Grateful Dead Family Discography: Built To Last

Built To Last

Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Jerry Garcia spoke about Built To Last in an interview in 1989;

The song is a great piece of ambiguity from Hunter. He's very good at being able to make something sound like it almost says something. The song almost says something and it has places that are clearer than others. It's my favorite kind of song. You listen to it, but you don't know what it's about. The more you listen, the less you know.

Built To Last was performed less than 20 times by the Grateful Dead between October 1988 and March 1990.

Grateful Dead

Built To Last, 1989
The Arista Years, 1996
Downhill from Here (video), 1997
Nightfall Of Diamonds, 2001
Beyond Description, 2004
Grateful Dead Download Vol 9, 4/2 & 3/89, 2006
Formerly The Warlocks, 2010
Spring 1990 (box set), 2012
Complete Studio Albums Collection, 2013
Giants Stadium 1987/1989/1991, 2019

Fare Thee Well shows 2015

Fare Thee Well July 3, 4 & 5 2015 Complete Box, 2015
Fare Thee Well July 5, 2015

Other recordings

Built To Grass (Grass Is Dead, Vol. 2), Grass Is Dead, 2001
The 1000th Show, Dark Star Orchestra, 2005
Acoustic Sessions, Vol. 1, Real Eyes, 2009
Jerry's Smilin, Damià Timoner, 2020

The Dead

Virginia Beach, VA, June 17, 2003
Camden, NJ, June 28, 2003
Morrison, CO, July 8, 2003
Joliet, IL, August 2, 2003
San Francisco, CA, February 9, 2004
Morrison, CO, June 20, 2004
Sacramento, CA, June 27, 2004
Detroit, MI, July 27, 2004
Holmdel, NJ, August 10, 2004
Dead '09: Wilkes-Barre, PA, April 22, 2009
Dead '09: Chicago, IL, May 4, 2009

Furthur

Mar 8, 2010, Portland, OR
March 15, 2011, New York, NY
July 16, 2011, Bethel, NY
Nov 13, 2011, Buffalo, NY
April 5, 2012, Boston, MA
April 15, 2012, New York, NY
July 13, 2012, Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2012, Mountain View, CA
January 18, 2013, Mill Valley, CA
April 25, 2013, Port Chester, NY
July 18, 2013, Boston, MA
Sept 24, 2013, Redmond, WA