Grateful Dead setlist, May 12, 1981

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
New Haven, Connecticut

22 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 30 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Alabama Getaway
  2. Greatest Story Ever Told
  3. Peggy-O
  4. Cassidy
  5. It Must Have Been the Roses
  6. Me and My Uncle
  7. Big River
  8. Althea
  9. The Little Red Rooster
  10. China Cat Sunflower
  11. I Know You Rider

Set two

  1. Shakedown Street
  2. Looks Like Rain
  3. Ship of Fools
  4. Estimated Prophet
  5. He's Gone
  6. Drums
  7. Space
  8. The Other One
  9. Wharf Rat
  10. Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. Don't Ease Me In

Previous night: May 11, 1981, New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Next night: May 13, 1981, Providence Civic Center

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