With barely a dozen shows under their belt and a larger scale cross-country tour on the immediate horizon, longtime Grateful Dead bandmates Bob Weir and Phil Lesh brought their latest project – Furthur – to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for a hometown three-set throw down.

Weir and Lesh, who are no strangers to the spectacle of a New Year’s performance, augmented the band with a pair of back-up singers and included covers of Pink Floyd’s Time and J.J. Cale’s After Midnight among their selection of familiar big jam staples from the Dead catalog, as well as their customary countdown stunt, check it out…

READ ON for the full set list and more videos…

Furthur
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

Set I: Shakedown Street, Jack Straw, Mama Tried, Candyman, Loose Lucy, Viola Lee Blues, Truckin’

Set II: Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower, Cassidy, The Wheel > Dark Star > Time* > Uncle John’s Band, After Midnight

Set III: (Midnight) > The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) > Let It Grow > Cryptical Envelopment > Born Cross-Eyed > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > So Many Roads, St. Stephen > The Eleven > Not Fade Away

Enc: Sugar Magnolia

Notes: * First time played

You can download or stream a fantastic sounding version of the show here (via Archive.org).

Furthur will play a series of “rehearsal” gigs at 142 Throckmorton Theater and the Masonic Hall over the next two weeks in Mill Valley, before kicking off their first ever national tour on February 5 at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, FL.