Outdoor Dead Grateful Dead Listening Path
Five open-air shows, five versions of outdoor Dead.
5 stops · 1972-1995
Dead outdoors is its own category: sound disperses differently, afternoon starts change the set shape, and no ceiling changes how jams release. Veneta, Englishtown, Red Rocks, JFK, and Soldier Field each put a different sky over the same restless band.
Path tags
outdoor · festival · veneta · englishtown · red rocks · stadium
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Stops On This Path
1. August 27, 1972 · Old Renaissance Faire Grounds
August 27, 1972 at Old Renaissance Faire Grounds · Veneta, OR, US · Europe/Golden era · 3 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Veneta is the human-scale outdoor stop, warm and close despite the myth around it.
Setlist includes Promised Land · Sugaree · Me And My Uncle · Deal · Black Throated Wind · China Cat Sunflower · I Know You Rider · Mexicali Blues · Bertha · Playing In The Band.
2. September 3, 1977 · Raceway Park
September 3, 1977 at Raceway Park · Englishtown, NJ, US · Post-Hiatus era · 4 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 4.93
Englishtown is the mass-gathering version of outdoor Dead.
Setlist includes Promised Land · They Love Each Other · Me And My Uncle · Mississippi Half Step · Looks Like Rain · Peggy-O · Minglewood Blues · Friend Of The Devil · The Music Never Stopped · Bertha.
3. July 8, 1978 · Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 8, 1978 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre · Morrison, CO, US · Post-Hiatus era · 6 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Red Rocks turns the venue itself into part of the rhythm.
Setlist includes Bertha · Good Lovin' · Dire Wolf · El Paso · It Must Have Been The Roses · Minglewood Blues · Ramble On Rose · Promised Land · Deal · Samson And Delilah.
4. July 7, 1989 · John F. Kennedy Stadium
July 7, 1989 at John F. Kennedy Stadium · Philadelphia, PA, US · Brent era · 14 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
JFK is stadium Dead at maximum scale.
Setlist includes Hell In A Bucket · Iko Iko · Little Red Rooster · Ramble On Rose · Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again · Loser · Let It Grow · Blow Away · Box Of Rain · Scarlet Begonias.
5. July 9, 1995 · Soldier Field
July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field · Chicago, IL, US · Final era · 5 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 4
Soldier Field closes the outdoor story because it is the last one.
Setlist includes Touch Of Grey · Little Red Rooster · Lazy River Road · When I Paint My Masterpiece · Childhood's End · Cumberland Blues · Promised Land · Shakedown Street · Samson And Delilah · So Many Roads.