DeadBase '93

The Annual Edition Of The Complete Guide To Grateful Dead Song Lists

For six years, we produced annual editions as a supplement to the previous year's complete DeadBase. However modest the original intention, these books have grown into a series of yearbooks for Deadheads. We have produced yearly editions for 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993, adding new features each year.

DeadBase '93 has 240 pages focusing just on 1993. In this annual edition you can relive this year and explore it at a level of detail not possible in the roman numeraled editions:

	The Dead sold nearly 1.8 million tickets, grossing over $45,000,000 for 81 concerts.
	The longest show of the year was August 22nd at Autzen, with music totalling 2:52:15.
	See a photo of children dancing to Barney on bass at the April Fool's show at Nassau Coliseum. See photos of Jerry in white shorts and Sting wearing nothing but overalls.
	The Dead spent a total of thirty-three hours and fifty-five minutes playing Drumz and four hours and thirty-three minutes playing Terrapin.
	Copp's Coliseum was a great venue for a Dead show.
	Mean People Suck was the favorite sticker; Air Garcia, the favortie logo.
	The favorite version of Eyes of the World (September 29 at Boston) was also the longest at 17:38.
	The run at the Dean Smith Center precipitated 30 articles in the local press, including a primer for first-time deadheads; expectations for the "perfect deadhead down"; and fears of the local authorities; drug sting operations; nostalgia; reviews; riot reports; and an interview with Garcia and Weir.
	Section 51 was not a great place to sit at Boston Garden.
	The longest song of the year was Terrapin Station (also from September 29th at Boston). It ran 25.45.

DeadBase '93 Features

	Set Lists - the official DeadBase set lists for 1993. These lists have been confirmed by listening to and timing every show from 1993 on DAT tape.
	Songs Played - a list of each song performed onstage, along with the number of performances, the minimum, average, and maximum lengths, the author(s), and the official title.
	Song Timings - the timed length of each of the 1,442 songs the Grateful Dead performed in 1993.
	Every Time Played - a cross-reference of each song and every date it was played. The date, last time performed, timed length, set, set position and songs before and after are all listed.
	Places Played - statistics on all the venues that the Dead played over the year, including the venue's capacity, how many tickets were sold and the gross receipts.
	Seating Charts - charts for most of the venues the Dead played in 1993 (this chapter does not appear in earlier annual editions)
	Tickets - photographs of tickets from many of the shows.
	Photographs - an extensive photographic journal depicting the scenes outside and/or stage shots of the band members covering most of the venues played in 1993.
	Feedback '93 Results - timely opinion from our readers. Included are ratings of every show, favorite song versions, venue ratings, and opinions on Dead related issues.
	Reviews - eighty-one pages of reviews and commentary covering every concert in 1993.
	Bibliography - citations on news articles on the Grateful Dead.
	Odds & Ends - an assortment of square-peg information including Jerry Garcia's and Bob Weir's solo performances.

Our most recent annual edition (DeadBase '95) has been included in DeadBase X

DeadBase '94 was included in DeadBase IX, which is out of print, but we do occasionally have copies in stock.