Grateful Dead - New Years Eve 1981 (2021)

The Grateful Dead played a Bay Area New Year’s Eve show every year from 1976 through 1991 (and several more in the early 70’s). Among Dead Heads favourites is the gig presented on this new Three Disc Set, their 1981 effort. Joan Baez opens the show with the Grateful Dead as her backing band. If you like Joan Baez, you’ll dig this performance. If you don’t like her, this show isn’t going to convert you. Her set isn’t included herein anyhow! The Dead’s first set starts with an incendiary Shakedown Street that gives one a pretty good indication of where this evening is headed. Even the short songs are booming tonight, ‘Cold Rain and Snow’ and ‘Beat It On Down The Line’ being good but not exhaustive examples from the opening set.
Tracklist
[16:33] 01. Greteful Dead - Shakedown Street
[03:01] 02. Greteful Dead - Me & My Uncle
[04:41] 03. Greteful Dead - Mexicali Blues
[06:17] 04. Greteful Dead - Cold Rain & Snow
[08:55] 05. Greteful Dead - C.C. Rider
[06:24] 06. Greteful Dead - It Must Have Been The Roses
[03:44] 07. Greteful Dead - Beat It On Down The Line
[05:56] 08. Greteful Dead - Big Boss Man
[06:17] 09. Greteful Dead - Minglewood Blues
[03:13] 10. Greteful Dead - Don't Ease Me In
[06:55] 11. Greteful Dead - New Year's Festivities
[08:38] 12. Greteful Dead - Iko Iko
[14:27] 13. Greteful Dead - Playin' In The Band
[13:48] 14. Greteful Dead - Terrapin Station
[03:11] 15. Greteful Dead - Playin' In The Band
[07:08] 16. Greteful Dead - Drums
[08:30] 17. Greteful Dead - Space
[08:13] 18. Greteful Dead - Post Space Guitar
[04:46] 19. Greteful Dead - The Other One
[06:25] 20. Greteful Dead - Not Fade Away
[06:48] 21. Greteful Dead - Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
[10:33] 22. Greteful Dead - Morning Dew
[14:50] 23. Greteful Dead - Dark Star
[06:19] 24. Greteful Dead - Bertha
[09:58] 25. Greteful Dead - Good Lovin'
[06:59] 26. Greteful Dead - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[01:20] 27. Greteful Dead - Outro