Grateful Dead setlist, September 24, 1972

Palace Theater
Waterbury, Connecticut

Why it’s special: Tomorrow Is Forever debuts.

26 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 55 of 1972’s 86.

Set one

  1. Big Railroad Blues
  2. Mexicali Blues
  3. Loser
  4. Black-Throated Wind
  5. Cumberland Blues
  6. Sugaree
  7. El Paso
  8. Tennessee Jed
  9. Beat It on Down the Line
  10. Bird Song
  11. Big River
  12. Brown-Eyed Women
  13. Playing in the Band

Set two

  1. Greatest Story Ever Told
  2. Bertha
  3. Promised Land
  4. Friend of the Devil
  5. Jack Straw
  6. Tomorrow Is Forever (debut)
  7. Me and My Uncle
  8. Dark Star
  9. Drums
  10. China Cat Sunflower
  11. I Know You Rider
  12. Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. One More Saturday Night

Previous night: September 23, 1972, Palace Theater
Next night: September 26, 1972, Stanley Theatre

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