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Grateful Dead Down in the Bottom live versions: 9 shows

Explore 9 Grateful Dead performances of Down in the Bottom from 1984-1985, with first and last dates, venues, setlists, and listening links.

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Best first listen: June 28, 1985 · Hershey Park Stadium · Hershey, PA, US
Hershey's first set is anchored by Cold Rain And Snow > Promised Land and a Bird Song > Comes A Time > Deal closing run. Set two moves from The Music Never Stopped and Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues into Estimated Prophet > Terrapin Station > Drums/Space > I Need A Miracle > Morning Dew > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away, with Day Job encore.

Another strong choice: April 8, 1985 · Spectrum · Philadelphia, PA, US
An audience recording of a show that opens the first set with In The Midnight Hour into Walkin' The Dog, and whose second set runs Estimated Prophet into Eyes Of The World, Drums, Space, Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad, Stella Blue, and Around And Around into Turn On Your Lovelight. Brokedown Palace is the encore.

Another strong choice: March 29, 1985 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum · Uniondale, NY, US
This spring Nassau stop adds another well-circulated East Coast arena date to the mid-1980s map. It is useful for comparing 1985 Nassau energy against the better-known summer and fall stops from the same year.

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First catalog performance: November 3, 1984 · Berkeley Community Theater · Berkeley, CA, US

Last catalog performance: June 28, 1985 · Hershey Park Stadium · Hershey, PA, US