With Dead & Company’s major fall tour in the books, we couldn’t help but look back through the band’s tremendous performances. With three of the original Grateful Dead members, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, alongside Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge and John Mayer, this latest incantation of the Dead continued to pick up steam from night one, and showed no sign of slowing down through their fall tour.
Take a look at some of the statistics that we put together for the run.
Dead & Company’s Debut Fall Tour By The Numbers
Number of Shows: 18
Number of Cities: 14
First Song Played: “Playing In The Band”
Last Song Played: “Brokedown Palace”
Total Number of Unique Songs Played: 95 (with Drums and Space each counted once)
Number Of Unique Covers Played: 23 (including 5 traditional)
Number Of Unique Originals Played:Â 72
Total Number of Songs Played: 317
Average Number Of Songs Per Show: 17.6
Average Number Of First Set Songs: 7.1
Average Number Of Second Set Songs: 9.5
Most Commonly Played: “Help On The Way,” “Slipknot!,” “Franklin’s Tower,” “Shakedown Street,” “Eyes Of The World,” “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Scarlet Begonias,” “Fire On The Mountain” (5 each – not counting Drums/Space)
Most Common Opener: “Shakedown Street” (3)
Most Common First Set Closer: “Saint of Circumstance,” “The Music Never Stopped”, “Casey Jones” (3 each)
Most Common Second Set Opener: “Help On The Way” (3)
Most Common Second Set Closer:Â “Not Fade Away,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “One More Saturday Night” (3 each)
Most Common Encore: “Touch Of Grey,” “Ripple” (4 each)
Percentage of Encores From ‘American Beauty’: 50%
Percentage of Saturday shows featuring “One More Saturday Night”: 80% (4/5)
Percentage of really fun performances: 100%
[Cover photo by Erik Kabik]