40 Years Ago Tonight: Meadowlands Debut & Stephen Stills Guesting
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Middle of an excellent Spring '83 tour of the Northeast.
Why are they making room & adding a stack of monitors behind Garcia & Weir during drums?
https://archive.org/details/gd83-04-16.sbd.miller.28294.sbeok.flacf/gd83...
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Good show. Phil is on.
Good show. Phil is on.
39 years ago tonight was the only show they played at Niagara Falls.
The first Help->Slip->Franklins I saw.
Wish it was tonight!
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Big Stills fan, I was one of
Big Stills fan, I was one of the first peeps in the room to recognize 'Black Queen' from the first notes
- on the album he prefaces the tune with the words: "This is a song about a card game"
On one of the 2 nights, he did not get the hint to leave the stage after his sit in. So Weir went into a rare 'Bob Star' until a befuddled Stills sauntered off......
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I was at the Niagara Falls
I was at the Niagara Falls show and remember the people skate boarding and running a round on the roof the convention hall.
I found a video of this going on about a 1/4 of the way thur.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cusPs0sgg0c
Gimme some 84 tour footage
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^awesome boots on the ground
^awesome boots on the ground reporting!!
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Brendan Byrne Arena debut you
Brendan Byrne Arena debut you mean. The Dead debuted at the Meadowlands on Labor Day 1978 (Giants Stadium)
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I was at a few of these shows
I was at a few of these shows. The 78' Giants Stadium being my first Dead show. 13 years old and never turned back!
The Stills Black Queen >Iko Iko show! What a hoot! Phil leading into Black Queen is raw and primal as it gets!
We were smoking on top of the Niagara Falls Convention Center. We could see the cops swarming the roof as Dead Heads descended the opposite side. So fun! Also, the Falls were still frozen over on the outside edges. There were a ton of Heads sliding down the glacier throughout the afternoon. That show was fantastic even though the recording's of it do not represent as such. I guess you had to be there!
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i had the tape.
i had the tape.
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Denny, I was psyched to
Denny, I was psyched to discover that footage a bunch of years ago. One of the places I clearly remember because it was so weird.
My brother apparently forgot the pre-show "Tickets-Money-Drugs" mantra many of us practiced; he forgot his ticket and
in a panic bought the first one he saw (for $20). We get up to the box office and the show isn't sold out, they are selling them for $12 or $12.50...
Whoops! (The night before in Rochester was sold out for weeks ahead of time).
I agree Stella, I still remember this show as being much better than on any recording I've heard. I imagine part of it was the shape of the venue.
Also the wooden bleachers; probably the last east coast venue they played with those!
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Hey Local, That Rochester
Hey Local, That Rochester show was great also!
The following weekend I did the two nights at Providence. Two more really great shows! Cheers!