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)