I sang a little while and then flew on.

I have read all the reviews here on this show and I have to add my 2 cents and review. 2 cents is there is always going to be some negative reviews on any show, but most, Underlined, most people who were there, I believe have to say, Wow! This was a magical show for me even though I spent Terrapin through the beginning of Dew in the medical tent for heat exhaustion. Some of the reviewers who were there and did not like this show can have their reasons no questions asked because everyone can have a bad day, Ha, Ha...... just kidding........ Who can say what colors a show for a person, for me and others who have reviewed this show who liked it, I hope this review helps. My little back story is....... I spent most of my early 90's in the NH area and saw 9 Boston garden shows ( 6 in 93 and the last 3 of 94 ) plus other east coast shows, but wintered in Tucson for a few years and saw the first and second vegas runs. While back in NH during the summer of 94, I decided to go and visit my brother who just relocated in Boise and also see some shows. I met up with some heads and we went down to these shows. Yes, It was hot...... We camped out by Lake Mead, which for me did not work out. Between the heat and partying after the shows, I was burning the wick at both ends. The first 2 shows were good, but not stellar by any means. We would stay in the parking lot after the shows until 3 am and then head back to Lake Mead after, but then the sun would come up and it would be 95 degrees by 8 am and me with 2 or 3 hours sleep each evening/morning caught up with me......... and by showtime sunday, I was dragging..... I soldiered through for most part of the day and through most of the first set and part of the second set, but by the end of Saint, I started to feel really bad. Had to go to the medical tent until halfway though Dew, chugging Gatorade to fend off the rising Heat exhaustion symptoms but was able to finish off the show. After the show I had to be taken to a hotel room where some friends were staying and was put in a tub of cold water for a while. That helped a little. We then set off back to boise in a old VW bus, but it didn't have air conditioning and 20 miles outside of Vegas, I started to Convulse again and I had them take me back to Vegas where I got a room, cranked the AC and got a flight back to Boise the next day. Still can't handle the heat very well now....... Back to the show...... Even with my problems that night, I was just mesmerized by this show. Sure there were some sore spots..... So many roads, Tom thumbs and Victim is not my fav, but this one had some nice jams. Rest was phenomenal in my eyes. I pondered some of the reviews here and the only thing I can say is for people who were there and it did not do if for them, is that some things just happen to make it not for you. I perceived a charge in the air all night long and maybe you just did not tap into it. That and the playing for this era, lets face it, its not 73/74, was stellar, and they were as tight as I have ever seen, or heard the boys. Would love to have seen some earlier shows, but it didn't happen. Just glad I saw this one. Still my favorite even though i was not at my best for it.

I guarantee that those who say this was so so or not the best of 94, was not there and is either not listening to a quality recording or don't know what they're talking about. This was a magical show! Every song was played with intensity and the setlist was a dream! The sound hit you in the chest, it was like you could step up and walk on Phil's bass lines. I started seeing the dead in 92 and saw 53 shows and this one is in my top 5 that I saw! I don't understand how you can listen to this show or watch the 1st set on youtube (where's the 2nd set?) and say that this show is anything but 5 stars. You can't compare Eras, you just can't and as far as the Vince years this was the Dead at their very best! I would die for a SBD of this show or the proshot! C'mon start putting out more whole show vids!

The first thing I'd like to know is why would anyone be stupid enough to copy a digital recording to analog and then back to digital again, unless the one or both of them are totally desperate for a copy and there is absolutely no other way to obtain it? Because that completely makes no sence! Since the so-called analog in not really a true analog; rather a slightly hissy copy with the tiny gaps between the didital samples and then likewise the next is a slightly hissy psuedo-digital! Meaning it likely has new gaps in different places than the original gaps and even if that isn't true, there still is no way it can be considered a genuine digital transfer/copy which if it were as such, it must be an exact duplicate with no loss of qaulity! Futhermore, my last assertion must not be confused with mp3's or 4's or even 1's 0r 2's all of which just like photos of the jpeg variety, are indeed digitally produced, but due to their compression are drastically subject to very significant loss of quality upon each subsequent or should I say successive copy, even worse dare I say, than that of which I trust you are aware of that occurs when a similar series of subsequent copies in succession are made!
I was at all of these and yes indeed, "So Many Roads" was sweet; along with "Terrapin", and the improvisation, (I refuse to call it "Space" since their is no air in space, hence no sound, "The final frontier" perhaps), amongst others. However, the happy Head that said it was the best of the '90's must not have seen many shows in the '90's. Because for example, "Eyes of the World" was one of the boringest I've ever heard! On the other hand, parts were a good set list, like "Easy Answers", and some rarities like "The Shoe Fits" etc.!
Sorry to be so negative, and in fact folks have accused me of being overly critical! Yet I recall, (although it was in the '80's after I'd been accused as such; when I came out of a raging show which shall remain nameless, and saw a person who thought of me this way; I immediately said how much I appreciated the performance)!
But unfortunately, since I have far fewer recordings of the shows I saw in the '90's than I do from earlier, even though I can think of ones I was impressed by; it would be unfair to cite a specific date as better, (with the possibly exception of 1994-12-16, entirely with Branford Marsalis, speaking of "Eyes of the World"); before having reviewed the recording. So obviously then I could be certain of it's strengths and naturally, some occasional weaknesses, if any! In any case, thanks to this amazing archive that is gradually coming to an end, since it appears to contain virtually all shows from the '90's!

Augy

San Diego

I think its one of the top five of 1994.

Other than the fall MSG and BG run what sounds better than this from 94'?

Of Course not as quality as fall of 89' or summer of 90', but comparatively to other post 91' Dead this show fares up their with the Cal Expo and Autzen 93' runs as some of the more quality later Dead.

If people are going to be critical of performance consistency and fluidity there are plenty of other shows to criticize before this one.

Here we have a 3 hour show in 1994 (a generally weak performance year IMHO) with a nasty 23 minute Terrapin, a solid first yet (yeah Jer flubs some lyrics in So Many Roads... so what? Watchtowers a bore, when isn't it?) Most importantly the band is somewhat focused rather than the "going thru the motions" spirit that unfortunately seemed to dominate the later years of the Dead.

Other highlights include an epic Eyes of the World, and a Morning Dew that might surprise you in its climax jam which is super on point. Unfortunately it cuts out about 20 seconds short of the end. We do get the entirety of the Climax jam, but still feel shorted...

As somebody who would rather listen to early Pre Vince-era stuff this is a show that was actually a pleasure to listen to.

Solid 4 stars for a generally 2 star performance year.

Yeah it was hot 125 degrees..Traffic opened. We were as close as you could get to Phil in the Silver bowl...Tom Thumb was sweet..Box of Rain was very appreciated..no way I could have known it was my last Terrapin...keep that in mind when reviewing 90's shows...NEVER AGAIN will we be able to see The Grateful Dead..Typical 90's drumz and space...NEVER AGAIN will the Graeful Dead bring us back with a Wheel..My last Dew...went to the show with my Dad..a couple of notes into Watchtower he says "I saw Hendrix play this in Tempe (ASU/Activity Center?)in 68 or 69....SO the Watchtower meant more than it usually would have. Isn't that part of the "X" factor in any Dead show weather it was dloaded 1,000 times or not..it is what a certain show menat or songs meant or the place you were at in your life at that point in space and time..

This video is on youtube (search peggy-o). It is an excellent video of Jerry. He was really on top of the guitar and totally into the music. His hair blowing gently in the wind reminds of the energy flow in the GD concerts.

definetly not the best of 94...but a smokin show nonetheless...Hell in a Bucket was jammin` for bobby and the Peggy-O was one for the record books!the So Many Roads was kinda off on vocals at times,but that being my favorite balled,it`s still soothing everytime he plays it!

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Hey Big_R can you please let me know about how to download this? I went to this show with my Dad and I want to give it to him as a Christmas present. Thanks,

jonahsroots@yahoo.com

Great show probably the best Peggy O ive ever heard, ROR is awsome with lots of cool rolls by jerry.
I need to get this on a cd and i cant/ don't know and i need help, is it even possible?
i need this show when im away from the computer and am frustrated.
Someone please reply.

This show is definitely one of the best 90's shows I have ever heard. I remember thinking it was amazing when I was there, but really it needed another listen to understand just how good it was.The entire second set is as good as it ever gets. In the late 90's when they really had it together their energy was very heavy and a little dark, and this show really reflects that, especially the victim and the watchtower, the terrapin jam and the space are very unique, and the morning dew of course. The dew gets cut at the end, and the US blues encore is missing. If anyone has that encore, please post it! The show is too good to be incomplete.

Yep I got the video to this show and some of you also might have it.But this show rocks the are just so on at least I think.For some reason it sounds better on the video but this is still a good recording.The band just had a very good performance tonight,Not a lot of mistakes.This is a 5 and Its hard to get a five in my book

I read the reviews before listening to this show and have to say I was largely disappointed with this show. It starts off with some energy but largely goes downhill. SO MANY ROADS, which was praised to the heavens by some, is a vocal trainwreck until the ending. Jerry is also struggling to get his notes out. RAMBLE ON ROSE was solid, but MUSIC was largely marred by Jer not being able to get anything going on the jams. The 2nd set, in my opinion, just did not hit the mark. VICTIM meanders most of the time and Jerry's guitar is largely absent on EYES. TERRAPIN has moments but not enough to keep it interesting for 23 minutes. After a weak WHEEL and weaker WATCHTOWER, Jerry definitely comes alive and slams it down on the end of DEW. Too bad it cuts, but also too little too late to salvage this 3 hour show that largely lacks the spark.

Can someone help me understand how to download these tunes? Thanks! The Music and the Dead Never Stop!
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can any remember the sound going out during tom thumb's at this show. If you were close enough (me!!!) you could hear their stage mix and listen as the band forged through the some without missing a note! Listen carefully to the beginning of the 2nd and you can hear the opposite problem for the band as they lose the stage feed for a sec.

There are some wonderful vids of this show on youtube, very moving and some of my favorite videos, especially Peggy O and So Many Roads. Search "Grateful Dead 94" and they should pop up. Jerry lived to be lost in the spirit of song, and he seemed to be there on these tunes.

Eighteen years old and all the way from Mississippi, this was my first time to experience the utter surrealism/utopia/etc.,etc.,etc. that was a Dead Show. Indeed, 120 degrees...dancing under the shower heads...Traffic opened with the same set every night...The lighting...The music...my mind (with the help of something going around the West Coast that summer known as "JESUS CHRIST"...Anybody with me on this one???) was blown away and would never be the same...A truly magical weekend....Thank you, archive.org.

SHUT UP!!! YOU NEVER EVEN SAW THE DEAD!!! SO SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Certainly one of the best shows of '94, and Jerry is really present. After a listless and slow show the day before, this was our reward for enduring the merciless heat.

The post-Terrapin jam is simply one of the most interesting pieces of improvisation to come out of the Vince years. Powerful Dew, though not quite perfect. In fact the entire second set is just beautiful. After the show, Phil was quoted somewhere as saying he wished they could have kept playing! Check it out.

One of the best shows I've heard in a long time.

Bob Weir rocks New Minglewood Blues, with Jerry playing playing some fantastic guitar.

Peggy O was phenominal.

And Jerry singing (and sometimes forgetting the words) to So Many Roads was unbelievable. Truly touching.

The Peggy-O from this show is hands-down one of my absolute favorite Jerry solos. Unbelievably melodic, and goes on for something like 12 bars. I guarantee I'll be listening to this solo when I'm old and gray, and tears will still stream down my face.

You're all great folks I'm sure, but the Dew they played in Seattle a week before wipes this off the map. The third night in Eugene creams this show (the Other One from that night brought me to tears). This one has lots of sloppy moments and I can't get behind a lot of what people are saying here. I have an Audience of this show and my friend layed it on me as if it were manna from heaven. I really guess you had to be there. I was just playing the Audience in the car. That said the Dew is fine. The post-Terrapin jam is the best non-Drum aand Space part of the show.

The first set has it's moments too.

Lastly I had to scroll down quite far to learn about the cut Dew. Bummer! Really think there should be better notation by some uploaders (if we ever get to do that again). Thank God I can't download this show. I might have and then found out about the Dew the hard way.

..gut-wrenching to travel back in time and be witness to.....whatever. --- AshesRising

better than the two previous nights. Extra half star for the band having the balls to call out Jer by squshing his attempts to end with deal and making it yet another sad 6 song set.

This is great, rippin', late-era Dead. Jerry seems pretty on. I'd love to see the video for "So Many Roads."

I saw pretty much every west coast show in 1994 and I've always considered this show the best of that year. Listening to it now confirms it, Jerry was just really feeling it that night and as Joe Blunt says, vince taking the backseat was a blessing. I think it allows the guys to get back in touch with their true musical selves, Vince just never really did it for me. The Dew was seriously the best I'd ever seen. I have seen the entire first set on video, but haven't found the second set... If the first exists, the second set HAS to be floating around. They should really release this as a commercial DVD, one of the better of the later years. So Many Roads really is beautiful as is the Terrapin (listening to it now) - man Jerry was really on that night. I vote 5 stars for one of the best of the last 3 years.

Actually, the Morning Dew has a nice ending jam on the end, unlike the reviewer looking for it below?? But, I listen to my audience of this show.

The show overall is choppy at best. Eyes is good, but ends up kinda lost. The Dew has some painful Garcia lyric issues. The jam after Terrapin is mighty fine and interesting. Drums is 20 minutes, Space another 11. Too much.

SEE 1992,2,21 'getting them all!----words can not even come close to discribing the refreshing scencation, and the way my ears tingle!!

This show was excellent among the shows I saw... Traffic opener was awesome, and I was front and center for that set, no one between me and Winwood... SWEET! We were like ten folks back right in front of Phil the whole show. The sound kicked out during Tom Thumb's Blues, yet we could still hear him via the stage monitors. St. of Circ. was an all-time highlite for me. Check out the Standing on the moon from Friday of this weekend.

I was at this show tripping away....i heard terrapin coming 1/2 way through St. and sure enough when Jerry started terrapin he carried me to a place i haven't been too many times in my life....anyway, great song selection for 94 (aka no vince songs), second set just rips....1st set is out there on VideoCD

All in all not a bad show. HOWEVER! where the heck are the final chords to Morning Dew. Jerry was just about to wail on it (you can tell) and poof it's gone. Ahh how dissapointing. I played it back 2 or 3 times to make sure I wasn't missing something, but it just isn't there. Boo!

Man, this is one of my favorite conserts. All songs are so well performed in my point of veiw. Unlucky, i wasnt there =( But to cheer myself up i have 3 vidoes of that consert. it's Hell in a Bucket, New Minglewood Blues and So many Roads. I mean, if there's 3, were are the rest? If there's 3, there must be more =) So anyone knows anything about some other Vidoes from this consert becouse i would be glad to have the whole consert to show my friends.

The Videos have even better sound quality then the site recordings. Which are great due some vidoes are like...even worse then just the sound? Well anyway, this consert is great, and the recordings are aswell. If anyone of you guys have the whole video recordings for this consert please contact me =) PS: I've watched this vidoes from this consert i have like 200 times each, they are always as good DS.

wow what a show
maybe the best peggy-o EVER, and excellent so many roads
download this show NOW :)

Totally different vibe than first 2 nights which were, umm, lacking. Remember the heat, 120! All the yahoo Vegas kids came and went Fri/Sat and Sunday seemed to be just hardcore heads. It felt like a lot less people and their were plenty of tixs for miracle or face. Great groovin' behind the soundboard. First set fun with cowboy vibe, second set naked dancing. Mellow, chill Eyes. Remember a little 'cool' breeze blowing through. Fun Terrapin jam, Jerry just wanted to play this night! Couldn't get him off stage. Great 90's Dew. US Blues as I recall was very flubbed lyrically? Oh well. Don't be discouraged by first 2 nights. Good download. Good post 92' Dead. Last good show I saw. White blotter was nice too!:-)

Jerry wanted to end the set w/ Deal after the El Paso, but that got shot down by the band, and So Many Roads, T Thumb, and a very good Music was the result. These shows were played exceptionally well considering the heat. I saw many a tripping head wandering around out of their skulls, several of which were bare-ass naked. A lot of the second sets made up for the short 1st sets, b/c by set two it had usually cooled down to about 90+, whereas first sets were, no BS, about 110-120 in the sun, which is probably a big reason why jerry wanted to bust out a deal and get outta there after the El Paso. Overall, definetley a more solid run than Seattle or Eugene. Shoreline that followed had it's up's and downs.

Ouch, that cut on AM Dew Hurts.

Best of the nineties is a huge stretch...think about it, perhaps one of the better shows of 1994...(the others being 03/16, 03/21, 09/29, 10/1, 10/3, 12/16, to name a few)...Morning Dew is passionate and I'm sure left the crowd happy...Eyes is good and Terrapin features some interesting post-song jamming...first set is up and down, but has good intentions...

Sorry Vinny, but I was always happy if you took the backseat for the whole show. There are great keys here, but not the typical obtrusiveness that I could never quite appreciate from his Vince-ness.

This show has Jerry on top of his game and at the time I was totally caught up in Jerry's game, so I had to download this show to see if it lived up to the memory. I had seen the whole run of '94 Sam Boyd and this was the best of the run.
This recording sounds better than my memory of the show. In fact, this recording sounds better than some Dicks Picks I've paid for.

I thought I heard a young man cry about the cut at the end. It is a total shame that the AM Dew at the end is cut, as it was the best dam Dew I ever heard from the Fat Man in my 50+ shows from '88 to '95. You get what you pay for I suppose, but I need the miraculous upload of the show ender!

Listening to this show, I wonder in as much amazement as I did in the moments 10+ years previous. Thanks archive.org, Mr Aizen, et al. Thank you, thank you!

I will never forget Jerry stepping out of Victim to the front of the stage... breeze blowin' his hair... and laid down an eyes that still gives me chills.

I dont know that this was the "best" show of the 90's but I do remember it being a great time. They broke out the big screens for this show and stated these shows at 6:00 instead of 2:00(like they did in 93 and 95)giving us break from the brutal Vegas sun for 2nd set. Crazy energy all around with many mostly naked deadheads staying cool in the showers on the sidelines of the floor all throughout the shows. Jerry really was going for it on So Many Roads as I Recall and Peggy-O was cool. Ahhhhhh....good ol' Grateful Dead.

This has to be the best show of the 90s. Ramble on Rose is flawless, So many roads is the best and most magical version I have heard yet, except for Jerry for getting some words, but he's Jerry so he's aloud to do that. And El Paso is fantastic too. I would recommend this show over alot of others. sound quality is great.

This is a very magical GD show. You might have seen some of the videos floating around on peer-to-peer programs, as it was taped. El Paso, Peggy-O, Music Never Stopped, Minglewood, and So Many Roads stand out. So Many Roads is probably the most touching version I've heard.

Definitely a great show. Check it out, folks.