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Elective Set One: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo ; Hell In A Bucket ; Jack-A-Roe ; Black Throated Wind ; Dire Wolf ; Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues ; Loose Lucy ; Weather Report Suite > Let It Grow Set Two: Terrapin Station > Playing In The Band > Bird Song > Saint Stephen > drums > space > Saint Stephen > Gimme Some Lovin' > If I Had The World To Give > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away Encore: Box Of Rain

7/12/76 Set One: The Music Never Stopped ; Brown Eyed Women ; Cassidy ; Tennessee Jed ; New Minglewood Blues ; Candyman ; Looks Like Rain ; Row Jimmy ; Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication ; Deal ; The Promised Land Set Two: Sugaree ; Samson And Delilah ; Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower ; Dancing In The Street ; Wharf Rat > Drums > The Wheel > Around And Around Encore U.S. Blues

Original Recipe Set One: Jack Straw > Run For The Roses ; Me And Bobby McGee ; Cumberland Blues ; When I Paint My Masterpiece ; Keep On Growing ; Crazy Fingers > My Brother Esau ; Shakedown Street Set Two: Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ; Going Down The Road Feeling Bad > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance ; The Maker > Terrapin Station > drums > space > Terrapin Suite > Hey Jude > Sugar Magnolia Encore: Werewolves Of London

3/31/85 - Cumberland County Civic Center Set One: The Music Never Stopped ; Candyman > C C Rider > Loser ; Beat It On Down The Line ; Dupree's Diamond Blues ; It's All Over Now > Don't Ease Me In Set Two: Iko Iko > Samson And Delilah ; He's Gone > I Need A Miracle > China Doll > Jam (1) > Drums > Space > The Wheel > (2)Playing In The Band > Playin' Jam > Day Tripper Encore: U.S. Blues (1) First part of Jam with whole band then just Jeff & drummers (2) Inverted Playing In The Band. Starts w/reprise, then goes into the song.

A Bobby Fans dream! Only 2 jerry tunes in the 2nd?!? At least they were those

Well where did you come from? http://www.beach-net.com/ochideout/music/5-19-3.mp3 That Lovelight ❤️ Just Wow. Will DSO ever recreate 5/19......?

10/29/77 Evans Fieldhouse - Northern IL Set One: Might As Well ; Jack Straw ; Dire Wolf ; Looks Like Rain ; Loser ; El Paso ; Ramble On Rose ; New Minglewood Blues ; It Must Have Been The Roses ; Let It Grow Set Two: Bertha > Good Lovin' ; Friend Of The Devil ; Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Space > Saint Stephen > Drums > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia Encore: One More Saturday Night

Cape Cod - 1979 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1979/10/27/tuning Dancin > Franklins Indy State Fair - 1973 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/10/27 He’s Gone > Truckin > Nobody’s Fault Jam > Wharf Rat

Dark Star: The musical Rorschach test

Like this excerpt: "We watched many a pastel colored yuppie suck down frozen mixed drinks, oblivious to the seriousness of the first set. By the time Drums was hitting us, these poor folks were literally crawling up the aisles, covered in their own sick, trying to get out of the cauldron. A bizarre sight, but I am sure if had been partaking of anything psychoactive that night, I would have been right down there with them." Or this one perhaps: "If you want to take a journey into your psyche and see what associations lie in wait - fear not for the whole world is in this one Dark Star...tv static, racquetball courts, time-machines, medieval torture, insect communication, funeral horns of new orleans, buddhist scripture, worldbeat, witches incantations, ice-ages, wars, raga, muzak, volcanoes, black holes, peruvian indigenous sounds, crawling, creeping, gliding, seething ends, beginnings, and tight rope walking over some huge abyss." LOL!

10/26/89 - Miami! The ‘scary’ Dark Star show. http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1989/10/26/dark-star

A pile of gold today! Winterland - 1969 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1969/10/25/dark-star Dane County - 1973 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/10/25/bertha Fall ‘73 is pure gold New Haven - 1979 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1979/10/25/shakedown-street Filthy, Nasty Shakedown. Fall 1979 is also pure gold Radio City 1980 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1980/10/25-2/to-lay-me-down Franklins made it on Dead Set

Lying in a tent in the backyard while lightning and thunder put on a show for me and the kids! “Dad this is really cool - where’s Mom though?”

Agreed - Brent was really great and Jerry loved him to pieces but Blow Away, Hey Pockey, and and his lead in Dear Mr. Fantasy were his only showcase songs that really ever put me over the top. I had to think a minute about a few of your acronyms but I eventually got 'em

That Jack Straw to close the 1st set is regarded as one of the best ever - and there’s a ton of ‘em to choose from. I would have to agree. It's Super-charged! http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1984/10/20/jack-straw

I could eat cilantro by the bushel - tacos, salsa, even rice. Just keep it comin. Now black olives? A scourge on the earth and an offense to all that is just. I wouldn’t eat them with gr8fulpairs mouth. For some reason, the green ones soaked in Vodka or stuffed with stuff don’t seem to bother me.

The Rectum stop was indeed a keeper. While I loved, loved 10/19, 10/20 was my 2nd favorite show of the tour. http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1989/10/20-3/tuning First California Earthquake, a spirited Hey Pockey, and a spiriling Scatlet > Fire. A Truckin > Other One Jam for the ages! I loved Brent but we all questioned the selection out of space....they eventually got the Other One going though. Simply wicked Energy - really aggressive but it worked. Just listen to an Aud if you want proof. Now the lot was a different story. Fuck Nitrous Merchants.

We started seeing the new offerings when they came back East. Needless to say they we’re not given a very warm reception. Jerry was not in a good place - the stop at Copps was the only bright spot for the whole year IMHO.

TIGDH: 10/19/71 a show of firsts: https://relisten.live/grateful-dead/1971/10/19 Keith's 1st show and the debuts of: Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues, Comes a Time, One More Saturday Night, and Ramble On Rose

Never leave a George Michael show early. Traffic was likely murder getting across town to try and catch the end of the dead show - he was probably hoping for a Manic Monday or Walk Like an Egyptian encore anyway...

DSO had performed La Bamba 4 times before Chicago and not since 2010. The Help>Slip>Franklins at Hampton was the first since 1985 although there were a good stock of 1/2 Step > Franklins, Stranger > Franklins during that hiatus. First Set Franklins (quick: say that 10X) are indeed great - even without the Help-Slip paring! 11/2/79 (21 minutes!), 3/13/82, 3/31/87 are a few of my first set favorites

It’s the weirdest thing - like your DNA being recoded. My brainwash happened in a series of points contained within Dark Star > St Stephen > The Eleven > Lovelight of the Live Dead album. The final nail at the end wasn't even music - it was the words “....and Leave it ON!!!” And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burnin’ coal Pourin’ off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you

Good Gawd! Today is littered with some classic GD! Not the least of which is The Lake Acid show and it’s Monster Sugaree: http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1983/10/17/sugaree I was lucky to be given a source to this show that is beyond crispy (thanks DStone!). http://relisten.net/today It might take all day to get through it all - there are some jaw-droppers in this batch!

Brendan Byrne Arena on 1989-10-16: http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1989/10/16-1/crowdtunning A wonderfully weird show, Bobby’s Birthday, My first Dark Star, and the shameful death of Adam Katz that marred the tour-stop in NJ. There was always tension between Deadheads, local law enforcement and security personnel. I know from first-hand experience how deep that fracture went - but Adams brutal killing on 10/14 and ensuing cover-up was a dark reminder of the evil that surrounded us all during times of youthful exuberance. The starkest of contrasts that would simply get more defined as the Touch-head generation of fans really started to be the tail that wagged the dog.

Probably just coincidental http://www.dsoforums.net/forum/topic/13070-now-listening/?do=findComment&comment=160027 Very Lucky Ducks to get this one!