Mothership Departures | Grateful Dead · Hampton Coliseum · March 21, 1986 | S2E03

🎸 MARCH 1986 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1986

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Grateful Dead · Hampton Coliseum· Hampton, VA · March 21, 1986 ·

⬅ Previous: Hampton Coliseum 3-20-86

➡ Next: The Spectrum Philadelphia 3-23-86

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Grateful Dead -Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA · March 21, 1986

Set 1

(I'm A) Road Runner

Dupree's Diamond Blues

New Minglewood Blues

Bird Song

Tons Of Steel >

Supplication Jam >

Let It Grow

SET 2

Uncle John's Band >

Terrapin Station >

Playing In The Band Reprise >

Drums >

Space >

I Need A Miracle >

Stella Blue >

Sugar Magnolia

🎵 Encore

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

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The Grateful Dead welcome spring with six shows in two of the most celebrated venues the East Coast has to offer: the Hampton Coliseum and the Philadelphia Spectrum. With plenty of energy and a slew of bust-outs, the tour was one to remember, containing the legendary Box of Rain in Hampton. But a closer look reveals why this may not have been either the show or the song of the tour. Be sure to check out all six shows!

Its the final night of three in Hampton, and many think this is the best of the three. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Behold this excerpt from the podcast:

"The Grateful Dead locate an escape route in the form of a Supplication Jam that flows smoothly and softly throughout the Coliseum, washing away 899,999 tons of whatever that was. The water clears the last bits of debris from the Brent tune, opens up, and draws us into the cool, crystal sound. "

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