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. 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.
Tour dates +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue, attendance, gross, referencesDate(1987)CityCountryVenueAttendanceGrossJuly 4FoxboroughUnited StatesSullivan Stadium61,000 / 61,000$1,266,111July 10PhiladelphiaJohn F. Kennedy Stadium71,097 / 90,000$1,493,037July 12East RutherfordGiants Stadium71,598 / 71,598$1,478,350July 19EugeneAutzen Stadium40,470 / 40,470$809,400July 24OaklandOakland–Alameda County Coliseum53,354 / 55,000$1,067,800July 26AnaheimAnaheim Stadium47,449 / 50,000$948,980TOTAL344,968 / 368,068 (94%)$7,063,679
Personnel Bob Dylan — vocals, guitar Jerry Garcia — lead guitar, backing vocals Bob Weir — guitar, backing vocals Brent Mydland — keyboards, backing vocals Phil Lesh — bass, backing vocals Mickey Hart — drums Bill Kreutzmann —drums
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. 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.
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