Grateful Dead setlist, May 17, 1978

Uptown Theater
Chicago, Illinois

18 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 41 of 1978’s 81.

Set one

  1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
  2. Franklin's Tower
  3. Me and My Uncle
  4. Big River
  5. It Must Have Been the Roses
  6. Looks Like Rain
  7. Tennessee Jed
  8. Lazy Lightning
  9. Supplication

Set two

  1. Samson and Delilah
  2. Friend of the Devil
  3. Dancing in the Street
  4. Drums
  5. Space
  6. Terrapin Station
  7. Not Fade Away
  8. Around and Around

Encore

  1. Werewolves of London

Previous night: May 16, 1978, Uptown Theater
Next night: June 4, 1978, Campus Stadium

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