Box Of Rain

[LuckyCharms]

[Lochloosa]

1. First song of the second set at my first Dead show.

Whoops. Second show 10/15/1988 was my first show.
Grateful Dead
1988/10/16 - Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, FL
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Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Never Trust a Woman, Feel Like a Stranger, Friend of the Devil, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again, To Lay Me Down, Don't Ease Me In | Set 2: Box of Rain, Victim or the Crime, Foolish Heart, Looks Like Rain, Terrapin Station, Drums, Space, The Wheel, Gimme Some Lovin', All Along the Watchtower, Morning Dew | Encore: Quinn the Eskimo

[LuckyCharms]

2. Nice! My first live version of this song was in Portland, Maine. March 1986.

[quaint]

3. I cannot remember when I first heard it live.

My age or maybe somethin' else.

[LuckyCharms]

5. quaint, you may enjoy this short video.

Also, you either heard it in 1973 or before, or 1986 and afterwards.

[Ptah]

4. I didn't hear Box of Rain at the only Dead concert I went to: (June 8, 1974)

1974
Day On The Green #1: Grateful Dead, The Beach Boys, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (June 8, 1974)

Promised Land
Brown-Eyed Women
Me and Bobby McGee
Scarlet Begonias
Mexicali Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Me and My Uncle
Tennessee Jed
Greatest Story Ever Told
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Around and Around

Set 2:
U.S. Blues
Big River
Ship of Fools
Playing in the Band
Wharf Rat
Eyes of the World
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
Casey Jones
One More Saturday Night

[LuckyCharms]

6. Ptah, every 1974 Dead show was a killer. You picked a good year to see them.

They stopped playing Box of Rain live in 1973, and didn't bust it out again until 1986.

[Ptah]

9. Please rocommend a full show or two for me to get into.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Off the top of my head...

Providence RI - 6/26/74-6/28/74

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Any show from the October 1974 Winterland run.

[quaint]

8. My first live Box of Rain was home show at Irvine Meadows.

My first 3 Box of Rains
Irvine Meadows 4/19/87, Laguna Seca 5/10/87, Calaveras 8/23/87