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Grateful Dead Live at Broome County Arena on 1983-04-12

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1983-04-12 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Bird Song, Minglewood Blues, Peggy-O, Cassidy, Loser, It's All Over Now, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Let It Grow Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Terrapin Station-> Drums-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Not Fade Away, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Notes

Jim Wise recording, FOB Sennheuser 421s>Sony D5>DAT>CDR; Seeded to etree by Darrin Sacks

Addeddate: 2004-06-20 16:44:35

Discs: 0

Has_mp3: 1

Identifier: gd83-04-12.wise.sacks.9947.sbeok.shnf

Location: Binghamton, NY

Shndiscs: 2

Source: Jim Wise recording, FOB Sennheuser 421s>Sony D5>DAT>CDR

Type: sound

Venue: Broome County Arena

Year: 1983

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Reviewer: grateful phishmon - - April 13, 2024
Subject: Nice aud, fine show

People will talk about sloppiness. But I put more weight on creative jamming. Which this show has in plenty. After the abbreviated, let's just play 2 hours and get out of town job they did in Morgantown, WV, they come out and just lay it on the crowd for a good 3 hours on this night. Help on the Way gets out there, for sure, and Franklin's builds to some big peaks. Saint is a hot version, and then you get a long Other One out of Space (not a Space Other One, not a 4 minute '88 job). In the first set, Alabama is played with exceptional fire (Jerry must have had the gain on full), and then we get Birdsong (although a short one) and Let It Grow in the same set. (They couldn't have played either in Morgantown, instead, when I was there??)

Reviewer: johnlowe - - April 15, 2011
Subject: Top Show from 1983-1995

This was my first GD show as a Freshman at SUNY Oneonta. I did not fully appreciate this concert musically, anyway until I obtained tapes of it in 1985. I knew a taper who made me a copy from his master. IMHO, Audience tapes are superior to Soundboards in general. I've seen some criticisms of this concert, but you really need to hear the audience tape in full ambience. I attended many GD concerts through the end in 1995 and have listened to countless tapes and I daresay this is one of there best shows of their last 13 years. Every song played with the exception of Lost Sailor => Saint was the best version I have heard from this point in the band's career forward. Please do yourself a favor and find a high-quality audience tape and play it back on the right equipment (meaning, equipment that plays back the full-dynamic range). Not something you will get on a Soundboard. FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!

Reviewer: boscomorgan - - October 12, 2008
Subject: THE HELP ON THE WAY TOUR

THIS SPRING TOUR IF THE BOY'S PLAYED IN A CITY FOR 2 NITES 1 WAS GONNA BE A HELP ON THE WAY>SLIPKNOT>FRANKLIN'S TOWER.HAMPTON STARTED IT WITH A KILLER VERSION.THIS NITE WAS UP THERE,BUT I THINK BRENDAN BYRNE'S HELP ON THE WAY WAS THE HOTTEST OF THE EAST COAST SHOWS. 4/12/83 WAS VERY ENERGETIC START TO END ALL SONGS WERE WELL PLAYED ALSO IT WAS A SMALLER PLACE FOR 1983.THICK PURPLE GEL'S GOT US THRU THE SHOW AND BACK TO BUCKS COUNTY PA. FOR SCHOOL THE NEXT MORNING WITH ABOUT TIME 4 A SHOWER AND MORNING FAT ONE.WE CAUGHT MOST OF THESE SHOW'S THE BAND WAS IN GOOD SPIRIT'S.I THINK IT WAS LIKE A 3 VIAL TOUR.PARADISE WAITS ON THE CREST OF A WAVE.'/;[]]]]]]][=--0,.=-P['''/.

Reviewer: birdsgosouth - - May 9, 2006
Subject: Being there

I DL'ed this and was not that impressed with the show. 1st set is pretty good. They fumble all through the 1st half of the 2nd set. The crowd is very up for it, to say the least. Hartford, Santa Fe, Merriweather, Saratoga, Red Rocks and Boise later in the year all take this show to the woodshed. A somewhat average show seen by an intensely rabid crowd.

Reviewer: Dish from Larry - - January 12, 2006
Subject: Two 'Grate' shows

This show, and the next night in Burlington, are perhaps the best back-to-back ever. The energy was amazing, the band was really on, and both were 'dripping with factor'. I was maybe 20 feet from Garcia, and he was annoyed with himself for blowing the first line of Help (He sang Help on the way instead of Paradise Waits), so, to make up for it, his first note of Slipnot! was so thunderously loud, I thought the roof of the Arena had been blown off. The place shook like an earthquake. Later, Lesh drops bombs during Terrapin that knocked the wind from my lungs. Amazing

Reviewer: early 80's meltdown - - April 8, 2005
Subject: Help-slip-franklins

Good stuff.

Reviewer: casisbelly - - April 8, 2005
Subject: '83 Rocks

My favorite year!! Broome County? We headed for the show from Mt. Snow VT. with no idea where Broome County was. What a surprise. Nice small venue. GREAT sound at this show. Very loud! I've heard great recordings of this show, and this one is no different. Nice crisp recording,just like the show itself. Very inthusiastic Wharf Rat. A nice prelude to what turned out to be the best year of shows for me. Thanks archive.org.

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