Grateful Dead — The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Oct 4 & 6, 1980 (RSD Black Friday 2025) [2×CD]

Two acoustic sets captured at San Francisco’s Warfield on October 4 & 6, 1980—the band’s 15th-anniversary year. A focused selection of repertoire staples—from “Deep Elem Blues” to “Bird Song”—with both sets closing on “Ripple,” produced for release by David Lemieux.

Key Features

• Format: 2×CD, acoustic live recordings (1980)
• Event: RSD Black Friday 2025 (2025-11-28)
• Label: Rhino / Grateful Dead, WEA distribution
• Produced by: David Lemieux (for this release)
• EAN: 0603497811038

Tracklist

CD1

1. Deep Elem Blues
2. The Race Is On
3. It Must Have Been the Roses
4. Monkey and the Engineer
5. Rosa Lee McFall
6. Dark Hollow
7. To Lay Me Down
8. Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie
9. Ripple

CD2

1. Dire Wolf
2. Cassidy
3. Jack-A-Roe
4. Monkey and the Engineer
5. I’ve Been All Around This World
6. Heaven Help the Fool
7. China Doll
8. On the Road Again
9. Bird Song
10. Ripple

Why you’ll love it

This is the Dead’s acoustic magic on home turf—intimate, melodic, and deeply musical. The mirrored “Ripple” finales tie the sets together beautifully. Thoughtful curation and archival care make it a natural companion to Reckoning and a must-have document of the 1980 acoustic run.

Trivia

• Part of the 1980 Warfield/Radio City acoustic cycle that inspired later archival releases.
• Setlists balance traditional material with Dead originals like “Cassidy,” “Dire Wolf,” and “China Doll.”
• Issued for RSD Black Friday 2025, produced for release by David Lemieux.