Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour

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Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour
Tour by Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead
LocationNorth America
Start dateJuly 4, 1987
End dateJuly 26, 1987
Legs1
No. of shows6
Bob Dylan tour chronology
True Confessions Tour
(1986)		Dylan & the Dead Tour
(1987)		 Temples in Flames Tour
(1987)
Grateful Dead tour chronology
1987 Summer Tour
(June 12 – July 2, July 6–8, August 11 – 23, 1987) [1]
Dylan & the Dead Tour
(July 4 & July 10–26, 1987)		1987 Fall Tour
(September 30 – October 4, 1987) [2]

The Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour was a concert tour by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead taking place in the summer of 1987 and consisting of six concerts. [3] [4] Each concert began with one or two lengthy sets by the Grateful Dead of their own material (sometime broken into a first and second set, per the Dead's usual practice), followed by a roughly 90-minute set of the Dead acting as Dylan's backup band.

Contents

Tour dates

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenueAttendanceGrossRef(s)
July 4 Foxborough United States Sullivan Stadium 61,000 / 61,000$1,266,111 [5]
July 10 Philadelphia John F. Kennedy Stadium 71,097 / 90,000$1,493,037 [6]
July 12 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 71,598 / 71,598$1,478,350 [6]
July 19 Eugene Autzen Stadium 40,470 / 40,470$809,400 [7]
July 24 Oakland Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum 53,354 / 55,000$1,067,800 [8]
July 26 Anaheim Anaheim Stadium 47,449 / 50,000$948,980 [8]
TOTAL344,968 / 368,068 (94%)$7,063,679

Personnel

Recordings

Dylan & the Dead is a live album released by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead in February 1989 by Columbia Records. It consists of seven songs written and sung by Dylan, with the Dead providing accompaniment taken from the Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour. [9] The Grateful Dead's July 24 and 26 performances were released on the 2003 album View from the Vault, Volume Four , while their July 12 performance was released on 2019's Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 . [10] [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Search for setlists: tour:(Fall Tour 1987) – setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm.
  3. ↑ "1987 Tour with The Grateful Dead". Bjorner. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead Rehearse Together in Summer 1987". Open Culture. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 99, no. 29. July 18, 1987. p. 25. ISSN   0006-2510.
  6. 1 2 "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 99, no. 30. July 25, 1987. p. 25. ISSN   0006-2510.
  7. ↑ "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 99, no. 31. August 1, 1987. p. 39. ISSN   0006-2510.
  8. 1 2 "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 99, no. 32. August 8, 1987. p. 23. ISSN   0006-2510.
  9. ↑ "Dylan & the Dead". Bob Dylan. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  10. ↑ "View From The Vault Vol. 4: Anaheim Stadium 7/26/87". DeadNet. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Grateful Dead boxed set will document five Giants Stadium shows". Njarts.net . August 2, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
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