99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1983!
That year PLR presented The Grateful Dead at New Haven Coliseum for two shows on back-to-back nights. The Dead were on their spring East Coast tour, and by playing back-to-back nights in New Haven, the city was buzzing with Deadheads from all around. In their history The Grateful Dead had played in New Haven 12 times total (11 times at the Coliseum), but this was their first time playing two consecutive nights in the city. They would do it again the following spring, playing consecutive nights in April 1984.
The Grateful Dead
Spring East Coast Tour
Friday April 22, 1983 and Saturday April 23, 1983
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $12.50
Band Lineup: Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Phil Lesh (bass), Brent Mydland (keyboards/vocals), Bob Weir (guitar/vocals)
Setlists*
Night 1 – Friday April 22, 1983
- Funiculi, Funicula (Lugigi Denza cover)
- Feel Like A Stranger
- Bird Song (Jerry Garcia song)
- See See Rider Blues (Ma’ Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band cover)
- Row Jimmy
- Mama Tried (Merle Haggard cover)
- Mexicali Blues (Bob Weir song)
- Cold Rain and Snow (traditional cover)
- My Brother Esau
- Deal (Jerry Garcia song)
- Help on the Way – Beginning of Set 2
- Slipknot!
- Franklin’s Tower
- Samson and Delilah (traditional cover)
- Ship of Fools
- Man Smart, Woman Smarter (King Radio cover)
- Drums
- Truckin’
- Spoonful (Willie Dixon cover)
- Stella Blue
- Around and Around (Chuck Berry cover)
- Good Lovin’ (The Young Rascals cover)
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan cover) – Encore
Night 2 – Saturday April 23, 1983
- Alabama Getaway
- Greatest Story Ever Told (Bob Weir song)
- Candyman
- Minglewood Blues (Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover)
- Tennessee Jed
- Lazy Lightning (Kingfish cover)
- Supplication (Kingfish cover)
- Peggy-O (traditional cover)
- Far From Me
- The Music Never Stopped
- Scarlet Begonias – Beginning of Set 2
- Fire On The Mountain
- Lost Sailor
- Saint of Circumstance
- Drums
- The Other One
- Wharf Rat
- Throwing Stones
- Not Fade Away (The Crickets cover)
- One More Saturday Night (Bob Weir song) – Encore
- Brokedown Palace – Encore
*source: setlist.fm
Ticket stub from Night 1 courtesy of Timothy Wood
Live audio of The Grateful Dead in New Haven in 1983
Check out these live clips of The Grateful Dead in 1983