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Grateful Dead ‘All The Years Live’ Video Series: “Throwing Stones” From New Year’s Eve 1987 [Watch]

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Screengrab via Grateful Dead "Throwing Stones" 12/31/87

The latest installment in the Grateful Dead‘s “All The Years Live” video series is now available on the band’s YouTube channel. The video features a fiery performance of the Bob Weir/John Perry Barlow-penned “Throwing Stones” from the Dead’s 1987 New Year’s Eve show at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, CA.

As Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux notes in the video’s description:

Debuting in September 1982, Throwing Stones rather quickly found a home as the penultimate song of many Grateful Dead second sets in the final decade+ of the Dead’s touring activities. Usually followed by Not Fade Away, Throwing Stones was a powerful Weir-Barlow song with a political message, a rarity for the Grateful Dead. Now, nearly forty years after its debut, its message still resonates, perhaps more strongly than ever.

Watch the pro-shot video of “Throwing Stones” from New Year’s Eve 1987 below.

Grateful Dead – “Throwing Stones” – 12/31/1987

[Video: Grateful Dead]

The arrival of the pro-shot “Throwing Stones” is the latest in the Dead’s ongoing archival video series. Previous editions of the band’s ongoing weekly “All The Years Live” video series have included: