Dead Show/podcast for 5/15/26

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Deadpod, we travel to Nassau Coliseum on May 14th, 1980, for a second set that finds the Grateful Dead settling confidently into the early Brent Mydland era. The band sounds relaxed yet focused, blending that familiar late‑70s drive with a more expansive, textural approach.

The set opens with the cool, pulsing groove of "Feel Like a Stranger" and flows into a beautifully unhurried "Sugaree," then turns inward with the reflective pairing of "Lost Sailor" and "Saint of Circumstance." From there, the music loosens into space, only to coalesce again around a heartfelt "Comes a Time" and a powerful "Other One" that still crackles with unpredictability.

Things land on more earthbound ground with a tender "Black Peter" and a burst of rock and roll energy to close. It's a spring 1980 Nassau journey that moves like a tide—easy, searching, and full of subtle turns, a fine snapshot of where the band was heading at the dawn of a new decade.

Grateful Dead
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
5/14/1980 - Wednesday
Two
Feel Like A Stranger [8:03] >
Sugaree [11:15] >
Lost Sailor [6:18] >
Saint Of Circumstance [6:01] >
Space [2:50] >
Comes A Time [8:24] >
The Other One [7:37] >
Drums [8:45] >
Space [3:11] >
Black Peter [9:17] >
Around And Around [3:57] >
Johnny B. Goode [4:09]

Encore

Don't Ease Me In (audience version)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Deadpod for the week of May the 15th, 2006. As always, this is a professor, and I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. This week, we're going back to Nassau Coliseum for the Grateful Dead on May the 14th, 1980. It's a second set from the early Brett Midland years with the band sounding loose, comfortable, and in good form, I'd say. We start off with Feel Like a Stranger
0:21.4	into a nice, stretched out sugary, then move into Lost Sailor and Sane of circumstance. From there,
0:27.3	they open things up into space before the band settles into a very moving comes a time, and a
0:32.6	solid, energetic other one. They wrap it up with Black Peter and some straight ahead rock and roll to
0:37.9	send everybody home. It's a good snapshot of where the band was in the spring of 1980, and I think
0:43.0	you'll enjoy the ride. Hope you enjoy it. This is a professor. Thanks so much for your support.
0:49.2	You're listening to The Dead Pod. the dead pod. Inside you're burning, I can see you're burning, I can see glethear
1:30.3	Your eyes till more than you meet in there too
1:34.3	O lit up and flashing
1:37.3	Like the reds and blus
1:39.3	And there on the neon avenue
1:43.3	But I feel like a stranger
1:49.0	Feel like a stranger
1:51.0	Well, the music thundering for records and hot.
2:06.6	You keep firing clenches across the road
2:11.6	And I can't stop wondering just what you got
2:16.6	I get the feeling I'm going to find out real soon, but I feel like a stranger.
2:26.3	Feel like, I feel like a stranger. You know it's going to get stranger, it's smoking round midnight. Yes, in the wheel
3:07.8	It's smoking round midnight
3:10.3	You shoot me in look that says let's go
3:14.3	Yes, in the field
3:17.3	Felt like running a red light
	...

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