Set 1:

Promised Land , They Love Each Other , Minglewood Blues , Row Jimmy , El Paso , Tennessee Jed , It's All Over Now , Brown Eyed Women , Let It Grow [1] > Might As Well [1]

Set 2:

The Music Never Stopped , Candyman , Samson And Delilah [2] , It Must Have Been The Roses , Big River , Friend Of The Devil , Dancin' In The Streets > Drums > The Other One > Stella Blue > The Other One > Sugar Magnolia

[1] Released on Live at the Cow Palace Bonus Disc

[2] "Take a Step Back" before

Cincinnati October 2 1976: The Battle of Students vs Grumpy Reporters

We all know how good October 1976 was in Grateful Dead History. Unless you were a newspaper reporter. In Ohio. In October 1976.  Imagine a show with a rare split The Other One and the Dead are called "Old and Tired" in on paper, and "Has time passed by the Grateful Dead?" in the other.

No dudes, time just had stood still there for you "pop music critics" in Cincinnati. Maybe that's why they waited almost 9 more years to play there again at River Bend. Here's the show

There's a average set one until the end when there is a nice Let It grow going into Might as Well (not quite Let It grow>Goin Down the Road earlier in the week, but still 1976 precious.)

Set two. Since this is during the split Dancin era  (all four split Dancin' shows were during October 1976 including the night before in Indy and the night after at the Cobo.

So the band decided to take the night off from splitting Dancin in the Streets and instead split another tune:  Dancin' In The Streets-> Drums-> The Other One-> Stella Blue-> The Other One-> Sugar Magnolia.  And I love this rare split The Other Ones. In fact. maybe I'll have to write about these sometime.  

Weather High: 75.8 °F Low: 44.9 °F Feels Like High: 75.8 °F Feels Like Low: 42.6 °F Wind Speed: 6.7 mph Humidity: 74.6 % Moonphase: 0.31 Clear conditions throughout the day.

Show Certainty Confirmed

Setlist Certainty Confirmed

Sellout Yes

In Attendance 7843

Gross $45,371.00

As you can see below, the local Ohio papers did not find the Dead all that good. But the U of C college paper loved them, of course.  College students rule.