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Go to Nassau is a two-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. It was recorded on May 15 and 16, 1980, at Nassau Coliseum
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, United States. Home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League, the Coliseum is located approximately east of New York City on Long Island...

 in Uniondale, New York
Uniondale, New York
Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:...

. It was released in 2002.

Disc One

  1. "Jack Straw
    Jack Straw (song)
    Jack Straw is a rock song written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter in the Troubadour tradition. The track appeared on the Grateful Dead album, Europe '72, and was frequently performed live by the band....

    " (Robert Hunter
    Robert Hunter (lyricist)
    Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...

    , Bob Weir
    Bob Weir
    Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...

    ) – 6:34 >
  2. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

    , Bill Kreutzman) – 11:58
  3. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arr. Weir) – 7:35
  4. "High Time" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:52
  5. "Lazy Lightnin'" (John Barlow
    John Perry Barlow
    John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...

    , Weir) – 3:44 >
  6. "Supplication" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:41
  7. "Peggy-O
    The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie
    The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons...

    " (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:32
  8. "Far From Me" (Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...

    ) – 4:02
  9. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:12
  10. "China Cat Sunflower
    China Cat Sunflower
    "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...

    " (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:16 >
  11. "I Know You Rider
    I Know You Rider
    "I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...

    " (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:30

Disc Two

  1. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:29 >
  2. "Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:22 >
  3. "Lost Sailor" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:49 >
  4. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:45
  5. "Alabama Getaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:50
  6. "Playing in the Band
    Playing in the Band
    "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed it. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead...

    " (Hunter, Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...

    , Weir) – 8:03 >
  7. "Uncle John's Band
    Uncle John's Band
    "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead...

    " (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:25 >
  8. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 5:26 >
  9. "Space" (Grateful Dead) – 2:46 >
  10. "Not Fade Away
    Not Fade Away (song)
    "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957...

    " (Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly
    Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...

    , Norman Petty
    Norman Petty
    Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....

    ) – 4:52 >
  11. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:49 >
  12. "Good Lovin'" (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark
    Rudy Clark
    Rudy Clark is an American songwriter about whom little biographical information seems to be known. Supposedly a former mail carrier hailing from New York City, he was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s...

    ) – 7:23

Recording dates

  • May 15, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 1–2 & 5–8, disc 2 tracks 5–12
  • May 16, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 3–4 & 9–11, disc 2 tracks 1–4

Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

     – guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    , vocals
  • Bob Weir
    Bob Weir
    Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...

     – guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    , vocals
  • Phil Lesh
    Phil Lesh
    Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....

     – electric bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , vocals
  • Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Bill Kreutzman – drums

Production

  • Mixing – Jeffrey Norman
  • Compilation producer – David Lemieux
  • Album coordination – Cassidy Law
  • Archival research – Eileen Law
  • Assistant engineer – Rudson Shurtliff
  • Package design – Amy Finkle
  • Photography – Robert Minkin, Jim Anderson
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