Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour

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.

Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour

Tour by Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead
Poster to the concert in Oakland
Location	North America
Start date	July 4, 1987
End date	July 26, 1987
Legs	1
No. of shows	6
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]

Tour dates

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue, attendance, gross, references

Date (1987)	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Gross	Ref(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]
TOTAL				344,968 / 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.^[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]