Journey Towards Deadhead Mecca | Grateful Dead · Barton Hall, Cornell University · May 7, 1980 | S1E03

🎸 May 1980 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · Baltimore to Maine 1980

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Grateful Dead · Barton Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY · May 7, 1980 ·

⬅ Previous: Penn State 5-6-80

➡ Next: Glens Falls Civic Center 5-8-80

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S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980

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🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST:

Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 7, 1980

Set 1

1. Jack Straw

2. Tennessee Jed

3. Cassidy

4. Row Jimmy >

5. El Paso

6. Easy To Love You

7. Althea

8. Feel Like A Stranger

9. Don't Ease Me In

Set 2

1. Shakedown Street>

2. Bertha>

3. Playing In The Band>

4. Terrapin Station>

5. Drums>

6. Space>

7. Saint Of Circumstance>

8. Black Peter>

9. Playing In The Band>

10. Good Lovin'

🎵Encore:

Alabama Getaway

═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS

On May 7, 1980 the Grateful Dead appeared at the legendary Barton Hall, on the campus of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY as they hit the East Coast for their first full-fledged tour of the eighties.

Night three of our tour finds us hoping the Grateful Dead can conjure some of the magic found three years earlier in the hallowed grounds of Barton Hall. The answer, "It's complicated," is a rather roundabout way of saying “no.” But as we all know, thoughts have a tendency to waver between the dark and the light.

Oh there are moments; most of them occur in the second set.

There is more than a hint of worry going on during this tour. Things are getting far out, yes, even venturing into the world of litigation.

Will the witness take the stand?

"In the charming town of Ithaca, NY, on the campus of Cornell University, stands Barton Hall, a nondescript building of stone, wood, and steel. A barn that has housed a show so legendary it’s stored in the Library of Congress for safekeeping. But any Deadhead worth their salt could easily pull comparable, if not superior, versions from their collection.

We’ve arrived three years too late to witness a show some consider as historically significant as the birth of Christ, while others dismiss it as “overrated” or “not even the best show that week.” Deadhead consensus is impossible. "

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