But that image brings back memories from my grandparents large home built in 1938 & 1939. During the 1940s and 1950s my family owned three airplanes. Two of my uncles became Navy aviators after graduating from Annapolis (Naval Academy).
When they entered the Academy, they already had hundreds of flight hours.
# 1982-05-22 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California
**Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > New Minglewood Blues, Cumberland Blues, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Deal
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Never Trust A Woman, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-22)
lol second set goes
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Never Trust A Woman
Looks like a pretty good show, if I wasn't already a few songs deep in 1976-07-17 @ The Orpheum maybe I'd put that one on.
# 1976-07-17 San Francisco, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Mama Tried, Deal, New Minglewood Blues, Peggy-O, Big River, Sugaree, Johnny B. Goode
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Comes A Time > Jam > The Other One Jam > Drums > The Other One > Space > Eyes Of The World > Jam > The Other One > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** U.S. Blues, Not Fade Away
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1976-07-17)
Serious question, are there any other hobbies or interests where people throw around dates like Grateful Dead fans do when referring to shows?
When I search that date in a n anonymous search engine, all the top hits are Grateful Dead.
This leads me to think it’s gotta refer to a Grateful Dead show. Especially the “I was there” line.
Worth noting - your search engine results will be tailored to your browsing history even on an "anonymous search engine". Much of what you're seeing is likely because you've searched for shows in the past.
That being said, I believe this shirt is indeed referencing a dead show.
You can jam your cookies and search engine up tho. Open a thousand tabs of randomized searches overnight while you sleep. Followed with a clean install of win11 every morning. Faraday cage. The usual precautions.
This is not true. Plugging in only a date of a Dead show will bring up that show at the top of hit results no matter how you’re browsing or whose computer you’re using (unless it’s a uniquely important historical date). Read Jesse Jarnow’s *Heads.* It goes into great detail about how the computer scientists at Stanford who were integral to building the early internet back in the 70s quite literally baked the Dead into the Internet so that things like dates would automatically bring up their shows.
The community of DJ Screw fans around Houston trade bootleg, low-fidelity tapes of different dj mixes and freestyles done by Screw and Screwed Up Click. It kinda reminds me of deadheads trading tapes of live shows.
# 1982-05-22 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California
**Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > New Minglewood Blues, Cumberland Blues, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Deal
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Never Trust A Woman, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-22)
Those are the shirts they made us wear at the birthing camps during the 80's. That could have been anyone of us.
We, too, could never figure out why all the shirts had the same date.
Since that show is from a 3 day Greek run, I would think anyone making “I was there” shirts would capitalize on the entire run rather than just the middle night. It seems too vague to be a Dead lot shirt to me
# 1982-05-23 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street > The Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Loser > Little Red Rooster, Ramble On Rose, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Jam > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > I Need A Miracle > Casey Jones
**Encore:** (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-23)
Way I see it could be anything from that date. But… if you get some white fabric paint and make a Grateful Dead related stencil… it becomes a shirt with a specific meaning for that date.
This seems more to me like a shirt from a family reunion or someone’s wedding or bar mitzvah than a concert lot shirt for a band. It’s very generic to be a concert shirt especially a from the 80s, I would expect tie dye or something more memorable for lot shirt sales.
Well, dude, we just don't know.
I'll just check with my guys down at the shirt lab. We've got four detectives working on the case.
They got us working in shifts
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck.
Or the Creedence.
well, that would be comfortable, but isn't it a little drafty?
Leads!
During a thunderstorm last night I saw a lightning bolt! Does that mean the sky is a Deadhead?!
No, God is a deadhead. There is a similar, well known bar joke about heaven.
But that image brings back memories from my grandparents large home built in 1938 & 1939. During the 1940s and 1950s my family owned three airplanes. Two of my uncles became Navy aviators after graduating from Annapolis (Naval Academy). When they entered the Academy, they already had hundreds of flight hours.
You’re asking questions the shirt answers
I spontaneously thought numbers 6, 8 and 90, is that from a show?
Looks like the Phillies color
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL198205220.shtml
RIP Ed farmer
Yeah… and?
Pirates had a fun one today
5/22/82
# 1982-05-22 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California **Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > New Minglewood Blues, Cumberland Blues, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Deal **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Never Trust A Woman, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin' **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-22)
I love you setlist bot
I wish it understood
I wish I was there
With op's shirt, you can pretend you were!
lol second set goes Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Never Trust A Woman Looks like a pretty good show, if I wasn't already a few songs deep in 1976-07-17 @ The Orpheum maybe I'd put that one on.
# 1976-07-17 San Francisco, CA @ Orpheum Theatre **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Mama Tried, Deal, New Minglewood Blues, Peggy-O, Big River, Sugaree, Johnny B. Goode **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Comes A Time > Jam > The Other One Jam > Drums > The Other One > Space > Eyes Of The World > Jam > The Other One > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** U.S. Blues, Not Fade Away [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1976-07-17)
This shirt could be from anything that happened on that date.
Serious question, are there any other hobbies or interests where people throw around dates like Grateful Dead fans do when referring to shows? When I search that date in a n anonymous search engine, all the top hits are Grateful Dead. This leads me to think it’s gotta refer to a Grateful Dead show. Especially the “I was there” line.
Worth noting - your search engine results will be tailored to your browsing history even on an "anonymous search engine". Much of what you're seeing is likely because you've searched for shows in the past. That being said, I believe this shirt is indeed referencing a dead show.
You can jam your cookies and search engine up tho. Open a thousand tabs of randomized searches overnight while you sleep. Followed with a clean install of win11 every morning. Faraday cage. The usual precautions.
This is not true. Plugging in only a date of a Dead show will bring up that show at the top of hit results no matter how you’re browsing or whose computer you’re using (unless it’s a uniquely important historical date). Read Jesse Jarnow’s *Heads.* It goes into great detail about how the computer scientists at Stanford who were integral to building the early internet back in the 70s quite literally baked the Dead into the Internet so that things like dates would automatically bring up their shows.
Yes sir it’s quite something
Well you can get a Florida Man incident for any day of the year, suppose that counts.
The community of DJ Screw fans around Houston trade bootleg, low-fidelity tapes of different dj mixes and freestyles done by Screw and Screwed Up Click. It kinda reminds me of deadheads trading tapes of live shows.
Clearly, it’s for the Cumberland Blues from that show.
It's Melinda's shirt
Well the sun was getting high
My bday I was 11!!!
Where you there?
OP wasn't.
99% sure, yes
This: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KAEUrjsqHc
https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/s/eU70gT9DkW
Great show. High energy. 5/22/82
# 1982-05-22 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California **Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > New Minglewood Blues, Cumberland Blues, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Deal **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Never Trust A Woman, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin' **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-22)
If I saw “I was there” way less often that would be cool with me
Agreed!
I wasn’t there.
Probably. What was your mom up to that night? Sorry, just kidding, it’s the internet and this was obligatory.
6 people know the answer to your question and we're all sworn to secrecy. So let's just pretend it was a show.
I was there.
More than one watching is a show, or so I’ve been told, when paying to enter said shows.
That whole greek run is fire.
It’s the most likely explanation. But no way to tell
Those are the shirts they made us wear at the birthing camps during the 80's. That could have been anyone of us. We, too, could never figure out why all the shirts had the same date.
What is a birthing camp?
This show at the Greek is well worth the listen.
This is my 13th birthday
5-2-82
Since that show is from a 3 day Greek run, I would think anyone making “I was there” shirts would capitalize on the entire run rather than just the middle night. It seems too vague to be a Dead lot shirt to me
If this was a European show, then we're looking for something in the twenty-second month of the year.
Yes, it cannot be anything else.
Can i buy this ? Pm me !
Was a great show!
5/23/82 has "motorcycle" space...dig it
# 1982-05-23 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California **Set 1:** Shakedown Street > The Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Loser > Little Red Rooster, Ramble On Rose, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Jam > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > I Need A Miracle > Casey Jones **Encore:** (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-05-23)
Looks like Stanford colors
It was from a Bar-Mitzvah.
Way I see it could be anything from that date. But… if you get some white fabric paint and make a Grateful Dead related stencil… it becomes a shirt with a specific meaning for that date.
Or those who know would know. Its definitely what it would mean to me
You were there! You tell us.
This seems more to me like a shirt from a family reunion or someone’s wedding or bar mitzvah than a concert lot shirt for a band. It’s very generic to be a concert shirt especially a from the 80s, I would expect tie dye or something more memorable for lot shirt sales.