🎸 May 1980 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · Baltimore to Maine 1980
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📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — The Cumberland Mind | Grateful Dead · Cumberland County Civic Center · May 11, 1980 | S1E06 ·
Grateful Dead · Cumberland County Civic Center· May 11 1980 ·
⬅ Previous: Hartford Civic Center 5-10-80
➡ Next: May 1980 Tour Wrap-up
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S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980
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🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST:
Grateful Dead - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME, May 11, 1980
Set 1
Alabama Getaway>
The Promised Land
They Love Each Other
Cassidy
Loser
It's All Over Now
Easy To Love You
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Don't Ease Me In
The Music Never Stopped
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire On The Mountain
Feel Like A Stranger>
Terrapin Station>
Playing In The Band>
Drums>
Space>
Black Peter>
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
Around And Around>
Johnny B. Goode
🎵 Encore: Brokedown Palace
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The final night for us with the Grateful Dead at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Maine, in May 1980. And on Mother's Day no less. It's an open secret the Grateful Dead always play great in Maine, so how does this show measure up to those who have come before it, or after?
Second sets opening with a Scarlet>Fire can't be all that bad. You know it, we know it, but it what rises from the ashes following this pair that can make or break a show. It is the end of the tour for us, so we gladly hang on every note, every word, watching time slip through our fingers, never to come back. It is bittersweet, and none more so than the fitting Brokedown Palace encore:
"As our adventure reaches a fitting end, it is time to pass the baton to those who will carry it forward. Brokedown Palace is a metaphor for the life we have shared together. While it hasn’t always been pretty or perfect, we tried our best to be a positive force. Life on the road is full of adventures and clichés, which, come to think of it, is a cliché itself."
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