Grateful Dead 3-28-85 Nassau Coliseum Uniondale NY

Setlist:
Set 1
Truckin'
Smokestack Lightnin' *
High Time
El Paso
Peggy-O
Cassidy
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Looks Like Rain
Jam
Drumz
Space
Gimme Some Lovin
Other One
Black Peter
Sugar Magnolia
Day Job
* with Matt Kelly
Audio for Set 1 via Alan Fink, Mark Ferguson
Audio for Set 2 via Randy Griesman
Videorecording by Doug M.
VHS captured by Spyder9 productions
Video editing and audio synchronization by MattMan

[@sangielissa]

2nd set...drums.....space....Gimmie Some Lovin"..........................I can't even say anything about this 2nd set. This is one of their greatest sets, EVER!!! ENERGY OMG I was at this show. It was on fire!!!

[@sanfranapple]

perhaps the best setlist ever...and played with so much energy that if u werent there ...u ll nver get it

[@emrysdavies1215]

I wasn't there but Man I get it!!! Had the tapes for years!!!!! One of my fave raves ever!!!!!!! You're right sooooo much energy but spaced out as you can get!!!!!!!!!! So good to see it too!!!! You were so lucky to be there ems

[@matthewnicholson2699]

@@emrysdavies1215 Yeah but YOU weren’t THERE so YOU don’t KNOW!!!! Yes!! I’m jealous of anyone and everyone that’s seen jerry!!! I know it’s not the hippie way but just saying

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I’m sorry for u that u didn’t get to meet or c him ? He was a gracious man ! To smart for his own good which he didn’t like !

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I got to know him so u can b jealous of me ! Ok ?

[@photoleon01]

I Heart the WorldWideWeb. This was my very 1st show. Thanks for all your efforts voodoonola.

[@damnright4]

I was at these three nights this night was most memorable. Thanks for posting

[@gregmcgannon5150]

thank you Jerry for that peggio solo. my soul is full again

[@DennisCampbell777]

The angel made the repair. Don't let it leak in the future...

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Their r angels + ghost also because we have free will about where we want to go ! 😇☮️❤️🌹🛸👽🪐💀☠️🐰🐇🥀🥰😱😶‍🌫️🫥

[@marionchrist3795]

My first Dead show! So cool to find it on KZbin! Thanks. It was a great show that started a great ride for me.

[@thyrn888]

This run was my last East Coast shows before I moved to Berkeley the following week. What a sendoff!

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

I did that whole , North east tour that year. Snow in Portland on , April Fools day, , rocking in Springfield, Mass, , 3 days on Long Island, I almost got busted , but ended up with my picture on the front page of the " Long Island Register :20,000 hits of paper in my Yurgo. In front of my tent. From Canada.

[@tripfall224]

general admission shows...and they were LOUD!!! I couldn't stay in front of the band...'85 was awesome...so many new/borrowed songs...took me over an hour to find my car after this one...my head was swimmin'!!!

[@jewelsandbinoculars1]

I was to come out to the Nassau shows with college mates from MN. My finals finished earlier than the others ant they kept pushing back our departure time. I jumped in with some Heads I had not met previously and drove with them to Mass. Somehow scored a single to each of the Springfield shows which was a hard ticket. Then me up with my friends in Nassau for these shows. Pretty awesome run! Truckin', Smokestack, High Time to open....please! mosier1

[@marcbernicker206]

Thank you so much voodoo,i love you! I had no idea that i would be able to see and experience these shows again. I grew up on long island and went to every dead show and jgb shows at nausea coliseum. GD Fun Fact: In 1973 the nassau coliseum opened for business. The Grateful Dead were the first band to play the arena. Bill Graham productions with general admission tickets that cost about $6 if my memory serves me well.I also recall one of the spring 73 shows opening with a solemn Hes gone,as pig had passed away while they were on the road.What great memories. Like jerry, i used H for over 30 yrs (snorting only) and i know what jerry went through.Only been "clean" (from H) for a couple of years now but if i had my life to live over,i would do the same thing. I love the dead more than life itself and i am now 58 and sometimes when i watch a show like this i get all teary eyed. My first show was Nassau coliseum spring 1973 and i lost count of how many tours and shows i saw. I never could hold onto a good Day Job!

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I love u for loving Greatfuldead so much ! I hope u can stay clean , I’ve heard it’s one of the hardest drugs to kick ! I’m so sorry u went through that awful drug but being able to stop is a miracle !

[@j.t.eisenhower2823]

My first show. At the time I liked the Dead but wasn't really into them. Well, you know how people say they never really "got" the whole Dead thing until they saw their first show? My friend was telling me this on the train out from NYC and I was like, "What? That's total crap. It's just a concert." Five minutes into the show I realized how wrong I was. And I was never so happy to be wrong about something.

[@jefffelderman2409]

Talk about being dialed in! They were firing on all cylinders with a bouncy groove permeating throughout the show. As a veteran of over 300 shows, I would say this is one of the best shows I had the pleasure of attending. So many highlights. Epic CHINA > RIDER. The SCARLET > FIRE reaches peaks of monstrous proportions. Gar was on fire!

[@gregperuzzi6188]

Day before my 20th birthday, I was 10 rows back on the floor, totally spun. 85 rules!

[@chinarider2778]

Wore this tape out back in the day! Thanks Voodoo!

[@done1675]

Saw the band five years later on the same date in the same venue. They played High Time, Looks Like rain and TOO then too.

[@HGZMO]

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[@robertviejo9048]

totally awesome show. I had to sit on a curb outside after the show for a half hour, before I could even think about looking for my car!!! I remember the "heads" stealing a beer keg out of the Marriot hotel the night before!!! Oh, those were the days....the best!!!

[@joeryan1369]

Thanks as always for the post and all of the peeps that edited and synced and originally taped the show. Keeping history alive. Thanks.

[@InService77]

This 3 night run were my first shows outside of the southeast were I'm from. I was warned by friends from New York that New York crowds could be drunk, rowdy, etc. The parking lot scene felt a bit too druggish for me, but inside the Coliseum it was totally cool. When I went down to the floor for the first show, there was a guy asking everyone to pause for 5 seconds before entering the floor just to set up an easy going vibe. People were giving each other space to the point that I even spent one set on the front row with a couple of feet of space behind me for easy dancing. I went in with a throat infection that I figured was going towards strep, decided to dose anyway, and by the end of the show I felt totally fine. Oh, and the music was excellent.

[@bethparness2876]

Our first GD show..and here we are over 100+ shows later..How fitting to get on the bus with first song, Truckin! Long Live the Grateful Dead, and thank you BH!!

[@toddrosen9711]

I was lucky enough to be at this one. Easily the best show I’ve personally seen and the crowd was immersed in it. Never saw or felt anything like it at any other show...of course I did have the perfect cocktail that evening....but you knew that this one was special. Still blows me away. Highlights for me were the Scarlet, jam into fire and fire was ridiculous. The jam after looks like rain cool. And the jam from gimme sone lovin into black peter sounds like Pink Floyd. Awesome to find this show here. Thanks for posting!!

[@toddrosen9711]

Meant lovin > other one

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I also love Pink Floyd before I heard of the Gratefuldead then I was hooked in 1969 was the 1 st time by the 70 s I was on my way to c them !

[@theflavorchef]

was there...did 12 shows that year on this tour.. I just had one of those flashes I had been there before!!!

[@sanfranapple]

one if not the one...best setlist ever...

[@JGarcia77]

I spent three days in the parking lot, sleeping my '69 Impala after two nights in Springfield, Mass....Then on to Philly. College grades took a beating that spring!

[@denniscampbell6185]

Got to love great sound quality. Thanks guys.

[@Christopher-fw3ck]

This Scarlet Fire LL Rain jam into drums is fucking mind melting. I love early 80 Brent boards!!!!!!!!

[@DennisCampbell777]

What a show. You were lucky!

[@brentblack73]

Terrific Jerry solo in Scarlet.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Always love what u bring to us hard core Deadheads ! ❤️🐇🐰👽🪐🛸🌹💀☠️🎹🎼👻🥀☮️ love u !

[@damnright4]

NO ENERGY?? I was at this run of shows.. The energy this night was incredible, crackling with energy. I remember like it was yesterday, everyone in the parking lot was talking about this particular show at the time..

[@bobwobbabble5151]

damnright4 this show was like an energy vortex, like a quasar or a blackhole. Time and space melts inside your head and you come out reborn.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Love u both for what u say ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹☮️👽🪐🛸🥀🎹🎼💀☠️🍄🥰

[@scottyj946]

This set list is ridiculous ✌🏻❤️

[@sangielissa]

Maybe the first set, they were warmin' up or something but the second set they came out ON FIRE!!! and it didn't stop.

[@jimmynance4385]

What a Great Cassidy Indeed!!

[@miltonjames8986]

Let's keep it real; 1985 was one of the best years ever. The crazy set lists, the invigorating energy and good times the boys brought throughout the year.... 85 was an explosion of serious fizzled fun funk like only Jerry and the Band could provide. 77- great, no doubt. 85 thou? Sorry if you slept on it, but so glad you found it!

[@MrPinkpanther2001]

Incredible set 1, trucking , smoke stack high times open was not normal. Ended set with one of finest china riders played, the bridge is pure fire. Second set keeps going.

[@jcesare1]

I was there - you are so right. They were on fire and the set list was great.

[@jackstraw]

Thank You for that VooDoo that You Do so well. Seriously.

[@user-zf6fv2sg1e]

Very cool love to you all from Patti Cornell

[@Christopher-fw3ck]

still absolutely get chills on this jam outta ll rain

[@xindeed1]

Killer show!

[@Stagerli]

Johnwayne I agree 85 was actually a good year even with Jer going down hill. some great great shows that year. Brent was on fire and that kept the music moving .SPAC in june was a great show as well

[@miltonjames8986]

Jerry, however, was not going downhill. Lotta hearsay has been heard about JG's lifestyle, but not really my bidness. I just let his guitar speak for him.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

He was going , he wasn’t healthy + wanted to stop but couldn’t because of the cost of the others who worked for them !

[@MrPinkpanther2001]

this is one of top 1st sets from 80s, weir is playing at his best, gaecia is perfect, song selection great

[@stevemarinelli4829]

i was 10at this show im 42 now and set stage up at bonnorroo last year for dead and co. etc. what a long strange trip it has been !....

[@thephosphorescentrats280]

My first show ❤️⚡️💙

[@mijknahs]

Jerry has a beautiful guitar tone on this one.

[@MrGrbee]

Kudos VodoNo! The video is just as I remember this show, but less shakey, jumpy, floaty and spacey!!!

[@mikerubin22]

voodoonola thanks so much for sharing these videos; I'm an old man now, but, my college years were filled with over 150 dead shows....THANK YOU, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!! WHICH WAS YOUR FAVORITE SHOW?????

[@MrAbeone]

SCARLET/FIRE JAMS KILLED ME...RIP ME!!

[@MPM.Mikus.P.]

The Grateful Dead sure know how to play music, the audience is played by music!#LADYFINGERS.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

No one can play like Jerry , love him so much forever ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹👽🪐🛸🎼🎹🧡💜💚💙💛😘🥳🥰 I sure hope to b with him When I go !

[@danielmeehan1756]

I remember this Truckin opener. We all knew it was gonna be a special night.

[@jcesare1]

I was there - stood for 2 1/2 hrs, but it was worth it. Jerry was on fire.

[@desmundhume]

That JAM after LLR has some PLAYING IN THE BAND teases!!!

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

I was late for the show. The car I hired took a wrong turn somewhere and didn't get there 'till the 2nd set. While driving, the man of the hour came out with, "He's playing, Truckin'". We knew it. The driver made us insanely late, 'cause we gave him some good ass stuff, that made him miss the sharp right turn, the road sign, to make the right hand turn to Nassau Coll. When we arrived, the band went into, S Glad You Made It. So Glad You Made it, had a bit of a run there at later shows. So forkin' memorable!

[@tjw3999]

ha ha you know it god i miss those times

[@spearzoid]

that's what Peggy-o's all about, I'm sayain' !

[@jnelchef]

First concert I ever went to was the Dead at the Nassau Coliseum in the summer of '82. First song, Mississippi Uptown Toodeloo.

[@13littledog1]

i love peggy-o so much, one of my favs., what a pretty song! which one is considered the best version ever, does anyone know. if so,please let me in. !!!!OUR CAPTAIN FELL IN LOVE!!!!

[@denniscampbell6185]

what a great cassidy

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

Brown University , great shows.

[@straycat1081]

I Was there.

[@joelhoffman7490]

went with HS friends drove in from queens to see thrm after school wound up right up front

[@photoleon01]

It was 30 years ago today, I got on the bus.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I’m sure I was there in NY being close to Maine + all ! Would take a bus or hitchhike there as long as I got there !

[@MrVinman711]

These 85' set lists are awesome. Trucking' Smokestack to open the show???

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

I'm tellin' ya, I wz late for the show, we knew he opened with Truckin' when we finally got in and had our seats, he played, So Glad You Made It. I AM NOT making this up!!! We were to Garcias' right, 2nd tier. Really, big deal, but iz so cool to see a show, you were at and the going ons. Another, we got there and he played Queen Jane Approximately, into Morning Dew...2nd set and the show was rockin'!!!

[@glenndonovan7117]

I don't think ya can ask for a better set!

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

I have those first gen tapes to this day.

[@billoleary4578]

barely remember this show must have been the gels

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

Hello from , Vancouver , Canada . I did the North east tour that year.... was sitting in front of my tent in Uniondale ...came down from the new England shows . ended up o the " front page of the Paper with 10,000 hits of paper in my lap....covered by my SMILING FACE > bugger those newspaper reporters !

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

+Geoffrey Russell Thaz too funny!! XD

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

Long Island Register, was the paper , as I recall...it got me more " liquid " sales .I had been on tour for a few weeks.....Portland was cold.......it was nice to be south .Ya gotta love the Dead. (Nobody for President)

[@billbbill]

so cool - was at this show - great sug mags

[@KurtKnutsen]

the dead is not dead,but every will be dead head.ps was at this show had good time!

[@gregdorais3977]

I was there! Second set was epi

[@user-zf6fv2sg1e]

Sending love to you all from Patti Cornell

[@bunnybeckman8029]

He sure was having a hard time living the good life which he couldn’t do ! He was a very sad man of what I knew about him !

[@haroldcromack1065]

China rider scarlet mountain fuck ya I was there hitched hiked from Connecticut with Jimmy peters 👍

[@TheRealNibs]

85 was a great year,,a couple of years before the scene started to get complicated.....

[@sanfranapple]

i mean ...truckin starts the trip...and china rider first set...cornell memories...and drums space to start second set u know ur in for it...

[@camluiz]

I'm a great fan from the 60's to 70's period (until Hart's returno). But since last year started listening some good 85 stuff

[@scguitarist]

Wow their jams were always long, so guess you didn't know anything about them to begin with...the jams are the best part, that's kinda what they are all about....

[@nealkriesterer]

How are there so many bootlegs from Nassau Coliseum in the 70s and 80s? Was the manager of security always home sick?

[@davidquagliozzi296]

Pretty sure I went to this one

[@gratefulmike58]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lizziesangi1602]

What happened to those shows at the Meadowlands, NJ, the shows right before these Nassau Coliseum shows - February 1985, last 3 days?? They are nowhere to be found! What's up with that!?

[@jefffelderman2409]

They didn't play Meadowlands that year until November, on the 10th and 11th.

[@janellebales4022]

Lolove on this one Voo❤

[@tonydanis1480]

That's my kinda first set!!!

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

I was using clip converter to put the shows to disc Movies, vid.....

[@Voodoonola2]

I don't understand how someone could go to shows in the early Persian '80s, and then after one show in '85, wake up to find out that they are jamming for too long. Did someone prevent you from listening to any second set tapes during all those years?

[@mac92gli]

This is top 25 brent era IMO. The china>rider is perfection

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

I had a , Sony D5 , taped that shit with a dual mic ,

[@jackstraw]

I take it you live in New Orleans?

[@JohnWayneColt45]

Folks commenting on the lack of energy at this show,have to remember that Jerry was in horrible shape mentally and psychically during this time and in a little over a year would lapse into a diabetic coma.And with all this going on I still find 85 to be one of my fav years for the Dead.One particular tour is the NOV run and of course the 6-24- cincy show....my first!! R.I.P big brother Jer-Bear

[@MrAbeone]

HE DIED VIA BRAIN MELTING!!

[@woowoowoo1920]

Abraham, it may have taken 6 long years to get a reaction but I wanted you to know that at least one person thinks this is f'in hilarious! Hahaha!

[@jewelsandbinoculars1]

anyway....I agree that grades took a beating !!

[@billoleary4578]

yea

[@DarkMarkWolf]

Mine too

[@EduardoDuarteprofiguana]

China>Rider to close the first set! Scarlett>Fire to open the second set! nothing more to say! aside from the fact that the soundboard quality of the audio makes the so-so video more than bearable!

[@thomashillgardner1359]

Sure this show has a great set list and some cool highlights. The main problem with the mid-80s shows IMHO: its all about the tempo. Everything always seemed so damned rushed and, hence, mailed in as if the band was in a rush to get to the break. The Peggy-O here, while not the only example, is a prime example. Couldn't imagine why! (sarcasm). Still beats not having any Grateful Dead shows to attend.

[@dancingrizz]

It's allways dark at the Colli. I think the band has to pay Lilco.

[@sangielissa]

No energy? He opens with Truckin'...What a great lead into smokestack lightening_ This is an outasite set list, too!

[@indyheel1534]

Yeah what I have found out watching the live shows throughout the hrs is that people assume because Jerry was deep into his addiction to whatever it was at the time or that his health was bad has an effect on the music. I would say what were supposed to be some of his worst yes health and addiction wise he still cranks out some amazing performance. It wasn't til 92-95 that they really lost some magic, yet I have listened to shows and parts of shows from that era that were great.

[@choons]

Does anyone have the audio from this show? This show took place on the day a good friend of mine was born. I would love to get him a copy of this for his birthday. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[@paulmartin3725]

Kyle, just download and convert with e.g. YTD Video Downloader.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Paul Martin Ya, I use clip converter, download for the shows and movies. You can change the format to AVI, MP3, MP4, etc. Then you can put them to disc.

[@choons]

Elissa Sangi Paul Martin Thanks for the tips!

[@spearzoid]

who's on harp?

[@jefffelderman2409]

Matt Kelly!

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Keep that camera still !

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

When we were in NY a gun went off so the security guards took us up in the balcony along side the band ! It was scary as hell but they got the gunman , he was going to shoot Jerry as like John Lennon was , to become famous , what a stupid reason ? Jail for the rest of ur life !😣😖😫😩😤😢🥵🥶😨😰😱that’s all the mad in me ! I love Jerry now as ever , until I die ! 😢😥😍🥰😘❤️🐰🐇🌹🎼🎹☠️💀👽🪐🛸🥀☮️🍄got to high on the shrooms yesterday ! 🍄😱🤪😜😝🥳🤩😇

[@matthewpai]

Great second set ... except Bob turns up toooo loud in the middle of the first scarlet solo and because if this make the general coherency of the jams less interactive. you can hear phil and jerry wrestling with Bobs somewhat obnoxious rhythms... lol ... all in a days work.

[@dancingrizz]

I worked that show.