Three-Hour Dance Marathon | Grateful Dead · Rec Hall, Penn State University· May 6, 1980 | S1E02
🎸 MAY 1980 EAST COAST · GRATEFUL DEAD · 1980
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Grateful Dead · Recreation Hall, University Park, PA Penn State University · May 6, 1980 ·
⬅ Previous: Baltimore Civic Center
➡ Next: Barton Hall, Cornell University
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S1E01 → Baltimore May 4, 1980
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═══🎸 OFFICIAL SETLIST:
Grateful Dead - Recreation Hall, Penn State University, University Park, PA, May 6, 1980
Set 1
- Alabama Getaway>
2. Greatest Story Ever Told
3. Peggy-O
4. Me And My Uncle>
5. Big River
6. Loser
7. Far From Me
8. Lazy Lightning>
9. Supplication
10. Althea
11. Lost Sailor>
12. Saint Of Circumstance
Set 2
1. China Cat Sunflower>
2. I Know You Rider
3. Feel Like A Stranger>
4. He's Gone>
5. The Other One>
6. Drums>
7. Space>
8. Wharf Rat>
9. Around And Around>
10. Johnny B. Goode
🎵 Encore:
Brokedown Palace
═══🎙 CONCERT ANALYSIS
On May 6, 1980 the Grateful Dead appeared at Recreation Hall on the campus of Penn State University in University Park as they hit the East Coast for their first full-fledged tour of the eighties. The second night of tour brings us to Happy Valley, to witness it's transition into Even Happier Valley.
Right from the opening Alabama Getaway the band's mood is on display, but is this really the right choice for a Penn State crowd? Things defitiely get tranger in the second set.
Join us as we continue to tour from Baltimore, all the way up to Maine
From the show:
"The Grateful Dead’s performance of The Other One is an incredible display of musical might. But as muscles contract to lift heavy weights, they relax afterward. So too with music. The music softens, the light returns, wiping away uncomfortable memories of the past. The song ends, and the battle is won. The air, once thick with violence and conflict, is infused with clarity, ripe for primal drumming."
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