# Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead at Soldier Field, July 3, 2015

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of [Grateful Dead](http://www.dead.net/) with [Trey Anastasio](http://trey.com/)  
2015-07-03  
[Soldier Field Stadium](http://www.soldierfield.net/)  
[1410 Museum Campus Dr, Chicago, IL 60605](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1410+Museum+Campus+Dr,+Chicago,+IL+60605&hl=en)  
7:00 PM, Friday, July 3, 2015

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## Set One

[7:22 PM Phil out, then the rest]

01. [7:26 PM] Box of Rain >>
02. [7:32 PM] Jack Straw
03. [7:42 PM] Bertha (Trey) >>
04. [7:49 PM] Passenger  
(pause for Robby Taylor to adjust Phil's mic stand)
05. [7:58 PM] the Wheel >>
06. [8:08 PM] Crazy Fingers (Trey)
07. [8:18 PM] the Music Never Stopped  
[set ends 8:28 PM]

## Set Two

[9:31 PM lights down; band out at 9:33 PM]

01. [9:35 PM] Mason's Children
02. [9:42 PM] Scarlet Begonias (Trey) >>
03. [9:54 PM] Fire on the Mountain (Bruce) >>
04. [10:00 PM] Drums >>
05. [10:13 PM] Space >>
06. [10:17 PM] New Potato Caboose
07. [10:27 PM] Playin' in the Band >> [10:41 PM] Space >>
08. [10:44 PM] Let It Grow
09. [10:57 PM] Help on the Way (Trey) >> [11:02 PM] Slipknot! >>
10. [11:08 PM] Franklin's Tower  
[set ends 11:18 PM]  
   
**Encore**
11. [11:21 PM Donor rap; 11:23 PM] Ripple @  
[show ends 11:28 PM]


## Performers

[the Dead](http://www.dead.net/)

* [Trey Anastasio](http://trey.com/): guitar, vox;
* Jeff Chimenti: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
* [Mickey Hart](http://mickeyhart.net/): drums, lead and harmony vox;
* [Bruce Hornsby](http://brucehornsby.com/): keyboards, accordion, vox;
* [Bill Kreutzmann](http://www.ocean-spirit.net/): drums;
* [Phil Lesh](http://www.phillesh.net/): bass, lead and harmony vox;
* [Bob Weir](http://bobweir.net/): guitar, vox.

## Notes

Got in line today around 2 pm, joining a small group of about 60-100 other crazies sweating it out before the show. Gotta be the early bird if you wanna get fresh worms, right?
Well apparently I was late -- according to the Chicago Tribune, there were at least a dozen folks in line at 7:30 AM!

I should been taking notes to mark the progress of the day and our line activities, but I got distracted by the excitement of the process instead. It's too late to say much about it now -- but I recall that it was mildly stressful, like usual tummy-butterfly-generators go.

Still waiting, but everything is better now that we're inside -- 5:41 PM and we're finally getting a bit of shade inside the pit, yay! We'll get a bit more radiation before the sun drops completely below the shell of the stadium, but the air is considerably cooler now, thankfully, and its breezy, another good thing!

6:30 PM -- some sort of "_welcome to the show_" announcement is broadcast on the PA. This riles up a few folks, but most everybody hanging out in the pit ignores the news ... no band members on stage? Nothing to get worked up about!

7:10 PM, the crowd is getting well packed in, but our section of the pit is doing well on the personal-space count. Lots of folks still sitting on their blankets, and even a few stretched out horizontally. The better to conserve energy before the show, right? The vibe around us is quite mellow -- much less insane than the east-coast-energy I'd been expecting. Guess GDTS did a good job stacking the pit with the right sort of heads! While we certainly know a lot of the people around, it's by no means a California-based group, just a happy and relaxed tribe, getting ready to put on their dancing shoes for one more set of Dead shows!

And we score a good set-list tonight -- much more to my liking than the Sunday set from Santa Clara! Hoo-rah! Might even want to listen to it again some day, or watch it on a big screen (and spy myself dancing away out there in the pit!).

The Chicago Tribune posted a sort of [public announcement page](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-what-deadheads-need-to-know-for-the-grateful-dead-s-soldier-field-shows-20150630-story.html#page=1) offering assorted tidbits of information about the shows, as well as a healthy photo gallery from tonight's show. If the gallery was higher resolution, I could probably have picked us out in a few, but given that the crowd shots get pixelated before I can recognize anybody besides the better lit folks in the front couple rows, I simply gave up -- no point in wasting effort there! Ting and her hot pink NTTH stickers made it into a few of the pre-show shots, I've reproduced the best one below.

{{:2015:2015-07:chi-chi-dead-ct0029758956-20150703.jpg?300|Pre-show line duty}}

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