The Cumberland Mind | Grateful Dead · Cumberland County Civic Center · May 11, 1980 | Set 1 · S1E11
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Grateful Dead · Cumberland County Civic Center, ME · May 11, 1980 · Set 1
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Grateful Dead - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME, May 11, 1980
Set 1
- Alabama Getaway>
- The Promised Land
- They Love Each Other
- Cassidy
- Loser
- It's All Over Now
- Easy To Love You
- Big Railroad Blues
- Looks Like Rain
- Don't Ease Me In
- The Music Never Stopped
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The final night for us with the Grateful Dead at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Maine, in May 1980. And on Mother's Day no less. Oh the Grateful Dead give Mom plenty to worry about, but don't tell your sons or daughters, they are too busy having fun. The Grateful Dead never fail to play great in Maine, it is an open secret, so how does this show measure up to those who have come before it, or after?
How about a little discourse on the state of the show inside the state of Maine, inside a decidedly southern Alabama Getaway:
Sailors could call it the perfect storm, keeping away both curiosity seekers and mama’s boys. Seriously, Mom is not letting you travel five or eight or whatever hours it takes to get all the way to friggin’ MAINE to see the Grateful Dead on her day. You can go next week. Unfortunately, Mom has no clue that there’s nothing like a show with a salt-and-pepper mix of hardcore tour heads and Black Bear locals. And that, you can only get in Maine. As usual, Jerry rips it up, full of grit and fuzz, like a used sweater. The man has no chill, only a desire to give fans exactly what they want: the chance to become lost in the vast wilderness of the spiritual.
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