry wrote the song with Robert Hunter, no songbook needed, they wrote it. The band had not played it since the acoustic shows at Radio City Music Hall in the fall of 1980.

[@analogman69]

I know who wrote the song. I was there, and know what Jerry said. Correct they hadn't played since Radio City and Jerry didn't want to fuck it up for the "Make A Wish" 13 year old. Who passed away 6 months later. Not going to argue about something you didn't witness.

[@DennisCampbell777]

I had a great time, was there as well. Sorry to piss you off. We found out about the The Make a Wish Foundation's involvement the next day. Have a wonderful life.

[@christophersmith9613]

Killer!

[@DLinberg]

Can I please just see more of Jerry in a Hawaiian shirt?

[@bodhinug]

Hawaiian shirt Friday?

[@tonydanis1480]

love the look, frankly.

[@bodhinug]

Beats the old Jerry black tee and sweats. This is a very festive look (~);-}

[@tjw3999]

jerry had a date he he

[@robinwembley2578]

Jerry's stylist was with him that day!

[@tonydanis1480]

And if anybody ever needed a stylist.......................

[@paularata3945]

Finally Bob's guitar is loud enough

[@markamiller100]

Freakin' Great Show, Hawaiin Shirt & All, Wow ! & Thanks For Shopping @ Wal-Mart !

[@dumbek]

My first show!

[@gregbuie63]

Mine too

[@chrisdeffx6548]

@@gregbuie63 Mine three

[@davidgiles6856]

what is bob doing on scarlet begonias?

[@dirtsurf1]

He might be a little high in the mix but I think he's doing good...

[@tonydanis1480]

durtsurf Super high in the mix at the end of Stella, which is something I've never heard before. Works really great, though, and Jerry certainly approves.

[@czarsolarhydrowind]

Looked like his fx was messing up and it trou him for a loop.

[@chrisrutherford9216]

What's with Bobby's pink guitar? I've been stuck on it since 88 & I still don't get it.

[@chrisrutherford9216]

@Fred Jaminson I like breasts. I guess I can get behind that. Supporting cancer research is good too. That's the only answer I've ever gotten to that question & I've been asking for a few years now. Thx.

[@stanleymarch354]

this night it was white?

[@jerrygarcia9244]

The one thing I love reading on these boards and other boards is how absolutely intolerant Deadheads have become of other Deadheads. To say everything they did was great is a joke. To say half of what they did is great is a bit of a stretch, but overall they were amazing in so many ways and the music led that. But damnit people let people have their own opinions without insult. That is what I remember from the parking lot. Not all of this bullish online stuff.

[@veek.6463]

Everything they did was great. Every single last note or lack thereof. It was all a aspiration of liberation beyond your wildest imagination. Bro.

[@johnnythunders5408]

Right on! It'a about the ride and how you enjoyed it! And, let the other guy enjoy it their way. Memory does serve correct that there was always one Dead Head who knew more than the next..... I just remember having the time of my life.

[@oreokookie1000]

They were good at their niche...one hundred years from now, they will up next to the airplane, other bands, indeed all the 60's acts....just like the french impressionists were all a bit different in their own way. And all excellent..... You are simply getting a fools perspective, most of the lot today is children born in 1990....most deadheads today never heard of Fred Neill or howling wolf, or elizabeth cotton, all g.d. influences- irritates my old ass.

[@davnerg8452]

The 80's brought on a whole new scene. The music and the scene as whole wasn't as open, loving, and sweet as it once was. Interesting because as the band got more into hard drugs, hard drugs began getting big in the deadhead scene

[@oreokookie1000]

The answer is further out there....society had changed alot by the mid-80's: Reagan had colored the whole view, reagon-onomics(whatta joke)..punk was the new kool, the counterculture was no longer about vietnam protest....personally, I did not engage the 1980's p.o.view. I remain old skool to this day....punk never did a thing for me, altho, I despised thatcher and her policies(reagan too)...I think , by now, the truth is coming out despite the 80's. the giants stadium. coke, H, Jerry's b.m.w.....!!!!Haha!

[@Bluecollar711]

Why dosen't anyone ever communicate with me????

[@user-bc5wf2nj3z]

Hawaiian shirts & Heineken!

[@seanegan3296]

Woooo that fucking Althea

[@ChrisMelfa]

Liquid in McCormick fiod coloring bottles. 15 in group all got the joke. Same as 12 balloons in lot .

[@kevinminor9946]

Landover is a weird place. It just is. The crunchy distortion in they love each other. My stupid girlfriend . I love her

[@wadeclary3697]

Got arrested for saleing whipits and got out in time to injoy the show