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Grateful Dead Live at Onondaga Auditorium on 1981-05-17

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1981-05-17 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live Concert, audience, Doug Mow, Alex Ford

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1

Alabama Getaway >
The Promised Land
Peggy-O >
Mama Tried >
Mexicali Blues
They Love Each Other >
New Minglewood Blues
Candyman >
Looks Like Rain
Big Railroad Blues >
Little Red Rooster
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider

Set 2

Cold Rain And Snow >
Samson And Delilah
Ship Of Fools
Estimated Prophet >
He's Gone >
The Other One >
Drums >
Space >
Saint Of Circumstance >
Wharf Rat >
Sugar Magnolia

Encore
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

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Reviewer: sugareesupreme - - December 4, 2016
Subject: Credit where credit is due

Excellent audience recording of quite a fine show. Thirteen songs in the first set and a genuinely jammed second set. Pretty tight top to bottom. The Boys pretty quickly reached a peak with Brent and this is a show from that plateau - he is fully present for this performance.

About the credit due - Unlike Satisfaction, The Last Time is not a Rolling Stones song. It was written by the late great Bobby Womack and one of his sisters - theirs was a very musical family. He has an amazing body of work in addition to this song - check it out. You are right about Stones covers they are rare. Don't overlook JGB covering Moonlight Mile back in the day, like Keystone Berkeley back in the day. Jerry definitely related to that one!

Reviewer: kbmill - - August 3, 2015
Subject: bread crumb

An early loss of Lost Sailor. Lost > St. occured 141 times. St. was played 181 times without Lost, while Lost was played only 4 times without St.

Satisfaction got me thinking. A total of 31 ever, beginning in 1980. Later, in 92 they played another Stones song, The Last Time. For a band that covered a lot of stuff, Stones covers are rare. Maybe it had soemthing to do with Altamont. By all accounts the Stones created that scene and the ugliness that followed. Perhaps the Dead just didn't want to play that vibe? Or, maybe Stones tunes just don't really allow you to open up and explore.

Reviewer: JamsOnly - - July 4, 2015
Subject: Another Solid Show

Well played, but no standout highlights

Reviewer: Albix - - October 28, 2008
Subject: Not to be missed...

Actually... transferred by Doug Mow.
EAC through FLAC16 by Alex Ford.

Reviewer: Ballison Drake - - June 6, 2008
Subject: Thanks

I have been looking for a decent recording of this show. I was there and Jerry was sharp that evening. For historical accuracy the venue is called the Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium.

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