Grateful Dead setlist, December 7, 1981

Des Moines Civic Center
Des Moines, Iowa

22 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 78 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Bertha
  2. Greatest Story Ever Told
  3. Friend of the Devil
  4. See See Rider Blues
  5. Dire Wolf
  6. Me and My Uncle
  7. Big River
  8. Deep Elem Blues
  9. Cassidy
  10. Althea
  11. The Music Never Stopped

Set two

  1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
  2. Franklin's Tower
  3. Lost Sailor
  4. Saint of Circumstance
  5. Jam
  6. Drums
  7. Space
  8. Truckin'
  9. Black Peter
  10. Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. Don't Ease Me In

Previous night: December 6, 1981, Rosemont Horizon
Next night: December 9, 1981, CU Events Center

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