Grateful Dead Capital Centre, Landover, MD on 3/16/93 Complete Show

[@michaelbrand7729]

This was my 546th Grateful Dead show. Another awesome night in Philly! ❤

[@herberthines6495]

This show is underrated. People complain about the express transition between the S > F but the Fire is soooo 🔥 !!! It soars and burns red hot!!!!

[@powerrockrecordings1827]

I was here for all three nights of this run. WHAT A SETLIST!

[@herberthines6495]

This Fire shreds!!! Wow. That high note kills it. Blew the roof off!

[@I_Was_Groot_2000]

I was there! Thank you for posting this!!!

[@TomBellos]

I was there too. This was my first show!! So happy this was posted.

[@lanceanderson7879]

I really dig Spring of '93. I believe Jerry had a moment of sobriety during this time from what I read. Short-lived but his playing was inspired and you could tell. I caught their run at Nassau the following month and have to say they all really sounded crisp, and Jerry was smiling and enjoying it...which then made for a great show. Thanks so much for sharing Mr. Tobin!!

[@tonydanis1480]

Yes, I've been discussing this with other folks , and it does seem Jerry did clean up during this period. Lots of musical evidence indicating this is the case.

[@tonydanis1480]

Yes, I've been discussing this with other folks , and it does seem Jerry did clean up during this period. Lots of musical evidence indicating this is the case.

[@I_Was_Groot_2000]

I agree. Jerry was feeling better and his performance here and at Nassau were both on point. It sucked that we had to lose fall tour in 1992, but these shows kind of made up for it.

[@jpwjr1199]

@Lance Anderson @Tony Davis I'm afraid the truth of it is more complicated than that. Yes, the spring tour of 93' Jerry's playing was very good. And yes he benefited from the rest and exercise he got missing the fall from the prior year, which in hindsight they should have done much more often (take a season off). However, it was actually at the start of this tour he started getting deeply into the junk again. From what I understand from listening around, Garcia was never someone to binge and to get so fucked up as not to function because of heroin, but obviously as he got older and continued to use with the comorbidity of being a diabetic that refused to totally alter his diet, he developed either carpal tunnel or neuropathy, or both, and by the middle of 94' his playing was fucked and never the same after that, which is the only real tragedy of Garcia as it relates to the Dead - that he let himself go to the point he didn't totally give a fuck. On the other hand, as Weir states in the Dead's filmography, Garcia may just have been getting bored post-Brent and post-Bruce, as he no longer had anyone to bounce his melodic ideas off of in as much of a dynamic manner. This show is evidence of that. Vince is a wonderful keyboard player, but never was, even much later on, an intuitive improviser. That's not Vince's fault, btw - some players just aren't and they can still be incredible musicians (Joshua Bell?). Garcia and the Dead made their own bed with that. So just putting that out there. And please don't use opioids, smoke Persian, or shoot smack if you can avoid it. I guess that's the lesson to be learned. And in Vince's case, the lesson to learn is to love yourself and keep trying to find peace in your heart.

[@tweakmctrumper9677]

Amen! Thank you Jerry n da boyz!!!

[@gratefuljr]

I was here. 3 good shows. I sat in the seats facing stage above floor. First time for me hearing so many roads, Corrina, broken arrow, lazy river road. All good songs that would have matched In The Dark album

[@Twotontessie]

Spring '93 - great stuff. Underrated. Phil and Jerry in top form. When that was happening at the same time these guys couldn't be beat.

[@brianperna7246]

93 was an excellent year. Don’t care what anyone says. Just my opinion of course

[@michaelbrand7729]

@@brianperna7246I agree wholeheartedly. I attended 78 of the 82 GD shows in 1993. An awesome year on the road with the boys. Believe me I’m still bummed about the 4 shows that I missed in 1993. ❤

[@herberthines6495]

Omg that peak is on fire!!!!

[@herberthines6495]

I was there and those notes completely blew the roof off the place. I felt pinned to the ceiling quite a few times lol

[@herberthines6495]

My first Grateful Dead show. I was 18 and it blew my mind. My sister and brother in law were also there and not yet the biggest deadheads because they were into Metallica and Iron Maiden. However, they were sitting directly across the arena from me in the Phil zone and as I am walking out after US Blues, i see them and they are both brimming with excitement and smiling ear to ear! They were both so anxious to get to me and were screaming over each other just to tell me how it was the best concert they had ever witnessed and they wanted to go on tour and hit every show possible from that moment forward! lol 😂 yeah it was like that!!!

[@kyleterral3048]

I was at all three shows in Landover.. Drove 24hrs from Arkansas to get there. Never forget it!

[@michaelbrand7729]

Nice!!! 🚙

[@charlesclark8568]

one of about 25-30 cap centre shows i saw as a MD head. Missed only 2 in 88 (incl the ripple for the wish foundation) from 86 on

[@michaelbrand7729]

Nice! ❤ This was my 546th GD show. ❤

[@bd2062]

Enjoying the memories....

[@markryan953]

I loved this show. My last Row Jimmy. I got my hotel robbed right after. Then hemmed up in Greenville on the way to Atl.... They didn't get the doses ...... Thou.....So Many Roads.....To Ease my Soul....

[@Twotontessie]

1:10:59 let’s go 🎉

[@williamshepley3923]

Got some killer acid gels from this show but took them at Shiley Acres concert a few weeks later...

[@msmith3407]

Was this the St Paddy's show? If so I was there! If not the next night. Gotta check my ticket stubs!

[@michaelbrand7729]

This was the 1st of 3 shows at Cap Center in 1993. 3/16/93.

[@herberthines6495]

Does anyone get it?! Put the camera on Jerry and leave it on him!!! The only time to move the camera from him is when he’s not on the stage. There is absolutely no reason to move it away from him when he’s on stage. He is what we want to look at when there’s music being played.

[@benjamindewberry8227]

There, brother.

[@randallleonard4344]

I think it was this show or maybe the next night that Bruce Hornsby sat in on the last two songs.

[@jasonmassey1647]

Could you hear that Candyman tees

[@casseyeaton4497]

🌞🌹

[@tonydanis1480]

Jerry still mostly sharp and worth listening to closely during this show. Actually, one of the most elegant and creative UJB solos I've ever heard. Seems to tire as the show progresses. Nevertheless, i would have liked to have been there.................

[@markhines3584]

+Tony Danis I was there! Amazing show (for 90's GD)! Jack Straw smokes! Beautiful So Many Roads...Also check out the KILLER Cassidy jam!!! S>F is short but punchy sweet! UJB > Phil Jam is AWESOME! Dew is cut short but Sugar Mags rocked the house and a super fun US Blues! SO FUN!!! And fantastic memories!!!

[@tonydanis1480]

Lucky you! I had the UJB as an unidentified filler on the back of a cassette and have been itching for years to find the show. I knew it had to be associated with a hot concert. I'm listening to this a lot. Saw a lot of 90s shows and,as long as Jerry was firing on all cylinders, they could be as good as anything in their career.

[@markhines3584]

How true! As long as it has Jerry and his chin isn't on his chest, anything could happen! :-) I was at the next night as well, where they broke out Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds! By far my most "out there" experience at a show! LOL Another hot DC show...6.25.93 RFK...6.26 also has highlights...One of the best versions of Stranger. And standout Brown Eyed Women and Birdsong. I loved summers at RFK!!! :-)

[@tonydanis1480]

There's all sorts of 90s Garcia I will study.for hours. I don't care how many.60s era Dark Stars anyone wants to quote, Jerry's fingering on the first solo on Eyes at the 3/16/94 LA show is as complex as anything he ever did. Especially since he's fidgeting with his electronics and yelling at Parrish over the closed mike at the same time. Check it out on KZbin, there's a great video with fine sound. It's hilarious to see him fussing, then pull off this spectacular solo. Even though this wss just months before his death and he was well into a bad.heroin habit, he seems strangely alert.

[@markhines3584]

I was at 10.1.94 Boston. Very fortunate to have attended. Do you know that show well? It was the happiest and alert I had seen Jerry in a long long time. It showed in his vocal delivery especially. There's a show in September that has a second set So Many Roads...by far his best solo ever for that song. He really digs deep. Also, 2.6.94 JGB...check out one of the nastiest Don't Let Go jams! He has the wah pedal in full force and is just noodling like a madman!!! So I know all about the latter years having their moments...love it!!! :-)