Well, after 22 shows, it has been a trip watching this tour develop, grow and around the midway point hit its stride and stay in a consistently fine place. The first half of the tour definitely had some high moments, with the second Worcester show on 4/19/09 being a particular standout to these ears, and other good stuff at other shows. It seemed that the MSG show was when the tour really clicked, and aside from the occasional miss, the rest of the shows were widely praised as pretty good-to-excellent. This was, without a doubt, a grueling tour for the band and crew, as it was considerably longer than a typical Grateful Dead tour of the 1980s and 1990s, which usually ran about 13-17 shows, with many of those shows being three, four, six and occasionally eight or more night runs at one venue. The shows themselves back then must have been exhausting (these guys work hard!) but the touring itself was less strenuous than it was this time around. There was one stretch on this tour with five shows in six nights, in five different venues. And on the night off during that run, the band and many of the crew members had to be at the Letterman studios for the entire day into the evening for the TV taping. That would be tiring for anyone, not least of all to guys in their 60s. And through this schedule, they really didn’t show any signs of fatigue.
Read the complete tour recap at Dead.net
| 4/12 |
Greensboro, NC
Greensboro Coliseum |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/14 |
Washington DC
Verizon Center |
5:30 PM |
7:00 PM |
| 4/15 |
Charlottesville, VA
John Paul Jones Arena |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/17 |
Albany, NY
Times Union Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/18 |
Worcester, MA
DCU Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/19 |
Worcester, MA
DCU Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/21 |
Buffalo, NY
HSBC Arena |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/22 |
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/24 |
Uniondale, NY
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/25 |
New York, NY
Madison Square Garden |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/26 |
Hartford, CT
XL Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/28 |
E. Rutherford, NJ
IZOD Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 4/29 |
E. Rutherford, NJ
IZOD Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/1 |
Philadelphia, PA
The Spectrum |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/2 |
Philadelphia, PA
The Spectrum |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/4 |
Chicago, IL
All State Arena |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/5 |
Chicago, IL
All State Arena |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/7 |
Denver, CO
Pepsi Center |
6:00 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/9 |
Los Angeles, CA
The Forum |
6:30 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 5/10 |
Mountain View, CA
Shoreline Amphitheater |
5:30 PM |
7:00 PM |
| 5/14 |
Mountain View, CA
Shoreline Amphitheater |
5:30 PM |
7:00 PM |
| 5/16 |
Quincy, WA
The Gorge |
5:30 PM |
7:00 PM |
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