Grateful Shows

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Grateful Shows is a tour-by-tour deep dive meditative analysis on selected Grateful Dead live concerts. Each season covers one tour in depth-six shows, fully experienced, with setlist analysis, historical facts, philosophical and fictional rumblings. Companion ebooks go even deeper. Season 2: March 1986 -The Grateful Dead welcome spring with six shows at two of the East Coast’s most renowned venues: the Hampton Coliseum and the Philadelphia Spectrum. Packed with energy and featuring a number of bust-outs, the tour was unforgettable, including the legendary “Box of Rain” in Hampton. However, a closer look suggests this might not have been either the highlight or the best show of the tour. Make sure to check out all six shows! 🎸 Grateful Dead live history · concert documentation · music history podcast 🗺 One tour at a time · six shows per season · VW bus not included

  1. Episode 1

    Greek To Me | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 11, 1981 | S4E01

    🎸 SEPTEMBER EAST & WEST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1981 ═══ 📄 FREE DOWNLOAD — Free May 80 tour sample PDF (Penn State 5/6/80). Let the words be yours... Free when you join our list. 👉 https://grateful-shows.kit.com/links No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. ═══ —————————————————— 📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — Greek To Me | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 11, 1981 | S4E01 · Grateful Dead · The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA · September 11, 1981 · ⬅ Previous: March 1986 Recap ➡ Next: Greek Theatre 9-12-81 ═══ 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ 🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST: Set 1 New Minglewood Blues They Love Each Other Mama Tried -> Mexicali Blues Candyman -> Little Red Rooster Cumberland Blues -> Beat It On Down The Line Althea Lost Sailor -> Saint Of Circumstance -> Deal Set 2 Feel Like A Stranger -> Franklin's Tower Man Smart (Woman Smarter) He's Gone -> Truckin' -> Drums -> Space -> The Other One -> Morning Dew -> Johnny B. Goode 🎵 Encore Don't Ease Me In ═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS The Grateful Dead return to the Greek Theatre for the first time in fourteen years, but is it worth the wait? Three shows in three nights by the bay. It doesn’t get much better than this. We take a first flight to the West Coast and prepare to be humbled by both the music and the scene. A hot minglewood starts it off, and after many first-set highlights, the band kicks the energy higher until it reaches a peak with a glorious Morning Dew. A quick quote from Truckin': "Now here’s an anthem worth sinking one’s teeth into. Two iconic songs in a row, bursting with enough lexicography to cover your friend’s micro-bus’s entire back window. WALSTIB, indeed" Check it out. 📚 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗 Follow along with music on: Relisten 🔗 Navigate The Series 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ —————————————————— ⭐ RATE, REVIEW & SHARE Reviews genuinely help new listeners find the show — especially on Apple Podcasts, where ratings affect visibility. If this series has been worth your time, leaving a quick review makes a real difference. It takes less than 2 minutes. 🍎 Apple Podcasts — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Apple Podcasts (open the link, tap the star rating, add a line if you'd like) 🎙 Podchaser — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Podchaser (Podchaser lets you review individual episodes too — not just the show) 📲 Share this episode with one person: If someone you know loves music history, the Grateful Dead, or deep-dive storytelling — send them this episode. Word of mouth is how independent podcasts grow. 👉 Everything in one place (all platforms, ebook, support & more): www.gratefulshows.com/links ————————————————— ═══ ═══ ─────────── 🗺 EXPLORE OTHER TOURS Shall we go - to other tours? Why not. So far here's what we've got: 🎸 Grateful Dead May 1980 East Coast Tour— Complete Playlist: GRATEFUL DEAD MAY 1980 EAST COAST Gritty, underrated Grateful Dead. From Baltimore to Maine, heady times in a downtrodden America's election year. ── WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE ────────────── ═══ ═══ 🎙 GRATEFUL SHOWS PODCAST Exploring the world of Grateful Dead live shows- one tour at a time, through history philosophy, fiction and poetic meditations. Six shows per tour. Countless fun. 📖 Full May 1980 Tourbook Ebook: Coming late April 📄 Free PDF Tourbook Sampler: GET IT HERE ✉️ Email updates & new episodes: JOIN THE PARTY 🔗 All links, platforms & more: GRATEFUL SHOWS PORTAL If this episode was useful, be kind and share with a friend. It's the single best thing you can do for the show. Forever Grateful. 🙏 © 2026 Grateful Shows Podcast ═══ Mentioned in this episode: End roll CTA tourbook 1 The Music Never Stops — subscribe and claim your free show! Subscribe to the free newsletter, connect on socials, join the community, and explore more at https://gratefulshows.com/links.html

    Greek To Me | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 11, 1981 | S4E01

  2. Episode 2

    Mystery Theatre | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 12, 1981 | S4E02

    🎸 SEPTEMBER EAST & WEST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1981 ═══ 📄 FREE DOWNLOAD — Free May 80 tour sample PDF (Penn State 5/6/80). Let the words be yours... Free when you join our list. 👉 https://grateful-shows.kit.com/links No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. ═══ —————————————————— 📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — Mystery Theatre | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 12, 1981 | S4E02 · Grateful Dead · The Greek Theatre, Brekeley, CA · September 12, 1981 · ⬅ Previous: Greek Theatre 9-11-81 ➡ Next: Greek Theatre 9-13-81 ═══ 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ 🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST: Grateful Dead - Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 12, 1981 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 > Drums > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around & Around > One More Saturday Night 🎵 Encore It's All Over Now Baby Blue Good Lovin' ═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS The Grateful Dead at the Greek Theatre. A late-afternoon start morphs into a full-on full-moon night that reaches both musical and spiritual peaks. The show of the run, and some say one of the best of the year. You’d think a first set, Looks Like Rain>China>Rider would be a highlight. Tonight, you would be wrong. A magical second set awaits. Check it out. "An Eyes unfolds; the maturation is complete. And what a transition. Garcia blesses us with a favorite introductory lick. It curls upward like a prayer that eternal hope will endure in our lives. Once the prayer is answered, he delves into Eyes proper."Check it out. 📚 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗 Follow along with music on: Relisten 🔗 Navigate The Series 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ —————————————————— ⭐ RATE, REVIEW & SHARE Reviews genuinely help new listeners find the show — especially on Apple Podcasts, where ratings affect visibility. If this series has been worth your time, leaving a quick review makes a real difference. It takes less than 2 minutes. 🍎 Apple Podcasts — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Apple Podcasts (open the link, tap the star rating, add a line if you'd like) 🎙 Podchaser — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Podchaser (Podchaser lets you review individual episodes too — not just the show) 📲 Share this episode with one person: If someone you know loves music history, the Grateful Dead, or deep-dive storytelling — send them this episode. Word of mouth is how independent podcasts grow. 👉 Everything in one place (all platforms, ebook, support & more): www.gratefulshows.com/links ————————————————— ═══ ═══ ─────────── 🗺 EXPLORE OTHER TOURS Shall we go - to other tours? Why not. So far here's what we've got: 🎸 Grateful Dead May 1980 East Coast Tour— Complete Playlist: GRATEFUL DEAD MAY 1980 EAST COAST Gritty, underrated Grateful Dead. From Baltimore to Maine, heady times in a downtrodden America's election year. ── WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE ────────────── ═══ ═══ 🎙 GRATEFUL SHOWS PODCAST Exploring the world of Grateful Dead live shows- one tour at a time, through history philosophy, fiction and poetic meditations. Six shows per tour. Countless fun. 📖 Full May 1980 Tourbook Ebook: Coming late April 📄 Free PDF Tourbook Sampler: GET IT HERE ✉️ Email updates & new episodes: JOIN THE PARTY 🔗 All links, platforms & more: GRATEFUL SHOWS PORTAL If this episode was useful, be kind and share with a friend. It's the single best thing you can do for the show. Forever Grateful. 🙏 © 2026 Grateful Shows Podcast ═══ Mentioned in this episode: End roll CTA tourbook 1 The Music Never Stops — subscribe and claim your free show! Subscribe to the free newsletter, connect on socials, join the community, and explore more at https://gratefulshows.com/links.html

    Mystery Theatre | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 12, 1981 | S4E02

  3. Episode 3

    The Harvest | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 13, 1981 | S4E03

    🎸 SEPTEMBER 1981 EAST & WEST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1981 ═══ 📄 FREE DOWNLOAD — Free May 80 tour sample PDF (Penn State 5/6/80). Let the words be yours... Free when you join our list. 👉 https://grateful-shows.kit.com/links No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. ═══ —————————————————— 📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — The Harvest | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 13, 1981 | S4E03 · Grateful Dead · The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA· September 13, 1981· ⬅ Previous: Greek Theatre 9-12-81 ➡ Next: Greek Theatre Recap ═══ 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ 🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST: Grateful Dead - Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 13, 1981 Set 1 Jack Straw > Bertha Me & My Uncle > Big River To Lay Me Down Little Red Rooster Loser Passenger Ramble On Rose > Let It Grow > Might As Well Set 2 Cold Rain & Snow > Samson & Delilah It Must Have Been The Roses Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Terrapin Station > Never Trust A Woman > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Sugar Magnolia 🎵 Encore (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace ═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS What goes up must come down, even during the Grateful Dead’s September 1981 Greek Theatre run. Played in full daylight, this show is notable for the monster Let It Grow in the first set and yet another double encore of Satisfaction > Brokedown Palace to send everyone happy; with a clear nod to the Rolling Stones tour, they will soon overlap later in the month. An amazing conclusion to an amazing weekend. The Loser from this show had us saying this about it: You have one choice: erase yourself. Become nothing. Become smaller than the tiniest speck of dust caught in a glimmer of the sun, which is supposed to embody health, life, yellow, and happiness. Just a few of the things you gambled and lost over the course of a single Jerry tune.Check it out. 📚 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗 Follow along with music on: Relisten 🔗 Navigate The Series 🗺 NAVIGATE THIS TOUR 🎯 New to the show? Start at the very beginning! S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980 📋 Tourbook 1 Index (all 6 shows in order): Tour Playlist Grateful Shows covers Grateful Dead touring history - on tour at a time. ═══ —————————————————— ⭐ RATE, REVIEW & SHARE Reviews genuinely help new listeners find the show — especially on Apple Podcasts, where ratings affect visibility. If this series has been worth your time, leaving a quick review makes a real difference. It takes less than 2 minutes. 🍎 Apple Podcasts — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Apple Podcasts (open the link, tap the star rating, add a line if you'd like) 🎙 Podchaser — rate & review: Grateful Shows on Podchaser (Podchaser lets you review individual episodes too — not just the show) 📲 Share this episode with one person: If someone you know loves music history, the Grateful Dead, or deep-dive storytelling — send them this episode. Word of mouth is how independent podcasts grow. 👉 Everything in one place (all platforms, ebook, support & more): www.gratefulshows.com/links ————————————————— ═══ ═══ ─────────── 🗺 EXPLORE OTHER TOURS Shall we go - to other tours? Why not. So far here's what we've got: 🎸 Grateful Dead May 1980 East Coast Tour— Complete Playlist: GRATEFUL DEAD MAY 1980 EAST COAST Gritty, underrated Grateful Dead. From Baltimore to Maine, heady times in a downtrodden America's election year. ── WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE ────────────── ═══ ═══ 🎙 GRATEFUL SHOWS PODCAST Exploring the world of Grateful Dead live shows- one tour at a time, through history philosophy, fiction and poetic meditations. Six shows per tour. Countless fun. 📖 Full May 1980 Tourbook Ebook: Coming late April 📄 Free PDF Tourbook Sampler: GET IT HERE ✉️ Email updates & new episodes: JOIN THE PARTY 🔗 All links, platforms & more: GRATEFUL SHOWS PORTAL If this episode was useful, be kind and share with a friend. It's the single best thing you can do for the show. Forever Grateful. 🙏 © 2026 Grateful Shows Podcast ═══ Mentioned in this episode: End roll CTA tourbook 1 The Music Never Stops — subscribe and claim your free show! Subscribe to the free newsletter, connect on socials, join the community, and explore more at https://gratefulshows.com/links.html

    The Harvest | Grateful Dead · Greek Theatre, University of California · September 13, 1981 | S4E03
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Grateful Shows is a tour-by-tour deep dive meditative analysis on selected Grateful Dead live concerts. Each season covers one tour in depth-six shows, fully experienced, with setlist analysis, historical facts, philosophical and fictional rumblings. Companion ebooks go even deeper. Season 2: March 1986 -The Grateful Dead welcome spring with six shows at two of the East Coast’s most renowned venues: the Hampton Coliseum and the Philadelphia Spectrum. Packed with energy and featuring a number of bust-outs, the tour was unforgettable, including the legendary “Box of Rain” in Hampton. However, a closer look suggests this might not have been either the highlight or the best show of the tour. Make sure to check out all six shows! 🎸 Grateful Dead live history · concert documentation · music history podcast 🗺 One tour at a time · six shows per season · VW bus not included

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    J.Y. Pod
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    25
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