The Band - 1983-10-28 - Buffalo, NY (SBD)

The Band

1983-10-28

NY Central Terminal

Buffalo, NY

Soundboard Recording

256 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Rag Mama Rag

02. Long Black Veil

03. The Shape I'm In

04. It Makes No Difference

05. Milkcow Blues

06. Mystery Train

07. King Harvest

08. Voodoo Music

09. WS Wolcott Medicine Show

10. You Don'T Know Me

11. Stage Fright

12. Caledonia

13. Chest Fever

14. Up On Cripple Creek

15. Java Blue

16. Rock & Roll Shoes

17. The Weight

The Band - 1983-10-28 - Buffalo, NY (SBD)

In June 1983, some 6 ½ years after the Last Waltz, The Band reunited. Well, at least 4/5 of the original group did, as Robbie Robertson choose to follow his own path. Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel played a series of small clubs in the summer of 1983, then played 6 dates in Japan in late August/early September. When they returned to the US, the reformed group launched a tour of the East Coast, including this how in Buffalo NY on October 28, 1983, 3 decades ago this very day. Download this one to enjoy the return of The Band!

The Band /Bob Dylan Connections

• Before they were The Band, they were The Hawks, and they served as Dylan’s back up band for his 1966 world tour, his first since he went electric at the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival.
• The famed 1975 Basement Tapes album captures Dylan and The Band recording together in Woodstock (yes - that Woodstock) NY while Dylan was recovering from a motorcycle accident.
• When Dylan returned to touring in 1974, he was backed by The Band for what was, at the time, the most sought after concert ticket in rock history. The live album Before The Flood captures highlights of that tour.
• Dylan was the final performer introduced at The Band’s Last Waltz in November 1976.
• The re-united Band, sans Robbie Robertson who choose not to rejoin his former band mates, and Richard Manuel, who died in 1986, played a cover of When I Paint My Masterpiece at the Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert.
• Both Dylan and The Band each played sets  at Woodstock 1994.