After adding a Bob Dylan cover to their repertoire the evening prior, Dead & Company returned to San Francisco’s Chase Center on Dec. 31 to ring in the New Year and even jam with old friend Zakir Hussain.

“SF! Had a roaring good time ringing in the new year with you,” Bob Weir wrote afterwards via Instagram.

The three-set offering kicked off a little after 8 p.m. with a pairing of “In The Midnight Hour” (nodding to the impending new year) and “Big Railroad Blues” before the California crowd sang along to the always-rowdy “Iko Iko.”

Set one also contained Grateful Dead favorites “Mr. Charlie,” “Loser,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Sugaree” and a set-closing “New Speedway Boogie.”

After a quick 29-minute setbreak, Dead & Company’s second round offered the classic trio of “Help On The Way”> “Slipknot!”> “Franklin’s Tower,” before their love letter to the West Coast, “Estimated Prophet.”

An “Eyes of the World” jam bled into “Drums”> “Space” with additional percussion work by Hussain, who sat in with D&C in 2015, and previously collaborated with Mickey Hart on his 1972 album Rolling Thunder.

Out of the ether of “Drums”> “Space” came Miles Davis’ “Milestones,” before Weir led the charge on “Standing on the Moon”> “Not Fade Away.”

As the clock struck midnight, Father Time (aka Bill Walton) soared across the arena in a plane and Dead & Company launched into a cheery “Sugar Magnolia” jam, which segued into “Uncle John’s Band”> “Scarlet Begonias”> “Fire On The Mountain” and the appropriate “Sunshine Daydream.”

Dead & Company closed their New Year’s celebration by declaring “We will survive” in “Touch of Grey.”

The band’s next shows will be their sold-out “Playing in the Sand” event from Jan. 16-19 in Mexico.

Check out D&C’s full NYE setlist and watch set one and set two openers below:

Dead & Company
Dec. 31, 2019
Chase Center, San Francisco

Set I: In the Midnight Hour> Big Railroad Blues, Iko Iko, Mr. Charlie, Loser, Tennessee Jed, Sugaree, New Speedway Boogie

Set II: Help on the Way> Slipknot!> Franklin’s Tower> Estimated Prophet> Eyes of the World> Drums*> Space*, Milestones> Standing on the Moon> Not Fade Away

Set III: Sugar Magnolia> Uncle John’s Band> Scarlet Begonias> Fire on the Mountain> Sunshine Daydream

Enc: Touch of Grey

Notes:
*with Zakir Hussain