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San Francisco – December 31, 1978

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December 31, 1978

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Winterland Arena > San Francisco > California > United States

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Setlist

  1. Set 1
  2. Sugar Magnolia
  3. Scarlet Begonias
  4. Fire on the Mountain
  5. Me & My Uncle
  6. Big River
  7. Friend of the Devil
  8. It's All Over Now
  9. Stagger Lee
  10. From the Heart of Me
  11. Sunshine Daydream
  12. Set 2
  13. Samson & Delilah
  14. Ramble On Rose
  15. I Need a Miracle
  16. Terrapin Station
  17. Playing in the Band
  18. Drums **
  19. Not Fade Away ***
  20. Around & Around ***
  21. Set 3
  22. Dark Star
  23. The Other One
  24. Dark Star
  25. Wharf Rat
  26. St. Stephen
  27. Good Lovin’
  28. Encore
  29. Casey Jones
  30. Johnny B. Goode
  31. And We Bid You Goodnight

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Show notes

Source: gdsets.com.
(KQED-TV broadcast, simulcast on KSAN-FM; last Dark Star 10/18/74, verse 1 only; last And We Bid You Goodnight 12/31/76; * ⁠w/Matthew Kelly; ** ⁠w/Ken Kesey, Lee Oskar, Greg Errico; *** ⁠w/John Cipollina, Matthew Kelly, Lee Oskar, Greg Errico; New Riders of the Purple Sage and Blues Brothers opened; released as The Closing Of Winterland )

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