Released August 26, 1981 Release date 26 August 1981 Genres Rock music, Country rock | Length 73:51 | |
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Recorded September 25 – October 31, 1980 Similar Grateful Dead albums, Rock music albums |
Dead Set is a live album by the Grateful Dead. It was released in August 1981 on Arista.
Contents
The album contains live material recorded between September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York. Original CD pressings omitted the track "Space" so the entire album could fit on one CD. However, "Space" was included when the album was later rereleased as part of the 2004 Beyond Description box set, as well as on one CD in 2006. The 2006 release also included a bonus CD of live material.
Dead Set is essentially the electric brother of the acoustic Reckoning: both of the albums come from the same recorded concerts. Due to the length of the Dead's songs, several tracks from Dead Set were edited for release on vinyl, and the edited versions have been retained on CD reissues.
The album is also well known for its iconic cover featuring an Uncle Sam skeleton perched on the Marin Headlands looking at the view of San Francisco, with a striking twilight sky reflecting off the bay. The back cover of the original gatefold album continues this image, except that it shows a view of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Disc one
- "Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Bob Weir) – 5:02
- "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 7:28
- "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:41
- "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:36
- "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:15
- "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 4:31
- "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:45
- "Passenger" (Peter Monk, Phil Lesh) – 3:21
- "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:41
- "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 5:22
- "Rhythm Devils" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:02
- "Space" (Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Brent Mydland) – 2:29 {later releases only}
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hunter, Hart) – 6:30
- "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 4:04
- "Brokedown Palace" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:42
Disc two (2004 bonus material)
- "Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:38
- "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:51
- "C.C. Rider" (trad., arr. Weir) – 7:17
- "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:14
- "Lazy Lightnin'" (Barlow, Weir) – 2:53
- "Supplication" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:50
- "High Time" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:40
- "Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 6:17
- "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:42
- "Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 4:50
Personnel
Recording dates
Dead Set was recorded during the same shows as Reckoning.
Charts
Album—Billboard
Songs
1Samson and Delilah5:05
2Friend of the Devil7:30
3New Minglewood Blues4:43