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Minglewood Blues v2 (2 cam) - Grateful Dead - 10-17-1990 Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (set1-03)

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Channel: LoloYodel · 2018 · Music

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Redited ("Version 2") in October 2018.  (My 1st upload was circa 2014)
A LoloYodel two-video angle remix (see credits below). This upgrade comes essentially from a better quality "Rasensteine" copy which has better stabilisation and was "de-interlaced".

Sorry folks, these 1990 European shows were SOME of the The Best of The Grateful Dead ! Granted "amateur" videos but to have two video angles, with such visual diversity, is truely an addition to our viewing and auditive pleasure. Forget color resolution and any other puritanical poop, enjoy this !

9 years and 7 months after the Dead's 1st and epic appearance at this Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (March 28, 1981), the Boys returned here (Essen) for their 1st of 5 German shows on this European Trip !

7 months after the truly spectacular and sonically unique East Coast Spring 1990 Tour (Landover, Albany, Nassau ...),
but just 3 months after the tragic death of the beloved keyboardist Brent Mydland (July 26th), The Grateful Dead embarked on this very strong European Tour which started in Sweden on October 13th (jet lag and all ...), then Germany, Grugahalle, Essen where it begins to pick up, then France and the Tour ended on November 1st at Wembley, London UK.

Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby are there to replace Mydland on keyboards ...

All of these European shows, beyond their European flavor, were unique in that they were in relatively small
4000-5000 seat venues, versus the average 40 000 + seat coliseums, if not stadiums, that the Dead had already begun to install their gig in the USA.  And I'm sure that the Grateful Dead was not oblivious to that European "intimacy".

Essen Germany :
1st we gotta remember that this, AT THE TIME, was JUST 12 months after the Berlin Wall came down !  Politically a big time movement/change in the European framework.
After that, well, this was the 2nd show of the European Tour,  1st was Stockholm which was a relative ho-hum show due the the adjustments, the jet-lag and other crap ...
So here we are, Essen, Germany (Bobby sweating it out !)

LoloYodel Notes :
A very, VERY fine 1st set ! strong, energetic, within time and place !  Also, "Angle Two" (from right of stage view) is COOL cause it often shows Jerry's big old "eye smiles" towards Bruuuce (keyboards) !
Set 2 : They are on the juice ! Watch'em all swing, Phil bouncin', Bobby smiling, and Jerry on the watch (see Jerry connect with Bruce during He's Gone...) ! Even "Need a Miracle" has a very cool twang and see Jerry really get into it !

VIDEOS (with my habitual gratitude and thanks for all whose who previously filmed, produced and shared the originals). 

Angle One :  "Lazy Cow", captured by Ray B, synch/authored by BigWuRock
 Video: AUD (Tripod) ~ JVC Single Tube Camera ...
 Left of stage angle.
 
Angle Two :  "Rasensteine", colorful and rare right of stage view (cool !)
 (10/2018) This copy has better quality resolution, was "de-interlaced" and was stabilized.
 I reduced the color-saturation by -75% (to -125% depending on songs) to try and find better visual harmony with the darker "Lazy Cow" video.

AUDIO (Soundboard) : from the LC video which in fact is "gd90-10-17.dsbd.wiley.11613.sbeok.shnf"
Audio increased by 2.0 db

PS : also thanks to Gerry & Stewart Loew for brief outakes of their fine "In Our Eyes - European Deadhead Odyssey 1990" editted in at the beginning of each show !

Intro : "European Odyssey 1990" Essen, Germany ...
Set 1
Hell In A Bucket ~
Sugaree
Minglewood Blues
Ramble On Rose
Me & My Uncle ~
Maggie's Farm
High Time
Cassidy
Tennessee Jed
Picasso Moon (set end)

Set 2
China Cat Sunflower ~
I Know You Rider
Truckin' ~
He's Gone ~
drums ~
space ~
The Wheel ~
I Need A Miracle ~
Black Peter ~
Turn On Your Lovelight
encore : Knockin' On Heaven's Door

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