Seastrike,
No, I never saw the DEAD in Portland. I DID see some awful DEAD shows though, one ca 1980 in the Seattle Coliseum and one I'm guessing 87-88 in the Tacoma Dome. Face it, when you play that many shows, some are bound to suck! Hard to go wrong with the crowd and the scene though even at the crappy DEAD shows!

The last GRATEFUL DEAD show in Seattle, Friday May 25th 1995 was a pretty good one...the "Fire on the Mountain" they played that day was total meltdown and still legendary amongst us deadheads!

Someone asked "where are all the shows from the last 3 years?"
Don't know if this is a demographics thing or not, suspect it is,
but where are all the great BANDS the last 3 years? Perhaps the era of the concert scene is drawing to a close. Sure, economics has something to do with it, but I'm thinking there aren't any new mega-bands out there comparable to, like Led Zeppelin or the Stones, or the Grateful Dead. Where are the new Rush, The Who,
Jethro Tulls, and Moody Blues? And "by the way, which one's PINK?" (FLOYD) There are very few new mega-bands stepping up! Sad thing is, half of us are too busy making ends meet to attend concerts anyways, and the other half can't enjoy concerts like they used to because of homeland security. Otherwise known as "the police state 9/11 created" !!!