Grateful Dead - Dead Set

Double LP

The Grateful Dead's seventh live album!

Recorded between September and October 1980 in San Francisco and New York

The Dead's seventh live album was released in August 1981 and contains live material recorded from between September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York. Dead Set is essentially an electric companion release to Reckoning, a 1981 live album of acoustic material — both albums were recorded at the same run of concerts.

The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set, but the format of the music subsequently steered the Grateful Dead towards the release of two double albums, Reckoning and Dead Set.

"We really ended with so much good material that it was a struggle," said Jerry Garcia. "The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly."

 

Side 1

Samson and Delilah

Friend of the Devil

New Minglewood Blues

Deal

Side 2

Candyman

Little Red Rooster

Loser

Side 3

Passenger

Feel Like a Stranger

Franklin’s Tower

Rhythm Devils

Side 4

Space

Fire on the Mountain

Greatest Story Ever Told

Brokedown Palace

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