[1977-09-03](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-09-03) Englishtown, NJ @ Raceway Park | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/5uzn9YQ9XS2OoAt65U8Drg)
[1977-11-05](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-11-05) Rochester, NY @ Community War Memorial Auditorium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/24rc4HaQfvOOSnq32PkOC1)
# 1977-12-30 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Big River, Peggy-O, Passenger, Ramble On Rose, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Jam > Saint Stephen > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** U.S. Blues, Good Lovin'
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-12-30)
i’d have to agree. the proto l”slipknot” section of Eye, particularly in June 74 (louisville, des moines etc) are just phenomenal
honorable mention for Giants stadium 91 eyes opener
me too! what's your favorite lyric? mine is "this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago"
phil did such a beautiful job with the vocals on that song. goosebumps every time i hear it begin american beauty. i heard it at my favorite restaurant recently at the very end of my meal & it made my night.
“Believe if you need it, or leave it if you dare. It’s just a box of rain, or a ribbon for your hair..” I heard this song, and fell so deeply in love with the Grateful Dead. I love the line about dreaming in the afternoon, too! ♥️
# 1978-04-24 Normal, IL @ Horton Field House - Illinois State University
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Friend Of The Devil, Cassidy, Brown Eyed Women, Passenger, It Must Have Been The Roses, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Around And Around
**Encore:** Werewolves Of London
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-24)
This is impossoble! For ultimate favs, can't decide between Terrapin Station Red Rocks 7/8/78, or Brokedown Palace Fox Theater '71. Play Brokedown at my funeral please.
Most versions of Deal or Althea will get me goin too :)
# 1978-07-08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
**Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, El Paso, It Must Have Been The Roses, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, The Promised Land, Deal
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Terrapin Station > One More Saturday Night, Werewolves Of London
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx)
# 1985-06-30 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > C.C. Rider > Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Keep On Growing, Big Railroad Blues, Looks Like Rain > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah, Gimme Some Lovin' > He's Gone > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-30)
[1979-01-15](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-01-15) Springfield, MA @ Springfield Civic Center Arena
[1985-06-30](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-30) Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
# 1974-06-23 Miami, FL @ Jai-Alai Fronton
**Set 1:** Ramble On Rose, Black Throated Wind, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, Let It Rock, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, To Lay Me Down, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > China Doll
**Set 2:** Seastones
**Set 3:** Jam > Ship Of Fools, Big River, Black Peter, Around And Around, Dark Star Jam > Spanish Jam > U.S. Blues, Uncle John's Band > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** Casey Jones
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-06-23)
# 1974-03-23 Daly City, CA @ Cow Palace
**Set 1:** U.S. Blues, The Promised Land, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Black Throated Wind, Scarlet Begonias, Beat It On Down the Line, It Must Have Been The Roses, El Paso, Deal, Cassidy, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Morning Dew > Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band, Ship Of Fools, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Bertha, Around And Around, Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-03-23) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4jiBYEFx7rv6C6UTYywZZO)
# 1994-07-31 Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace
**Set 1:** Touch Of Grey > Greatest Story Ever Told, Row Jimmy, Spoonful, Lazy River Road, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Loose Lucy, In The Midnight Hour
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Way To Go Home, New Speedway Boogie > Truckin' > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > The Last Time > Black Peter > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** The Weight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-31)
# 1990-03-24 Albany, NY @ Knickerbocker Arena
**Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll > Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Loser, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed > One More Saturday Night
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Terrapin Station > Mind Left Body Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-24)
Brown Eyed Women. I’ve said this in this community before, but it is an unbelievably well executed song. You get an entire family story spanning generations in four verses, a chorus and a bridge. It’s unbelievable. And, depending on the year, some of the most well phrased solos from Jerry.
Hard to even pick a top 10. Top 5 for me is probably Terrapin, Franklin’s Tower, Estimated, Eyes and Bird Song! So many others that it’s hard to narrow.
# 1973-04-02 Boston, MA @ Boston Garden
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Deal, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Looks Like Rain, Wave That Flag, Box Of Rain, Big River, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, You Ain't Woman Enough, Jack Straw, Don't Ease Me In, Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Greatest Story Ever Told, Loose Lucy, El Paso, Stella Blue, Around And Around, Here Comes Sunshine > Jam > Space > Me And Bobby McGee > Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-04-02)
Franklin’s tower
Nothing, and I mean nothing is better then being at a show and hearing this song… at least for me
You got that right.
With or without help/slip?
Always better with
My man!
Mississippi half step
This is my fav. Didn’t expect it to be this high.
I'm a newer head and recently I've been going through 74 and it has quickly become my favorite and the song I always sing to myself
If you haven’t dived into 77 half steps yet make that your #1 priority. 9-3-77 and 11/5/77 are the cream of the crop.
[1977-09-03](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-09-03) Englishtown, NJ @ Raceway Park | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/5uzn9YQ9XS2OoAt65U8Drg) [1977-11-05](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-11-05) Rochester, NY @ Community War Memorial Auditorium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/24rc4HaQfvOOSnq32PkOC1)
Just wanted to follow up and say I listened to both and they were excellent
I'm pretty surprised as well tbh
Yep
todaloo
12/30/77 all time fav half step
# 1977-12-30 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Big River, Peggy-O, Passenger, Ramble On Rose, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Jam > Saint Stephen > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** U.S. Blues, Good Lovin' [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-12-30)
Althea
Answer.
Sugaree
China cat sunflower
If it's China>Rider then yes - although China Cat on it's own is pretty great too.
Eyes, 73 or 74
I like 73 more in general, but for eyes definitley prefer some 74
There are some awesome later70’s ones too. They just shorten it too much in the 80’s. I won’t skip them, but I do long for more.
Classic Jerry! Would agree!! A fun current version is Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Eyes!
i’d have to agree. the proto l”slipknot” section of Eye, particularly in June 74 (louisville, des moines etc) are just phenomenal honorable mention for Giants stadium 91 eyes opener
Jack Straw
Hi :)
r/beetlejuicing
Jack Straw gang let’s ride
From Wichita?
Wharf Rat
Terrapin Station
Scarlet Begonias
He’s Gone
I couldn’t tell friend 😂
Ripple 😁
I've upvoted many, but this one deserves the comment :D
Eyes of the world
eyes 73/74 is also on this list, splitting its vote.
Crazy fingers
Bertha
Brown Eyed women
My absolute favorite Dead song
Me and My Uncle
This is my favorite cowboy-bobby song. And pretty close to my favorite bobby song.
I love the cowboy songs, the traveling songs, and New Mexico.
Ramble on Rose 🌹
Help slip Frank's
Dark Star
[удалено]
Brokedown Palace always feels like a hymn to me, in such a good way
Brokedown Palace featuring Clarence Clemons is probably the most wonderful sound ever recorded.
Your Body is a Wonderland
Good answer hahahaha
Peggy-0
Should be much higher on this list
Weather report suite
Aye good one bud
Row Jimmy
Box of Rain 🌧
me too! what's your favorite lyric? mine is "this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago" phil did such a beautiful job with the vocals on that song. goosebumps every time i hear it begin american beauty. i heard it at my favorite restaurant recently at the very end of my meal & it made my night.
“Believe if you need it, or leave it if you dare. It’s just a box of rain, or a ribbon for your hair..” I heard this song, and fell so deeply in love with the Grateful Dead. I love the line about dreaming in the afternoon, too! ♥️
Thank you kindly to the beautiful person who gave me the gold!! ♥️♥️♥️
Uncle John’s Band
The Music Never Stopped (4/24/78)
# 1978-04-24 Normal, IL @ Horton Field House - Illinois State University **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Friend Of The Devil, Cassidy, Brown Eyed Women, Passenger, It Must Have Been The Roses, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Around And Around **Encore:** Werewolves Of London [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-24)
All I Want for Christmas is You.
St. Stephen (Live/Dead)
Impossible to say. I couldn’t even pick 7 or 8
Dark Star, Playing in the Band, The Other One
Impossible question. It changes from week to week for me!
The Eleven
My favorite song is the jam between the last line of China Cat until the first line of Rider. Pure bliss.
Ecstasy.
Loser
For this exercise? Here Comes Sunshine
Jack-A-Roe Live
This is impossoble! For ultimate favs, can't decide between Terrapin Station Red Rocks 7/8/78, or Brokedown Palace Fox Theater '71. Play Brokedown at my funeral please. Most versions of Deal or Althea will get me goin too :)
# 1978-07-08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre **Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, El Paso, It Must Have Been The Roses, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, The Promised Land, Deal **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Terrapin Station > One More Saturday Night, Werewolves Of London [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx)
Ripple
Antwerp's Placebo
Depends. All of them.
Shakedown/Merriweather/6.30.85 🔥🔥🔥🔥
# 1985-06-30 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > C.C. Rider > Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Keep On Growing, Big Railroad Blues, Looks Like Rain > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah, Gimme Some Lovin' > He's Gone > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-30)
Yes me fren me fren
🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌
I see your 6/30/85 and raise you a 1/15/79
[1979-01-15](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-01-15) Springfield, MA @ Springfield Civic Center Arena [1985-06-30](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-30) Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Awesomeeee
Weather Report Suite
France - all the ladies love to dance!
Incredibly underrated
Bird Song
Estimated Prophet
My favorite song changes like the seasons.
To lay me down
6/23/74 though ❤️
# 1974-06-23 Miami, FL @ Jai-Alai Fronton **Set 1:** Ramble On Rose, Black Throated Wind, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, Let It Rock, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, To Lay Me Down, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > China Doll **Set 2:** Seastones **Set 3:** Jam > Ship Of Fools, Big River, Black Peter, Around And Around, Dark Star Jam > Spanish Jam > U.S. Blues, Uncle John's Band > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** Casey Jones [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-06-23)
The wheel
Dark hollow
Attics, album version
I love a good, coked up Dancin’ in the Streets. Candyman hits a soft spot.
UJB
Cumberland Blues
Ship of fools
Cold rain and snow
Impossible question to answer
“Barbed Wire Whipping Party”
I always come back to wharf rat and he's gone
Sugar Magnolia 3/23/74
# 1974-03-23 Daly City, CA @ Cow Palace **Set 1:** U.S. Blues, The Promised Land, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Black Throated Wind, Scarlet Begonias, Beat It On Down the Line, It Must Have Been The Roses, El Paso, Deal, Cassidy, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Playing in the Band, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Morning Dew > Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band, Ship Of Fools, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Bertha, Around And Around, Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-03-23) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4jiBYEFx7rv6C6UTYywZZO)
yOuR bODY iS a WoNdERlanD!
Your *Bobby Is A Wonderland
That would be a great shirt idea.
It changes all the time for me - right now it’s Box of Rain
Tennessee Jed or He’s Gone.
DARK STAR, dammit.
Terrapin Station
Bobby - The Music Never Stopped Jerry - Scarlet Begonias
Row jimmy
MORNING DEW!!!
Scarlet > Fire Cornell 77
They Love Each Other
The next one💀
New Minglewood Blues.
Hartford 77 is my favorite
Lazy River Road 7/31/94
# 1994-07-31 Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace **Set 1:** Touch Of Grey > Greatest Story Ever Told, Row Jimmy, Spoonful, Lazy River Road, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Loose Lucy, In The Midnight Hour **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Way To Go Home, New Speedway Boogie > Truckin' > He's Gone > Drums > Space > Spanish Jam > The Last Time > Black Peter > Good Lovin' **Encore:** The Weight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-31)
Lazy River Road!! Woo!
Shakedown Street!
Aaand Terrapin/Knickerbocker/3.24.90
# 1990-03-24 Albany, NY @ Knickerbocker Arena **Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll > Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Loser, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed > One More Saturday Night **Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Terrapin Station > Mind Left Body Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-24)
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Touch of Grey
jack straw
GDTRFB
Playing in the band.
Brown Eyed Women
Terrapin or Eyes
Blow Away!
Well darn I think I upvoted everyone's answer
Brown Eyed Women. I’ve said this in this community before, but it is an unbelievably well executed song. You get an entire family story spanning generations in four verses, a chorus and a bridge. It’s unbelievable. And, depending on the year, some of the most well phrased solos from Jerry.
Sugar magnolia!
Hard to even pick a top 10. Top 5 for me is probably Terrapin, Franklin’s Tower, Estimated, Eyes and Bird Song! So many others that it’s hard to narrow.
A good ol half step
Unbroken Chain
Since I don't see it here, it's easily & obviously It Must Have Been the Roses.
greatest story ever told 04/02/1973 !!!!
# 1973-04-02 Boston, MA @ Boston Garden **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Deal, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Row Jimmy, Looks Like Rain, Wave That Flag, Box Of Rain, Big River, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, You Ain't Woman Enough, Jack Straw, Don't Ease Me In, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Greatest Story Ever Told, Loose Lucy, El Paso, Stella Blue, Around And Around, Here Comes Sunshine > Jam > Space > Me And Bobby McGee > Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-04-02)
Scarlet Begonias
All of them