Grateful Dead Shakedown Street Irvine April 1988

[murda187ism]

i was there!!!!! my 1st dead show was irvine 84, til 94 i was at every irvine show!!!! god, best times o my life following jerry band n dead.. san diego to mendocino.  MISS YA JERRRYYY

[G0AskAlice22]

pre- nitrous maf.

[dreamtransmissions]

kind of haunting.

[occams99]

Check about 3:20 The head with the ball spots somebody stretching their reality and tosses it. It's stealyourfacebook. It gets scooped up without missing a beat and hooked back. That's the magic baby!

[natemayorga]

The best part of this video is when the punk rocker walks in with crutches at a minute 20.

[ElliottDay88]

haha wow i wish i was there it seems like such a chill and lax shakedown street, i love how it just like a time-lapse photo of shakedown street its crazy.

[VulturesAwait]

these were magical times for me and one of my early shows. thank you for this upload, wish I would have had a camera in my eye back then but this is a good flashback.

[RayGunOfDeath]

A real nice version can be heard on CSNYs album "Four Way Street" but it is live and yes it is a beautiful version. David Crosby escaped the world on his boat. Thats how he found his magical spot in the world...at sea.

[koohjnomis]

this was my first show of over 100 or so, i know a lot of you say that it was down hill from here on but i had a grand time, every show i went to i made sure that i had tix prefably mail order still to this day no tix no show, the seen is good but its all about the music my friends

[theraven2222]

Awesome stuff! Looks like a painting that has come alive. I consider this a beautiful piece of artwork. Thank you!

[jdschiefer]

How fun, eagerly watching to see if I some how strolled down the street. I had just moved from Los Angeles to Irvine in March...The those shows in Irvine were epic. Thanks for taking me back to better times..

[LBjim]

@jdschiefer Oh Yeah..Those were better times!!



[mikes0215]

What a long strange trip it's been since I walked shakedown street at Irvine 1988. I was able to find an extra ticket that I paid $15 for. I actually didn't have a ride to Frost so I took a bus to San Fransico and slept in Golden gate park until the day of the Frost show.

[mikes0215]

What a long strange trip it's been since I walked shakedown street at Irvine 1988. I was able to find an extra ticket that I paid $15 for. I actually didn't have a ride to Frost so I took a bus to San Fransico and slept in Golden gate park until the day of the Frost show.

[jkstroud1]

My first and only California shows, Irvine followed by Frost. Didn't have tickets but lined up for Will Call just to see what might happen; told them I was on the list as Bobby's guest, or something like that. Got orchestra section! lol. Also met a cute Scarlet Begonia girl … had to learn the hard way to let her pass by. Thanks for the memories.

[tigeroach1]

Thank you.

[notdeadyet010]

my comment isnt on the video GOD BLESS THEM says it all my comment is on all of you with your comments and i sure hope that with all that ive been reading from all you and you know who you are that you aint walking around tryn to pretend like you are the kind cause you aint in fact you are worse than most of them that started coming after in the dark damnjust about started sounding like u

[hcharton]

That's my best friend's Eric Garcia's bus in the left hand corner. We were there all weekend.  This is pretty wonderful to see again. Thanks!!!

[hcharton]

That's my best friend's Eric Garcia's bus in the left hand corner. We were there all weekend. This is pretty wonderful to see again. Thanks!!!

[hcharton]

That's my best friend's Eric Garcia's bus in the left hand corner. We were there all weekend. This is pretty wonderful to see again. Thanks!!!

[rivercity1955]

I was at the 1988 Irvine shows and experienced the "deadbeats" without tickets pull down fences and stormed into the venue. Phil came onstage at the break to scold these people who ruined the show which was almost stopped because of their stupid actions. I've been attending Dead shows since 1972 and have seen them play over 70 times. From the early 80s on the small percentage of idiots got larger and larger. I wouldn't blame the so called "Touch Heads" either at least they had tickets.

[AmanitaInWonderland]

Do you mean Deadheads? Deadbeats are people who don't contribute to society, like an annoying roommate who won't pay the rent...But yes, I agree with what you are saying.

Also, I'm a very new fan of the Dead, but it isn't because of the song "Touch of Gray," does that still make me a Touch Head?

[rivercity1955]

0@AmanitaInWonderland

I didn't use the term "Touch Head" as a negative term. I've met many new Dead fans throughout the years who were turned on by the music. It didn't matter if it was Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah, Shakedown Street or whatever the "new" music coming out was. I only used the term because I've read too many Deadheads putting down the many new fans who attended the concerts after "In the Dark". Deadheads who followed the Dead were pissed because tickets were hard to get!

[bucketfreak196868]

As for the first show they played in deer creek it is my understanding that there are still people from all over the country serving time having been busted here,in 1995 My touring buddy who is also my uncle offered to get tickets to go to deer creek I had been all over the country I think 1989 was the year that I noticed going to a Dead concert was beginning be more like being in the book and movie 1984 :-(

[bucketfreak196868]

Thanks for this clip I too was there to I don't recall this show being over shadowed by the Nazi's(I mean cops)but around 1990 I could see things going south real quick they came came to my state and played their first show in Noblesville Indiana,I attended that show and as I recall one other where they actually ran the thing like a Nazi death camp,with dope dogs.

In 1992 I decided I would no longer attend another Grateful Dead concert ,under those conditions

[AmanitaInWonderland]

Man, I'm sorry. That's so tough. Stupid cops!

[StickyFingers44111]

freedomjames i saw alot of busts on tour. it was disturbing...in pittsburg i saw tiedyed narcs get out of a police car and spread into the crowd. I followed to warn people but got scared of interfeering with police business and getting busted my self.  ... oh, and i would have jumped you battery brother...

[freedomjames]

@StickyFingers44111 Thanks for the Jump intentions, love ya!

[StickyFingers44111]

MRMITCHELLZ IT IS Crosby and Nash singing this song.

It's called Lee Shore

[StickyFingers44111]

chukhustle bad deadhead no vending

[chukhustle]

i've snuck into this place several times i use to have bolt cutters and would cut the fence and when they stopped selling beer me and my friend would hook the tap up and sell 2 for 5,

[MRMITCHELLZ]

this song sounds like csny should be singing it no?

[freedomjames]

Cop at 2:10-2:15 aproximately, woman in shorts walking fast with sunglasses. I know cause I was there and she busted a brother named Sunlight. Irvine was a bad trip that year! people stormed the gate and the cops were A-holes. My battery went dead and nobody would give me a jump. Definately the begining of the end of the scene.

[AmanitaInWonderland]

I'm sorry. That's like pedophiles infesting a Playground! (The cops, I mean.)

[freedomjames]

@AmanitaInWonderland very well put,  thanks

[mikeleroux]

i wasnt old enough to go see the dead at this point,but judging from what i heard this song compliments what the scene had turn into at the time.with all the touchheads and rowdies and all that.

[rodwebber]

Ali wuz here!

[jaquestraw1]

wish I was there right now...

[superkindonmymind]

lots of dogs

[slipyourhips]

Falafel $1!!! this was a great time for all of us..damn i miss it

[brycepunk]

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this. It's great to see what things looked like back when. So much less of a mob than when I discovered them in '93. Fantastic footage. I love the just-still cam and letting the action speak purely for itself.

[augustwest8951]

We were camped there all three days; sold tamales and made lots of new friends... If you have more, please post it... thanks a bunch for the memories of this venue..

[texaskaje]

Cool footage. Thanks for posting. I'd love to see all the people that complain about this post their 80s parking lot footage. Thanks again for bringin out the memories. The hug at 4:40 is what it was about.

[3642130]

may the universe bless and keep initiate Garcia, a yellow flame planted long ago.

[1968owl]

Thanx-ive sent you a message Johnycable

[1968owl]

Anyone tell me what the fantastic music is in this clip

Thanx

[Johnycable]

The Leeshore- Live by Crosby Stills and Nash

[lindapittsburgh]

Caroline and Caroline remember redheaded JASON?

he can be found at

THE DOE NETWORK....

[laneatlileden]

like an old peer the 60s sailed through the 80s and all the way up to this comment that you are reading now."were still here".

[world2give77]

I can't watch videos like this without getting serious chills.... this was the era when the scene was exploding yet way before it outta control in the late nineties... twenty-one years ago to me seems like last month.

also... perfect song selection johnycable... it made me cry to watch this totally simple vid!

(you know you are a true deadhead when you refer to '94 and '95 as "the late nineties")

[loonh2o]

It had already exploded...hence the riots of the year before at Irvine. Still,,,thanks to the boys for a real good time!

[vpaczkowski]

the comments made by some about how tame the lot was is right on. My first shows were in 1986 at the Spectrum. This is how it really was a lot more mellow. As time went on the crowd got rougher and older head all talk about it. This is a great representation. All the b.s. did was bring more cops where they didn't belong. I watched the scene become downright embarrassing. By 94 I was tired of it. I only did a handful of shows in 95. Of course after Jerry died I wished I had done more.

[3m0er0n2]

i was there...

[potar]

how many shakedowns have you shaked down my friend?

[espolax]

Be honest. You are 18.

[mspeninna]

trying to find myself in the crowd, I had a new baby and was selling crystals on the trunk of the car somewhere at this show, with an old crystal guru named Rudi~ I miss those days!

[patrakis2]

do you still sell crystals. website maybe?

[qbkeys]

Whoah, Duuuuude !! I was THERE, man. I watch this footage & see what a few people that I know today looked like 21 years ago. Thank You, Johnny Cable, for posting this.

[chromatixlixrob]

what a moldy fuckin tune man, made shakedown look like a funeral procession. what about hairy pit sluts that suck for a line thats what shakedown was about

[lesh8]

what a sad comment. i think you missed what the scene was about bro.

[ohiobobcat4ever]

so does life

[justinatacacia]

this video is kinda cool but it also kinda sux

[moistboiz2010]

whats the name of this song??

[oldturtle2008]

all along the lee shore by crosby stills nash and young off the 4 way street album