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Welcome to Grateful Sets
Welcome to the Grateful Sets search engine for Grateful Dead live performances. Grateful Sets is richly powerful, while intuitively easy to use. Dive deep into the legendary archives of The Dead's history, harnessing innovative search capabilities well beyond setlists. Grateful Sets offers newcomers and seasoned Deadheads alike unparalleled journeys through the fascinating oeuvre of live Grateful Dead shows.
Quick searches garner detailed results in finding anything from specific songs to entire shows or years, often yielding unexpected and intriguing musical patterns across The Dead's touring history. Discover the longest gaps between songs, pinpoint the most frequent song pairings, even confirm the lack of songs ever pairing - the data is thoroughly displayed. With Grateful Sets, you're not just searching; you're exploring the rich, evolving, often surprising history of the Grateful Dead's live legacy.
Review our detailed Search Tips to help you get the most out of the site, or absorb yourself in an abundance of stats on the Songs page. And for fans of the Jerry Garcia Band, don't miss Grateful Sets - JGB.
Search Tips
Combine as many criteria as you want to do targeted searching. Click on a heading below to see examples for each category.
You can enter an exact date to jump right to one specific show, but date searches can also be done using partial dates. In this example, the Year is left blank to see all New Year's Eve shows:
Location can be narrowed down by State/Country, City, and/or Venue. To see all shows played in a specific state:
After you pick a state, the City dropdown will show all relevant cities:
To search for a Venue, start typing and a list will appear:
If you have specified a State, or a State/City combination, the Venue list will be filtered:
The Song search offers numerous ways to find specific shows. As you type, a list will appear. Click on a song to add it to your criteria:
To find all shows that contain that song, leave the dropdown set to "Played":
You can add multiple songs, using different criteria. For example, shows where one song was played and another was not:
If you have more than one song in your criteria, you can check the "In This Order" box to narrow it down to shows where the songs were played consecutively:
Or more specifically, played as the show opener:
You can combine any or all of the criteria. For example, to see the shows from 1977 that did NOT have Estimated Prophet played:
How many times was Ramble On Rose played at Madison Square Garden while Brent was in the band:
