Grateful Dead setlist, December 9, 1981

CU Events Center
Boulder, Colorado

24 songs in two sets and an encore. Night 79 of 1981’s 85.

Set one

  1. Cold Rain and Snow
  2. Jack Straw
  3. Friend of the Devil
  4. The Little Red Rooster
  5. Bird Song
  6. Mama Tried
  7. Mexicali Blues
  8. Candyman
  9. Cassidy
  10. Looks Like Rain
  11. China Cat Sunflower
  12. I Know You Rider

Set two

  1. Scarlet Begonias
  2. Fire on the Mountain
  3. Estimated Prophet
  4. He's Gone
  5. Drums
  6. Space
  7. The Other One
  8. Stella Blue
  9. Around and Around
  10. Good Lovin'

Encore

  1. U.S. Blues
  2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Previous night: December 7, 1981, Des Moines Civic Center
Next night: December 12, 1981, Fiesta Hall

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