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Grateful Dead
1981-03-28
Rockpalast Gruga Halle
Essen, Germany
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
CD 1:
1st Set
01. Introduction / Tuning
02. Alabama Getaway >
03. Greatest Story Ever Told
04. Sugaree
05. Me & My Uncle >
06. Mexicali Blues
07. Shakedown Street
08. Little Red Rooster
CD 2:
1st Set (continued)
01. Althea
02. Looks Like Rain
03. Deal
2nd Set
04. Tuning
05. Samson & Delilah
06. Ship Of Fools
07. Estimated Prophet >
08. He's Gone >
09. The Other One >
10. Drums (beginning)
CD 3:
2nd Set (continued)
01. Drums (complete) >
02. Not Fade Away >
03. Wharf Rat >
04. Around & Around >
05. Good Lovin'
Encore
06. One More Saturday Night
Welcome to our second post highlighting the Rockpalast broadcast from March 28, 1981, 305 years ago today. For those of you who have been regular visitors to So Many Roads, you'll know that we have posted numerous Grateful Dead shows featuring special guests ranging from Bob Dylan to Stephen Stills to John Belushi. At this show, Pete Townshend of The Who, fresh off his band's performance earlier in the night, joins The Dead for 3 songs during the second set. The picture of Garcia and Townshend included in the artwork for this bootleg is a classic. In addition, The Karamazov Brothers joined the Dead during the Drums segment. By the way, while this show featured plenty of guests, that should not overshadow the fact that the Grateful Dead were in fine form. I had seen the band about 3 weeks earlier on March 10, 1981 at Madison Square Garden, which is still one of my favorite concerts. In fact, Deadbase ranks this Rockpalast show as one of the 5 best performances by the Dead in 1981 (and my March 10 show as one of the 10 best!). Download it and see for yourself!
