Grateful Dead releases ‘Shakedown Street’ performance from 1985 Merriweather Post Pavilion concert

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The Grateful Dead has shared another preview of their upcoming live box set celebrating the summer of 1985 and the band’s 20th anniversary tour.

The latest is a performance of the Dead classic “Shakedown Street,” recorded during their June 30, 1985, concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. It is available now via digital outlets.

“Widely considered not only one of the greatest performances of ‘Shakedown Street’ the Grateful Dead ever played, this is also often called one of the best individual song performances the Dead ever played,” Dead legacy manager and audio archivist David Lemieux says in the video description. “This one is often described with well-deserved hyperbole; it’s really that great.”

The Merriweather Post Pavilion show is one of seven previously unreleased full concerts that make up the 20-CD box set Summer Magic 1985, dropping Sept. 18.

Summer Magic 1985 is limited to just 10,000 numbered copies and is available for preorder now on Dead.net.

The Merriweather Post Pavilion show will also be released as a standalone three-CD or four-CD set. It is also available for preorder now.