Trying to decide whether to liven up your Brokedown Palace and add some pay-per-view 50th Anniversary Dead show vibe to your Fourth of July? Well it’s the information age now — even if the Dead began well before it did — so here’s some information to help you decide. (Although it should be noted that with the Deadhead network preceding the Internet — trading tapes, tales and substances — the Dead were pioneers of “viral” content.)
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Friday’s Soldier Field set list is no guarantee of what Saturday’s or Sunday’s will consist of. But Deadheads are an intuitive group. Here’s Friday’s Chicago set list to work with. Go ahead and order the show — one last time to see ’em playing, playing in the band.
1. Box of Rain
2. Jack Straw
3. Bertha
4. Passenger
5. The Wheel
6. Crazy Fingers
7. The Music Never Stopped
Set 2:
8. Mason’s Children
9. Scarlet Begonias
10. Fire on the Mountain
11. Drums/Space
12. New Potato Caboose
13. Playing in the Band
14. Let It Grow
15. Help on the Way
16. Slipknot!
17. Franklin’s Tower
Encore:
18. Ripple
