1980-October-30/31

Grateful Dead		Dead Ahead

Radio City Music Hall	New York, NY


DVD 1  -  168.16
1	Uncle John's Band (Acoustic)
2	Introduction (Franken & Davis)
3	Bird Song (Acoustic)
4	On The Road Again (Acoustic)
5	To Lay Me Down
6	Ripple
7	Henry Kissinger Interview (Franken & Davis)
8	Me And My Uncle
9	Mexicali Blues
10	Ramble On Rose
11	Little Red Rooster
12	A Visit Backstage
13	Don't Ease Me In
14	Lost Sailor
15	Saint Of Circumstance
16	Franklin's Tower
17	Drums
18	Space
19	Fire On The Mountain
20	Not Fade Away
21	Good Lovin'

Expanded edition bonus tracks:
*	Heaven Help The Fool (acoustic)
*	Shakedown Street
*	Samson And Delilah
*	He's Gone
*	Truckin'


Grateful Dead:
Jerry Garcia		Guitar, Vocals
Mickey Hart		Drums, Percussion
Bill Kreutzmann		Drums, Percussion
Phil Lesh		Bass, Vocals
Brent Mydland		Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Weir		Guitar, Vocals

Al Franken & Tom Davis	Hosts



Review taken from Wikipedia:

Dead Ahead is a concert video by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded
at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Oct-30 + Oct-31, 1980,
and released in 1981. An expanded version was released in 2005.
In contrast to other Dead concert videos, Dead Ahead contains acoustic
as well as electric song performances.


Acoustic and electric tour of 1980

In September and October of 1980, the Grateful Dead did a concert
tour of shows with three sets each, one acoustic set followed by two
electric sets. The acoustic sets were the first the band had performed
since the early '70s. 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 following year, songs from the tour were released as two live albums,
the all-acoustic Reckoning and the all-electric Dead Set.


The concert video

Dead Ahead contains songs from the last two New York concerts, Oct-30 and
Oct-31, 1980. Although the video was compiled from multiple performances,
and is shorter than one of the three-set concerts, it follows the general
format of one of the shows, starting with some acoustic material and
proceeding to a longer section of amplified music, including a somewhat
edited "Drums" and "Space".

The video also includes several sketches by the comedy team of Al Franken
and Tom Davis. These are from the final night of the tour, October 31, which
was hosted by Franken and Davis, and broadcast on radio and on closed circuit TV.


Different versions of Dead Ahead

Dead Ahead was released on VHS video tape and on laserdisc in 1981.
Remastered versions of the video tape and laserdisc were issued in 1995,
with a running time of 1 hour 54 minutes. In November 2005, an expanded edition
of Dead Ahead was released on DVD, with a running time of 2 hours 44 minutes.