Grateful Dead - 1983-07-31 - Ventura, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead
1983-07-31
County Fairgrounds
Ventura, CA
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

1st Set:
01. Tuning
02. Jack Straw
03. Friend Of The Devil
04. Me And My Uncle >
05. Mexicali Blues
06. West L.A. Fadeaway
07. Little Red Rooster
08. Tennessee Jed
09. Looks Like Rain >
10. Deal

2nd Set:
01. Hell In A Bucket >
02. Scarlet Begonias >
03. Fire On The Mountain >
04. Drums >
05. Space >
06. The Other One >
07. Wharf Rat >
08. Throwing Stones >
09. Not Fade Away

Encore:
01. Touch Of Grey >
02. One More Saturday Night

Grateful Dead - 1983-07-31 - Ventura, CA (SBD)

Another year in Grateful Dead history we've neglected to some extent here at So Many Roads, possibly because I only saw the band one time that year. So today, we close our month long tribute to the Dead with a soundboard recording from July 31, 1983, 32 years ago today.

1983 in Grateful Dead History

• In February 1983, the Dead establish Grateful Dead Ticket Sales to sell concert tickets directly to long-time fans via mail order. The first GDTS mail order show was March 29, 1983. GDTS would sell 24,000 tickets its first year. By 1994, that number would rise to over 600,000. 
• On April 16 and 17, Stephen Stills sits in with The Dead at two shows at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey .(I was at the first of those 2!) 
• The tune Hell In A Bucket makes its concert debut on May 13, another song that would not appear on a studio album until In The Dark was released in 1987. 
• The Dead play St. Stephen at Madison Square Garden (the line "in and out of the Garden he goes" makes the crowd go nuts), the first time they had played the tune since January 10, 1979, 4 years and 352 shows prior! The band plays the tune again on October 14 and October 31, then. unfortunately, retires it for good. 
• The only live show from 1983 that has been officially released is October 14.