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JGB Original Recipe Set 1: The Way You Do the Things You Do ; I'll Take A Melody ; After Midnight ; Strange Man ; Let It Rock ; Gomorrah ; Moonlight Mile ; Tore Up Over You ; I Want To Tell You > Mission In The Rain ; Mighty High Set 2: Lay Down Sally ; Shining Star ; You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie) ; Simple Twist of Fate ; Run For the Roses ; Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) ; Dear Prudence ; Deal Encore: My Sisters And Brothers Notes: JGB elective. Eaton out on medical leave. Skip sings lead vocal on “Moonlight Mile” Dino on drums. Koritz drums on encore.

So I have this little project that I've been working on for quite a while now - 6 years? I think it's ready to share with the world, or at least the Deadhead subset of the world. This started out with the thought - why is there no modern, searchable online database of GD shows? Eventually, since this is the sort of thing that I do for a living, that thought grew into "I could do that, but do I really want to?" It was a huge undertaking, and over the years it got shelved several times. About a year ago I found myself telling @John A about it, and it is in large part because of doing so that the project eventually got to this point. Several folks here on the forums have seen this, but I owe a huge thanks to John in particular for his contributions to the data, and his infectious enthusiasm for all of these Grateful Dead stats and details. The site isn't complete, and probably never will be, but it's time to get it out there, to see if anybody actually uses it. If it gets discovered and has enough people visiting, I'll keep paying for the hosting... but if not, it might not last. So I hope some of you will check it out, pass it around, and have some fun with it. https://www.gratefulsets.net/

Thanks for the kind words, Chris. I must say, this project is all that. While the concept of this might have been something I'd have expected to come together many years ago, it never did, not even in a remote shadow of what Grateful Sets currently is. It's everything one could have expected of DeadBase should DeadBase have been born in the modern technological world. Just an overall damned impressive effort, and I'm proud to be even a tangential part of it. As an example of its power, I recently was wondering about a full accounting of Fire On The Mountain performances without Scarlet played at the show. Well, I quick little search easily uncovers there were 12 instances of a Fire and no Scarlet. A few are famous, like the Egypt performance out of Ollin Arageed, the Radio City version out of space that ended up on Dead Set (and at all of 6 min 30 sec perhaps "infamous" is more apt), and the '91 Boston show where Jerry supposedly said to Hornsby before Help on the Way to "pay attention" only to launch from Slipknot! -> Fire. Others are downright cool, like the '85 show in Ventura that opened with Saturday Night -> Fire and the '86 Greek 2nd set opener. And then there's the 3 iterations of Hell in a Bucket -> Fire - maybe not the best transition. But in any event, where else could someone so readily generate that data? Nowhere! 👏

91/08/16 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA Jack Straw> Bertha, All Over Now, Ramble on Rose, Desolation Row, Dark Star>Promised Land. Scarlet Begonias>Victim or the Crime>Fire on the Mountain>Truckin'>Drums>Space>Playin' reprise> Standing on the Moon>Good Lovin'. E: US Blues. Dark Star is first verse only. Last first set Dark Star 71/11/15 [1307]. Last time Scarlet not followed by Fire. Brimming with Bruce energy. Praise DSO.

That’sa killer setlist

'89 Cal Expo was the first shows I was involved in DAT taping... no flipping necessary! ☺️

Like Rude said no rythem guitar that night for JGB, but the night before they played a full on Dead show and Tom Circosta filled in for Rob E. I thought he did an admirable job. Tom was a Zen Trickster and played with Jeff and I think Rob B too. Pretty sure Rob E. was back at it the next show. Dark Star Orchestra 8-4-23 Weather Report - YouTube

F: Ripple I don’t know if it was enhanced by my buzz but last night was the most comfortable I’ve been at an outdoor venue in the summer maybe ever. Outdoor show but all under pavilion with large sun shade hanging down and huge fans. I went to very top where it was like being in a wind tunnel so the heat was neutralized. The big shade took care of the sun. I went to back for space and air and had an abundance of both. Security didn’t wanna climb the stairs so it was a toker’s free for all. Dance party USA. I hope the band enjoyed playing it as much as I enjoyed watching it. Grate stuff now I’m on the bench til Newport I think….