The Last Sailor | Grateful Dead · The Spectrum · March 24, 1986 | S2E05
🎸 MARCH 1986 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1986
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Grateful Dead · The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA · March 24, 1986 ·
⬅ Previous: The Spectrum 3-23-86
➡ Next: The Spectrum 3-25-86
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Grateful Dead - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, March 24, 1986
Set 1
Alabama Getaway ->
Greatest Story Ever Told
Dire Wolf ->
Little Red Rooster ->
Brown Eyed Women
Brother Esau
Ramble On Rose
El Paso
Box Of Rain
Set 2
Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodleloo ->
Woman Are Smarter
High Time
Lost Sailor ->
Saint Of Circumstance ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Morning Dew ->
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In The Midnight Hour
═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS
The second Box of Rain of the tour is the highlight of the set, but one would be remiss into thinking that it was the only well played tune of the set. Night two at The Spectrum and there are still plenty of surprises including the final Lost Sailor ever. Some may bid it good riddance but not us. It is a bittersweet moment, which may be eclipsed by the monumental Morning Dew out of Space. On the night of a partial lunar eclipse it is apt imagery.
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"A home is built on a foundation of the familiar, and no one builds a house quite like Bobby. So you gentlemen of a certain cut, gather one and all. It is time to lay down at his feet flowers, trinkets, expressions of thanks, and to pay tribute to your master, he who has propelled us into a host of adventures, unimaginable lands, and incomprehensible life events. "
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