Grateful Dead setlist, May 17, 1981

Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium
Syracuse, New York

25 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 34 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Alabama Getaway
  2. Promised Land
  3. Peggy-O
  4. Mama Tried
  5. Mexicali Blues
  6. Candyman
  7. Minglewood Blues
  8. They Love Each Other
  9. Looks Like Rain
  10. Big Railroad Blues
  11. The Little Red Rooster
  12. China Cat Sunflower
  13. I Know You Rider

Set two

  1. Cold Rain and Snow
  2. Samson and Delilah
  3. Ship of Fools
  4. Estimated Prophet
  5. He's Gone
  6. The Other One
  7. Drums
  8. Space
  9. Saint of Circumstance
  10. Wharf Rat
  11. Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Previous night: May 16, 1981, Barton Hall, Cornell University
Next night: May 22, 1981, The Warfield

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