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Grateful Dead Backstage Pass Vintage Milk Truck Hampton VA 3/22/85 3/22/1985
$ 52.79
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Grateful Dead Backstage Pass : 1985 : ' Vintage Milk Truck !! ' ... " Pure !! " : Spring Tour '85 ! : March 22, 1985 ( 3/22/85 : 3/22/1985 ) - Hampton Coliseum - Hampton, Virginia ( VA ) : 1985 Grateful Dead Productions, Inc. ( GDP ) - Vintage Original ( Genuine / Authentic ) : Classic Car / Auto Pass ! : Very-Rare !!!!!Grateful Dead Fans ! ... who know that Milk ! makes your body strong !! Ha ! Whoa !!?! ... '85 Spring Tour at Hampton !!! -- featuring a Vintage ' Pure ' Milk Truck right-on the Pass !!!!! With a Bright ! Yellow background, no less ... So-Incredibly-Awesome !!! Offered here indeed is the Vintage Original ( Genuine / Authentic ) Grateful Dead Backstage Pass ( sticker-patch / satin ) for the March 22, 1985 ( 3/22/1985 ) Show at the Spaceship ! ... even sometimes-known as the Death Star !! ... or, when The Grateful Dead are in town ... the " Dance Star " !!! - Ha ! ... the Good Ol' Hampton Coliseum !! - in Hampton, Virginia !!! A Big-Time ! Mid-Atlantic ! meets The South ! G.D. Hot Spot, with this Show being smack-dab in the Mid-'80's !!! Yum ... Well, as with most all of the " Vintage-Car / Auto " Grateful Dead Backstage Passes ( used in 1984 - 1985 ) ... here's one for the True-Lover of Vintage Auto ! As this just isn't any Car - Truck - or Hot Rod here ... as we are talking about a 1930's Vintage " Milk " Delivery Truck ! How clever ... and how cool ! A " Pure " Milk Truck, done here for the Dead. Slogan & All ! On the back of the truck it reads " Be Sure With Pure " !!! So yeah ... better drink your Ovaltine ... oops, wrong decade - as I meant your " Pure " !!! And the very best part - at least to my eye, is take a close, close - Close ! look at that front license plate ... as it reads ' DEAD ' !!!!! Better drink some Dead ! for your Head !! Yeah ... '85 Spring Tour !! Let's just call it ... " Twenty Years So Far !!! ". The Time & Era where Garcia comfortably ( with ease ! ) slates himself right up there with who ? What do you think ? Page - Hendrix - Iommi ... McLaughlin ? The point I'm making here is real-simple ... the Meanest-of-Meanest ! on fret board Attack ! all-throughout out this ' Gateway ' of this Magical ! guitar, speed & distortion-heavy period. The Boss using the Boss !!! To get just a little technical ... tongue-in-cheek, right ? Ha !! So yeah, no better time in the World ! to Drink-Your-Milk !! And as they say, supposedly it'll make your bones-strong ... so go on & shake'em - 3/22/85 in Hampton !! At the Hampton Coliseum !!! Dang ... I listened to these Tapes ! just not too long ago, as I'm ( real ! ) fortunate enough to actually have the have Cassette Masters from the Mixing-Board ! ... and my-Oh-my - do they Bring-it ! You, get a little slop here & there which is only really a good thing - as it lightly brings you down to Earth from darn near close to Mid-'80's Perfection ! Seriously ... This one is a Burner !!! Stranger - C.C. Rider ! - Cassidy - Big Railroad Blues - and Esau ! take the Cake on the 1st Set. But then ... Whoa !?!! That Set II - Love it ! Scarlet > Bucket !!!!!! to open the Set ! So hot. Ace just Steers it ! - then Garcia's on Board !!! Blammmmo ! Then - oh man ... out of Space ? You've got a silky-smooth Spanish Jam that eases its way out of Space ! > then Truckin' ( power-style ! ) > then ... the Smokestack ! - and Wow are we talking Smokestack-Lightning ! Even Lightning Hopkins himself, might tip his cap to Ace in that Pink Izod ! Go Bobby !! And then this ... into a tight Black Peter ( tight in a good way - Solo !! ) > Sugar Magnolia ! Ace was hot on this one, and Garcia kept on lobbing him softballs to just Crush ! This is my kind of G.D. !!!! Baby Blue Encore, and that is all she wrote. Mean-Night ! for the Boys ... and a nice-bright " Yellow ! " Backstage Pass here too. Wow, don't they always look fine in Yeller ??! Ha ! Hey, they All look fine ... indeed, Love it ... Enjoy this Classic ! Vintage-Auto Pass, of G.D. Grand ! past ... Yesteryear !!! Way-Way-Cool ...
Grateful Dead : 3/22/1985 : Hampton Coliseum - Hampton, Virginia ( VA ) : Setlist >>>
Set 1
: Feel Like A Stranger, Cold Rain & Snow, C.C. Rider, Brown Eyed Women, Cassidy, Big Railroad Blues, Brother Esau, Don't Ease Me In
Set 2
: Scarlet Begonias > Hell in A Bucket !, Ship of Fools, Terrapin > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > Truckin' > Smokestack Lightning > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
Encore
: Baby Blue
Authentic manufacturer info is factory printed on back of Pass : " Mactac/StarLiner ".
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