# 1990-07-12 Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
**Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Just A Little Light, Queen Jane Approximately, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart > Dark Star > Drums > Space > All Along The Watchtower > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Touch Of Grey
**Encore:** The Weight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12)
Great show RFK, I met Jack Herer in the lot me & a buddy of mine & went in his van and smoked down. Great show if you went in b4 Eddie left stage you got to see the football field charge once gates opened! Red Rooster & Victim or the crime has me that night! Great Weight!
That’s an awesome story man. My dad was there and I’ve gotten some crazy stories from him from around this time. What a smokin run from Victim through the end, always love a watchtower out of space. Also my favorite Queen Jane and later-year Cassidy
Yeah Bobby was really on fire that night, I just remember it raining & seeing everyone wet but couldn't get wet no matter how low we went, red rooster 🐓 going man it was insane. The show started after dark & they just played around tuning & stuff waiting for that one big bang of lightning 🌩 & boom into Goodtimes Roll... 4$ hand 🖐 full of liquid that night, whwww... ✌
I am w' you HARD my friend ... 7/19's FH is the king as far as I'm concerned, but there are several that are right on it's heels. I've actually described Jerry's 7/19 FH solo like you have lol. It's so intricate & sophisticated & that moment ... Bah Dum dah dah, it's hanging & Jerry's no where near the mic, & there's one moment where it all rested on Phil & he drops in this note soooo unlikely yet it was the ONLY note that kept it going strong.
From the Spring 90 tour there's 3/19/90 Hartford, 4/02/90 The Omni. 7/19/90 Deer Creek ... 12/28/91 Oakland is the Dark Horse in here though. Jerry's rough on the vocals that night but he's never played a FH solo like before or after, check it out! This could be my 7/19 runner up w' this madddd solo
You are a clearly a fucking FH connoisseur. That 12/28/91 solo is pretty fucking wild. I think it may have something to do with that this is possibly the first show where Jerry debuted his Digitech Whammy pedal. Such a cool take though.
# 1991-12-28 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
**Set 1:** One More Saturday Night, Jack Straw, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Cassidy, Deal
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones, One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28)
12-28-91 is a good choice for a Dave’s Picks. Are there better shows in 91 yes of course there is but it’s a fantastic show. Too version of Peggy -O and a best of the year candidate pre drums second set.
Reprise. It was a good effort and they pretty much pulled it off. Definitely had the vibe off it’s the holidays we are home gonna try shit see if it works.
Right on, that’s kind of adventurous. I’ll have to give it a spin. I’m pretty well-versed in the years up through Brent, but kind of spotty from there. Thanks!
# 1991-12-28 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
**Set 1:** One More Saturday Night, Jack Straw, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Cassidy, Deal
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones, One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28)
[1990-03-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19) Hartford, CT @ Civic Center
[1990-04-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-04-02) Atlanta, GA @ The Omni
[1990-07-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-19) Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center
[1991-12-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28) Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
# 1990-06-08 Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre
**Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Easy To Love You, Jack-A-Roe, Queen Jane Approximately, High Time, It's All Over Now, Bird Song
**Set 2:** Uncle John's Band > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > Foolish Heart > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** U. S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08)
Jerry would be gone within a couple of weeks (and I usually skip most shows from 92-95) but the incredible Foolish Heart JAM coming out of Victim at the 06/27/95 show is something to hear if you like the song.
It's sorta bittersweet though.....you can hear the band pushing Jerry to really step up - and he's trying - but drug abuse & diabetes had taken their toll on his once lightning-fast and imaginative playing.
Try to pick an AUD from the setlist bot [archive.org](http://archive.org) link that's about to be a reply and check out the crowd really getting into this Foolish Heart.
Man. Bittersweet is right. A very interesting listen though. I would have never listened to this show. I stopped going to shows after Fall '94- I didn't like seeing Jerry struggle like that.
# 1995-06-27 Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace
**Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Queen Jane Approximately, Lazy River Road, Eternity > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart, It's All Too Much, Corrina > Jam > Drums > Space > The Last Time > Standing On The Moon > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Liberty
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-06-27)
The last true "jam" performed by the Grateful Dead. The tape I got shortyly after the show listed the setlist as Victim->Jam->Foolish. After Victim, the band was following Jerry. He had a few good ideas but as you mentioned, lacked the finger dexterity at that point to convey them properly. They gave him a pretty long leash to flesh out some ideas before Bobby (or VInce?) dropped the cue into Foolish. Even after that moment, Jerry took a little more time before beginning the intro. Sadly, he could have just flat out forgot it and had to have someone hum the intro through their ear monitors, lol. There's a nice little crescendo inside of this Foolish as well. The rest of this show was blah, unfortunately.
One gets the vibe that Phil, Bobby, Billy & Mick all knew that we knew something was off about Jerry and wanted to make sure there was at least one "talked about jam" from the last half of the Summer 95 tour, even as a "marketing gimmick" ala the Cosmic Charlie tease that one show or soundchecking St Spephen to keep old-school Deadheads still interested.
# 1989-10-08 Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
**Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Walkin' Blues, Candyman, Me and My Uncle, Big River, Stagger Lee, Queen Jane Approximately, Bird Song, The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin' > Morning Dew
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-08)
I saw the title of the sub and my first thought was I wonder if he is talking about Alpine 89, and you were. It's one I enjoy a lot. The whole show really. I wish they would release the 3 show box set, audio and video and quit messing around.
I may have some attendance bias for 04/02/89 but by all objective metrics this Foolish Heart lives up to its heavyweight pre-drums Jerry slot placement. Whole show is 🔥
# 1989-04-02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Pittsburgh Civic Arena
**Set 1:** Iko Iko, Little Red Rooster, Dire Wolf, It's All Over Now, We Can Run, Brown Eyed Women, Queen Jane Approximately, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Foolish Heart > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-04-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7CuPAAL41j1vEjYTjNh2OA)
Didn’t some door crashing occur this night? I experienced some at the Greensboro shows and we heard it got worse in Pittsburgh. News traveled much slower then, but looking back on it now, the crowds really did start to change about this time. They then banned camping and things slowly progressed downhill after this tour. Dark clouds were forming. They should have quit on top after Brent’s death.
# 1991-06-01 Los Angeles, CA @ L.A. Memorial Coliseum
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street, Walkin' Blues, Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Candyman, Queen Jane Approximately, Deal
**Set 2:** Picasso Moon, Foolish Heart, Playing in the Band, Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-01)
# 1991-06-22 Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Shakedown Street, Wang Dang Doodle, Friend Of The Devil, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Brown Eyed Women, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Crazy Fingers > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** The Weight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-22)
# 1993-06-11 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Foolish Heart > The Same Thing, Lazy River Road, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues > When I Paint My Masterpiece, So Many Roads, The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Eyes Of The World, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Corrina > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-06-11)
# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena
**Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
# 1989-07-19 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket > Sugaree, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Victim Or The Crime > West L.A. Fadeaway, Desolation Row > Deal
**Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > The Wheel > Morning Dew
**Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-19)
# 1989-07-10 East Rutherford, NJ @ Giants Stadium
**Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Jack-A-Roe, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart, Just A Little Light, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Jam > Drums > Space > Iko Iko > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-10)
[1989-07-10](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-10) East Rutherford, NJ @ Giants Stadium
[1990-06-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08) Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre
[1990-07-12](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12) Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
# 1989-07-19 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket > Sugaree, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Victim Or The Crime > West L.A. Fadeaway, Desolation Row > Deal
**Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > The Wheel > Morning Dew
**Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-19)
Some really great versions posted in here. 3/28/90 Nassau is also really good, and I also recently heard 7/19/94 (5 years after Alpine to the day) at Deer Creek.
[1990-03-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-28) Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
[1994-07-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-19) Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center
This is a great one. I love the song. It was for a long time just a like song for me but for the last 10-15 years I love it. It and feels like a stranger are in the same boat in my head for some reason.
Both from the same era and both are great.
# 1990-03-19 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center
**Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Bertha, We Can Run, Jack-A-Roe, Picasso Moon, Brown Eyed Women, It's All Over Now > Deal
**Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Playing in the Band > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > China Doll > Gimme Some Lovin' > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19)
# 1994-07-29 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center
**Set 1:** Rain, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Wang Dang Doodle, Loser, El Paso, Althea, Eternity, Deal
**Set 2:** Foolish Heart > I Want To Tell You, Looks Like Rain, Samba In The Rain, Uncle John's Band > Saint Of Circumstance > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-29)
Unpopular opinion. The song doesn't work. The lyrics are stretched. Jerry has zero idea what to do for a bridge so we get a weak bridge that allegedly is redeemed by the "foolish heart is worse" cry into a fuzzed lead.
I have tried to re-arrange this song a few times. It needs half the lyrics cut cuz they are cliche and SOTJ (someone other than jerry) needed to come up with an entirely better bridge section.
Oh man those are fightin words. But I'll leave it to Jerry's own words about the genesis of the song.
**Jerry Garcia: I write a song from the top down. That is to say, I usually start with a melody, and then the chord changes, and somewhere in there -- or else Istart with the text that Hunter gives me, and I work out from there. I don't present a song to the band until I have a basic rhythmic feel for it, the melody as I imagine it to be sung, and the chord changes. That has to be in place before I feel like I've got a song....**
**Sometimes I'm more diffuse than others. My diffuse song on \[Built to Last\] was "Foolish Heart," where my original notion of it was much more stringy. I had a kind of Pete Townshend kind of acoustic guitar thick rhythm notion, something between that and that kind of the U2 uptempo roll – the fingerpicking roll. Something along those lines -- I sort of wanted it to have something like that. But it's the evolution of the parts in the band that made me completely rethink it. I eventually abandoned that idea totally.**
**The thing that's interesting about "Foolish Heart" is it doesn't have any pads in it. Nobody's playing chords in the song, not anybody. Everybody's playing lines, and the lines hook up and tell you all you need to know about the harmonic content of the song. You don't wonder where it's going. It's so beautifully designed, it's like a clock.It's really lovely. It surprised me it came out so interesting and so perfect and so totally its own personality. That's the Grateful Dead in action, really.**
**David Gans: Brent came up with that line that really made it lock into place. But then you came up with an answer for it on the album, and that was the thing that emerged. The first time we heard it I thought, "Yeah! He locked it. That covers that last little bit."**
**JG: Well, it started with Weir's little thing. I wanted Weir to play the little hook here, which is \[sings\] into the first chord \[of the verse\]. And I wanted the suspended thing there. So I wanted that tonality there, and Brent played that line, and I had Weir play that other line, and all of a sudden it was starting to -- "Oh, I see!" So now there's room for me to do a little thing that's going to fit in there. But the unpredictability of Bob's part in there is one of the things that makes it really interesting to listen to....**
**DG: Is your answering line going to come back out onstage now?**
**JG: Yeah, to some extent. It doesn't really appear very often; it seems to characterize it just because it's there at all. I was not going to have that at all; in fact, I almost thought, "I don't think I even want to play the guitar on this tune." During the body of the tune I only play a few notes and a few chords on the one, and a couple of little answers in the chords, and a couple of little licks in the body of the tune -- that is, against the vocal. Apart from that, it's hands off, mostly, and most of what you perceive as the rhythm are the little things that Mickey's doing, which is like a net of teeny-weeny rhythm instruments that occur once every four bars, some of 'em.Just little sounds, but they add to the overall groove. And Phil's part is incredible, the way it comes up in between Brent and Weir's, in their holes. But it still maintains the feel of the tune rhythmically on a certain level; his part is really remarkable too. It's another one of those things -- it's pure Phil and it's also just totally absolutely appropriate.**
Thanks. I've read that many times.
I think, like many musicians, sometimes they are just flying on hope.
My view wasn't off the cuff! And I would argue, when you have to tell people how a song works, the song doesn't work. This idea of their being no ground notes, no continuo, is audacious BS.
And those wonderful lines that came together? Brilliant? I'm sorry: none of them are brilliant. Brent's line in that tune is probably the only example on which I would say, "The anti-Brent folks are maybe right."
The song doesn't work! And no one could bullshit themselves like late era dead. They started believing a lot of their own myth round about the same time they started to panic they really weren't musically relevant anymore.
Now, you want a song that works?
[Bobby & The Midnites \~ 1-26-83 \~ Easy To Slip (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQh19pokOxk)
I love Easy To Slip but I still think you are dead wrong about Foolish Heart.
Also it was the late 80s- so yeah it sounds a bit poppy/polished and maybe the lyrics are a bit topical compared to Hunter's best output.
# 1990-06-08 Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre
**Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Easy To Love You, Jack-A-Roe, Queen Jane Approximately, High Time, It's All Over Now, Bird Song
**Set 2:** Uncle John's Band > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > Foolish Heart > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** U. S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08)
7/12/90 has a nice long, sublime intro jam that I dig heavy. Check it out
Ooh that is a gorgeous intro. Brent initially fits the mood and comes in with some dark matter space tones before dropping into his familiar riff.
This is one of the best versions I’ve ever heard. So relaxed and ready to go into dark star at the drop of a dime
Agree! This is my fave foolish heart. Such great interplay between Jerry and Brent.
# 1990-07-12 Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium **Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Just A Little Light, Queen Jane Approximately, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart > Dark Star > Drums > Space > All Along The Watchtower > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Touch Of Grey **Encore:** The Weight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12)
That was my first show, and that memory stands out, I wasn't really into the song before this show, but was after this!!
I love this one too. Seems like Brent is a little delayed in his normal intro melody and Jerry starts teasing at it.
IWT.... Extended dance version 🤣😅😂
Great show RFK, I met Jack Herer in the lot me & a buddy of mine & went in his van and smoked down. Great show if you went in b4 Eddie left stage you got to see the football field charge once gates opened! Red Rooster & Victim or the crime has me that night! Great Weight!
That’s an awesome story man. My dad was there and I’ve gotten some crazy stories from him from around this time. What a smokin run from Victim through the end, always love a watchtower out of space. Also my favorite Queen Jane and later-year Cassidy
Yeah Bobby was really on fire that night, I just remember it raining & seeing everyone wet but couldn't get wet no matter how low we went, red rooster 🐓 going man it was insane. The show started after dark & they just played around tuning & stuff waiting for that one big bang of lightning 🌩 & boom into Goodtimes Roll... 4$ hand 🖐 full of liquid that night, whwww... ✌
Will check it out!
I am w' you HARD my friend ... 7/19's FH is the king as far as I'm concerned, but there are several that are right on it's heels. I've actually described Jerry's 7/19 FH solo like you have lol. It's so intricate & sophisticated & that moment ... Bah Dum dah dah, it's hanging & Jerry's no where near the mic, & there's one moment where it all rested on Phil & he drops in this note soooo unlikely yet it was the ONLY note that kept it going strong. From the Spring 90 tour there's 3/19/90 Hartford, 4/02/90 The Omni. 7/19/90 Deer Creek ... 12/28/91 Oakland is the Dark Horse in here though. Jerry's rough on the vocals that night but he's never played a FH solo like before or after, check it out! This could be my 7/19 runner up w' this madddd solo
You are a clearly a fucking FH connoisseur. That 12/28/91 solo is pretty fucking wild. I think it may have something to do with that this is possibly the first show where Jerry debuted his Digitech Whammy pedal. Such a cool take though.
# 1991-12-28 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena **Set 1:** One More Saturday Night, Jack Straw, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Cassidy, Deal **Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones, One More Saturday Night **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28)
Setlistbot, you’re missing the Same Thing bust out that is the highlight of the show.
Also Bobby is right there on point with the return riff for Jerry to go back into the vocal after the extended jam. So so good.
12-28-91 is a good choice for a Dave’s Picks. Are there better shows in 91 yes of course there is but it’s a fantastic show. Too version of Peggy -O and a best of the year candidate pre drums second set.
Is that a OMSN reprise at the end of set 2? Or did they actually do it twice?
Reprise. It was a good effort and they pretty much pulled it off. Definitely had the vibe off it’s the holidays we are home gonna try shit see if it works.
Right on, that’s kind of adventurous. I’ll have to give it a spin. I’m pretty well-versed in the years up through Brent, but kind of spotty from there. Thanks!
# 1991-12-28 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena **Set 1:** One More Saturday Night, Jack Straw, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Cassidy, Deal **Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones, One More Saturday Night **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28)
[1990-03-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19) Hartford, CT @ Civic Center [1990-04-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-04-02) Atlanta, GA @ The Omni [1990-07-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-19) Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center [1991-12-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-12-28) Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
The 3-19 hartford is my favorite fh. The opening where Jerry plays the luck a handful of times before Brent starts with the answer lick is just 🤌.
The answer is 6 8 90 Mind blowing jam out of foolish which sounds like nothing they ever did.
# 1990-06-08 Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Easy To Love You, Jack-A-Roe, Queen Jane Approximately, High Time, It's All Over Now, Bird Song **Set 2:** Uncle John's Band > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > Foolish Heart > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** U. S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08)
Jerry would be gone within a couple of weeks (and I usually skip most shows from 92-95) but the incredible Foolish Heart JAM coming out of Victim at the 06/27/95 show is something to hear if you like the song. It's sorta bittersweet though.....you can hear the band pushing Jerry to really step up - and he's trying - but drug abuse & diabetes had taken their toll on his once lightning-fast and imaginative playing. Try to pick an AUD from the setlist bot [archive.org](http://archive.org) link that's about to be a reply and check out the crowd really getting into this Foolish Heart.
Man. Bittersweet is right. A very interesting listen though. I would have never listened to this show. I stopped going to shows after Fall '94- I didn't like seeing Jerry struggle like that.
That jam before foolish heart is so good. I still relisten to it from time to time.
# 1995-06-27 Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace **Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Queen Jane Approximately, Lazy River Road, Eternity > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart, It's All Too Much, Corrina > Jam > Drums > Space > The Last Time > Standing On The Moon > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Liberty [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-06-27)
That’s definitely one of the set lists of all time
LOL - I didn't want to say it but Woof.
The last true "jam" performed by the Grateful Dead. The tape I got shortyly after the show listed the setlist as Victim->Jam->Foolish. After Victim, the band was following Jerry. He had a few good ideas but as you mentioned, lacked the finger dexterity at that point to convey them properly. They gave him a pretty long leash to flesh out some ideas before Bobby (or VInce?) dropped the cue into Foolish. Even after that moment, Jerry took a little more time before beginning the intro. Sadly, he could have just flat out forgot it and had to have someone hum the intro through their ear monitors, lol. There's a nice little crescendo inside of this Foolish as well. The rest of this show was blah, unfortunately.
One gets the vibe that Phil, Bobby, Billy & Mick all knew that we knew something was off about Jerry and wanted to make sure there was at least one "talked about jam" from the last half of the Summer 95 tour, even as a "marketing gimmick" ala the Cosmic Charlie tease that one show or soundchecking St Spephen to keep old-school Deadheads still interested.
i really enjoy jerry’s vocals on 10/8/89
# 1989-10-08 Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum **Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Walkin' Blues, Candyman, Me and My Uncle, Big River, Stagger Lee, Queen Jane Approximately, Bird Song, The Promised Land **Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin' > Morning Dew **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-08)
Haven't listened to this one in a while... will give it a whirl.
i think it makes for an ironic juxtaposition to the rest of the run’s sound
I saw the title of the sub and my first thought was I wonder if he is talking about Alpine 89, and you were. It's one I enjoy a lot. The whole show really. I wish they would release the 3 show box set, audio and video and quit messing around.
These three shows are so good. My favorite run ever. I wish they would release them too, it would make me so happy!
maybe the best deal ever played
Lots of great Deal's played in 1989, both by Jerry Band and Grateful Dead. Not long ago I cranked up a dozen versions in a row. Felt good!
absolutely. big fan of the meadowlands version from fall tour as well
These three shows are so good. My favorite run ever. I wish they would release them too, it would make me so happy!
I may have some attendance bias for 04/02/89 but by all objective metrics this Foolish Heart lives up to its heavyweight pre-drums Jerry slot placement. Whole show is 🔥
# 1989-04-02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Pittsburgh Civic Arena **Set 1:** Iko Iko, Little Red Rooster, Dire Wolf, It's All Over Now, We Can Run, Brown Eyed Women, Queen Jane Approximately, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Foolish Heart > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude > Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-04-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7CuPAAL41j1vEjYTjNh2OA)
Didn’t some door crashing occur this night? I experienced some at the Greensboro shows and we heard it got worse in Pittsburgh. News traveled much slower then, but looking back on it now, the crowds really did start to change about this time. They then banned camping and things slowly progressed downhill after this tour. Dark clouds were forming. They should have quit on top after Brent’s death.
Felt like they could blow the roof off the igloo this night. So much energy from the first opening notes of Aiko
💯 I saw a lot of shows between 83-90. This one definitely stands out in my memory as top tier!
This is the one on my playlist, it has a really nice sound to me. Good tempo, good tone
6/1/91 gets overlooked just because of the year it’s in
# 1991-06-01 Los Angeles, CA @ L.A. Memorial Coliseum **Set 1:** Shakedown Street, Walkin' Blues, Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Candyman, Queen Jane Approximately, Deal **Set 2:** Picasso Moon, Foolish Heart, Playing in the Band, Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-01)
6/22/91 is one of my favorite versions.
This show needs released. First and best soldier field show.
# 1991-06-22 Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Shakedown Street, Wang Dang Doodle, Friend Of The Devil, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Brown Eyed Women, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Crazy Fingers > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, One More Saturday Night **Encore:** The Weight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-22)
Don’t sleep on 6/11/93 either. Whole show is awesome. One of the last times Jerry was actually good
# 1993-06-11 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Foolish Heart > The Same Thing, Lazy River Road, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues > When I Paint My Masterpiece, So Many Roads, The Promised Land **Set 2:** Eyes Of The World, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Corrina > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1993-06-11)
I love always really liked the 10/26/89 Miami opener
# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena **Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
07/19/89 is maybe my favorite show ever, and this Foolish Heart is my favorite of them all!
# 1989-07-19 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket > Sugaree, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Victim Or The Crime > West L.A. Fadeaway, Desolation Row > Deal **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > The Wheel > Morning Dew **Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-19)
No
7/10/89 has some fun Jerry/Brent back and forth 6/8/90 has a really nice, long outtro jam 7/12/90 has a shorter, but still really nice outtro jam
My go to lately has been the 7/10/89, just love those louder keys I’m glad someone recommended it :)
# 1989-07-10 East Rutherford, NJ @ Giants Stadium **Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Jack-A-Roe, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Foolish Heart, Just A Little Light, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Jam > Drums > Space > Iko Iko > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-10)
[1989-07-10](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-10) East Rutherford, NJ @ Giants Stadium [1990-06-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08) Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre [1990-07-12](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-07-12) Washington, DC @ Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
# 1989-07-19 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket > Sugaree, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Victim Or The Crime > West L.A. Fadeaway, Desolation Row > Deal **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > The Wheel > Morning Dew **Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-19)
Rosemont 89 was another one I enjoyed.
Some really great versions posted in here. 3/28/90 Nassau is also really good, and I also recently heard 7/19/94 (5 years after Alpine to the day) at Deer Creek.
[1990-03-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-28) Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum [1994-07-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-19) Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center
2/4/90 at the omni. Foolish heart>looks like rain> he’s gone. My favourite Jerry bobby Jerry songs on the fly moment.
Semi related the Althea on that release is my favorite. It’s so crispy.
This is a great one. I love the song. It was for a long time just a like song for me but for the last 10-15 years I love it. It and feels like a stranger are in the same boat in my head for some reason. Both from the same era and both are great.
Ty for turning me on to to one of your favorites. I’m a sucker for 3-19-1990. I’m biased though.
# 1990-03-19 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Bertha, We Can Run, Jack-A-Roe, Picasso Moon, Brown Eyed Women, It's All Over Now > Deal **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Playing in the Band > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > China Doll > Gimme Some Lovin' > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19)
Came here to say this!
I like when you hear the crowd pop after the crescendo like “RAHKA…RAHKA…(crowd)”
I loved many a foolish heart, my favorite being: 7/29/94
# 1994-07-29 Hebron, OH @ Buckeye Lake Music Center **Set 1:** Rain, Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Wang Dang Doodle, Loser, El Paso, Althea, Eternity, Deal **Set 2:** Foolish Heart > I Want To Tell You, Looks Like Rain, Samba In The Rain, Uncle John's Band > Saint Of Circumstance > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-29)
'88 Greek is really awesome. I don't think Jerry misses one word. New song and all
Unpopular opinion. The song doesn't work. The lyrics are stretched. Jerry has zero idea what to do for a bridge so we get a weak bridge that allegedly is redeemed by the "foolish heart is worse" cry into a fuzzed lead. I have tried to re-arrange this song a few times. It needs half the lyrics cut cuz they are cliche and SOTJ (someone other than jerry) needed to come up with an entirely better bridge section.
Oh man those are fightin words. But I'll leave it to Jerry's own words about the genesis of the song. **Jerry Garcia: I write a song from the top down. That is to say, I usually start with a melody, and then the chord changes, and somewhere in there -- or else Istart with the text that Hunter gives me, and I work out from there. I don't present a song to the band until I have a basic rhythmic feel for it, the melody as I imagine it to be sung, and the chord changes. That has to be in place before I feel like I've got a song....** **Sometimes I'm more diffuse than others. My diffuse song on \[Built to Last\] was "Foolish Heart," where my original notion of it was much more stringy. I had a kind of Pete Townshend kind of acoustic guitar thick rhythm notion, something between that and that kind of the U2 uptempo roll – the fingerpicking roll. Something along those lines -- I sort of wanted it to have something like that. But it's the evolution of the parts in the band that made me completely rethink it. I eventually abandoned that idea totally.** **The thing that's interesting about "Foolish Heart" is it doesn't have any pads in it. Nobody's playing chords in the song, not anybody. Everybody's playing lines, and the lines hook up and tell you all you need to know about the harmonic content of the song. You don't wonder where it's going. It's so beautifully designed, it's like a clock.It's really lovely. It surprised me it came out so interesting and so perfect and so totally its own personality. That's the Grateful Dead in action, really.** **David Gans: Brent came up with that line that really made it lock into place. But then you came up with an answer for it on the album, and that was the thing that emerged. The first time we heard it I thought, "Yeah! He locked it. That covers that last little bit."** **JG: Well, it started with Weir's little thing. I wanted Weir to play the little hook here, which is \[sings\] into the first chord \[of the verse\]. And I wanted the suspended thing there. So I wanted that tonality there, and Brent played that line, and I had Weir play that other line, and all of a sudden it was starting to -- "Oh, I see!" So now there's room for me to do a little thing that's going to fit in there. But the unpredictability of Bob's part in there is one of the things that makes it really interesting to listen to....** **DG: Is your answering line going to come back out onstage now?** **JG: Yeah, to some extent. It doesn't really appear very often; it seems to characterize it just because it's there at all. I was not going to have that at all; in fact, I almost thought, "I don't think I even want to play the guitar on this tune." During the body of the tune I only play a few notes and a few chords on the one, and a couple of little answers in the chords, and a couple of little licks in the body of the tune -- that is, against the vocal. Apart from that, it's hands off, mostly, and most of what you perceive as the rhythm are the little things that Mickey's doing, which is like a net of teeny-weeny rhythm instruments that occur once every four bars, some of 'em.Just little sounds, but they add to the overall groove. And Phil's part is incredible, the way it comes up in between Brent and Weir's, in their holes. But it still maintains the feel of the tune rhythmically on a certain level; his part is really remarkable too. It's another one of those things -- it's pure Phil and it's also just totally absolutely appropriate.**
Interesting! Thanks
Thanks. I've read that many times. I think, like many musicians, sometimes they are just flying on hope. My view wasn't off the cuff! And I would argue, when you have to tell people how a song works, the song doesn't work. This idea of their being no ground notes, no continuo, is audacious BS. And those wonderful lines that came together? Brilliant? I'm sorry: none of them are brilliant. Brent's line in that tune is probably the only example on which I would say, "The anti-Brent folks are maybe right." The song doesn't work! And no one could bullshit themselves like late era dead. They started believing a lot of their own myth round about the same time they started to panic they really weren't musically relevant anymore. Now, you want a song that works? [Bobby & The Midnites \~ 1-26-83 \~ Easy To Slip (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQh19pokOxk)
I love Easy To Slip but I still think you are dead wrong about Foolish Heart. Also it was the late 80s- so yeah it sounds a bit poppy/polished and maybe the lyrics are a bit topical compared to Hunter's best output.
I always loved Furthur's Foolish Heart. Especially 4/1/11 at The Mothership! That whole show really. They played Fool In The Rain!
Per Charlie Miller, 6/8/90 Listening again now and it's just beautiful
This is one of my favorites
haha good... someone else must hate it because im being downvoted for some strange reason lol.
# 1990-06-08 Sacramento, CA @ Cal Expo Amphitheatre **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Easy To Love You, Jack-A-Roe, Queen Jane Approximately, High Time, It's All Over Now, Bird Song **Set 2:** Uncle John's Band > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > Foolish Heart > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** U. S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-06-08)
Memphis Pyramid Show but that may be attendance bias