Just a few weeks after the three monster Dead November 4-6 shows in Upstate New York (all officially released by the band), and six month after the famous May 9 Grateful Dead down the street in Buffalo, Jerry Garcia took the JGB back to the New Gym at Buffalo State on November 30, 1977.
There is a sweet audience recording here in FLAC and MP3. All when well until...
All hell broke loose in Buffalo.
The usually reliable and loving Buffalo Spectrum newspaper send out a reporter, who in the midst of one Garcia's most awesome eras (and month!) and in the same state wrote an incredibly terrible review of Garcia. All I can say is fuck that guy. As did all of these letters to the editor written the very next issue.
Reading these letters makes me proud to be a Deadhead and almost (just almost) makes me want to move to Buffalo.
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Dimitri Papadopoulos, the "reviewer" of this show, later went by Dee Pop and was drummer for Bush Tetras. He died in 2021:
https://www.amny.com/new-york/manhattan/the-villager/new-york-citys-bush-tetras-remembers-late-drummer-dee-pop/
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