The following year, songs from the tour were released as two live albums, the all-acoustic Reckoning and the all-electric Dead Set.ĭead Ahead contains songs from the last two New York concerts, October 30 and October 31, 1980. The tour comprised 15 shows at The Warfield in San Francisco, 2 shows at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, and 8 shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The acoustic sets were the first the band had performed since the early '70s aside from a few rare one-off acoustic sets in special circumstances. In September and October 1980, the Grateful Dead did a concert tour of shows with three sets each, one acoustic set followed by two electric sets. In contrast to other Dead concert videos, Dead Ahead contains acoustic as well as electric song performances.Īcoustic and electric tour of 1980 An expanded version was released in 2005. It was recorded at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on October 30 and October 31, 1980, and released in 1981.

Dead Ahead is a concert video by the Grateful Dead.

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