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Lochloosa

(16,442 posts)
1. First song of the second set at my first Dead show.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 10:00 PM
Oct 22

Whoops. Second show 10/15/1988 was my first show.
Grateful Dead
1988/10/16 - Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, FL
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Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Never Trust a Woman, Feel Like a Stranger, Friend of the Devil, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again, To Lay Me Down, Don't Ease Me In | Set 2: Box of Rain, Victim or the Crime, Foolish Heart, Looks Like Rain, Terrapin Station, Drums, Space, The Wheel, Gimme Some Lovin', All Along the Watchtower, Morning Dew | Encore: Quinn the Eskimo

LuckyCharms

(19,179 posts)
5. quaint, you may enjoy this short video.
Wed Oct 23, 2024, 05:13 PM
Oct 23

Also, you either heard it in 1973 or before, or 1986 and afterwards.

Response to LuckyCharms (Reply #5)

Ptah

(33,529 posts)
4. I didn't hear Box of Rain at the only Dead concert I went to: (June 8, 1974)
Wed Oct 23, 2024, 03:10 PM
Oct 23

1974
Day On The Green #1: Grateful Dead, The Beach Boys, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (June 8, 1974)

Promised Land
Brown-Eyed Women
Me and Bobby McGee
Scarlet Begonias
Mexicali Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Me and My Uncle
Tennessee Jed
Greatest Story Ever Told
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Around and Around

Set 2:
U.S. Blues
Big River
Ship of Fools
Playing in the Band
Wharf Rat
Eyes of the World
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
Casey Jones
One More Saturday Night

LuckyCharms

(19,179 posts)
6. Ptah, every 1974 Dead show was a killer. You picked a good year to see them.
Wed Oct 23, 2024, 05:14 PM
Oct 23

They stopped playing Box of Rain live in 1973, and didn't bust it out again until 1986.

LuckyCharms

(19,179 posts)
10. Off the top of my head...
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 03:19 PM
Oct 30

Providence RI - 6/26/74-6/28/74

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Any show from the October 1974 Winterland run.

quaint

(3,651 posts)
8. My first live Box of Rain was home show at Irvine Meadows.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 08:33 PM
Oct 24

My first 3 Box of Rains
Irvine Meadows 4/19/87, Laguna Seca 5/10/87, Calaveras 8/23/87

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