2002 live album by Grateful Dead
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Go to Nassau is a two-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead . It was recorded on May 15 and 16, 1980, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York . The album, released in 2002, presents half of the songs played on the final two nights of a three-day run at the venue. It is sequenced to represent a prototypical single Dead concert, similarly to Without a Net .[ 3] The shows were recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and selections were originally broadcast on FM radio stations, on June 22, 1980. The album's title is a syllepsis, referring figuratively to the band's then-current album, Go to Heaven (from which six songs are represented), and literally to the band going to Nassau County to perform.
Track listing
Disc One
"Jack Straw " > (Robert Hunter , Bob Weir ) – 6:34
"Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Jerry Garcia , Bill Kreutzmann ) – 11:58
"New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arr. Weir) – 7:35
"High Time" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:52
"Lazy Lightnin' " > (John Perry Barlow , Weir) – 3:44
"Supplication" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:41
"Peggy-O " (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:32
"Far From Me" (Brent Mydland ) – 4:02
"Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:12
"China Cat Sunflower " > (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:16
"I Know You Rider " (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:30
Disc Two
"Feel Like A Stranger" > (Barlow, Weir) – 9:29
"Althea " > (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:22
"Lost Sailor" > (Barlow, Weir) – 5:49
"Saint Of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:45
"Alabama Getaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:50
"Playing In The Band " > (Hunter, Mickey Hart , Weir) – 8:03
"Uncle John's Band " > (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:25
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 5:26[ a]
"Space" > (Grateful Dead) – 2:46
"Not Fade Away " > (Buddy Holly , Norman Petty ) – 4:52
"Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" > (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:49
"Good Lovin' " (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark ) – 7:23
Note
^ Edited version of performance
Recording dates
May 15, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 1–2 & 5–8, disc 2 tracks 5–12
May 16, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 3–4 & 9–11, disc 2 tracks 1–4
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Production
Jeffrey Norman – mixing
David Lemieux – compilation producer
Cassidy Law – album coordination
Eileen Law – archival research
Rudson Shurtliff – assistant engineer
Amy Finkle – package design
Robert Minkin – photography
Jim Anderson – photography
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