Grateful Dead setlist, August 5, 1970

Community Concourse
San Diego, California

Why it’s special: Drink Up and Go Home, its only performance.

15 songs in two sets. Night 83 of 1970’s 127.

Set one

  1. Candyman
  2. El Paso
  3. Rosa Lee McFall
  4. Tell It to Me (never played again)
  5. Drink Up and Go Home (the only time it was played)
  6. A Voice From on High (never played again)
  7. Cold Jordan
  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Set two

  1. Deep Elem Blues
  2. Dark Hollow
  3. Friend of the Devil
  4. Mama Tried
  5. To Lay Me Down
  6. Dire Wolf
  7. The Ballad of Casey Jones

Previous night: July 30, 1970, The Matrix
Next night: August 17, 1970, Fillmore West

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