After 21 years, I finally attended another Grateful Dead Show. It was everything I expected it to be and I had a great time. Chicago was a great city, I had a an easy time travelling around the city, pizza was the best, Soldiers Field was a good venue. I picked up many posters, but my favourite was a staff security shirt which is pictured below, it took a lot of work to get a staff member to part with it after the last night.
I know there was a lot of Trey haters, but he did a great job, awesome jams, he was the right choice. Some of the highlights for me were pretty much the entire first night, especially Wheel > Crazy Fingers > Music Never Stopped, the entire second set, and drums was amazing this show. For the second show I really liked the Golden Road, West LA Fadeaway, One more Saturday Night. And for the last night the Estimated Prophet, Throwing Stones and Cassidy really stood out.
Here are the set lists.
July 3rd
Set 1:
Box of Rain
Jack Straw
Bertha
Passenger
The Wheel >
Crazy Fingers >
The Music Never Stopped
Set 2:
Mason’s Children
Scarlet Begonias >
Fire on the Mountain >
Drums > Space >
New Potato Caboose >
Playing in the Band
Let It Grow >
Help on the Way >
Slipknot! >
Franklin’s Tower
Encore:
Ripple
July 4th
Shakedown Street
Liberty
Standing on the Moon
Me and My Uncle
Tennessee Jed
Cumberland Blues
Little Red Rooster
Friend of the Devil
Deal
Set 2:
Bird Song
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
West L.A. Fadeaway
Foolish Heart
Drums >
Space >
Stella Blue
One More Saturday Night
Encore:
U.S. Blues
July 5th
Set 1:
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Estimated Prophet
Built to Last
Samson and Delilah
Mountains of the Moon
Throwing Stones
Set 2:
Truckin’
Cassidy
Althea
Terrapin Station
Drums
Space
Unbroken Chain
Days Between
Not Fade Away
Encore:
Touch of Grey
Encore 2:
Attics of My Life
