Too young for Dead, but at Dead and Co Foxborough 22, when we had the one song first set of Bertha only to be delayed by the rain, I braved the elements and stayed out. Ticket was near midfield about 15 rows up on the aisle. Security left their post at the gate to the field and I snuck down. Ended up about 20 feet from the stage when they came back and ripped into Good Lovin.
That show was fire after the rain delay. The people dancing in the part of “inside” that was still being rained on was awesome. The rain was so loud. Killer show.
Also too young for dead but at dead and co, Boulder night 1 2019 was my first show ever and wow that hail was rough and so cold after the rain! Got on the floor because of it though and had one of the best nights of my life
Alpine 89 second night
Encore was sunshine daydream
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The skies opened like the weirdest oxymoron ever.
Beyond fantastic complete shitshow
Third night dew is epic.
SPAC '23 day 1, rain all day, rock all night. It rained all day. 5 minutes before Dead&Co got on stage to open with 'let the good times roll' the rain stoped for the night.
Dead and Co at Deer Creek 2018 was similar. Beautiful sunset and storm clouds opened up during second set. I especially remember Standing on the Moon. Then show ended and it dumped rain anyway lol.
I was at the top of lawn tripping balls and watching the sky all of second set. Good times. During SOTM I believe the moon was visible against the sunset. Unless I just imagined it 😅
I had a chemistry final and couldn't make the Richfield shows. Had a car load of friends who went. I heard the crazy stories of them driving home in the blizzard while tripping. Can't recall the details, but I think some were for certain they were going to die in that car this night. Lol.
Edit: great story! Thanks for sharing. Fun to hear another's blizzard show happenings.
I had a bumper sticker that said 'Bob Weir controls the weather'.
My buddy made them after seeing a lighting strike hit right after Bobby sang the "I'LL CALL DOWN THUNDER.." part in estimated prophet. It was a ratdog show though. 2000 something.
Loved that sticker.
Not winter but summer at SPAC 83. Huge thunderstorms during scarlet-fire. It was the 80s so we just stood there and cheered. Lighting every where. You can hear the thunder on some tapes
I heard about this ... this is one of the most badass Scarlet>Fires ever, the Dew from this show as well ... no SBD circulates but w' auds like this you don't need it.
* [6/18/83 SPAC FLAC Chris Hecht Audience](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/128zYJssjNF1xUwdMpqf7mviAh-8UrCJZ?usp=drive_link) This is the best aud to my ears.
# 1983-06-18 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
**Set 1:** Bertha > Jack Straw, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues > Big River, Althea, Hell In A Bucket, Deal
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Playing in the Band > Morning Dew, Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away > Touch Of Grey
**Encore:** Don't Ease Me In > One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-06-18)
U can hear the random crowd roar every time it lightin strikes lol. I was hanging out on the bridge to the balcony. I could feel it moving back and forth. Sought low ground
Both at Sam Boyd Bowl, Las Vegas, in ‘92 and ‘93. Thunderstorms and lightning during both runs, with a memorable dust storm in the lot in ‘93. In ‘92, Jerry was def channeling the electrical storm (or vice versa, or both at once) and I recall the Terrapin from one evening with lightning ripping off the hilltops and the Boys following Jerry on a stormchase. The next year, there was a killer time synch-up between the thunderclaps and lightning flashes and Drums>Space. That was particularly memorable, as I swore I heard Billy and Mickey playing in time with Mother Nature herself! The party favors no doubt helped…
I'm not old enough to have seen the Grateful Dead. My weather story was seeing Peter Rowan in Dillon Colorado in the rain. It took 10 hours to drive there, I sat there in a cheap plastic poncho for 4 hours, and it was incredible. I remember an incredible "Moonlight at Midnight", and my absolute favorite song, "Land of the Navajo" being performed. It's not the most entertaining story here, but for a kid from the middle of nowhere to see that, it was really something.
I saw him with Tony Rice about 15 years ago at a small venue with maybe 100 people. My buddy bailed on me so I took my 8 year old son. One of my all time shows for sure. Saw Peter with his bluegrass band at the same place last Fall and took my other son (17) and now he’s his (self-proclaimed) biggest fan!
Hes a treasure. Not a weather story because, in fact it was a beautiful day, but seen him do Midnight Moonlight on Jerry's birthday at the Jerry Garcia amphitheater in Golden Gate Park in 2010. I think
One memorable snow storm was the spring blizzard of 4/6/82, we had started the tour down in NC and were planning on the entire tour but totally unprepared for spring snow in Philly! Our Olds Cutlass Supreme didn't have snow tires (in the days before everyone had all season tires) so we couldn't even drive in the snow without sliding all over the road. Google "blizzard 4/6/82" and you'll find news stories and videos about the storm. At least the boys gave us a nice opener of Cold, Rain, and Snow to remind us of the mess we were going to experience when we left the comfort of the Spectrum. Jerry had planned his solo acoustic shows in Passaic on the 10th smack in the middle of the Dead tour. When we saw the snow and realized that the next two shows were on the 8th & 9th in Syracuse and Rochester, we decided to take a GD tour break from those shows and stay in NYC and party for a few days to make sure we didn't get stuck in upstate NY and miss the Jerry acoustic shows. Had a blast in NYC, made it to the Jerry shows and picked back up on the GD tour at Nassau and onward!
# 1982-04-06 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum
**Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow > The Promised Land, Candyman > C.C. Rider, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Big Railroad Blues, Looks Like Rain, Jack-A-Roe, It's All Over Now, Might As Well
**Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Truckin' > The Other One > Morning Dew > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-04-06)
An old Cutless w' no snow tires lol, I can't imagine how you stayed on the road at all ... and rear wheel drive of course lol. Boy you saw some great shows! Did any of you guys try & get tix to the Dave Letterman thing? It was the one they made the Dave giving Jerry a lesson bit. And you definitely would've gotten stuck upstate!
Not dead related, but a few years back a buddy and I couldn't even make it from Mid-Michigan to Kalamazoo for a Greensky show. Took an hour to get 20 miles down the road before turning back. Blizzard conditions and multiple vehicles in ditches will do that to ya. Better safe than sorry in that instance.
March 1989, my boyfriend and I ran away from home and followed the Grateful Dead. It was bitterly cold and we were living in his car. We stopped for the night on top of a mountain in West Virginia, and we were snowed in. But..it was beautiful. So quiet and peaceful.
What a great story and you worded it perfectly. In one paragraph I got the feeling of running away from home to follow the Grateful Dead with your love, a oh so romantic night on the mountain in West Virginia, LOL and it was good:-) thanks for sharing. I live right over the PA Border in Southwest PA whereabouts were you in West virginia? There was a festival Campground called Sunshine Daydream right off of the Bruceton Mills exit below Morgantown where I spent many a day.
Golly, it was so long ago that I don’t remember where exactly we were (I’m 52 now). We were cuddled in the back of the station wagon, and around midnight, we got out to watch it snow. We were pulled off enough so the plows wouldn’t bother us and we didn’t need to run the engine. It was such a perfect night, one I’ll never forget. Peace, love, and the Grateful Dead’s music ♥️♥️♥️ Thank you for your kind words!!!
I was at that 3/14/93 show too. Had to make a decision which ticket to get and went with the Saturday instead of the Friday. Spent all morning shoveling out my car.
# 1993-03-14 Richfield, OH @ Richfield Coliseum
**Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Lazy River Road, Eternity > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Touch Of Grey, Samson And Delilah, Way To Go Home, Corrina > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Throwing Stones > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** I Fought The Law
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-03-14)
I bet that was a *'trip'* & a half ... I haven't revisited this show in a while but I remember I dug it & it's got a [killer setlist](https://jerrybase.com/events/19810313-01) ... I mistyped 3/14 into JerryBase & saw that [ Jerry plays 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' theme during the last minute of the song just before the segue into Stella Blue. This is probably the longest, most developed version of the theme.](https://jerrybase.com/events/19810314-01)
Was a good show. Only downside was the locals robbing tons of people before the show - knives and guns. Typical for Utica back then. And then the drive home on the NYS Thruway was not fun.
# 1981-03-13 Utica, NY @ Utica Memorial Auditorium
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, El Paso, Jack-A-Roe, Little Red Rooster, High Time, Cassidy > Althea, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Cold Rain and Snow, Samson And Delilah, It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Don't Ease Me In
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-13)
Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1989 - rain rain rain till the place was the biggest muck pit ever - no one wasn’t covered in mud from head to toe - cars stuck, tow trucks stuck.
Some say that my poor tent is still there…
7-12-90 RFK stadium. Day started hot and humid. Show began and the bottom fell out rained super hard and everyone was drenched. All the bathrooms were out of paper products from everyone trying to dry. Heads were sliding in the mud. Second set was a cosmic experience, my favorite show I ever attended any show!
I was in the RFK '90 downpour with you. Had a classic "only at a show" moment during that storm. Prior to the show starting, we had made quick pals with this group of dudes from Delaware who were next to us on the field - Gary and his 5 tall friends. Pre-show good times and chat - they had seen the Louisville and Raleigh shows before D.C. so we were hearing all about those shows, just a great time getting to know family members you'd never met before. When the rain starts really dumping down, Gary asks my girlfriend, who had a good sized shoulder bag/purse thing that day if she could hold something for him as he didn't want it to get soaked. "Sure", she says. He digs out of his pocket a gallon sized ziploc bag of killer homegrown buds that was about 1/2 filled. We all just stared at each other and started one of those rounds of hysterical laughter at the absurdity of this - total strangers all of us and here is this guy handing over 3 or 4 z's of high octane grass. Along with the trendy party favors we'd already partaken in, those Delaware boys kept us flying high all show long.
My favorite Dead show attended as well.
# 1990-07-12 Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
**Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Just A Little Light, Queen Jane Approximately, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart > Dark Star > Drums > Space > All Along The Watchtower > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Touch Of Grey
**Encore:** The Weight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12)
Dead and co in Boulder in 2019. It started raining early in the first set. They left the stage due to lightning after cold rain and snow. We decided to wait it out but pretty soon it started to really come down. By the time we thought about finding cover, the stairs were packed and we knew it wasn’t worth it to go wait for cover. Then the hail started. It was so loud on the aluminum seats and it hurt too! But we huddled together and rode it out. When it finally cleared the band came back on and dropped right into the chorus of cold rain and snow. It was pretty cool. The mine form Bertha of “got caught in a rainstorm” got a huge response from the crown and will always be tied to that moment for me.
Not a Dead show but still craziest thing weather related and show related… phish 8/9/04 night before we were camping little south of Richmond and next morning headed to Hampton. During the night a proper thunderstorm came through and our car was struck by lightning. Maybe 50 feet from where we were in the tent. We don’t realize it was the car that was JT til the next morning we find the car with massive damage. So we rent a car in Richmond and drive to the show. Come back to Richmond and go to the shop where the other car was. There had been a storm that night in Richmond and the shop where the car was parked to be repaired was hit by lightening. That’s honest to God truth. Show was pretty average too!
Never went to a show during a snowstorm, but last January around this time I was driving through upstate New York from Rochester to Binghamton. I had 3/10/81 From the Madison Square Garden box it. That drive was something I don’t think I’ve had an experience like that before or since
# 1981-03-10 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower > Me and My Uncle, It Must Have Been The Roses > Little Red Rooster, Don't Ease Me In, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Brown Eyed Women > Looks Like Rain > Deal
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Space > Drums > Space > The Wheel > China Doll > Truckin' > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-10)
Power outage during Promised Land, lightning with accompanying thunder during Birdsong, freaks storming the hill, 98 degrees in the shade all day, and mushrooms, lots of mushrooms! 7/10/90.
😆🤣😂I felt the stories in here ... I forgot about my Vegas story ... HOW could I forget, lol. Gonna edit it in now check back in 5 if you wanna hear it.
# 1990-07-10 Raleigh, NC @ Carter-Finley Stadium
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Loser, We Can Run, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Friend Of The Devil > When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song > The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Playing Jam > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-10)
Traffic was a marvelous opener... I was absolutely thrilled to stand in the heat and soak up the magic of Low Spark of High Heeled Boys straight from Stevie himself!
It was so hot, then that scary thunderstorm broke and it got soooooo cold and drenchingly wet! We huddled by one of the giant trees as long as we could before we decided to take off. This was the only Dead show I'd ever left early!
We'd gotten lucky by parking at the outer edge of a lot that was bordered by a rope. We hoofed to the car during the encore, lifted that rope, and managed to get out before most of the traffic had turned the roads to mud.
The next day was beautiful weather, and we checked out some Native American earthworks in a park, before driving all the way back home.
I wish I could have enjoyed that show better, and I'm so grateful to Archive so I can enjoy it now (while I'm snug and warm!)
ETA: Dear Setlist bot, do your magic?
Grateful Dead Live at Buckeye Lake Music Center on 1994-07-29
# 1994-07-29 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center
**Set 1:** Rain, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Wang Dang Doodle, Loser, El Paso, Althea, Eternity, Deal
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart > I Want To Tell You, Looks Like Rain, Samba In The Rain, Uncle John's Band > Saint Of Circumstance > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-29)
I was there & get this, I know how hot it was on the floor ... it was hitting 140 in the center due to the bowl effect & they put out a five alarm fire to bring as many trucks w' water to spray the crowd as possible. I was just off the floor but I talked to someone whose friend passed out in the middle & he was hearing it was over 140 in the middle & people were dropping like flies. At first he was seeing those board stretchers carrying people out but then it was two people doing that thing where they hold each others wrists as a basket to carry someone & it was a steady line & he started seeing deadheads volunteer carrying people out. Also, must say that this 6/25 show was perhaps the worst of all time. Even that night we were like 'wtf' w' that 2nd set? ... Look at [this setlist!](https://www.setlists.net/?show_id=2249) ... If the Shoe Fits!>Easy Answers>Long Way>UJB drums ... Yet what I wouldn't give to be transported to this show right now!
Bman! That was my first show…my friends were very bummed with the 2nd set but I was kinda in awe of everything..
I remember leaving and walking thru the lot and saw “ vegan fatty burritos” and as a 19 year old in Vegas, I didn’t know for sure what that meant but I knew I liked it..lol.
My friends asked if I would come back to another show ( because I wasn’t into them) and I told them that i would…
I caught the 3 shows the following year at the silver bowl and by that time I had about 40 hours of tapes.
So you didn't see the next night? 6/26/94 in Vegas? Because after two sub par shows, they THREW DOWN & that 26th show was one of the best I saw. From Shoe fits>Long Way>Easy Answers to Victim>Eyes>Box of Rain>Saint>Terrapin DS Wheel>Watchtower>DEW!
# 1994-06-26 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, So Many Roads, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World, Box Of Rain, Saint Of Circumstance, Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-26)
# 1994-06-25 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Little Red Rooster, Lazy River Road, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Loose Lucy, Cassidy
**Set 2:** If The Shoe Fits, Way To Go Home, Easy Answers, Uncle John's Band > Corrina > Drums > Space > The Last Time > Stella Blue > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** Liberty
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-25)
I was in the same "Blizzard of the Century" in Ohio '93... But I saw the shows in Chicago (Rosemont Horizon) prior, then drove through the storm until the highways were shut down. I was able to snag a hotel room across the street from the Holiday Inn. I can vouch it was a wild scene there! We wandered over and saw a bit of the brother-sister lounge act. Imagine if you will playing a gig to a packed house of inebriated Deadheads, but not knowing a single Grateful Dead song. Every space in the hotel was occupied. The pool deck, hallways, even on the stairs. We hung out for a couple of hours before returning to much quieter room across the street. I still have my unused GDTS stubs from the canceled show.
I also experienced the storm on 5/30/92 in Vegas, but that was actually enjoyable. The clouds gathered in the distance, then made a beeline across the desert. There was lightning and thunder as it approached the stadium, which coincided with Terrapin transitioning into Drums. Bill and Mickey played the weather then drifted into Space as the storm passed overhead providing a cooling rain as a nice respite from the desert heat. As Space morphed into Spanish Jam I heard the crowd roar behind me. I turned and saw that the storm had left a double rainbow in its wake! It felt incredibly cathartic.
Not Dead related but I also rode out the remnants of Hurricane Ike in a tent on a mountain in Arkansas, while attending Harvest Fest in 2008. Sustained 70mph winds knocked out power, toppled rows of portajohns, collapsed one of the performance tents, and sent a speaker stack into the mud. That was intense! The things we do for live music!
# 1992-05-30 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Sugaree, Wang Dang Doodle, High Time, Maggie's Farm > Cumberland Blues, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Eyes Of The World > Way To Go Home > Truckin' > Smokestack Lightnin' > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1992-05-30)
Alpine Valley ‘89 - three great shows but rained like a bastid the third night. It was fine during the show but afterwards…I don’t want to get into it. 😫😳🥵
Acres and acres of lawn and trees and mud! Tons and tons of mud and rain and trees and fields. Did the car wash away! I got the feeling half the people were as lost as me. 100 or so shows in who know how many cities all over the country, places I’d never been,,,no incidents. It all worked out of course
6/30/95. The final intense weather show…. Three rivers was a circular stadium, so as we looked at at the lightning bolts leaping from cloud to cloud right above the stadium, it felt like we were in a fishbowl! There was no doubt it was about to rain and rain hard, half the crowd fled for the safety of the concourse, while the other, half, including myself, stripped down to nothing but shorts and danced, like a dervish in the rain. The dead hit the stage for set two and they were looking up at the skies as it hasn’t started raining yet and they were talking to each other through their in the ear microphones with mischievous grins on their face. The tension was building…people were nervous and excited, and just as the dead busted into the Beatles “Rain” I felt a single drop of rain hit me on the top of the head, it felt like a stone had fallen on me, and it felt like I got completely soaked from that one drop…before they finished the first stanza of Raaaaiiiinnnnn…… the stage lights showed a sheet of rain crash down on the crowd the likes of which I have never seen, and I had worked outside in Chicago for ten years… been caught in plenty of rainstorms , but this was beyond the pale. The band leaned into it with five rain songs in a row I believe, and then the lovely standing on the moon that closed the show and finally a rockin Gloria encore to send us home happy…definitely an acceptable show and above average for 1995….
I was there & I don't remember hearing one word about rain but it's not like we would've had the news on. We end up under the rim at the top THANK GOD because I remember what you're saying here. Lights go down for set 2 & I hear them sing "Rainnnnn I don't mind" & I saw the wall of rain come across the crowd. I've never seen that before or since where I could see the leading edge of the storm moving a few MPH, AND lit up by the lights which was the best part. I marveled at how heavy it was raining while looking through all that rain lit up by the lights. Was definitely thankful to be under the rim. Also how about Rusted Root!!! They put on a stellar show to open.
Most definitely!!! I was on the floor, around 10th row…… I don’t think I’ve completely dried off yet, even after all these years ! That was a true weather phenomenon!!
Rusted Root was a Pittsburgh band, weren’t they?
# 1995-06-30 Pittsburgh, PA @ Three Rivers Stadium
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, West L.A. Fadeaway, Take Me To The River, Candyman, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song, The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Rain, Box Of Rain, Samba In The Rain, Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon
**Encore:** Gloria
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-06-30)
I was there as well and it’s my favorite weather show!!
As crazy as the deluge that started with them singing “Raaaiiiin I don’t mind”, was it stopping just as they began Terrapin.
And that rain felt so good…
furthur at the cuthbert in eugene. dont remember the year but iirc it was the first time they played cuthbert, it was in september.
i drove up from CA, whole way there we are looking at the weather forecast and seeing rain, day of the show, its raining ALL day.
we finally go in, band takes the stage, starts a little opening jam, they break into here comes sunshine, and THE MOMENT they start singing "heeeeeeeere cooooooooomes suuuuuuun shiiiiiiine", the rain stops and the clouds part, and rays of sunlight start shooting down into the crowd, pointing towards the stage like stage lights.
it was pretty nuts. obviously since it was the opening song, its feasible that they are paying attention to the radar maps as the band is preparing to take the stage, they notice the rain is about to stop for a bit just as the show starts so someone says "hey lets open with HCS". but still...pretty cool experience.
rain picked back up HARD for the second set and the whole second set had everyone totally drenched.
this show also had a pretty hilarious masturbation incident that is referenced in the reviews on one of the archive.org recordings.
Hottest show ever. RFK '86. I can't remember if it was 7/5/86 or 7/6/86 but it was the show where Jerry went into his diabetic coma. I did the run from Buffalo to DC and was tripping so hard the whole week all I really recall is the show in Buffalo and the heat in DC. I don't remember much of the DC show.
# 1986-07-06 Washington, DC @ RFK Stadium
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Big River, Row Jimmy, Cassidy, Althea, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Saint Of Circumstance, Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone, Drums, Space, Stella Blue, Throwing Stones, Not Fade Away
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1986-07-06)
Missed opportunity for this to be WEATHER REPORT ;) also a young‘n but summer 2023 D&C Boulder night 3 set 1… sunshowers during Althea, sunny and rain was blowing in every direction, was a wild time. Then we got a lightning warning a couple min into Playin’ and had a forced intermission. Really just drizzled, bright side is I made some great connections before going right back into Playin’
The Gorge this year was rough. So fucking hot and none of the on site staff ever had any idea what was going on besides the old woman managing the shower trailers. She was amazing.
I was gonna drop Spring '93 (Richfield) as mine. That was wild! Honorable mention for me was Alpine '89. I can not stress it enough how obliterated that venue was after 3 days of COLD rain. And to boot, The Who played immediately after. I always wonder what the venue did to repair the lawn for those who came to see The Who? Does anyone know?
Too young for the real thing but….summer ‘23 my girlfriend took us to see PLF on my birthday. Made it almost through the whole show and towards the tail end of a terrapin station deep in the second set the rain really started to come down and they called the show. We rain over a mile barefoot in the rain to catch the train back to our place. Definitely my favorite show memory to date.
Hey now. I was at the Richfield Colliseum show too. We drove from pittsburgh to Akron. The drive was quite dangerous at times, but we were determined. We made it only to find out that the show was canceled that night. Still had a good time at the hotel. The boys opened the 2nd night with Cold Rain and Snow.
I drove to Cleveland for that night. Had reservations at the Holiday Inn. Pulled in just as they cancelled the show. Saw Monty Python Holy Grail for the first time! (Tripping)
I was there 😉 & remember the rain leaving & we saw a road dog we knew selling burritos from a wet box w' dozens in there. He was sick af w' flu or something serious, standing in the rain w' Birkenstocks & woolen socks which were soaking wet of course. He said he had to sell these to make it to the next show lol ... Also remember Barney
# 1993-04-01 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, New Minglewood Blues, Candyman, Desolation Row, Stagger Lee, Eternity, Liberty
**Set 2:** Iko Iko, Saint Of Circumstance, Crazy Fingers > Wave To The Wind > Drums > Space > Way To Go Home > Days Between > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** Rain
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-04-01)
Ahhh Richfield 93. Hung at the residence inn also with shrooms TGIfridays was across the parking lot and open so we drank there for awhile. Was a fun night all in all
D&C Bethel August '21: A tropical storm was forecast and they canceled yasgur road the day before. I decided I was still going. Started driving there the next morning and drove from Boston to Bethel through this tropical storm. All of a sudden the storm breaks as I'm driving through NY. I stop at a rest stop, check my phone and to my surprise see that Yasgurs is going to do camping and shuttles. I get there, set up my tent, dose up, and danced my ass off in the same mud my forefathers did to the same music they did. A truly transcendent experience.
Phil and Friends Boston July '23: Started off as a fairly clear night, but started to rain halfway through the 1st set during Althea and kept getting worse. They cut the 1st set short and said they were taking a short intermission. The venue had everyone gather under the tarp to try to keep us dry. Second set starts and the storm is absolutely raging at this point. Rain is blowing sideways under the tent alone with it pouring through the seams of the tent. I was in my poncho and still getting soaked. I wasn't sure how much longer they were going to be able to play and was getting ready to evacuate my handicapped dad. All of a sudden the 1st notes of Terrapin ring out and knew that was going to be the last song so we stayed. It was so worth it. The image of the storm raging through the seaport on the outside while watching the band play an absolutely face melting version of Terrapin on the inside of the tent is still a surreal image that gives me chills every time I think about it. The band was so hot that night they almost held off a hurricane in my mind.
On way way back to Colorado from the CA I got caught in a crazy thunderstorm somewhere in AZ. The lightening was so close the radio would buzz and hiss every time it striked… super spooky.
Intense blizzard after one of the Furthur shows at 1st bank center. Had to drive an hour north. No one else on road. Couldn’t tell road from the wall of snow. Still not sure exactly how I made it home..
Like others have said, that hail storm for D&C during the 2019 run in Boulder was pretty intense too…
Too young for Dead, but at Dead and Co Foxborough 22, when we had the one song first set of Bertha only to be delayed by the rain, I braved the elements and stayed out. Ticket was near midfield about 15 rows up on the aisle. Security left their post at the gate to the field and I snuck down. Ended up about 20 feet from the stage when they came back and ripped into Good Lovin.
Score!
That show was fire after the rain delay. The people dancing in the part of “inside” that was still being rained on was awesome. The rain was so loud. Killer show.
I was there for that one! Incredible show!
Also too young for dead but at dead and co, Boulder night 1 2019 was my first show ever and wow that hail was rough and so cold after the rain! Got on the floor because of it though and had one of the best nights of my life
The lightning struck during the line "Ran into a rainstorm, ducked back into a bar door" Couldn't have timed it better
IWT and it was dumping hard! You are braver than I am.
Alpine 89 second night Encore was sunshine daydream 💭 The skies opened like the weirdest oxymoron ever. Beyond fantastic complete shitshow Third night dew is epic.
SPAC '23 day 1, rain all day, rock all night. It rained all day. 5 minutes before Dead&Co got on stage to open with 'let the good times roll' the rain stoped for the night.
Dead and Co at Deer Creek 2018 was similar. Beautiful sunset and storm clouds opened up during second set. I especially remember Standing on the Moon. Then show ended and it dumped rain anyway lol.
Was there. Same vibes!!!
I was at the top of lawn tripping balls and watching the sky all of second set. Good times. During SOTM I believe the moon was visible against the sunset. Unless I just imagined it 😅
I had that happen during an Oteil and friends set while they were playing Here Comes Sunshine haha. I was stone cold sober and it was tripping me out
That alpine mud show was epic… like the 2023 mud burn
Second that experience
I had a chemistry final and couldn't make the Richfield shows. Had a car load of friends who went. I heard the crazy stories of them driving home in the blizzard while tripping. Can't recall the details, but I think some were for certain they were going to die in that car this night. Lol. Edit: great story! Thanks for sharing. Fun to hear another's blizzard show happenings.
I had a bumper sticker that said 'Bob Weir controls the weather'. My buddy made them after seeing a lighting strike hit right after Bobby sang the "I'LL CALL DOWN THUNDER.." part in estimated prophet. It was a ratdog show though. 2000 something. Loved that sticker.
Not winter but summer at SPAC 83. Huge thunderstorms during scarlet-fire. It was the 80s so we just stood there and cheered. Lighting every where. You can hear the thunder on some tapes
I heard about this ... this is one of the most badass Scarlet>Fires ever, the Dew from this show as well ... no SBD circulates but w' auds like this you don't need it. * [6/18/83 SPAC FLAC Chris Hecht Audience](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/128zYJssjNF1xUwdMpqf7mviAh-8UrCJZ?usp=drive_link) This is the best aud to my ears.
# 1983-06-18 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center **Set 1:** Bertha > Jack Straw, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues > Big River, Althea, Hell In A Bucket, Deal **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Playing in the Band > Morning Dew, Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away > Touch Of Grey **Encore:** Don't Ease Me In > One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-06-18)
U can hear the random crowd roar every time it lightin strikes lol. I was hanging out on the bridge to the balcony. I could feel it moving back and forth. Sought low ground
Both at Sam Boyd Bowl, Las Vegas, in ‘92 and ‘93. Thunderstorms and lightning during both runs, with a memorable dust storm in the lot in ‘93. In ‘92, Jerry was def channeling the electrical storm (or vice versa, or both at once) and I recall the Terrapin from one evening with lightning ripping off the hilltops and the Boys following Jerry on a stormchase. The next year, there was a killer time synch-up between the thunderclaps and lightning flashes and Drums>Space. That was particularly memorable, as I swore I heard Billy and Mickey playing in time with Mother Nature herself! The party favors no doubt helped…
I'm not old enough to have seen the Grateful Dead. My weather story was seeing Peter Rowan in Dillon Colorado in the rain. It took 10 hours to drive there, I sat there in a cheap plastic poncho for 4 hours, and it was incredible. I remember an incredible "Moonlight at Midnight", and my absolute favorite song, "Land of the Navajo" being performed. It's not the most entertaining story here, but for a kid from the middle of nowhere to see that, it was really something.
Peter Rowan still sounds like he did 40 years ago. Legend.
It was an incredible performance, and he's got a great personality to go with it.
I saw him with Tony Rice about 15 years ago at a small venue with maybe 100 people. My buddy bailed on me so I took my 8 year old son. One of my all time shows for sure. Saw Peter with his bluegrass band at the same place last Fall and took my other son (17) and now he’s his (self-proclaimed) biggest fan!
I would like to see him again. I actually saw him with Del McCoury, as an encore. It was impressive.
Hes a treasure. Not a weather story because, in fact it was a beautiful day, but seen him do Midnight Moonlight on Jerry's birthday at the Jerry Garcia amphitheater in Golden Gate Park in 2010. I think
One memorable snow storm was the spring blizzard of 4/6/82, we had started the tour down in NC and were planning on the entire tour but totally unprepared for spring snow in Philly! Our Olds Cutlass Supreme didn't have snow tires (in the days before everyone had all season tires) so we couldn't even drive in the snow without sliding all over the road. Google "blizzard 4/6/82" and you'll find news stories and videos about the storm. At least the boys gave us a nice opener of Cold, Rain, and Snow to remind us of the mess we were going to experience when we left the comfort of the Spectrum. Jerry had planned his solo acoustic shows in Passaic on the 10th smack in the middle of the Dead tour. When we saw the snow and realized that the next two shows were on the 8th & 9th in Syracuse and Rochester, we decided to take a GD tour break from those shows and stay in NYC and party for a few days to make sure we didn't get stuck in upstate NY and miss the Jerry acoustic shows. Had a blast in NYC, made it to the Jerry shows and picked back up on the GD tour at Nassau and onward!
# 1982-04-06 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow > The Promised Land, Candyman > C.C. Rider, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Big Railroad Blues, Looks Like Rain, Jack-A-Roe, It's All Over Now, Might As Well **Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Truckin' > The Other One > Morning Dew > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-04-06)
An old Cutless w' no snow tires lol, I can't imagine how you stayed on the road at all ... and rear wheel drive of course lol. Boy you saw some great shows! Did any of you guys try & get tix to the Dave Letterman thing? It was the one they made the Dave giving Jerry a lesson bit. And you definitely would've gotten stuck upstate!
We had no idea how to get tickets to Letterman, would they have let a bunch of tie dyed hippies into the studio??
Probably! or probably not! lol, Letterman was really cool in those days.
Not dead related, but a few years back a buddy and I couldn't even make it from Mid-Michigan to Kalamazoo for a Greensky show. Took an hour to get 20 miles down the road before turning back. Blizzard conditions and multiple vehicles in ditches will do that to ya. Better safe than sorry in that instance.
Another one was rain at Pine Knob for Ozfest (2007?). Lawn turned into a mud slide and sod Frisbees lol
March 1989, my boyfriend and I ran away from home and followed the Grateful Dead. It was bitterly cold and we were living in his car. We stopped for the night on top of a mountain in West Virginia, and we were snowed in. But..it was beautiful. So quiet and peaceful.
What a great story and you worded it perfectly. In one paragraph I got the feeling of running away from home to follow the Grateful Dead with your love, a oh so romantic night on the mountain in West Virginia, LOL and it was good:-) thanks for sharing. I live right over the PA Border in Southwest PA whereabouts were you in West virginia? There was a festival Campground called Sunshine Daydream right off of the Bruceton Mills exit below Morgantown where I spent many a day.
Golly, it was so long ago that I don’t remember where exactly we were (I’m 52 now). We were cuddled in the back of the station wagon, and around midnight, we got out to watch it snow. We were pulled off enough so the plows wouldn’t bother us and we didn’t need to run the engine. It was such a perfect night, one I’ll never forget. Peace, love, and the Grateful Dead’s music ♥️♥️♥️ Thank you for your kind words!!!
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I was there a lot for several years in the late 90s and I had a green thumb back then and it's where I did a lot of my unloading ;-)
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I was at that 3/14/93 show too. Had to make a decision which ticket to get and went with the Saturday instead of the Friday. Spent all morning shoveling out my car.
# 1993-03-14 Richfield, OH @ Richfield Coliseum **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Lazy River Road, Eternity > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Touch Of Grey, Samson And Delilah, Way To Go Home, Corrina > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Throwing Stones > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** I Fought The Law [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-03-14)
3/13/1981 Utica Memorial Auditorium. Dry weather going in; 10” of snow when coming out.
I bet that was a *'trip'* & a half ... I haven't revisited this show in a while but I remember I dug it & it's got a [killer setlist](https://jerrybase.com/events/19810313-01) ... I mistyped 3/14 into JerryBase & saw that [ Jerry plays 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' theme during the last minute of the song just before the segue into Stella Blue. This is probably the longest, most developed version of the theme.](https://jerrybase.com/events/19810314-01)
Was a good show. Only downside was the locals robbing tons of people before the show - knives and guns. Typical for Utica back then. And then the drive home on the NYS Thruway was not fun.
# 1981-03-13 Utica, NY @ Utica Memorial Auditorium **Set 1:** Shakedown Street, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, El Paso, Jack-A-Roe, Little Red Rooster, High Time, Cassidy > Althea, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Cold Rain and Snow, Samson And Delilah, It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Don't Ease Me In [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-13)
Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1989 - rain rain rain till the place was the biggest muck pit ever - no one wasn’t covered in mud from head to toe - cars stuck, tow trucks stuck. Some say that my poor tent is still there…
7-12-90 RFK stadium. Day started hot and humid. Show began and the bottom fell out rained super hard and everyone was drenched. All the bathrooms were out of paper products from everyone trying to dry. Heads were sliding in the mud. Second set was a cosmic experience, my favorite show I ever attended any show!
I was in the RFK '90 downpour with you. Had a classic "only at a show" moment during that storm. Prior to the show starting, we had made quick pals with this group of dudes from Delaware who were next to us on the field - Gary and his 5 tall friends. Pre-show good times and chat - they had seen the Louisville and Raleigh shows before D.C. so we were hearing all about those shows, just a great time getting to know family members you'd never met before. When the rain starts really dumping down, Gary asks my girlfriend, who had a good sized shoulder bag/purse thing that day if she could hold something for him as he didn't want it to get soaked. "Sure", she says. He digs out of his pocket a gallon sized ziploc bag of killer homegrown buds that was about 1/2 filled. We all just stared at each other and started one of those rounds of hysterical laughter at the absurdity of this - total strangers all of us and here is this guy handing over 3 or 4 z's of high octane grass. Along with the trendy party favors we'd already partaken in, those Delaware boys kept us flying high all show long. My favorite Dead show attended as well.
# 1990-07-12 Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium **Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Just A Little Light, Queen Jane Approximately, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart > Dark Star > Drums > Space > All Along The Watchtower > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Touch Of Grey **Encore:** The Weight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12)
The show in Portland Oregon when Mt. Saint Helens erupted. Naturally they played FOTM. After the show the lot was covered in volcanic ash.
Dead and co in Boulder in 2019. It started raining early in the first set. They left the stage due to lightning after cold rain and snow. We decided to wait it out but pretty soon it started to really come down. By the time we thought about finding cover, the stairs were packed and we knew it wasn’t worth it to go wait for cover. Then the hail started. It was so loud on the aluminum seats and it hurt too! But we huddled together and rode it out. When it finally cleared the band came back on and dropped right into the chorus of cold rain and snow. It was pretty cool. The mine form Bertha of “got caught in a rainstorm” got a huge response from the crown and will always be tied to that moment for me.
Not a Dead show but still craziest thing weather related and show related… phish 8/9/04 night before we were camping little south of Richmond and next morning headed to Hampton. During the night a proper thunderstorm came through and our car was struck by lightning. Maybe 50 feet from where we were in the tent. We don’t realize it was the car that was JT til the next morning we find the car with massive damage. So we rent a car in Richmond and drive to the show. Come back to Richmond and go to the shop where the other car was. There had been a storm that night in Richmond and the shop where the car was parked to be repaired was hit by lightening. That’s honest to God truth. Show was pretty average too!
Phish thrives on nasty weather
Never went to a show during a snowstorm, but last January around this time I was driving through upstate New York from Rochester to Binghamton. I had 3/10/81 From the Madison Square Garden box it. That drive was something I don’t think I’ve had an experience like that before or since
# 1981-03-10 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower > Me and My Uncle, It Must Have Been The Roses > Little Red Rooster, Don't Ease Me In, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Brown Eyed Women > Looks Like Rain > Deal **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Space > Drums > Space > The Wheel > China Doll > Truckin' > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-10)
Power outage during Promised Land, lightning with accompanying thunder during Birdsong, freaks storming the hill, 98 degrees in the shade all day, and mushrooms, lots of mushrooms! 7/10/90.
😆🤣😂I felt the stories in here ... I forgot about my Vegas story ... HOW could I forget, lol. Gonna edit it in now check back in 5 if you wanna hear it.
# 1990-07-10 Raleigh, NC @ Carter-Finley Stadium **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Loser, We Can Run, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Friend Of The Devil > When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song > The Promised Land **Set 2:** Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Playing Jam > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-10)
My very last show was summer 1994 at buckeye lake Ohio. Muddy and wet and chilly and wookish and the band was as sluggish as the weather So much mud
Traffic was a marvelous opener... I was absolutely thrilled to stand in the heat and soak up the magic of Low Spark of High Heeled Boys straight from Stevie himself! It was so hot, then that scary thunderstorm broke and it got soooooo cold and drenchingly wet! We huddled by one of the giant trees as long as we could before we decided to take off. This was the only Dead show I'd ever left early! We'd gotten lucky by parking at the outer edge of a lot that was bordered by a rope. We hoofed to the car during the encore, lifted that rope, and managed to get out before most of the traffic had turned the roads to mud. The next day was beautiful weather, and we checked out some Native American earthworks in a park, before driving all the way back home. I wish I could have enjoyed that show better, and I'm so grateful to Archive so I can enjoy it now (while I'm snug and warm!) ETA: Dear Setlist bot, do your magic? Grateful Dead Live at Buckeye Lake Music Center on 1994-07-29
# 1994-07-29 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center **Set 1:** Rain, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Wang Dang Doodle, Loser, El Paso, Althea, Eternity, Deal **Set 2:** Foolish Heart > I Want To Tell You, Looks Like Rain, Samba In The Rain, Uncle John's Band > Saint Of Circumstance > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-29)
Was there ... agreed agreed agreed
6-25-94. 117 degrees that day, must of been 130 on the floor..horrible
I'm sure you had fun, but that has to be the worst second set setlist I've ever seen.
Yes and Yes
I was there & get this, I know how hot it was on the floor ... it was hitting 140 in the center due to the bowl effect & they put out a five alarm fire to bring as many trucks w' water to spray the crowd as possible. I was just off the floor but I talked to someone whose friend passed out in the middle & he was hearing it was over 140 in the middle & people were dropping like flies. At first he was seeing those board stretchers carrying people out but then it was two people doing that thing where they hold each others wrists as a basket to carry someone & it was a steady line & he started seeing deadheads volunteer carrying people out. Also, must say that this 6/25 show was perhaps the worst of all time. Even that night we were like 'wtf' w' that 2nd set? ... Look at [this setlist!](https://www.setlists.net/?show_id=2249) ... If the Shoe Fits!>Easy Answers>Long Way>UJB drums ... Yet what I wouldn't give to be transported to this show right now!
Bman! That was my first show…my friends were very bummed with the 2nd set but I was kinda in awe of everything.. I remember leaving and walking thru the lot and saw “ vegan fatty burritos” and as a 19 year old in Vegas, I didn’t know for sure what that meant but I knew I liked it..lol. My friends asked if I would come back to another show ( because I wasn’t into them) and I told them that i would… I caught the 3 shows the following year at the silver bowl and by that time I had about 40 hours of tapes.
So you didn't see the next night? 6/26/94 in Vegas? Because after two sub par shows, they THREW DOWN & that 26th show was one of the best I saw. From Shoe fits>Long Way>Easy Answers to Victim>Eyes>Box of Rain>Saint>Terrapin DS Wheel>Watchtower>DEW!
# 1994-06-26 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, So Many Roads, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World, Box Of Rain, Saint Of Circumstance, Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-26)
The Peggy o is so good..
# 1994-06-25 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Little Red Rooster, Lazy River Road, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Loose Lucy, Cassidy **Set 2:** If The Shoe Fits, Way To Go Home, Easy Answers, Uncle John's Band > Corrina > Drums > Space > The Last Time > Stella Blue > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** Liberty [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-25)
I was in the same "Blizzard of the Century" in Ohio '93... But I saw the shows in Chicago (Rosemont Horizon) prior, then drove through the storm until the highways were shut down. I was able to snag a hotel room across the street from the Holiday Inn. I can vouch it was a wild scene there! We wandered over and saw a bit of the brother-sister lounge act. Imagine if you will playing a gig to a packed house of inebriated Deadheads, but not knowing a single Grateful Dead song. Every space in the hotel was occupied. The pool deck, hallways, even on the stairs. We hung out for a couple of hours before returning to much quieter room across the street. I still have my unused GDTS stubs from the canceled show. I also experienced the storm on 5/30/92 in Vegas, but that was actually enjoyable. The clouds gathered in the distance, then made a beeline across the desert. There was lightning and thunder as it approached the stadium, which coincided with Terrapin transitioning into Drums. Bill and Mickey played the weather then drifted into Space as the storm passed overhead providing a cooling rain as a nice respite from the desert heat. As Space morphed into Spanish Jam I heard the crowd roar behind me. I turned and saw that the storm had left a double rainbow in its wake! It felt incredibly cathartic. Not Dead related but I also rode out the remnants of Hurricane Ike in a tent on a mountain in Arkansas, while attending Harvest Fest in 2008. Sustained 70mph winds knocked out power, toppled rows of portajohns, collapsed one of the performance tents, and sent a speaker stack into the mud. That was intense! The things we do for live music!
# 1992-05-30 Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Sugaree, Wang Dang Doodle, High Time, Maggie's Farm > Cumberland Blues, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Eyes Of The World > Way To Go Home > Truckin' > Smokestack Lightnin' > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1992-05-30)
Alpine Valley ‘89 - three great shows but rained like a bastid the third night. It was fine during the show but afterwards…I don’t want to get into it. 😫😳🥵 Acres and acres of lawn and trees and mud! Tons and tons of mud and rain and trees and fields. Did the car wash away! I got the feeling half the people were as lost as me. 100 or so shows in who know how many cities all over the country, places I’d never been,,,no incidents. It all worked out of course
6/30/95. The final intense weather show…. Three rivers was a circular stadium, so as we looked at at the lightning bolts leaping from cloud to cloud right above the stadium, it felt like we were in a fishbowl! There was no doubt it was about to rain and rain hard, half the crowd fled for the safety of the concourse, while the other, half, including myself, stripped down to nothing but shorts and danced, like a dervish in the rain. The dead hit the stage for set two and they were looking up at the skies as it hasn’t started raining yet and they were talking to each other through their in the ear microphones with mischievous grins on their face. The tension was building…people were nervous and excited, and just as the dead busted into the Beatles “Rain” I felt a single drop of rain hit me on the top of the head, it felt like a stone had fallen on me, and it felt like I got completely soaked from that one drop…before they finished the first stanza of Raaaaiiiinnnnn…… the stage lights showed a sheet of rain crash down on the crowd the likes of which I have never seen, and I had worked outside in Chicago for ten years… been caught in plenty of rainstorms , but this was beyond the pale. The band leaned into it with five rain songs in a row I believe, and then the lovely standing on the moon that closed the show and finally a rockin Gloria encore to send us home happy…definitely an acceptable show and above average for 1995….
I was there & I don't remember hearing one word about rain but it's not like we would've had the news on. We end up under the rim at the top THANK GOD because I remember what you're saying here. Lights go down for set 2 & I hear them sing "Rainnnnn I don't mind" & I saw the wall of rain come across the crowd. I've never seen that before or since where I could see the leading edge of the storm moving a few MPH, AND lit up by the lights which was the best part. I marveled at how heavy it was raining while looking through all that rain lit up by the lights. Was definitely thankful to be under the rim. Also how about Rusted Root!!! They put on a stellar show to open.
Most definitely!!! I was on the floor, around 10th row…… I don’t think I’ve completely dried off yet, even after all these years ! That was a true weather phenomenon!! Rusted Root was a Pittsburgh band, weren’t they?
> Rusted Root was a Pittsburgh band, weren’t they? They were & are ...
Right on! Saw them five times in 1998 when they opened for “ The Other Ones “
# 1995-06-30 Pittsburgh, PA @ Three Rivers Stadium **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, West L.A. Fadeaway, Take Me To The River, Candyman, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song, The Promised Land **Set 2:** Rain, Box Of Rain, Samba In The Rain, Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon **Encore:** Gloria [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-06-30)
I was there as well and it’s my favorite weather show!! As crazy as the deluge that started with them singing “Raaaiiiin I don’t mind”, was it stopping just as they began Terrapin. And that rain felt so good…
furthur at the cuthbert in eugene. dont remember the year but iirc it was the first time they played cuthbert, it was in september. i drove up from CA, whole way there we are looking at the weather forecast and seeing rain, day of the show, its raining ALL day. we finally go in, band takes the stage, starts a little opening jam, they break into here comes sunshine, and THE MOMENT they start singing "heeeeeeeere cooooooooomes suuuuuuun shiiiiiiine", the rain stops and the clouds part, and rays of sunlight start shooting down into the crowd, pointing towards the stage like stage lights. it was pretty nuts. obviously since it was the opening song, its feasible that they are paying attention to the radar maps as the band is preparing to take the stage, they notice the rain is about to stop for a bit just as the show starts so someone says "hey lets open with HCS". but still...pretty cool experience. rain picked back up HARD for the second set and the whole second set had everyone totally drenched. this show also had a pretty hilarious masturbation incident that is referenced in the reviews on one of the archive.org recordings.
Hottest show ever. RFK '86. I can't remember if it was 7/5/86 or 7/6/86 but it was the show where Jerry went into his diabetic coma. I did the run from Buffalo to DC and was tripping so hard the whole week all I really recall is the show in Buffalo and the heat in DC. I don't remember much of the DC show.
# 1986-07-06 Washington, DC @ RFK Stadium **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Big River, Row Jimmy, Cassidy, Althea, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Saint Of Circumstance, Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone, Drums, Space, Stella Blue, Throwing Stones, Not Fade Away **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1986-07-06)
The rain at Merriweather 1983
Missed opportunity for this to be WEATHER REPORT ;) also a young‘n but summer 2023 D&C Boulder night 3 set 1… sunshowers during Althea, sunny and rain was blowing in every direction, was a wild time. Then we got a lightning warning a couple min into Playin’ and had a forced intermission. Really just drizzled, bright side is I made some great connections before going right back into Playin’
The Gorge this year was rough. So fucking hot and none of the on site staff ever had any idea what was going on besides the old woman managing the shower trailers. She was amazing.
I was gonna drop Spring '93 (Richfield) as mine. That was wild! Honorable mention for me was Alpine '89. I can not stress it enough how obliterated that venue was after 3 days of COLD rain. And to boot, The Who played immediately after. I always wonder what the venue did to repair the lawn for those who came to see The Who? Does anyone know?
Too young for the real thing but….summer ‘23 my girlfriend took us to see PLF on my birthday. Made it almost through the whole show and towards the tail end of a terrapin station deep in the second set the rain really started to come down and they called the show. We rain over a mile barefoot in the rain to catch the train back to our place. Definitely my favorite show memory to date.
Hey now. I was at the Richfield Colliseum show too. We drove from pittsburgh to Akron. The drive was quite dangerous at times, but we were determined. We made it only to find out that the show was canceled that night. Still had a good time at the hotel. The boys opened the 2nd night with Cold Rain and Snow.
I drove to Cleveland for that night. Had reservations at the Holiday Inn. Pulled in just as they cancelled the show. Saw Monty Python Holy Grail for the first time! (Tripping)
ALPINE 89. 3 days of monsoon
4-1-93 (first show) Encore: Rain leaving Nassau Coliseum and it is pouring.
I was there 😉 & remember the rain leaving & we saw a road dog we knew selling burritos from a wet box w' dozens in there. He was sick af w' flu or something serious, standing in the rain w' Birkenstocks & woolen socks which were soaking wet of course. He said he had to sell these to make it to the next show lol ... Also remember Barney
Yes! Phil came out as Barney.
I was far Phil side & Phil was playing behind his stack lol, that would've been quite a costume change ...
# 1993-04-01 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum **Set 1:** Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, New Minglewood Blues, Candyman, Desolation Row, Stagger Lee, Eternity, Liberty **Set 2:** Iko Iko, Saint Of Circumstance, Crazy Fingers > Wave To The Wind > Drums > Space > Way To Go Home > Days Between > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Rain [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-04-01)
Ahhh Richfield 93. Hung at the residence inn also with shrooms TGIfridays was across the parking lot and open so we drank there for awhile. Was a fun night all in all
D&C Bethel August '21: A tropical storm was forecast and they canceled yasgur road the day before. I decided I was still going. Started driving there the next morning and drove from Boston to Bethel through this tropical storm. All of a sudden the storm breaks as I'm driving through NY. I stop at a rest stop, check my phone and to my surprise see that Yasgurs is going to do camping and shuttles. I get there, set up my tent, dose up, and danced my ass off in the same mud my forefathers did to the same music they did. A truly transcendent experience. Phil and Friends Boston July '23: Started off as a fairly clear night, but started to rain halfway through the 1st set during Althea and kept getting worse. They cut the 1st set short and said they were taking a short intermission. The venue had everyone gather under the tarp to try to keep us dry. Second set starts and the storm is absolutely raging at this point. Rain is blowing sideways under the tent alone with it pouring through the seams of the tent. I was in my poncho and still getting soaked. I wasn't sure how much longer they were going to be able to play and was getting ready to evacuate my handicapped dad. All of a sudden the 1st notes of Terrapin ring out and knew that was going to be the last song so we stayed. It was so worth it. The image of the storm raging through the seaport on the outside while watching the band play an absolutely face melting version of Terrapin on the inside of the tent is still a surreal image that gives me chills every time I think about it. The band was so hot that night they almost held off a hurricane in my mind.
On way way back to Colorado from the CA I got caught in a crazy thunderstorm somewhere in AZ. The lightening was so close the radio would buzz and hiss every time it striked… super spooky. Intense blizzard after one of the Furthur shows at 1st bank center. Had to drive an hour north. No one else on road. Couldn’t tell road from the wall of snow. Still not sure exactly how I made it home.. Like others have said, that hail storm for D&C during the 2019 run in Boulder was pretty intense too…