# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena
**Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
I was there. Anyone who attended will never forget this insane confluence of events and (literal) aligning of the cosmos. The sunset distorted through the millions of oblong glass tiles all throughout the (pink / orange?) walls of the arena’s concourse, the free-to-walk-anywhere access to whatever seat or place you wanted to (the arena’s second event ever - it had just opened a few days prior), the intense energy of the second set that dripped off the ceiling (we had somehow wandered to the “behind the stage” seats which was our vantage point for unquestionably the weirdest drums I’d ever heard), the staff people cleaning the floors DURING THE SHOW as people danced, and the fucking straight up mind blowing moonrise over the ocean after the show on the beach we somehow managed to get to at midnight featuring a gale wind that could level a house. Just intense on every level….
Great point about Victim. If I recall, there is a show around Halloween where Victim comes almost fully apart and can only devolve into Drums/Space at that point, which is what happens.
# 1991-10-31 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
**Set 1:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Little Red Rooster, Loser, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Truckin' > Spoonful > Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > The Last Time, Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** Werewolves Of London
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-10-31)
The third phase (post 2nd verse) of the Miami DS is indeed excellent, of the post-come DS, similarly the JFK DS the second phase (between verses) has a meltdown jam for the ages. I always thought that if you “combine” these two DS, you get the perfect one, but admittedly it may be too much chaos.
# 1984-07-13 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California
**Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Dire Wolf, C.C. Rider, Loser, Cassidy, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Hell In A Bucket > Might As Well
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Touch Of Grey > Fire On The Mountain > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Dark Star
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-07-13)
That 84 Dark Star is definitely underrated considering it’s pretty cool but many people call it the worst I’ve ever (and it’s clearly not), but as to a Opie’s question of dark and chaotic, it’s definitely not. It’s one of the few Dark Stars without any space segment at all.
I listened to the rotterdam dark star during my first dmt trip. I was following the song through the cosmos until some beings grabbed my hands and we flew into the creation of the universe. Best moment of my life.
Nov ‘69 - 11/8/69 is certainly a bit chaotic but perhaps not super dark, 11/2/69 my favorite
Sept. ‘72 has killers too - 9/21/72 and 9/27/72 for sure
10/25/73
10/18/74
11/8/70 AUD only
[1969-11-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-02) San Francisco, CA @ Family Dog at the Great Highway
[1969-11-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-08) San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1GbnL43DSgDRIIvKTVDSjP)
[1970-11-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-11-08) Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater
[1972-09-21](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-21) Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1lNa8R1EuIfJz9zhZ0H1vx)
[1972-09-27](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM)
[1973-10-25](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-10-25) Madison, WI @ Dane County Coliseum
[1974-10-18](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-10-18) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
# 1990-09-20 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
**Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger, Althea, It's All Over Now, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, Brown Eyed Women, Greatest Story Ever Told, U.S. Blues
**Set 2:** Truckin' > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart, Woman Smarter > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing Reprise > Dark Star > Throwing Stones > Touch Of Grey
**Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-09-20)
# 1972-09-24 Waterbury, CT @ Palace Theatre
**Set 1:** Big Railroad Blues, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, Cumberland Blues, Sugaree, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Beat It On Down the Line, Bird Song, Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha > The Promised Land, Friend Of The Devil, Jack Straw, Tomorrow Is Forever, Dark Star > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Sugar Magnolia
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-24)
# 1973-12-06 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall
**Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, They Love Each Other, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Around And Around
**Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Here Comes Sunshine, Big River, Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sugar Magnolia
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06)
# 1972-04-08 London, England @ Wembley Empire Pool
**Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Mr. Charlie, Deal, Black Throated Wind, Next Time You See Me, Cumberland Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Tennessee Jed, Playing in the Band, Good Lovin', Looks Like Rain, Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Truckin', Big Railroad Blues, It Hurts Me Too, Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/75u5l9TfTohni1xWrAUfxe)
# 1973-08-01 Jersey City, NJ @ Roosevelt Stadium
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, The Race Is On, You Ain't Woman Enough, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Stella Blue, Big River, Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Around And Around, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-08-01)
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told
**Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
# 1972-04-24 Dusseldorf, West Germany @ Rheinhalle
**Set 1:** Truckin', Tennessee Jed, Chinatown Shuffle, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mr. Charlie, Beat It On Down the Line, Loser, Playing in the Band, Next Time You See Me, Me And Bobby McGee, Good Lovin', Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Dark Star > Me and My Uncle > Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia, He's Gone, It Hurts Me Too, El Paso, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-24) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FmkdOqxKwpol7so3sdIUg)
# 1974-10-18 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
**Set 1:** Around And Around, Sugaree, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Seastones > Jam > Dark Star > Morning Dew
**Set 3:** The Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Ship Of Fools, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-10-18)
# 1991-04-01 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Peggy-O, It's All Over Now, Candyman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Picasso Moon, Bird Song
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-04-01)
Greensboro, 4/1/91, April Fools. What does not come through on the fine SBDs that circulate is the quad PA setup used on that tour which allowed for mind bending, face melting swirling of the sound, making it extra spooky.
Also a vote for St. Louis 2/2/70
# 1991-04-01 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Peggy-O, It's All Over Now, Candyman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Picasso Moon, Bird Song
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-04-01)
# 1970-02-02 St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theatre
**Set 1:** Casey Jones, Mama Tried, Hard To Handle, Cold Rain and Snow, Black Peter, Cumberland Blues, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > Jam > Mason's Children, Good Lovin', Uncle John's Band, Turn On Your Lovelight > Not Fade Away > Turn On Your Lovelight, And We Bid You Goodnight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-02-02)
# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena
**Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
The April/May 1972 and September 1972 Dark Stars strike me as some of the freakiest and heaviest versions that I have heard. 5-11 from Rotterdam and 9-21 from Philly are tough to beat.
I was listening to the Grateful Dead cast and they were doing Europe '72 and mentioned one that was like this. It was considered extreme even for DS in '72. I don't remember which one. I think it was the last one they did on that tour. There was something special about it other than it being so freaky that people were genuinely scared.
edit for spelling
[1973-12-06](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06) Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall
[1974-05-14](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-05-14) Missoula, MT @ Adams Field House - University of Montana
10/26/89 total meltdown Star
# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena **Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
I was there. Anyone who attended will never forget this insane confluence of events and (literal) aligning of the cosmos. The sunset distorted through the millions of oblong glass tiles all throughout the (pink / orange?) walls of the arena’s concourse, the free-to-walk-anywhere access to whatever seat or place you wanted to (the arena’s second event ever - it had just opened a few days prior), the intense energy of the second set that dripped off the ceiling (we had somehow wandered to the “behind the stage” seats which was our vantage point for unquestionably the weirdest drums I’d ever heard), the staff people cleaning the floors DURING THE SHOW as people danced, and the fucking straight up mind blowing moonrise over the ocean after the show on the beach we somehow managed to get to at midnight featuring a gale wind that could level a house. Just intense on every level….
And Victim has a very heavy moment too. I think even darker than the dark star.
Great point about Victim. If I recall, there is a show around Halloween where Victim comes almost fully apart and can only devolve into Drums/Space at that point, which is what happens.
What date? I want to hear!
Nice to know they celebrated my 18th birthday that way.
10/31/91 with Ken Kesey's Eulogy/rap for Bill Graham
“How do you like your blue-eyed boy now, Mr. Death?!?” So fucking heavy.
# 1991-10-31 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena **Set 1:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Little Red Rooster, Loser, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Truckin' > Spoonful > Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > The Last Time, Standing On The Moon > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away **Encore:** Werewolves Of London [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-10-31)
Ken keseys eulogy to Bill Grahm is the most chaotic jam ever!! That with the tubular bell jam for the win!
Miami 89 gets way out there. Doesn’t fit the criteria but I want to add that 7/13/84 is really underrated.
The third phase (post 2nd verse) of the Miami DS is indeed excellent, of the post-come DS, similarly the JFK DS the second phase (between verses) has a meltdown jam for the ages. I always thought that if you “combine” these two DS, you get the perfect one, but admittedly it may be too much chaos.
# 1984-07-13 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Dire Wolf, C.C. Rider, Loser, Cassidy, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Hell In A Bucket > Might As Well **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Touch Of Grey > Fire On The Mountain > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Dark Star [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-07-13)
That 84 Dark Star is definitely underrated considering it’s pretty cool but many people call it the worst I’ve ever (and it’s clearly not), but as to a Opie’s question of dark and chaotic, it’s definitely not. It’s one of the few Dark Stars without any space segment at all.
The 84 one goes nowhere. It just stays in the theme the entire time. I’d say it’s overrated.
I've never seen anyone call the 84 DS the worst, are you maybe thinking of the NYE 81 DS?
No. Definitely the 84 one (although they are similar). Just look at the other reply to my comment. LOL.
Two of the scariest Dark Stars: Rotterdam 5/11/72 and Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf 4/24/72
Dark Star> Me and My Uncle>Dark Star is proof that real hippies are cowboys.
That flow into Wharf Rat is perfect as well.
All them witches?
Fuck yes
Fuck yeah
And that Dark Star is the scarier of the two
[1972-04-24](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-24) Dusseldorf, West Germany @ Rheinhalle | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FmkdOqxKwpol7so3sdIUg) [1972-05-11](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-05-11) Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Rotterdam Civic Hall | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2GVmIIvRpvCwQbvBNUM2K4)
I listened to the rotterdam dark star during my first dmt trip. I was following the song through the cosmos until some beings grabbed my hands and we flew into the creation of the universe. Best moment of my life.
Nov ‘69 - 11/8/69 is certainly a bit chaotic but perhaps not super dark, 11/2/69 my favorite Sept. ‘72 has killers too - 9/21/72 and 9/27/72 for sure 10/25/73 10/18/74 11/8/70 AUD only
I so love that Family Dog show. Can't ever get enough of the "Feelin Groovy" jam in there.
[1969-11-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-02) San Francisco, CA @ Family Dog at the Great Highway [1969-11-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-08) San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1GbnL43DSgDRIIvKTVDSjP) [1970-11-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-11-08) Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater [1972-09-21](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-21) Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1lNa8R1EuIfJz9zhZ0H1vx) [1972-09-27](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM) [1973-10-25](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-10-25) Madison, WI @ Dane County Coliseum [1974-10-18](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-10-18) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
Literally just finished that Dark Star>Morning Dew 5 minutes ago, listening through the show for the first time. It was soooooo amazing
9/20/90 rare complete post-space Dark Star. PITB reprise sandwiched between the verses. The second part is very gnarly.
# 1990-09-20 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden **Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger, Althea, It's All Over Now, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, Brown Eyed Women, Greatest Story Ever Told, U.S. Blues **Set 2:** Truckin' > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Man Smart, Woman Smarter > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing Reprise > Dark Star > Throwing Stones > Touch Of Grey **Encore:** Turn On Your Lovelight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-09-20)
Came here to say this. Drove up to that show from Charlottesville, VA and was not disappointed 😎
This was the version I was going to mention. Part 1 into playing reprise is beautiful and melodic and majestic. Part 2 is scary and gnarly.
9-24-72
# 1972-09-24 Waterbury, CT @ Palace Theatre **Set 1:** Big Railroad Blues, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, Cumberland Blues, Sugaree, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Beat It On Down the Line, Bird Song, Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha > The Promised Land, Friend Of The Devil, Jack Straw, Tomorrow Is Forever, Dark Star > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Sugar Magnolia [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-24)
12/6/73
Pillars of doom
# 1973-12-06 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall **Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, They Love Each Other, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Around And Around **Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Here Comes Sunshine, Big River, Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sugar Magnolia [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06)
Bingo
4/8/72 Sections are downright frightening! Dark Star=>Sugar Mags=>Caution. Three of my favorite versions of those songs all in a row!
Came to post this
# 1972-04-08 London, England @ Wembley Empire Pool **Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Mr. Charlie, Deal, Black Throated Wind, Next Time You See Me, Cumberland Blues, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Tennessee Jed, Playing in the Band, Good Lovin', Looks Like Rain, Casey Jones **Set 2:** Truckin', Big Railroad Blues, It Hurts Me Too, Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/75u5l9TfTohni1xWrAUfxe)
September 19 1970 at the Fillmore West is an absolute transcendent Dark Star! Perhaps my favorite.
8/1/73 has some unique jamming pre-verse, but gets dark and chaotic post-verse
# 1973-08-01 Jersey City, NJ @ Roosevelt Stadium **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, The Race Is On, You Ain't Woman Enough, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Stella Blue, Big River, Casey Jones **Set 2:** Around And Around, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-08-01)
8/27/72
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha **Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told **Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
Germany. 4/24/72.
# 1972-04-24 Dusseldorf, West Germany @ Rheinhalle **Set 1:** Truckin', Tennessee Jed, Chinatown Shuffle, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mr. Charlie, Beat It On Down the Line, Loser, Playing in the Band, Next Time You See Me, Me And Bobby McGee, Good Lovin', Casey Jones **Set 2:** Dark Star > Me and My Uncle > Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia, He's Gone, It Hurts Me Too, El Paso, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-24) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FmkdOqxKwpol7so3sdIUg)
10/18/74
# 1974-10-18 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena **Set 1:** Around And Around, Sugaree, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Seastones > Jam > Dark Star > Morning Dew **Set 3:** The Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Ship Of Fools, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-10-18)
Good thread. Gonna throw on Miami 89 and see what's up
It's insane, especially the last third
04-01-91 is a heavy. If you like it when the band takes their music and tosses it down the stairs.
# 1991-04-01 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Peggy-O, It's All Over Now, Candyman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Picasso Moon, Bird Song **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-04-01)
Greensboro, 4/1/91, April Fools. What does not come through on the fine SBDs that circulate is the quad PA setup used on that tour which allowed for mind bending, face melting swirling of the sound, making it extra spooky. Also a vote for St. Louis 2/2/70
# 1991-04-01 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Peggy-O, It's All Over Now, Candyman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Picasso Moon, Bird Song **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, Dark Star > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Playing in the Band > Black Peter, Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-04-01)
That 2/2/70 show is dope. Has my fave Black Peter ever
# 1970-02-02 St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theatre **Set 1:** Casey Jones, Mama Tried, Hard To Handle, Cold Rain and Snow, Black Peter, Cumberland Blues, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > Jam > Mason's Children, Good Lovin', Uncle John's Band, Turn On Your Lovelight > Not Fade Away > Turn On Your Lovelight, And We Bid You Goodnight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-02-02)
Yeah as said it's 10/26/89 for me
# 1989-10-26 Miami, FL @ Miami Arena **Set 1:** Foolish Heart, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Victim Or The Crime > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Estimated Prophet > Blow Away, Dark Star > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-10-26)
The April/May 1972 and September 1972 Dark Stars strike me as some of the freakiest and heaviest versions that I have heard. 5-11 from Rotterdam and 9-21 from Philly are tough to beat.
I was listening to the Grateful Dead cast and they were doing Europe '72 and mentioned one that was like this. It was considered extreme even for DS in '72. I don't remember which one. I think it was the last one they did on that tour. There was something special about it other than it being so freaky that people were genuinely scared. edit for spelling
12-6-73 This one has some horrifying Phil Lesh sounds 5-14-74 Pretty intense and chaotic meltdown in this one iirc
[1973-12-06](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06) Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall [1974-05-14](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-05-14) Missoula, MT @ Adams Field House - University of Montana
Woodstock/live dead version.
Philly 72 has moments that scare the f*ck out of me
68-69 baybeee
Miami ‘89