Grateful Dead setlist, May 4, 1981

Spectrum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

23 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 23 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Don't Ease Me In
  2. Beat It on Down the Line
  3. Jack-A-Roe
  4. The Little Red Rooster
  5. Cold Rain and Snow
  6. Mama Tried
  7. Mexicali Blues
  8. Althea
  9. Looks Like Rain
  10. Bertha
  11. Greatest Story Ever Told

Set two

  1. China Cat Sunflower
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. Samson and Delilah
  4. To Lay Me Down
  5. Playing in the Band
  6. Drums
  7. Nobody's Fault but Mine
  8. Lost Sailor
  9. Saint of Circumstance
  10. Black Peter
  11. Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. Brokedown Palace

Previous night: May 2, 1981, Spectrum
Next night: May 5, 1981, Glens Falls Civic Center

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