Grateful Dead setlist, August 30, 1981

Compton Terrace
Tempe, Arizona

23 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 51 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
  2. Franklin's Tower
  3. Minglewood Blues
  4. Tennessee Jed
  5. Mama Tried
  6. Mexicali Blues
  7. It Must Have Been the Roses
  8. Beat It on Down the Line
  9. Cumberland Blues
  10. Looks Like Rain
  11. Might as Well

Set two

  1. Samson and Delilah
  2. Ship of Fools
  3. Estimated Prophet
  4. He's Gone
  5. Jam
  6. Drums
  7. Space
  8. The Other One
  9. Stella Blue
  10. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  11. Good Lovin'

Encore

  1. Don't Ease Me In

Previous night: August 28, 1981, Long Beach Arena
Next night: August 31, 1981, Aladdin Theater

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