Take a trip with “All Along the Watchtower” performed on this day in 1993 at Shoreline Amphitheatre. “Joining the Grateful Dead's repertoire in June 1987, this Bob Dylan classic was worked up during rehearsals for the July 1987 Dylan & The Dead tour. The Dead, however, played it closer to Jimi Hendrix's more famous version, which is to say it was guitar-driven and fierce. Usually appearing in the post-Space, pre-ballad slot, Watchtower was one of the hardest rocking songs of the night whenever t

Let there be songs to fill the air 🌬️🎶 "One of the most-loved Grateful Dead songs, ‘Ripple’ was one of the many standouts on ‘American Beauty.’ It was played 11 times between 1970 & 1971, and then dropped until it returned in 1980, played as the set-closing song every night during the Dead's acoustic sets. It made one final appearance on 9/3/88 in Landover, MD, before being retired for good." - David Lemieux Watch the full performance of the tune from the final night of the Dead’s Radio City M