Dead & Company set up shop at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night, offering a version of “Dear Prudence” for Paul McCartney’s birthday as well as the band’s first “In The Midnight Hour” since 2016.
The mid-week show kicked off with funky standby “Feel Like A Stranger,” and moved through the always-fun “Hell In A Bucket” and “Alabama Getaway” before slowing things down with summer tour’s first version of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece.”
Later, near the tail end of set two, Dead & Co. nodded to Paul McCartney’s birthday by performing The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” (as some fans may recall, Bob Weir sat in with McCartney at Fenway Park in 2016).
They closed the show with “Casey Jones” and encored with Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour,” their first since July 13, 2016. However, Dead & Company were sure to reprise “Playing in the Band,” sending Deadheads home with a smile.
Check out the full setlist and pro-shot video the show-opening “Feel Like A Stranger” below:
Dead & Company
June 18, 2019
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, NY
Set I: Feel Like A Stranger> Hell in a Bucket, Alabama Getaway, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Must’ve Been The Roses, Cumberland Blues, Cassidy> US Blues
Set II: Here Comes Sunshine> Shakedown Street, Wharf Rat> Playing in the Band> Uncle John’s Band> Drums/Space> Viola Lee Blues> Dear Prudence> Casey Jones
Enc: In The Midnight Hour, Playing in the Band (Reprise)
15 Comments comments associated with this post
Pumpkin Eater
June 21, 2019 at 11:35 amI hope they play Band On The Run for John Lennon’s birthday.
Viola Lee
June 20, 2019 at 11:31 pmThe jams are sticky. These guys are good.
Timbomac
June 20, 2019 at 6:33 pmSaw both night at wrigley and the neighsayers here are silly. Don’t know what they are talking about and living in the past. This group is awesome and they jam hard. The rips are delicious and Mayer is killing it. Bobby is great too. Looks like Zeus up there
Good Times Roll...
June 19, 2019 at 11:38 pmUsed to see the Dead since 1983. This surviving group is really, really good. Saw them at Shoreline. Brings back all the memories and then some. The tempo is slower and reminds me of another of their peaks in ‘77. Mayer’s solos are killer. To the trolls I really have nothing but pity. Soon you’ll be able to move out of your mother’s basement! Until then save your paychecks for Comic-Con!!!
Tenn Jed
June 19, 2019 at 10:33 pmDon’t listen if it hurts so much. Why subject yourselves to pain. That’s a prison for you and hopefully you alone!
I enjoy the band. Hope they keep rockin’ on! Mayer is rippin it!
trolling for dollars
June 19, 2019 at 1:11 pmOf course this band blows, but why would they honor Sir Paul’s b-day with a CLEARLY established John Lennon song? And why would this lousy rag not pick up on that?
David Horvath
June 19, 2019 at 3:46 pmEXACTLY !!!!
Cletus
June 19, 2019 at 7:30 pmMaybe on Lennon’s birthday they’ll celebrate by playing “Blackbird.”
6:30
June 19, 2019 at 8:14 pmBecause Dead and company is an embarrassment at best!!
Saint Stephen
June 19, 2019 at 8:19 pmThe places they get to Magical? Really? They get there really sloooowww. The music is unlistenable on its best day.
Eat Me
June 20, 2019 at 8:40 amIts probably a far reach that this was a honor to Sir Paul. JGB used cover it often and Bobby (rightfully) dips into his catalog often. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Bring back Furthur….
Dear Prudence
Lyrics: Lennon, McCartney
Music: Lennon, McCartney
This was played twice by the Grateful Dead as a jam without lyrics. Once, fleetingly, on 13 March 1982 between The Other One and Black Peter, and once more substantively on 30 December 1991 between Saint Of Circumstance and Drums. (Thanks to Andy McGaan for help with this.) Jerry Garcia played it with Merle Saunders in 1979 in the band Reconstruction, and subsequently with the Jerry Garcia Band. Bob Weir introduced it with Ratdog in 2000.
Eat Me
June 20, 2019 at 8:44 amAlso played by the Great Furthur many times:
Furthur
info Feb 20, 2010, Utica, NY
info July 8, 2010, Lewiston, NY
info November 12, 2010, Chicago, IL
info March 25, 2011, New York, NY
info July 21, 2011, Mansfield, MA
info Oct 7, 2011, Monterey, CA
info Nov 5, 2011, Wilkes-Barre, PA
info Nov 20, 2011, St. Louis, MO
info April 10, 2012, New York, NY
info July 7, 2012, Philadelphia, PA
info October 2, 2012, San Diego, CA
info February 22, 2013, Broomfield, CO
info Sept 25, 2013, Eugene, OR
Sir Paul
June 19, 2019 at 12:57 pmThis band blows
Syd
June 19, 2019 at 3:55 pmNot sure if this was sarcasm, but if not you are out of your mind. The band is phenomenal and peaking. The places they go and how they get there is magical – as it always has been. Actually listen the tunes, brother.
Cloudy Knight
June 19, 2019 at 6:07 pmA shadow of the real thing.