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Give or take a few days based on where you are In the US. Iirc sub sets get shipped first. A Dave approved 1983 show?!? Who'da thunk it??? Yes!

....so close, but yet so far. I remember this tape. I remember it being en fuego. No complaints here. Except jumping forward 8 days. Maybe they are listening to me, and waiting for a better source. Yeah. I'm going with that theory.

What were you yelling while doing that victory lap around the block? I swear I heard something here in Massachusetts at around that time. Just wondering. peace.

So excited I had to top off my sub. with an al la carte. Now I don't know what I'm going to do with it? Expensive beer coaster. Listening party is a sweet snack!! Peace.

What a wonderful Monday surprise to finally get a smokin' show from September of 1983... a very auspicious time and the precursor to that excellent fall tour that had so many outstanding shows. I have to say after reading Dave's liner notes for the 10/21/83 show, in 30 Trips Around the Sun, it was painfully clear he did not get it. I guess hearing a Help > Slipknot!> Franklin's every other show or Phil playing his new six string bass was not enough to win him over or my god Brent. It is clear that the period from 1982-1986 has much must hear material and hopefully this show represents a major turning point. I missed this show but my first foray to the inspiring Rocky Mountains and New Mexico was the Red Rocks shows that followed this show four night later. For anyone who was luckily enough to see the band at Red Rocks it was a cosmic culture shock of the highest order.For this East Coast head you were really on the road on this tour. Read Rocks was a melting pot of East and the laid back, but no less enthusiastic West Coast heads; who enjoyed watching us gets our minds blown off the Rocks. Everyone together created a wonderful intimacy that soon would become more fleeting as time moved forward. At the end of the first show Wavy told everyone about Chief Hosa and we all high tailed it over there. A late night of camp fires to keep festivities going strong. I remember hanging with these dudes from New York, who passionately believed the GD should be called the Phil Lesh Band, especially after another killer Help> Slip> Franklin's played earlier that night. Dave please take note. Then to wake up that next crisp Colorado morning and have the Rockies right in front of you...Wow! Hitch hiking to Santa Fe which featured the best scene I was every part of. I am not as familiar with this show, as I am with the ones that I saw but everyone was raving about it when they arrived in Morrison. I have to note the Big RR Blues is on par with the one played a year earlier in Kansas City and the one that would follow later in October in Hartford, where Jerry just completely unleashes. Jerry let's loose here big time as well. As for Dave's reality check in his SS chat that many shows from this period have not survived the test of time is not encouraging but the answer might be more matrix or even a remaster killer audience recording. Either way I eagerly await heading back out to Rockies during that memorable September of 1983.

https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-02.sbd.tetzeli.33819.sbeok.flac16… Lots of good recordings on internet archive. They are mostly from cassette master. Once the Dead get it mastered, should be a great show. How long did it take to sell out? Jim

So I am really excited for this release. I don’t have a lot of familiarity with 83 shows. I was recently introduced to the 6/18, Saratoga Springs show which I liked. For this show, I have not heard a single note of it so that is always a good thing. For me I love going into shows blind, so to speak. It makes the listening a little more exciting. Obviously I know the setlist, so the surprise of what song comes next is not there, but I have no clue of how it went down. I can look at the set list and make a guess on how things went down based on the year and such. Yet as many have said “can’t judge a show by the set list”. I agree with that 100%. I also agree with what that several people have said in earlier comments that it is nice to see a change of pace. I certainly would have been in to a show from 72. 73, or 74. However we are getting our fill of those years from the Pacific NW box and recent DaP releases. The only thing I may differ on with some is what a change of pace could be. Of course this 83 show is one great example of a change of pace from the recent releases. I never would have even looked at this show had it not been released, to be real truthful. I am super grateful for this release simply for that. Yet a change of pace for me would have been a 68, 76, 79, show, just as much as and early to mid 80s show would be. I will always maintain that Dave L. is one of us and he is always thinking of us when he works to put out a show for official release. We know the sound quality by in large will be outstanding and we know the show will be a good one. Now there have been a few releases in DaP series that have generated some mixed reviews. There are few that I myself think are good but not as good as others. That will always be subjective to the listener. The bottom line is that we know that with the DaP subscription, every subscriber gets 4 complete, great sounding, good shows per year. That subscription has to be one of the best things Dead.net came up with. Finally I am bummed out to see some miss out of these releases only to have to tackle the secondary market. I have a horror story I will share some time about my pursuit ( which is on going) to get DaP 5....

All I can say is thank you!

This baby went fast. Only goes to show, yeah, the 70s rock, but there is PLENTY of demand for later stuff too. Used to love this 1st set audience tape, as that Phil intro to the crowd was the most hilarious I ever heard in my whole tape collection. The whole band sounds so hyper-coked-up!

Listening to it now. Soundw Grate a Grateful Thanks Love my Google music subscription $10 a month, not much music you cannot find Agreed! Way to many uptight people here in the northeast about the dead, just let this music flow, and let it go were it wants. Every time i walk into a dead concert/ D&C I leave the outside world behind, such a grate place to be knowing The Dead would be out soon...... I live in the NorthEast BTW.