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04/04/86
Hartford Civic Center - Hartford, CT

Set 1:
Jack Straw
Dire Wolf
C.C. Rider
Candyman
It's All Over Now
Crazy Fingers
Greatest Story Ever Told
Day Job

Set 2:
Touch Of Grey
Looks Like Rain
He's Gone
Smokestack Lightning
Drums
The Wheel
Stella Blue
Throwin' Stones
Turn On Your Love Light

Encore:
Box Of Rain

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Comments:

last DAY JOB
-Anonymous


WHY did they retire this song? Anyone?
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WHY did they retire day job?

alot of deadheads did NOT like it so they stoped playing
i for one like it
-Raphael


they retired day job because, as the story goes, some deadheads circulated a petition asking them to. it's an okay song but WAY overplayed . i was fairly bored of it and didn't miss it until it was too late for them to play anything well anymore.
-wascally wabbit


Day Job was always a good up beat first set closer. But they did play it alot.
-Anonymous


Dayjob retirement; perhaps some of the fans thought the song was a slight on them? Recall hearing a much older Deadhead say to me "Bobby loved it, it was a hit". I don't miss it, not at all.
-Perrin


Last Day Job....and thankfully...only worse song was Victim.....I hated these two tunes....
-Anonymous (11/11/2007)


"day job" was NOT dropped because it was overplayed, and the heads didnt complain because the song was played so often (many MANY songs were played excessively when they were in their 1st few years), but rather because of the lyrics.

hunter intended it as nothing more than playful sarcasm, but many heads took it as a pot shot at their lifestyle, and made their feelings known. "day job" (according to the band) has the distinction of being the ONLY song ever dropped from the repertoire due to fan request.

personally, i think it was just a nice, fun, upbeat dance tune, and i would love to hear bob and/or phil break it out (may 9th in denver a fan held up a sign that read "8171 days since last day job"...freaking hysterical!!) though i suspect this one will never again be played live. shame. just my .02.
-gdjake (05/31/2008)


1st set Crazyfingers! 1 of 4 in '86. Greatest Story in the strangest of places in the set, and it wasn;t even a Sunday. Box of Rain encore was nice. I always liked Day job...musically. Stella Blue always a nice listen.
-rob cal (01/29/2010)


No one at the HCC that nigt would have thought we saw the last Day Job. Always liked it, but it did feel like they overplayed it. Remember heads always bitching, "better not play Day Job tonight or it's my last show."...right.
-Anonymous (07/03/2010)


I attended 5 Spring '86 shows; Providence andHartford. Despite this being just months before Jerry's diabetic coma, and supposedly all of the drugs, I thought the band was trying to break out of the rut their setlists had become. Songs like Quinn the Eskimo, Crazy Fingers, Desolation Row, Willie & the Handjive and Box of Rain were placed into rotation.

I liked all 5 shows with the 2nd night in Providence and the 1st night in Hartford were my favorites. Of course, favorites with any deadhead can be quite varied. Looking back, favorite shows for me was those with a unique setlist, but more important was some nice inspired jamming (you know good ol improvisational rock). The 2 nights cited above displayed both features.

Yes, I remember Day Job and it's dramatic disappearance after this show. I remember liking the song well enough, especially when Jerry recalled the lyrics, but it was played a fair amount. And yes, the GD often played frequently their new songs. After all these years, the pearl I gather from this is that this was bound to happen, especially with a growing fan base.

Anyway, this was a well-played show with interesting enough setlists and a great encore (which just recently been broke out). End of the first set was a highlight. Still like the 1st night slightly better with some intense jamming in Iko, Birdsong, Supplication > Let It Grow and the 2nd set!!!
- (03/07/2013)


Day Job was to 80s heads what Victim or the Crime was to touch heads. Bad song played too much.
-80s head (07/11/2014)


Day Job was a great song precisely because it made fun of Deadheads with no life outside of the parking lot. At least that's what it meant to me and I liked it a lot. Oh well. Victim I didn't mind because it was a chance for keyboards to stretch out but it definitely not an uplifting tune. So what? Why should a band conform to what you want? They should follow their hearts and the Dead did this like no other band. The number one song I never liked was Cosmic Charlie, not because of the lyric, which is hysterical and similar to Day Job in tone, but the music, which, after the great intro, was slow, awkward and buzz killing. I'm glad I got to see a few good Day Jobs before a bunch of whining precious snowflakes hollered for Mommy to stop it. It rocked and I like rock.
-oydave (08/10/2014)


Re: Vs, Vince song's yeah...I'd probably rather hear "Day Job" over "Easy Answers" but I won't lie...I don't hate some parts of "Samba", the lyrics are just kinda meh.
-Anonymous (02/22/2016)


My older brother saw little green men on top of the Ct capital building after the show. How we are still alive today, I do not know
-trippin balls (09/10/2016)


hunter didn't mean the lyrics to day job as playful sarcasm, he definitely meant it seriously, it distressed him to see people give up their normal lives to essentially become transients to follow the dead.
-kddo14 (05/26/2018)


I still like Day Job: "if you ask me, which I know you don't, I'd tell you what to do but I know you won't"
-Just Exactly Perfect Band (02/12/2019)


Day Job was parody of a Grateful Dead song.

- (03/01/2019)


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