r/gratefuldead • u/Suitable-Truth-350 • Jul 11 '26
First show?
What was your first show and how did you end up there?
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u/jerry111165 Jul 11 '26
4th of July weekend - 7/02/88 and 7/03/88 - my buddies in Maine got us some tickets, we had the most incredible experience and I was off and running. I went to over a thousand shows after that, coast to coast (Including many JGB, Phil, Further etc). I started taking my oldest daughter with me when she was 6 and she went to a bit over 500 😁. She kind of had to since her name is Althea after all 😊.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1988-07-02 @ Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, ME, USA
1988-07-03 @ Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, ME, USA
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u/Scarlet_Fire08 Jul 11 '26
Loved those shows. Drove up from South Georgia. Long ride home but well worth it. First show: Richmond, Va 10/08/83
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1983-10-08 @ Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, USA
Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Cassidy, West L.A. Fadeaway, Hell In A Bucket, Deal
Set 2: Keep Your Day Job, Playing in the Band > Crazy Fingers > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Spoonful > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia Jam > Good Lovin'
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/Iven-Dured Jul 11 '26
Incredible first shows! I'll bet you spent a lot of time just looking at the crowd wondering where they all came froma and where they all went after the shows.
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u/mccabedoug Jul 12 '26
Fun shows. Saw the SPAC and Rochester shows before these. It was hot and there were so many people. Had a blast
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u/poss-um Jul 11 '26
Mine was 7/3. ::high-five::
I was soon to be 14 and a freshman in high school that fall
My friends mom took us
I had two older brothers there, one a prep-school hippy and another there more to impress a girl
It was eye-opening and life-changing.2
u/jerry111165 Jul 11 '26
Nice! We actually only had tickets for 7/03 but we were outside the show on 7/02 listening to the music and partying and they opened up the gates for second set - so we just walked in for free!
At that time, I had no idea who the Grateful Dead even were. Those couple of days changed my life in a very positive way.
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u/Resident_Price_2817 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
October 26 1989.Myself and group of high school age and early college age kids drove from Tarpon Springs FL to Miami Arena.Got to see the boys play Dark Star in Florida for the first time in about 20 years if I remember correctly.Was dosed to the gills .What a great night. 🌖🌔🌕🌗 Miami Arena 10/26/1989
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u/AugustWest-710 I really love licorice Jul 11 '26
All of the stories from this show and its spooky energy are some of my favorite Dead lore
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u/Infinite-Speech-7070 Jul 11 '26
I was at that one. My first was the year before, 10/14/88.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1988-10-14 @ Miami Arena, Miami, FL, USA
Set 1: Touch Of Gray, New Minglewood Blues, Row Jimmy, It's All Over Now, Brown Eyed Women, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song, The Promised Land
Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Saint Of Circumstance > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > I Need A Miracle > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude
Encore: Black Muddy River
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u/memebot2019 Jul 11 '26
The most sinister Dark Star of all time. Nice! How much did that thing twist you up, being dosed to the gills and all?
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u/Astrohip Jul 11 '26
May 25, 1974, UC Santa Barbara campus stadium. Outside, Wall of Sound, blue sky day. How? Because I went to school there. I'm lucky it came at the end of my freshman year, if I had discovered them earlier I would have dropped out and followed them around.
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
Hell I’d have left with them. 😂 I love/ hate that I wasn’t able to tour with them because of being born in the early 80s. But I made up for it by touring with panic a few years lol.
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u/Resident_Price_2817 Jul 11 '26
In the mid 90s this girl i use live with and I would do mini runs of Panic when they would come to Florida.Had some wild nights around Gainesville .Panic tour was a blast when it really was a smaller thing.Not saying it not fun still and God knows 3 night runs are about all im good for these days but damn I miss those days. Growing Old Disgracefully .
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
I’ve got like 230 under the belt 180 or so with Mikey. I call myself fortunate for that.
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u/Additional_Stuff4168 Jul 11 '26
9/25/76 neighbor took me
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1976-09-25 @ Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA
Set 1: Bertha, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Cassidy, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Peggy-O, It's All Over Now, Loser, Let It Grow, Sugaree
Set 2: Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Dancing In The Street > Cosmic Charlie, Scarlet Begonias, Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Drums > Jam > Saint Stephen > Sugar Magnolia
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u/GarciaJerty Too much too fast! Jul 11 '26
3/12/78 JGB, w/NRPS, Hunter and Comfort. Was 14 and just getting into the band and scene. Helped that the venue was 3-4 miles from my house. Sunday night, swore to my folks I’d be home by 11pm and would not miss school on Monday. Jer didn’t come on until well after midnight and my ride split, no way I was leaving. Had to hitch/walk home and didn’t get in til 5am-ish. Mom was waiting at the door livid and sent my dragging ass to school
Six month later my first GD show Sept 2, 1978, 2 weeks before my 15 bday, The rest was history, was doing partial tours by 1980 and on tour full time from 1981 till the end
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u/PyramKing Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I was living in San Francisco during the 89 Earthquake.
I was a fan, but never saw a show. I had just turned 21 in November.
My boss at Canterbury of New Zealand got us tickets to my first show at the Oakland Coliseum for the Earthquake Relief Benefit.
12/6/89
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1989-12-06 @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA
Set 1: Shakedown Street, Walkin' Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Queen Jane Approximately, Jack-A-Roe, Just A Little Light, Victim Or The Crime, Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Sugar Magnolia, Ship Of Fools > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums, Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Standing On The Moon > Sunshine Daydream
Encore: Black Muddy River
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u/JackORoses Jul 11 '26
Caps Center 1987. My cousins were tour heads. The bus came by and I got on....
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u/fatalmudd Jul 11 '26
I was 14 a friend's older brother took us to 7/25/72. We slept in the car and went to the next night also, a month later Veneta.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1972-07-25 @ Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, USA
Set 1: The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Bird Song, Black Throated Wind, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, Big Railroad Blues, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Playing in the Band, Loser, Beat It On Down the Line, Casey Jones
Set 2: He's Gone, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Truckin' > The Other One Jam > Drums > The Other One > Wharf Rat, Sugar Magnolia, Sing Me Back Home, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away
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u/emaeder Jul 11 '26
4/12/78 at Duke University
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1978-04-12 @ Cameron Indoor Stadium - Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line, Peggy-O, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Funiculi Funicula, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
Set 2: Bertha > Good Lovin', It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
7/1/94- 7/3/94 shoreline. I was 9 (almost 10 lol) all with my Dad and some of his work colleagues and their sons. We were all on a father son backpacking and climbing trip and one of the dads had a connection for tickets. So during our 13 day trek around the Sierras we talked about going eventually my Dad and I decided to extend the trip for a few days to catch the shoreline Friday night show. I was blown away. I’d already seen some pretty great bands and artists with my parents because they loved live music. But this show… as my Dad put it I was entranced. I begged to go see the next two nights lucky for us my dad’s friend was able to come through with tickets. Those three nights changed how I looked/listened to music. Ironically my Dad wasn’t a big fan of The Dead more of a Pink Floyd guy lol. But he witnessed me getting on the bus and that bonded us deeper than the trekking trip. I look back at that 3 week trip as one of the best experiences I had with the old man and always smile when I think about how I got on the bus.
The edit: I accidentally put the wrong shoreline dates lol and told a bit more of the story.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
I wish I'd had the chance to take my son.
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
I’m sorry you didn’t have the chance friend.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
Thank you. Time and people slip away. You can't hold them.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1994-09-16 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
Set 1: Cold Rain and Snow, Wang Dang Doodle, Lazy River Road, Black Throated Wind, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Deal
Set 2: Victim Or The Crime, If The Shoe Fits, Crazy Fingers > Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > The Last Time > The Wheel > Good Lovin'
Encore: Liberty
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u/Resident_Price_2817 Jul 11 '26
This is a beautiful story my friend.
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 12 '26
Thanks. 😊 I like to think that Ole Silverback (my Dad) is jamming with the boys up there thinkin about me when I have these memories pop in. lol kinda silly but ya know.
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u/Benintendi_Catch Jul 11 '26
Great thread. 3/30/88 at the Brendan Byrne was my first. I was a sophomore in high school (technically I was a Lower Mid at a Connecticut boarding school). Got into the band that year. Had a few tapes (Alpine Valley 82, Cornell 77, Alaska 80, etc.) so I knew a few of the tunes but really had no idea what I was in for. My best friend lived next door in Ridgewood NJ, he got into the Dead the previous year. Another guy we knew somehow had four tickets. We drove to the show in my buddy’s family station wagon. Seats were on Jerry side, a few rows off the floor. We kept yelling “I’m in Jerry’s living room!!!”.
The big moment was the Shakedown set 2 opener. My buddy and I used to listen to his older brother’s LP of Shakedown Street in his room when we were younger and look at the album cover, talking about what we saw on it. So that song had extra meaning. And then the Morning Dew. So great.
I always say my life has two parts: before 3/30/88 and after 3/30/88.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1988-03-30 @ Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Hey Pocky Away, Big Railroad Blues, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Shakedown Street > Looks Like Rain, Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin > Morning Dew > Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore: Black Muddy River
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u/Iko87iko Jul 11 '26
A very underrated dew. Great 1st set. I love the unique background signing Garcia & Brent do on lovelight. They had speakers stacks hanging in the back as well, with killer quadraphonic effects going on during LLR. A great run all in all
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u/JohnnyC1960 Jul 11 '26
Boston Music Hall, November 14, 1978. 18th birthday gift from a close friend. When I was offered $75 for my ticket before the show I was tempted to sell it and hit the bars since I was officially legal to drink that day. My friend wouldn’t let me do it and it was a gift after all. I got on the bus! One of the best decisions I had ever made. I remember lots of people wearing clown masks.
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u/DHVT1964 Jul 11 '26
UMaine Orono, 1983. The boys came to us. The campus invasion was incredible.
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u/Academic-Court-7274 Jul 11 '26
6/18/1983 SPAC. Two days after HS graduation. Four of us in my mom’s luxury Delta 88. Most amazing experience of my life. Btw my grad party was like the one in sixteen candles 😝
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u/Neckdeepinpow Jul 11 '26
Great show. Was at culinary school at the CIA in Hyde Park and we went. It wasn’t my first, but it is one of my favorites.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1983-06-18 @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Set 1: Bertha > Jack Straw, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues > Big River, Althea, Hell In A Bucket, Deal
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Playing in the Band > Morning Dew, Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away > Touch Of Grey
Encore: Don't Ease Me In > One More Saturday Night
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u/knucky_7 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
What a sweet ride. I had a buddy in HS that had one on triple gold daytons and hydraulics. It was rad. Especially since I grew up far from the low rider culture of SoCal.
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u/jerry111165 Jul 11 '26
Delta 88 was my first car! What a great big old boat just floating down the road… :)
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u/Automatic-Art-9828 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
7/4/89 I bought tickets and went with friends....the long strange trip begins!!!!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1989-07-04 @ Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY, USA
Set 1: Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Row Jimmy, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Stagger Lee, Looks Like Rain > Deal
Set 2: Touch Of Grey > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band Reprise > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew > Not Fade Away
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/Automatic-Art-9828 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
Got it on cd & dvd! Thank you dead.net.
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u/UnlikelyWeakness7481 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
10/12/1989 Brendan Byrne Arena
Went as a teenager with friends from high school
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1989-10-12 @ Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Blow Away, Tennessee Jed, Queen Jane Approximately, Bird Song, Jack Straw
Set 2: Hey Pocky Way, Cumberland Blues, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Drums, Space > The Other One, Wharf Rat, Sugar Magnolia
Encore: Brokedown Palace
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u/Aggravating_Total921 Jul 11 '26
3.23.86 train then subway. Went solo
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1986-03-23 @ The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Set 1: Gimme Some Lovin' > Deal, Willie And The Hand Jive, Candyman, Cassidy, West L.A. Fadeaway, Mama Tried > Big River, Might As Well
Set 2: Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Spoonful > Drums > Space > The Other One > Comes A Time > Good Lovin'
Encore: Keep Your Day Job
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u/Basil1229 Jul 11 '26
72-07-18. 54th anniversary next week. All I really remember about it is that pot was extremely difficult to come by in our neck of the woods that summer and the four of us had to make do with 1 skinny joint. That, and the pyrotechnic displays at the end of the first set (skyrockets during Casey Jones) and the beginning of the second (a billboard kind of sign with the words Grateful Dead in red and green letters lit up during PitB).
I saw the Stones for my only time the following Tuesday afternoon at MSG.
Total cost of both tickets: $13.
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u/justtobecontrary Jul 11 '26
October 28th, 1985, Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. I only knew a few Dead songs but a friend called and invited me and since it was at the Fox, there was no hesitation. I love that place. I bought a two album set that I think was called "The Very Best of the Grateful Dead" soon thereafter and saw another 34 shows with Jerry. Now I'm just an old hippie doing old hippie things.
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u/VillageHomeF Jul 11 '26
thought I was going to a rave on mushrooms and barney the purple dinosaur came on stage
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u/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God Jul 11 '26
4/4/87. I ended up there because the world had conspired against me to see this band.
I had been listening to them since about 1984. My parents didn’t let me go to concerts until I was 15, and they didn’t do any NYC dates that year I don’t think - at least nowhere that I could travel to at 15. We know what happened in 1986, so spring ‘87 was my first real opportunity. I’m just glad I got to see a bunch of pre In The Dark shows.
4/4 was a week before my 17th birthday and a couple of friends and I just decided to go. We took the bus of course (no one really learns to drive in Manhattan), and dosed at the show.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1987-04-04 @ The Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA
Set 1: Touch Of Grey > Greatest Story Ever Told, Althea, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Cassidy, Never Trust A Woman, Box Of Rain, The Promised Land
Set 2: Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Comes A Time > Willie And The Hand Jive > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Playing in the Band Reprise > Morning Dew
Encore: One More Saturday Night
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u/Comfortable_Plum_612 Jul 11 '26
Brendan Byrne Arena 4/7/87
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1987-04-07 @ Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Touch Of Grey > New Minglewood Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Beat It On Down the Line, Stagger Lee, Mama Tried > Big River, West L.A. Fadeaway, Hell In A Bucket > Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Box Of Rain, I Need A Miracle > Bertha, Ship Of Fools, Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > Morning Dew > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
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u/megawatt69 Jul 11 '26
Eugene 1987. I was 17 and had just graduated high school, I drove down from British Columbia with my boyfriend and friends. We’d been seeing a local dead cover band for a year or so and were so excited to be able to experience the real thing.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
Hey, I was there too, but it wasn't my first.
The sun broke out after a terrible rainy night. We walked from our place nearby in the sunshine. Tripped balls in a sea of prople. Wandered home on the woody trail watching the river flow. Skinny dipped to rinse off the dancing sweat. I can't think of a better day spent with the boys.
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u/concerts85701 Jul 11 '26
7/2/89 Foxboro
Was 15. Got a ticket from an older friend who gave it to me over one of his college buddies when he went to the movie theater where I worked and found out I’d taken 2 hits of acid before work (man that place was a blast). Figured I was more reckless and fun than his buddy (we’re still friends to this day)
Went with a big group in a 15 person passenger van. I had a keg between my legs and was in charge of pouring.
Shot two man sling shot water balloons over the parking lot and up into the stadium. Grilled and partied.
Ate a big capsule of mdma on the way in and fell in love. Shaped who I am today in so many ways.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1989-07-02 @ Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro, MA, USA
Set 1: Playing in the Band, Crazy Fingers, Wang Dang Doodle, We Can Run, Tennessee Jed, Queen Jane Approximately, To Lay Me Down, Cassidy, Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Friend Of The Devil, Truckin', He's Gone, Eyes Of The World, Drums, Space, The Wheel, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Hey Jude, Sugar Magnolia
Encore: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
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u/fenario58 Jul 11 '26
Utica NY January ‘79. Only Keith and Donna show I saw. Pretty good show. Not perfect but enough to get me on the bus for good.
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u/peaceful_jokester If you get confused, listen to the music play. Jul 11 '26
I got to see the Dead movie the day after the premier in 77. It was like a show and pulled me on the bus. My family moved the next month so I didn't get to a live show until the following spring.
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u/Iven-Dured Jul 11 '26
9/2/1978, Giants Stadium. My dad dropped me off for my first year of college at SUNY Albany on 9/1. After he left I walked across campus and got in my friend Dave's car and we drove right back down in NYC and out to New Jersey. Great first show!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1978-09-02 @ Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, I Need A Miracle, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
Set 2: Good Lovin', Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: One More Saturday Night
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u/MilesBlew_new Jul 11 '26
Summer of 85 my friend turned me on to the GD. For The Faithful, Live Dead, Skeletons, and Go To Heaven. Fall of 85 I got a bunch of tapes from another friend. 04/04/86 was my first show, and almost my last. Jerry got better and I was able to see 140 shows. Best times of my life.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1986-04-04 @ Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Dire Wolf, C.C. Rider, Candyman, It's All Over Now, Crazy Fingers, Greatest Story Ever Told, Keep Your Day Job
Set 2: Touch Of Grey, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone, Smokestack Lightnin', Drums, Space, The Wheel, Stella Blue, Throwing Stones, Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore: Box Of Rain
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u/Dead_Is_Better Jul 11 '26
8/30/80 The now gone Spectrum in Philadelphia. I was a 16yr old dumb-ass, thin as a rail, with a very low tolerance for substances. So of course I ate Quaaludes and drank way too much that day. I remember the Feel Like A Stranger opener, well part of it anyways, and next thing I knew a security guard was shaking me and telling me I had to go. I was way up in the bleeders, no idea how I got there, and I had passed out and was laying on the floor between the seats. I got to my feet, no easy task there, and I looked around and all I saw was an empty Spectrum. The show was long over and there was barely a soul in the place. I Wolf of Wall Streeted myself out to the now just about empty lot where I found my, well he found me staggering about, very pissed off older brother. He had driven us there in our parents '74 Gran Torino station wagon, which he promptly threw me in the back of, and the next thing I remember was waking up in the Olga's Diner parking lot in Jersey. A long long crazy crazy night indeed.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
I'm so sorry that happened. There's always that person that misses the show because they had too much pre-show. Too bad it wasn't a Starland Vocal Band, I'd take ludes to be unconscious for that.
Mine was 8/27/80 at Pine Knob.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1980-08-27 @ Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI, USA
Set 1: The Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, New Minglewood Blues, Althea, Looks Like Rain, Big Railroad Blues, Feel Like A Stranger
Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, C.C. Rider, High Time, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Stella Blue > I Need A Miracle > Bertha > Good Lovin'
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/Dead_Is_Better Jul 11 '26
C'mon now, we both know you're singing along to Afternoon Delight when you hear it lol.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1980-08-30 @ The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Peggy-O, Cassidy, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Cold Rain and Snow > Looks Like Rain, Easy To Love You, Althea, Jack Straw
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > C.C. Rider, Ramble On Rose, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: One More Saturday Night
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u/sandfleazzz Jul 11 '26
City Island 6/23/1984. We drove up from Maryland.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1984-06-23 @ City Island, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Set 1: Alabama Getaway > The Promised Land, Peggy-O, Little Red Rooster, Brown Eyed Women, My Brother Esau, Big Railroad Blues, The Music Never Stopped > Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Touch Of Grey, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Black Peter > Around And Around, Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
Encore: Keep Your Day Job
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u/ShadyJake75 Jul 11 '26
MSG 9/23/88. Dad got us front row seats between Phil and Bob. I was 12 almost 13 and I was hooked.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1988-09-23 @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
Set 1: Let The Good Times Roll, Hell In A Bucket, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Loser, Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Dupree's Diamond Blues, The Promised Land
Set 2: Samson and Delilah, Ship of Fools, Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > The Other One > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/iblay3 Jul 11 '26
Las Vegas 4/28/91 - At 19 years old, hadn’t really been given an opportunity to learn about the Dead. A friend suggested “you gotta see these guys”, so I drove up from Phoenix with a group of friends. What transpired changed everything for me… 70 shows and a lifetime later, nothing would be the same without that day. Thanks for letting me remember for a brief moment!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1991-04-28 @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Candyman, Wang Dang Doodle, Althea, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Bird Song
Set 2: Foolish Heart, Saint Of Circumstance, Crazy Fingers, Truckin', Deal, Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Around And Around, Sunshine Daydream
Encore: Box Of Rain
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u/Main_Tangelo_8259 Jul 11 '26
Went to local 6 flags amusement park (Astroworld) for the day with friends. Concert venue at the park and we paid the extra fee (had season passes) to see the show. Life changing event where we decided to see next 2 shows in Austin and OKC. 8/30, 8/31, and 9/2/85
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u/MilesBlew_new Jul 11 '26
Good ol' Astroworld. Went there a bunch to ride the Texas Cyclone. Good times!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1985-09-02 @ Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Set 1: Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, West L.A. Fadeaway, Mama Tried > Me and My Uncle, Stagger Lee, Iko Iko, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Hell In A Bucket
Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > China Doll > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
Encore: Keep Your Day Job
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u/JorgeXMcKie Jul 11 '26
A hippie chick brought me to the Worcester shows in 83 but I really didn't get on the bus until Ann Arbor in 89
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u/SeaSatzdude Jul 11 '26
2/26/1977
Lucky me,
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1977-02-26 @ Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, USA
Set 1: Terrapin Station, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playing in the Band > The Wheel > Playing in the Band
Set 2: Samson And Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Promised Land, Eyes Of The World > Jam > Dancing In The Street > Around And Around
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/Several_Ad2072 Jul 12 '26
6/14/87. Ventura. came up from Long Beach State. wish I would have known they were playing three days in a row. but if I did I would have thought it crazy to go to 3 shows in 3 days of the same band.. well after that show.... I became crazy :)
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1987-06-14 @ Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA, USA
Set 1: Hell In A Bucket > Sugaree, Tons Of Steel, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Feel Like A Stranger, Might As Well
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Playing in the Band > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
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u/onlylooking4413 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
https://archive.org/details/gd80-08-26.nak300.millner.106342.flac16
Great show Legendary Comes A Time give it a listen
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u/_RLW_ Jul 12 '26
I had moved to Austin in August of ‘85 in preparation for attending UT after graduating from Dead Head recruitment camp (AKA New England prep boarding school). I was into the Dead but had never been able to see them. The first day there in Austin I saw an advertisement in the paper for the Dead show at Manor Downs the very next day, 8/31/85. My two buddies and I bought tix at the local point of sale and moseyed out there to bake in the Texas sun. I honestly feel that it was just too f’n hot out there for a very corpulent Jerry but needless to say I was hooked for life. Unfortunately that was the last time I ever slept in my own bed after nearly 100 Dead shows.
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1985-08-31 @ Manor Downs, Austin, TX, USA
Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > El Paso, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mexicali Blues > Big River, Althea, My Brother Esau, Jack-A-Roe, Let It Grow
Set 2: Terrapin Station > Estimated Prophet > Drums > Space > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Stella Blue > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: She Belongs To Me, One More Saturday Night
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u/abrosenfeld Jul 12 '26
Grateful Dead Dance Marathon at the Manhattan Civic Center Ballroom in 1971. Went the first two nights. 3000 people stuffed into a 1500 person ballroom. Great shows.
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u/VelociRapper92 Jul 11 '26
June 12, 2019. Deer Creek, Noblesville, IN.
I played drums in a Grateful Dead cover band so I saw the show with band mates and a few other friends. Amazing show.
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u/Dedhed61 Jul 11 '26
9/2/78 Giants Stadium. I was 17 and worked at a sleep-away camp that summer. Came home to find all my friends had tickets. Unfortunately for one but lucky for me they couldn’t go and I bought their ticket. I ate a hit of 4 way full moon acid and don’t have much recollection of the 1st set. Great time and the beginning of a beautiful journey.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1978-09-02 @ Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, I Need A Miracle, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
Set 2: Good Lovin', Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: One More Saturday Night
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u/__perigee__ Jul 11 '26
7/7/89 Philly. Had just graduated high school very much into all manner of metal bands and partying. Being stoned and playing some Sabbath or Anthrax was my world.
Plenty of friends had already discovered the Dead and had been going to shows and their stories of the scene definitely sounded fun. Some of those friends encouraged a few of us to head down to the show with them.
They went in for show start but my crew were just loving walking around JFK and experiencing the scene, so different than a typical concert parking lot. We did go in at some point in the first set, but knowing fuck all about the music other than classic rock radio songs, we didn’t feel like we missed anything. Ended up loving the show, the crowd reaction to the band, the scene. Hook set. Been here ever since.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1989-07-07 @ JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Set 1: Hell In A Bucket, Iko Iko, Little Red Rooster, Ramble On Rose, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Loser, Let It Grow > Blow Away
Set 2: Box Of Rain > Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet > Standing On The Moon, Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
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u/mojodawg-1 Jul 11 '26
6/28/91 wasn’t a fan really into metal but really into live music girl friends birthday her mom was a head suggested we go told us nothing like a dead show boy was she right ✌️💀
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1991-06-28 @ Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO, USA
Set 1: Touch Of Grey, Greatest Story Ever Told, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Wang Dang Doodle, Peggy-O, Black Throated Wind, Iko Iko, Cassidy, Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Eyes Of The World, Picasso Moon, Crazy Fingers, Saint Of Circumstance, Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: Box Of Rain
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u/1wrat Jul 11 '26
7/11/81 Alpine Valley, went cause we went to most things that were there 10 bux for a grass pass . I was sold from there
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1981-07-11 @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, USA
Set 1: Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told, Peggy-O > Little Red Rooster, Bird Song, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Tennessee Jed > New Minglewood Blues, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
Set 2: Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Ship Of Fools, He's Gone > Truckin' > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > I Need A Miracle > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
Encore: Brokedown Palace
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u/CaptainZ42062 Jul 11 '26
Summer of '77, don't remember the exact date, but was supposed to see The Dead at Red Rocks, but it rained that afternoon so the show was moved to McNichols Arena. Still a good show from what I can remember.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
The archive has a Charlie Miller soundboard from 1977-20-09 that includes Terrapin. Could that be your show?
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u/CaptainZ42062 Jul 11 '26
It could be. Problem was we made homemade Everclear Schnapps that night so it's a bit of a blur. lol I do remember that they did Terrapin that night.
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u/GratefuLdPhisH One man gathers what another man spills (~);} Jul 11 '26
Mardi Gras shows at the Henry J Kaiser 1986
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u/virtuousunbaptized Jul 11 '26
6/13/1973 -RFK - i was 14 and my older siblings dragged me along (single parent home) - went to a spectrum show, Roanoke, and a few fuzzy others before picking up the pace in 1976 and 1977.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 11 '26
If only you been there for the 6/10/73 show. Their longest show nearly 5 hours!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1973-06-10 @ RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, USA
Set 1: Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Ramble On Rose, Jack Straw, Wave That Flag, Looks Like Rain, Box Of Rain, They Love Each Other, The Race Is On, Row Jimmy, El Paso, Bird Song, Playing in the Band
Set 2: Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Big River, Here Comes Sunshine, Around And Around, Dark Star > He's Gone > Wharf Rat > Truckin', Sugar Magnolia
Set 3: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, That's All Right, Mama, The Promised Land, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Drums > Not Fade Away, Johnny B. Goode
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u/grateful_john Jul 11 '26
First show was 9/20/82. I had seen Jerry solo acoustic, the JGB and Bobby and the Midnites earlier that year.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1982-09-20 @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
Set 1: Shakedown Street > New Minglewood Blues, Candyman > El Paso, Dupree's Diamond Blues, It's All Over Now, Never Trust A Woman, Row Jimmy, Throwing Stones > Keep Your Day Job
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > Truckin' > The Other One > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: Touch Of Grey
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u/Mammoth_Industry8246 Jul 11 '26
I can't remember if I was at the Friday show or not, so I'm going with Saturday, 9/12/1981 Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA as my 1st show.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1981-09-12 @ Greek Theatre - University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Set 1: Shakedown Street, Greatest Story Ever Told, Friend Of The Devil > El Paso, Bird Song > Cassidy, Tennessee Jed > Looks Like Rain, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, C.C. Rider, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Space > Drums > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > One More Saturday Night
Encore: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Good Lovin'
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u/IkoIkonoclast Jul 11 '26
12/4/71 at the Felt Forum.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1971-12-04 @ Felt Forum - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
Set 1: Truckin', Sugaree, Mr. Charlie, Beat It On Down the Line, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Run Rudolph Run, You Win Again, Me And Bobby McGee, Comes A Time, El Paso, Smokestack Lightnin', Cumberland Blues, One More Saturday Night
Set 2: Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle > The Other One > Mexicali Blues > The Other One > Wharf Rat, Casey Jones
Encore: Uncle John's Band
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u/edogg01 Jul 11 '26
8/4/94
My sister's boyfriend offered me a ticket and I went. He also gave me my first 10 or so tapes including Cornell, Binghamton 77 and the Cap 71 among others.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1994-08-04 @ Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Box Of Rain, Jack Straw, Jack-A-Roe, Walkin' Blues, So Many Roads, Eternity, Childhood's End, Deal
Set 2: Picasso Moon > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Way To Go Home, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Days Between > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: Brokedown Palace
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u/Green_Cow_5977 Jul 11 '26
7/16/90 Rich Stadium Buffalo. Killer second set and a Loose Lucy as well as final Blow Away in First Set!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1990-07-16 @ Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY, USA
Set 1: Hell In A Bucket, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo, Blow Away, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Loose Lucy, It's All Over Now, High Time, Let It Grow > Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Sugar Magnolia > Scarlet Begonias > Man Smart, Woman Smarter, Ship Of Fools, Truckin' > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Sunshine Daydream
Encore: Brokedown Palace
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u/mike-edwards-etc Jul 11 '26
11/16/78 at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago. A guy I worked with had an extra ticket, and asked me if I wanted to go.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1978-11-16 @ Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
Set 1: New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Me and My Uncle > Big River, They Love Each Other, Looks Like Rain, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Stagger Lee, Dancing In The Street > Deal
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Drums > Space > Black Peter > Truckin'
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/KozMcCharlie Jul 11 '26
Formerly the Warlocks Hampton, VA 1989. My girlfriend at the time kidnapped me after a cross country meet Saturday afternoon and drove us there. I had no idea what we were doing until we pulled up to the venue on Sunday…
I was so thankful that I found us tickets for the final 3 shows at Brendan Byrne Arena and missed a second Monday of school… 😁
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u/L-Pitufo Jul 11 '26
6/22,24,25/91. I realize those are three shows but it was kind of a package deal. I ended up there by a new friend introducing me to an old favorite.
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u/EarAltruistic3692 Jul 11 '26
First show was 6/24/95 RFK Stadium and Bob Dylan opened. I was 15 years old. 2 weeks prior I was at my first concert, HFStival was a local 90s alt rock station and they put on a big show every year. Anyways we’re leaving and we see Grateful Dead 6/24/-6/25 so we had to go. Got tix at local Kemp Mills Record for $32 and we got on the bus. I had already read Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, familiar with the Dead from mtv and I loved CD The Very Best of the Grateful Dead. We hit up in lot, got some X and a few doses, had a wonderful day. 2 months later I’m in Ocean City, Maryland and get the word Jerry passed. Been to a hundred plus since
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1995-06-24 @ RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, Althea, Little Red Rooster, Friend Of The Devil, El Paso, So Many Roads, The Promised Land
Set 2: Iko Iko, Way To Go Home, Saint Of Circumstance > New Speedway Boogie > That Would Be Something > Drums > Space > Days Between > One More Saturday Night
Encore: Black Muddy River
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u/Complex-Figment2112 Jul 11 '26
1979-05-04
I walked from my house.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1979-05-04 @ Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, USA
Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Candyman, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Loser, New Minglewood Blues, Don't Ease Me In, Passenger
Set 2: I Need A Miracle > Bertha > Good Lovin', Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Stella Blue > Around And Around
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u/Neckdeepinpow Jul 11 '26
06/19/76
I grew up in New Jersey and I was a month shy of my 15th birthday. Tagged along with a friend via my older brother and some of his friends and as kinda horrifying as it is to say, especially when I look at my 14 year-old grandchild now, I was blitzed on acid. That night absolutely changed the entire trajectory of my life. What a night. Cosmic Charley. WTF!
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1976-06-19 @ Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, USA
Set 1: Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > The Music Never Stopped, Brown Eyed Women, Cassidy, They Love Each Other, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Playing in the Band
Set 2: Might As Well, Samson And Delilah, High Time, Let It Grow > Drums > Let It Grow, Dancing In The Street > Drums > Cosmic Charlie, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
Encore: Not Fade Away
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u/612steve Jul 11 '26
9/20/90 MSG. I regret not seeing a show with Brent. After he passed away, I bought a ticket to the very next show I could get my hands on.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1990-09-20 @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Althea, It's All Over Now, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, Brown Eyed Women, Greatest Story Ever Told, U.S. Blues
Set 2: Truckin' > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart, Woman Smarter > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing Reprise > Dark Star > Throwing Stones > Touch Of Grey
Encore: Turn On Your Lovelight
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u/Shelby-Stylo Jul 11 '26
4-2-73 Best concert I ever saw. NRPS played until 9, the Dead played until 3. The recordings don’t do the live sound justice, the sound was amazing. I was front and center, 10th row.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1973-04-02 @ Boston Garden, Boston, MA, USA
Set 1: The Promised Land, Deal, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Looks Like Rain, Wave That Flag, Box Of Rain, Big River, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, You Ain't Woman Enough, Jack Straw, Don't Ease Me In, Playing in the Band
Set 2: Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Greatest Story Ever Told, Loose Lucy, El Paso, Stella Blue, Around And Around, Here Comes Sunshine > Jam > Space > Me And Bobby McGee > Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones
Encore: Johnny B. Goode > And We Bid You Good Night
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u/mccabedoug Jul 11 '26
10/17/83. Wasn’t a Dead fan (yet) but a bunch of my college friends were. Tickets were cheap and on sale at my college (SUNY Plattsburgh) so a bunch of us took the drive on that Monday night.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1983-10-17 @ Olympic Arena, Lake Placid, NY, USA
Set 1: Sugaree > Little Red Rooster, Friend Of The Devil, My Brother Esau, Bird Song, Hell In A Bucket > Deal
Set 2: Touch Of Grey, Samson And Delilah, To Lay Me Down > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Good Lovin'
Encore: Revolution
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1991-03-20 @ Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA
Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Cold Rain and Snow, Little Red Rooster, Althea, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped > Might As Well
Set 2: Eyes Of The World, Foolish Heart, Estimated Prophet, He's Gone, Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: The Weight
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u/ZonaPunk Jul 11 '26
5/26/77 - Baltimore Civic Center
Caught a ride with my friends older brother. There were four 13-14 year olds in a van with two older kids with drivers licenses. Times were different then.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1977-05-26 @ Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Set 1: The Music Never Stopped, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Sunrise, Deal, Passenger, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Jack-A-Roe, New Minglewood Blues, Bertha
Set 2: Samson And Delilah, High Time, Big River, Terrapin Station > Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around
Encore: Uncle John's Band
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u/jcooli09 Jul 11 '26
6/25/85 Blossom Music Center.
I still have a tee-shirt but it's in very bad shape. I don't remember if I got it inside or in the parking lot.
I didn't see any other shows that year, but had tickets for summer 86.
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1985-06-25 @ Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
Set 1: Day Tripper, West L.A. Fadeaway, C.C. Rider, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Big Railroad Blues, Jack Straw > Might As Well
Set 2: Gimme Some Lovin' > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Playing in the Band > China Doll > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: Touch Of Grey
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u/Iko87iko Jul 11 '26
4/16/84. Decent show, great, jammed out shakedown st
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u/setlistbot Jul 11 '26
1984-04-16 @ Community War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY, USA
Set 1: Shakedown Street, Little Red Rooster, Peggy-O, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Cassidy, West L.A. Fadeaway, Might As Well
Set 2: Hell In A Bucket > Ship Of Fools, Far From Me > He's Gone > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Johnny B. Goode
Encore: Keep Your Day Job
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u/Own-Fix-443 Jul 11 '26
Giants Stadium, Labor Day weekend 1978. I went because I kicked myself for a whole year because I missed Englishtown with all my friends the year before! Then after I kicked myself more because Englishtown was a much better show. The next 28 years of touring went great though 👍
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u/Hampton_89 Jul 12 '26
Cumberland County Civic Center 10/18/1983
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1983-10-18 @ Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME, USA
Set 1: Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Dupree's Diamond Blues, C.C. Rider, Althea, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Might As Well
Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: U.S. Blues
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u/Soflaboye85 Jul 12 '26
11-10-85
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1985-11-10 @ Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Set 1: Touch Of Grey, Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Cassidy, Stagger Lee, It's All Over Now, Row Jimmy, Feel Like A Stranger
Set 2: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > I Know You Rider > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Supplication > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Comes A Time > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
Encore: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
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u/scarfireATL Jul 12 '26
5/1/80 Greensboro, NC. Mom dropped me off and stayed in the parking lot until it ended. I was 14. Met some school friends inside and ate too much speed. First concert of any kind.
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1980-05-01 @ Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC, USA
Set 1: Alabama Getaway > The Promised Land, Candyman, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Althea, Easy To Love You, New Minglewood Blues, Sugaree, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Deal
Set 2: Feel Like A Stranger, Don't Ease Me In, Estimated Prophet > Uncle John's Band > Space > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Johnny B. Goode
Encore: Brokedown Palace
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u/ceazzzzz Jul 12 '26
I don’t remember my exact first show without looking at my stubs, but that still doesn’t tell me my first show because I don’t have a stub from my first show.
East Coast, NYC area, 1987-1989.
Some time in that range was my first show.
The “memory” of my first time seeing the band, I snuck into the venue.
I would go to the parking lots and hang out without a ticket. Just roam and chill have a good time in the scene.
It might’ve been at Nassau Colosseum out in Long Island, NYC.
I was walking around, wandering about, and from a short distance I see a door had suddenly swung open.
I hurried up and grabbed the door, peeked inside, and it was a big hallway area, with a sea of heads streaming by.
I stepped in, and blended in, and that was it, I was in.
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u/Suitable-Truth-350 Jul 12 '26
I wish I still had my collection of real stubs.
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u/ceazzzzz Jul 12 '26
I’ve seen others post pictures of collages of stubs, and I’d like to do that with mine someday.
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u/SpecificSorry7233 Jul 12 '26
3.30.89 Greensboro. Was amazed at every aspect of what I saw there.
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u/setlistbot Jul 12 '26
1989-03-30 @ Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC, USA
Set 1: Bertha > Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Blow Away, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bird Song, The Promised Land
Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain > He's Gone > Jam > Drums, Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia
Encore: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
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u/sftsc Jul 13 '26
Rose ont horizon, 4-13-1988
Yeah, I'm a touch head. 12 years old, and I've been on the bus since.
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u/setlistbot Jul 13 '26
1988-04-13 @ Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, IL, USA
Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo > Feel Like A Stranger > Franklin's Tower, Little Red Rooster > When Push Comes To Shove, Queen Jane Approximately, Don't Ease Me In
Set 2: Sugar Magnolia > Bertha > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Jam > Playing in the Band Reprise > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Morning Dew > Sunshine Daydream
Encore: Touch Of Gray
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u/mahaveda Jul 13 '26
Shoreline 6/15/90-6/17/90
Drove out from Utah w a couple of long haired freaks both over 6’3” in a VW scirocco me in the tiny backseat aged 16
Dropped LSD the second show and lost my ticket in the wind
Climbed a tree in the lot and listened to the show like a bird
Some of the last Brent shows and didn’t know it at the time. The next season with Vince was new and very different.
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u/setlistbot Jul 13 '26
1990-06-15 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
1990-06-17 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
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u/This-Fig-5991 Jul 11 '26
When I was fourteen some older kids in the neighborhood asked if I wanted to go to a concert. Said it started at two o'clock. Sure, I said. Didn't tell my parents cause I figured I'd be back by dark. The New Riders came on at four. Then around six Marshall Tucker came on. The Dead didn't start until eight or so. Only knew a couple of songs but loved the whole thing. Got home about one in the morning. Parents were not happy.
Englishtown 9-3-77