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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Grateful Dead Entertain 800 in Omaha on a Tuesday Schoolnight February 4, 1969



So the Grateful Dead drove over the frozen tundra to Omaha for a Tuesday night show on a freezing Nebraska night on February 4, 1969 twonights after attracting cute babes in Minnesota (see https://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/2017/02/dead-debut-in-minnesota-attracting-cute.html?m=0 )

The Minnesots 2-2-69 set was Good Morning Little School Girl
Dark Star >
Saint Stephen >
The Eleven >
Death Don't Have No Mercy
Cryptical Envelopment >
Drums >
The Other One >
Cryptical Envelopment >
Turn On Your Lovelight

The Nebraska 2-4-1969 set (not 2-5-69 as listed some places)
[1:36:22] ; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [#8:59] ; [2:21] ; Morning Dew [8:58] ; [1:55] ; Dark Star [13:15] > St. Stephen [5:15] > The Eleven [12:#22] > Death Don't Have No Mercy [7:04#] % Cryptical Envelopment [2:03] > Drums [0:13] > The Other One [9:30] > Alligator [3:36] > Drums [2:49] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [16:32] > Feedback [2:30#] > And We Bid You Good Night

Seems more like the difference between The Who's sets in October 9-10 then the Dead. Still, I'd watch this same show EVERY night in 1969 if I could have, but I was 10 and my Mom wouldn't let me go by myself to Omaha on a Tuesday back then.

It's not clear to be who are the opwning band the Unknown, but deadlists called the opener  The Liberation Blues Band.  

You can enjoy here or om soundcloud above.

Omaha World Herald reviews Live/Dead in Jan 1970

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