🎸 MARCH 1986 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1986
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📍 YOU ARE HERE: Show — Mothership Departures | Grateful Dead · Hampton Coliseum · March 21, 1986 | Set 2 · S2E06 ·
Grateful Dead · Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA · March 21, 1986· Set 2
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➡ Next: Philadelphia Spectrum 3/23/86 Set 1
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Grateful Dead - Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA · March 21, 1986
Set 2
- Uncle John's Band >
- Terrapin Station >
- Playing In The Band Reprise >
- Drums >
- Space >
- I Need A Miracle >
- Stella Blue >
- Sugar Magnolia
🎵 Encore: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
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The Grateful Dead welcome spring with six shows in two of the most celebrated venues the East Coast has to offer: the Hampton Coliseum and the Philadelphia Spectrum. With plenty of energy and a slew of bust-outs, the tour was one to remember, containing the legendary Box of Rain in Hampton. But a closer look reveals why this may not have been either the show or the song of the tour. Be sure to check out all six shows!
From the podcast:
Catching lightning in a bottle, Garcia is in excellent vocal form for this performance. Maybe he found peace during the downtime granted by Drums. A great call, and there’s no doubt he will pull it out tonight, just one more time. We love it. Somehow, he has conjured a final magic trick to vocally redeem himself. The ups and downs of touring, of life...
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