🎸 May 1980 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · BALTIMORE > MAINE
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📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — Phil Bombs | Grateful Dead · Baltimore Civic Center · May 4, 1980 | S1E01 ·
Grateful Dead · Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD · May 4, 1980 ·
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🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST:
Grateful Dead - Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, May 4, 1980
Set 1
- Alabama Getaway>
- The Promised Land
- Friend Of The Devil
- Mama Tried>
- Mexicali Blues
- High Time
- Lazy Lightnin'>
- Supplication
- Ramble On Rose
- Lost Sailor>
- Saint Of Circumstance
Set 2
- Scarlet Begonias >
- Fire On The Mountain
- Samson And Delilah
- Ship Of Fools
- Playing In The Band>
- Drums>
- Space>
- Black Peter>
- Sugar Magnolia
🎵 Encore: U.S. Blues
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On May 4, 1980 the Grateful Dead appeared at the Baltimore Civic Center in Maryland as they hit the East Coast for their first full-fledged tour of the eighties. Spoiler alert: it's not all rainbows and unicorns.
The boys slog through plenty of grit and grime in this show. Highlights include the opening Half Step>Franklin's Tower as well as a wigged out Playing in the Band and a beautiful Black Peter
An excerpt from Playing in The Band:
"The band and this song highlight the common, raw instinct among predators, but the urge to survive is not optional; it is fundamental to life. Nature does not pose moral dilemmas; it simply follows the harsh principles of Darwinian evolution, a horror show, if you will. As you pause to consider this statement, Playing In The Band sheds its former identity, exonerating itself of any questionable actions encouraged during its tenure, and drifts, piece by piece, toward the drums."
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Gritty, underrated Grateful Dead. From Baltimore to Maine, heady times in a downtrodden America's election year.
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