5/8/2026 @ Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, TX

[Tea]

2/7/1979 
SIU Arena, U of Southern Illinois

Carbondale, IL

 

 

Set 1: Don't Ease Me In, Mama Tried, Mexicali Blues, Jack-A-Roe, Looks Like Rain, They Love Each Other, Minglewood Blues, Stagger Lee, (Cassidy), Bertha, Peggy-O, (The Music Never Stopped)

 

Scarlet Begonias, > Fire on the Mountain, Dancing in the Street > Drums > Black Peter > I Need a Miracle > Good Lovin

 

Encore: U.S. Blues

Filler Help is on the Way > Slipknot! > Box of Rain

notes: The “Jerry ate a handful of Valium” show

Cassidy & Music not played. Bertha moved from before Good Lovin to 1st set

 

 

 

[Island Bro]

That’ a bit of a filler Dallas got on top of a handy ‘79 🤠

[John A]

14 hours ago, Tea said:

notes: The “Jerry ate a handful of Valium” show

Only to come out the gate with the first Don't Ease since 1974! If you want to know just what the valium did to Jerry, listen to Stagger Lee. But be forewarned, it will hurt to do so...

 

I wonder where DSO came up with this setlist. There are no known audience recordings, and the soundboard that circulates is cut up and incomplete. But there's definitely a transition from Miracle > Bertha in the partial board, which per Tea's post did not happen in the recreation. It's also curious why they stopped the first set after Peggy-O. This is the final Dead show that can rightfully be labeled "set list unknown."

 

Rob B posts here occasionally, so maybe he'll weigh in.

[John A]

While we know Miracle > Bertha happened via the partial SBD, we don't know when. The board is cut up, and it's unclear what order the snippets are in. There's no evidence of exactly what happened in set 1 after Stagger Lee, and a likelihood that Cassidy, Peggy-O and Music were not played. Noting Garcia's condition during Stagger Lee, it follows they'd get off stage with less vs more. This invites the possibility that Miracle > Bertha closed the first set after Stagger Lee.

 

If this is the case, the post drums may have been just Black Peter > Good Lovin', but possibly with the likes of an Other One or a NFA before the Peter.

[springFallandWinter]

just listened to stagger on archive and it does sound weak.

but then again stagger always did.

then listened to jack and tleo and they both sound sharp.

so there it is.

Edited May 10 by springFallandWinter

[John A]

7 hours ago, springFallandWinter said:

just listened to stagger on archive and it does sound weak.

but then again stagger always did.

Try Stagger Lee from 9-15-78, which was included on the release Rocking The Cradle from the Egypt shows.  It's the 3rd time they played it live and Jerry's having a good ol' time. Not weak whatsoever!

[Nolongerhere]

They played this show at the Jubilee a few years ago. I was definitely trying to figure out how they decided the setlist when they played it there. They played it much better-the original was pretty sloooooowwwwww

[Billy DeLyon]

Did Jeff M. eat a handful of Valium before the show??  #MethodActor

[springFallandWinter]

---...... from the Egypt shows. 

 

Egypt.

You talkin Egypt?

I know you aint talkin Egypt.

The biggest hot mess this side of Mesopotamia.

Shows, sound and playin so bad the Good Ole set fire to the tapes and completely scrapped their planned live album.

Maybe the Nomads, Sphynx and Pyramids had a blessed blast.

But this memory best left buried beneath the sands of time underneath the tomb of Tutankhamun.