Golden Age

Monday, May 9, 1977

Buffalo, NY · War Memorial Auditorium

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Monday
Day 129 of 1977
Show #
23 of 64
Era
Golden Age
Keys
Keith
Recordings
7
Top rating
★ 5.00 (3)
Official release
May 1977: Get Shown the Light
Top-rated tape
MATRIX
Total dl
1,212,201
Songs played
21 · 3 sets
Show length
2h 53m
Longest track
Franklin's Tower · 17:29

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Featured on: May 1977: Get Shown the Light

★ Curator's pick · Archive
“THIS is the Help-Slipknot-Franklin to listen to!!!”

From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry

From the tapers · archive.org · 3
  • ★★★★★ · What do the Dead do after playing 05/08/77? They drop the heat on us with this. · arch23dmt1024 · 2015

    Everybody knows 05/08/77: the Legendary Cornell show. But with all the hoopla surrounding that one specific date, it seems that many folks have blocked out the amazing music that surrounded that incredible musical experience. Case in point: the following night in Buffalo. The energy from the previous night is channeled into perhaps the best version of Help>Slip>Franklin’s of the year. Gone is the meandering mellowness of 1976. This is the Dead at their finest. The boys are on fire.

  • ★★★★★ · Seems like yesterday... · zzzboxofrainzzz · 2017

    Was enjoying spring time in Georgia, when a buddy going to Cornell said, "come on up for the Dead. We can hit Barton Hall and then Buffalo." I gave the very lame, "but I have a huge paper due the Wednesday after the shows, a and a huge test on the Friday after the shows." We both had a good laugh and I booked a flight to Ithaca with a return to Atlanta the night of the 10th.

  • ★★★★★ · My First Show · mrnaturally · 2017

    The first time I heard or heard of the Grateful Dead was the first time I got stoned, Summer 1975. I became aware of and locked in at Brown-Eyed Women and by the end of Morning Dew I was utterly convinced that my parents and everything they stood for were extinct. Dead were Done too, they said, Pig Pen was the end.

Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.

Official release

Bust-outs & rarities

Setlist

Set 1

  1. 1.Help on the Way
  2. 2.Slipknot!
  3. 3.Franklin's Tower
  4. 4.Cassidy
  5. 5.Brown Eyed Women
  6. 6.Mexicali Blues
  7. 7.Tennessee Jed
  8. 8.Big River
  9. 9.Peggy-O
  10. 10.Sunrise
  11. 11.Music Never Stopped

Set 2

  1. 1.Bertha
  2. 2.Good Lovin'
  3. 3.Ship of Fools
  4. 4.Estimated Prophet
  5. 5.The Other One
  6. 6.drums
  7. 7.Not Fade Away
  8. 8.Comes a Time
  9. 9.Sugar Magnolia

Encore

  1. 1.Uncle John's Band

Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)

Recordings on archive.org · 7

Top-rated source

gd1977-05-09.135189.mtx.dusborne.flac16

2 Source Matrix by Dusborne;Soundboard(shnid:123480)SBD -> Master Reel (DBX-1 Encoded) -> Sony PCM501ES (44.055k),Transfer Info:Sony PCM501ES (Analog Out) -> DBX-1 Decoder> Sony PCM501ES (Analog In) ->Dat (48k/Analog In) -> Sound Forge -> SHN,Mastering Info:SHN -> FLAC -> Samplitude Professional v11.2.1 -> FLAC,Original Mastering By Charlie ConnorRemastered By Charlie Miller;Audience (shnid:008036)Recorded by Steve Maizner Sony ECM-33Ps > Nak 550 · ★ 5.00 (3 reviews) · 66,570 dl

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