Jerry Garcia - electric guitar, vocals
John Kahn - electric bass
Melvin Seals - keyboards
Greg Errico - drums
Jacklyn LaBranch - vocals
DeeDee Dickerson - vocals
Set 1:
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) , They Love Each Other , That's What Love Will Make You Do , Mississippi Moon > Run For The Roses
Set 2:
Harder They Come > Dear Prudence , Russian Lullaby > Tangled Up In Blue
ads: Buffalo News Gusto section, May 20, 1983, p. 20; Buffalo News, May 25, 1983, p. B7, indicating tickets still available day of show.
review: [negative] Anderson 1983. This is interesting because Anderson had been seeing JGB in Buffalo and writing show reviews since '75. Earlier reviews were positive about the music if sometimes lukewarm about the scene. Here is fully cynicized, snarking about the 60s vibe and the hour and 20-minute wait for the band past the ticketed start time. So I want to emphasize that this is not just your typical hippie-bashing. Anderson had earned the right to call things how he saw them, and he didn't dig it. "One of the backstage people said later [of the late start] that was just the way Jerry was feeling. Hey, do your own thing, man. Tune your guitar for a while. Take a half an hour break in the middle of things. Don't bother introducing [the band]. … After all, this was Jerry's show. He whined out the words to [various cover tunes] and he stretched them out to 10, 12 14 minutes apiece with the kind of solos that make you understand what infinity is all about, you know what I mean?"
Harvey [eww] & Corky Production. Sue: capacity 3,187 (2,852 @ $10.50, 235 @ $9.50), GP $33,228.50. Band guarantee of $7,500 plus $4k production plus 100% of total gross receipts exceeding $28,451 plus 100% of difference between estimated and actual expenses.
ticket stub says "Shea's Theatre", but the official site says "Theater".
Weather
High: 71.9 °F
Low: 47.0 °F
Feels Like High: 71.9 °F
Feels Like Low: 42.9 °F
Wind Speed: 21.9 mph
Humidity: 65.2 %
Moonphase: 0.46
Precipitation: 0.125 in. (rain)
Partly cloudy throughout the day with rain.
Time 8:00 PM
Ticket Price $9.50 / $10.50