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Grateful dead drums and space12/7/2023 One week, their show at Buffalo's Rich Stadium, circa July 16, 1990, was the programming for the evening. Those shows were filmed for the video screens, and the film (sometimes with hilarious psychedelic effects) survives today. I started pulling these up late on Friday nights for lack of anything better to do, and most of these are naturally from the last seven or eight years of the band, when they'd been pushed into stadiums in the wake of "Touch of Grey" and mainstream success. That said, entertainment is in high demand these days, and the Dead have been offering up some of that every Friday with their " Shakedown Stream" on YouTube. Dragged down by midi-synths and sluggish tempos and Garcia's variable energy and enthusiasm from show to show, the final era didn't seem to offer the same energy and spark as what got me interested. I haven't given a lot of time to the Grateful Dead's later years. Of all the things I could’ve accomplished during quarantine, I hadn’t expected “develop a heavy appreciation for the final era of the Grateful Dead” to necessarily be among them. Through the years with “Wharf Rat” and the Grateful Dead
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