Dead of the Day: 08-15-1987
Town Park
Telluride, Colorado
There is a great 1971 show form the Berkeley Community Theater, but our Dead of the Day takes us out to the beautiful mountains of Colorado with an outdoor show at Telluride in 1987. The show opens with a Feel Like a Stranger> Franklin’s Tower that sets the mood for the evening: late eighties lusciousness with Brent’s heady contributions, Bobby’s studied vocals, and Jerry’s guitar setting up most of the high points. The Minglewood that comes next begins in familiar territory, but gets into some intense and moody jams in the latter half. From there, the set rolls on in high fashion, including a ripping Big River out of Me And My Uncle and a special Desolation Row.
As per usual, the second half is really where it is at, starting with the Scarlet opener with Phil belting out some serious bass lines and Brent throwing in hearty fills. The Fire that comes out next has Jerry blasting away while Brent pounds on the keys with, as you would expect, Phil and the drummers raging the whole way through. After a short pause, the boys head into a lovely Looks Like Rain with Bobby delivering powerful vocals and Jerry hitting just the right balance on the guitar. Eyes Of The World continues the phenomenal playing with, again, Brent and Jerry running away with it during the jams. After Drums and Space, the boys launch into a Miracle that leads them into an incredible late second set Bertha. The Bertha, with all its ramped up energy drops right into a monstrous Morning Dew, almost the polar opposite of the rocking boisterousness of Bertha with its intensity building and crashing repeatedly in solid waves of splendor. One More Saturday Night ends up closing out the set before a wonderful It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue encore takes it away.

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