Search Grateful Dead Setlists:

Set 1:
Feel Like A Stranger
West LA Fadeaway
Me And My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Althea
C.C. Rider
Big Railroad Blues
My Brother Esau
Touch Of Grey

Set 2:
Iko Iko
Playin' In The Band
Uncle John's Band
Drums
Spanish Jam
The Other One
Throwin' Stones
Wharf Rat
Not Fade Away

Encore:
Not Fade Away
One More Saturday Night

Download/Listen to this Show at Archive.org

Comments:

Killer show all the way through! Playin' into UJB is sublime, and the Spanish jam gives me goose bumps. Only complaint is that it was too short. Some of my favorite versions of almost every song!!!! Give it a listen! Yowza!
-Anonymous (05/10/2012)

Actually this show has mostly standard time stamps, if anything the Space is shorter then normal. But this is for the early 80's. The only song that seemed unusually short was the other one. Usually a 8-10 minute jam, this one barely scratches five. but this was because jerry's and everyone elses' phrasing got way better. The reason why jams were longer in the begining was because their song repitour was smaller and theirphrasing skills weren't as keen. So all those 20-40 minute lovelights and half hour other ones were just the boys takin longer to say what they wanted that night. Come back to the 80's, they all knew how to say exactly what they wanted to say, even if they screwed up here and there it was irrelevant. So you can't really judge a jam on it's time stamp. I've heard jerry speak more through a 5 minute song then a 20 minutes jam plenty of times. Jams are jams, how long they are is looking at them from the outside perspective. You really gotta look inside a jam and all it's little nooks to see what it's really all about.

thats just my observation at least. nothing about the dead can ever be written in stone except for the notes that have already left their fingers.
-Murphy (11/13/2013)

Wow Murphy, you really spend a lot of time on these guys.
-Anonymous (06/11/2015)

Haha, i had ALOT of free time in college since i only went two days a week. I listened to a good majority of the deads' recorded concert history in consecutive order over about 2 years. I'd say i listened to about 80 - 85% of all the shows that are available through archives. Pretty sure i did listen to every single show from '78 - '95. It was incredibly fun to just zone out for a little over 2 years and do nothing but send myself to space and listen to the dead. I went through about 3 - 4 shows a day.
I never saw Jerry play in person, but i still haven't heard anything (Live or recorded) that matches the spiritual obliterations the dead are capable of. And i only experienced it through headphones. I can't imagine what Jerry made people feel like live.
-Murphy (04/06/2016)

So the first record i got into after seeing the Dead for the 1st time was Dead Set. The Stranger on that was part of what hooked me in. I think that this was my first one. The fact that this is one of Bob’s “1 night stand” song does not take away from the fact that the tune is just badass. The next is West LA. It’s so goddamn autobiographical, through Hunter’s eyes. This version is impeccable, in spite of the fact that Garcia’s voice is a little tired. Now every time I hear Me and My Uncle, i get the Joni Mitchell version in my brain. The coolest part: Same song. Mexicali is always welcome though I’d prefer Big River. Now I’m whining. MB rocked. Althea is next. This is a really swampy set. Jerry’s not enunciating well (much like a lot of 83 -86) but the fact that one of the greatest Dead songs of the 2nd half of their career carries it along. Brent just melted my brain on CC Rider. Then Jerry and Bob (who didn’t fuck up his slide solo) piled on . OH MY GOD. I”M EXPLODING !!!!!!!!!!. Esau may be the most underrated dead song. The combination with throwing stones is quite a political statement (for them) that leaked out several more times later.

At my 2nd show i was, well, really high, and I bought a tie-dye with the Eye of Horus on it and the words “Hey Now”. I had no idea what it meant, but i loved the shirt. When Garcia launched into the lyrics, i was flipped out. I danced with my shirt for the rest of the night. It’s a good version of Iko Iko. The Playin’ is amazing for the 80’s. It could’ve gone on for another 10 minutes. UJB is lovely, but Jerry seems to start losing the plot. The guitar is great, but the lyrics are rough. Drums/Space/Spanish Jam is phenomenal and drives into a vicious Other One. Throwin’ Stones is clunky at times, but pretty good. Not Fade was a particularly great closer for the 80’s. Then it was OMSN

Grade: B

- (09/06/2024)

So the first record i got into after seeing the Dead for the 1st time was Dead Set. The Stranger on that was part of what hooked me in. I think that this was my first one. The fact that this is one of Bob’s “1 night stand” song does not take away from the fact that the tune is just badass. The next is West LA. It’s so goddamn autobiographical, through Hunter’s eyes. This version is impeccable, in spite of the fact that Garcia’s voice is a little tired. Now every time I hear Me and My Uncle, i get the Joni Mitchell version in my brain. The coolest part: Same song. Mexicali is always welcome though I’d prefer Big River. Now I’m whining. MB rocked. Althea is next. This is a really swampy set. Jerry’s not enunciating well (much like a lot of 83 -86) but the fact that one of the greatest Dead songs of the 2nd half of their career carries it along. Brent just melted my brain on CC Rider. Then Jerry and Bob (who didn’t fuck up his slide solo) piled on . OH MY GOD. I”M EXPLODING !!!!!!!!!!. Esau may be the most underrated dead song. The combination with throwing stones is quite a political statement (for them) that leaked out several more times later.

At my 2nd show i was, well, really high, and I bought a tie-dye with the Eye of Horus on it and the words “Hey Now”. I had no idea what it meant, but i loved the shirt. When Garcia launched into the lyrics, i was flipped out. I danced with my shirt for the rest of the night. It’s a good version of Iko Iko. The Playin’ is amazing for the 80’s. It could’ve gone on for another 10 minutes. UJB is lovely, but Jerry seems to start losing the plot. The guitar is great, but the lyrics are rough. Drums/Space/Spanish Jam is phenomenal and drives into a vicious Other One. Throwin’ Stones is clunky at times, but pretty good. Not Fade was a particularly great closer for the 80’s. Then it was OMSN

Grade: B

- (09/06/2024)

I hate to rain on the parade, but this was my last Dead show, and it was such a disappointment that I was never tempted to experience another. My girlfriend at the time gave it to me as a birthday gift (31st). The parking lot was full of DH's hawking Dead-related homemade product, presumably to fund their food and gas to get to the next show. Jerry was in bad shape and the band seemed lackluster. After seeing them a couple of dozen times between 1972 and 1981, I was shocked.
-TheToner (09/17/2024)

Comment on this Show!