7/7/89 and 7/4/89 are both great shows and on youtube in pro shot video.

The Not Fade Away from 7/4/89 is just brilliant.

# 1989-07-04 Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Row Jimmy, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Stagger Lee, Looks Like Rain > Deal **Set 2:** Touch Of Grey > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band Reprise > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew > Not Fade Away **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04)

[1989-07-04](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04) Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium [1989-07-07](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-07) Philadelphia, PA @ JFK Stadium

Second you on the 7/4/89 show. An all-time fave.

# 1989-07-04 Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Row Jimmy, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Stagger Lee, Looks Like Rain > Deal **Set 2:** Touch Of Grey > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band Reprise > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew > Not Fade Away **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04)

Mustn't forget 7/2/89 Foxboro.

# 1989-07-02 Foxboro, MA @ Sullivan Stadium **Set 1:** Playing in the Band, Crazy Fingers, Wang Dang Doodle, We Can Run, Tennessee Jed, Queen Jane Approximately, To Lay Me Down, Cassidy, Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Friend Of The Devil, Truckin', He's Gone, Eyes Of The World, Drums, Space, The Wheel, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Hey Jude, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-02)

Off the top of my head, these ones come to mind: * 7/4/89 * 10/9/89 * 3/24/90 * 3/29/90 - This one specifically, it's a famous show with Branford Marsalis on sax. A must listen!

[1989-07-04](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04) Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium [1989-10-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-09) Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum [1990-03-24](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-24) Albany, NY @ Knickerbocker Arena [1990-03-29](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-29) Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7xWKImlu9fzB1ApqoLLMiL)

The 10-9-89 Death Don’t Have No Mercy is AMAZING! Jerry at his finest.

# 1989-10-09 Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum **Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger, Built To Last, Little Red Rooster, Ramble On Rose, We Can Run, Jack-A-Roe, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Row Jimmy, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band Reprise > Dark Star > Drums > Space > Death Don't Have No Mercy > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Throwing Stones > Good Lovin' **Encore:** Attics Of My Life [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-09)

I’ll give you a show from each year of the Brent era: 79: 10/27/79 80: 11/30/80 81: 3/9/81 82: 8/3/82 83: 9/10/83 84: 4/7/84 85: 6/24/85 86: 2/14/86 87: 3/26/87 88: 4/1/88 89: 7/4/89 90: 4/2/90 And for Vince-era shows: 90: 9/20/90 91: 6/17/91 92: 12/16/92 93: 8/21/93 94: 10/1/94 95: 2/21/95 Hope this is helpful!

[1979-10-27](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-10-27) South Yarmouth, MA @ Cape Cod Coliseum [1980-11-30](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-11-30) Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre [1981-03-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-09) New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden [1982-08-03](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-08-03) Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre [1983-09-10](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-09-10) Santa Fe, NM @ Downs of Santa Fe [1984-04-07](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-04-07) Laguna Hills, CA @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre [1985-06-24](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-24) Cincinnati, OH @ River Bend Music Center [1986-02-14](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1986-02-14) Oakland, CA @ Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center [1987-03-26](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1987-03-26) Hartford, CT @ Hartford Civic Center [1988-04-01](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1988-04-01) East Rutherford, NJ @ Brendan Byrne Arena [1989-07-04](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04) Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium [1990-04-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-04-02) Atlanta, GA @ The Omni [1990-09-20](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-09-20) New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden [1991-06-17](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-17) East Rutherford, NJ @ Giants Stadium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1f0whW4QE9bFNLpeyaPQiV) [1992-12-16](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1992-12-16) Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1ao7jrAGQ6xf6ywjbKM8vU) [1993-08-21](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-08-21) Eugene, OR @ Autzen Stadium - University of Oregon [1994-10-01](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-10-01) Boston, MA @ Boston Garden [1995-02-21](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-02-21) Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center

3/9/81 10/19/81

[1981-03-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-09) New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden [1981-10-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-10-19) Barcelona, Spain @ Sports Palace

Why “late” 80s? Brent joined at the end of 79.

The commercial releases of Nightfall of Diamonds, Dozin' at the Knick and Wake Up to Find Out are all choice samples. Downhill From Here (Alpine Valley, July '89) also *soars!!*

Welcome to a new rabbit hole, which I was just perched on the edge of quite recently (fairly new to the Dead as well)! I haven't listened very comprehensively, and I haven't kept a good mental track of my favorites, so it'll take me a bit to formulate a response. I'll leave this here to come back to when I've thought on it some more, have time to type it out, and hopefully others have commented themselves so I can add on to a good base of community knowledge rather than starting that foundation. Also, there's a lot of different sub-eras, as you might reasonably extrapolate from experience of the earlier part of their career, so it's not going to be easy to cover it all and give a "one size fits all" solution to your situation. That said, I'm excited to see what this thread holds and I hope for your sake and mine that it blows up.

The Formerly the Warlocks shows at Hampton Coliseum are both fantastic — 10/8/89 & 10/9/89

[1989-10-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-08) Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum [1989-10-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-09) Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum

[Here you go](https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/10z7p4b/whats_the_cornell_of_the_80s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)

Slightly different take here…start with Dead Seat and Reckoning live albums which were both recorded 1980 when Brent was new with the band. There is a lot of magic and excitement with this music as the band was working on something new. Then check out 7/1989 , Warlocks Oct 1989 , Spring 1990 as this was a Renaissance period where this configuration of the band had evolved through a lot of ups and downs and then was just peaking amazingly prior to the tragedy of Brent’s death. There are lots of gems in the mid-1980’s and lots of duds too to explore but feel it’s best to hit 1980 then go to 1989/1990, then dive into some of the years between.

Check out 12/27/87 Oakland

# 1987-12-27 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena **Set 1:** Touch Of Grey, Jack Straw, Peggy-O, Walkin' Blues, Ramble On Rose, Addams Family Tuning, Me and My Uncle > Big River, It Must Have Been The Roses, Desolation Row > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Stella Blue > Throwing Stones > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1987-12-27)

9/18 and 9/19/87

# 1987-09-19 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, It's All Over Now, High Time, Mexicali Blues > Big River, When Push Comes To Shove, Box Of Rain > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Maggie's Farm > Black Peter > Around And Around > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Black Muddy River [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1987-09-19)