Tons of Steel

A song by the Grateful Dead, from In the Dark.

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Tons of Steel live

• Played 29 times.
• First played Dec 28, 1984 at San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA.
• Last played Sep 23, 1987 at Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, 587 shows before the band's last show.

Live stats per setlist.fm, as of Oct 27, 2026.

Tons of Steel is one of the songs in the daily Grateful Dead lyric game: one line of a song, three guesses to name it.

More songs from In the Dark

• Black Muddy River
• Hell in a Bucket
• Throwing Stones
• Touch of Grey
• West L.A. Fadeaway
• When Push Comes to Shove

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