🎸 MARCH 1986 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1986
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📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — The Quest for Fire | Grateful Dead · The Spectrum · March 25, 1986 | S2E06 ·
Grateful Dead · The Spectrum, Philadelphia· March 25, 1986 ·
⬅ Previous: The Spectrum 3-24-86
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🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST:
Grateful Dead - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, March 25, 1986
Set 1
Feel Like A Stranger
Tennessee Jed
C.C. Rider
Tons Of Steel
It Must Have Been The Roses
Desolation Row >
Don't Ease Me In
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias >
Touch Of Grey >
Looks Like Rain >
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad >
Drums >
Space >
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues >
Black Peter >
Throwing Stones >
Turn On Your Lovelight
🎵 Encore:
Brokedown Palace
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Last night of the tour and both the band and ourselves are starting to feel fatigued. The first set does little to alleviate this feeling, but is notable for the first ever Desolation Row which clocks in at over ten minutes and sung virtually flawlessly. The great East Coast Scarlet>Fire drought continues with a spirited Scarlet>Touch that takes us not into to the promised land but to a Looks Like Rain. Yes it was a solid last night of the tour, but not getting the Fire sticks far longer than necessary.
from the podcast:
"We are showered in Blissful Mist, a great name for some kind of product. Alcoholic drink, aftershave, room deodorizer. Whatever it is, we’ll buy it. Few can dish it out like Bobby when it comes to post-heartbreak brooding. And kudos to Dan Healy for ramping up the vocal effects: the delay, the knob-twiddling, and Bobby’s screams, all quantifiers that life does indeed rain on your parade."
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