Show Details
French's Camp on the Eel River
Piercy, CA
USA
August 29, 1987
Set List
Set 1
- Deep Elem Blues
- I've Been All Around This World
- Friend Of The Devil
- Trouble In Mind
- Little Sadie
- Diamond Joe
- Spike Driver Blues
- Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie
- I'm Troubled
- Ripple
Lineup
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Jerry Garcia guitar, vocals
-
John Kahn
bass -
Sandy Rothman
mandolin, dobro, banjo, vocals -
David Nelson
guitar, vocals
Show Facts
This show has been officially released as "Acoustic on the Eel", bonus disc to the Electric on the Eel box set collection.
2 Comments
(18) Members were there
Ticket Archive
2 Comments
PAUL N GOMEZ | Thursday, March 21st, 2019
This is just great! This was a wonderful show in one of the intimate venues Jeannine and I can remember attending. The acoustic set was inspiring; Deep Elem Blues, Little Sadie, and Ripple. The electric sets were spot on. Forever Young, Get out of My Life Woman, Deal, the Harder They Come, and Tangled Up in Blue. “Smokin'”…John Kahn and Melvin Seals were so impressive…back in the day! The “Good Old Days”, simple, calm, tight. All in attendance had a good time as we remember. We had drove from our then home in Corvallis, Oregon and camped at the Benbow Lake State Recreation Area nearby and went swimming in the Eel after the show. I found a silver gelatin photograph I captured of Jeannine at the campground there, just this afternoon. I was 32 years old and that was 32 years ago! I have tried to submit/upload photos of these since March 15 to no avail…I’ll keep trying…enjoy every day and take good care.
Miranda Vand | Sunday, September 9th, 2018
Awesome and memorable show! We picked up tickets for these at theCalaveras County Dead shows the week before. There was a campground across the road from French’s and as we were getting set up the evening before two friends from Seattle pulled up and parked in the campsite next to ours. They’d come down on a whim and none of us had expected to be there.
We got the time wrong for the gate opening and were an hour early. So we were near the front of the line and got a great spot up front near the stage. Dr John played an opening set before the JGB.
I was snapping photos. After I got them developed (Remember film processing folks?) I discovered I’d got a great shot of Jerry with a little kid on stage left watching him with rapt attention. I didn’t realize he’d been there until I saw the pic. Perhaps he was a roadie’s kid or…? I’ll dig it out to digitize and post it here.
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PAUL N GOMEZ | Thursday, March 21st, 2019
This is just great! This was a wonderful show in one of the intimate venues Jeannine and I can remember attending. The acoustic set was inspiring; Deep Elem Blues, Little Sadie, and Ripple. The electric sets were spot on. Forever Young, Get out of My Life Woman, Deal, the Harder They Come, and Tangled Up in Blue. “Smokin'”…John Kahn and Melvin Seals were so impressive…back in the day! The “Good Old Days”, simple, calm, tight. All in attendance had a good time as we remember. We had drove from our then home in Corvallis, Oregon and camped at the Benbow Lake State Recreation Area nearby and went swimming in the Eel after the show. I found a silver gelatin photograph I captured of Jeannine at the campground there, just this afternoon. I was 32 years old and that was 32 years ago! I have tried to submit/upload photos of these since March 15 to no avail…I’ll keep trying…enjoy every day and take good care.
Miranda Vand | Sunday, September 9th, 2018
Awesome and memorable show! We picked up tickets for these at theCalaveras County Dead shows the week before. There was a campground across the road from French’s and as we were getting set up the evening before two friends from Seattle pulled up and parked in the campsite next to ours. They’d come down on a whim and none of us had expected to be there.
We got the time wrong for the gate opening and were an hour early. So we were near the front of the line and got a great spot up front near the stage. Dr John played an opening set before the JGB.
I was snapping photos. After I got them developed (Remember film processing folks?) I discovered I’d got a great shot of Jerry with a little kid on stage left watching him with rapt attention. I didn’t realize he’d been there until I saw the pic. Perhaps he was a roadie’s kid or…? I’ll dig it out to digitize and post it here.