Manor Downs
September 13, 1983
Austin, TX US
Set List:
BerthaLittle Red Rooster
Loser
Cassidy
Don't Ease Me In
My Brother Esau
Brown Eyed Women
Music Never Stopped
Might As Well
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Truckin'
drums
The Wheel
Throwin' Stones
Not Fade Away
Brokedown Palace
Previous Show
« Downs of Santa Fe - September 11, 1983Attendees of this show
The tour is over and we're in the middle of Texas!
I loved how sloppy the boys were playing, but it was the good kinda sloppy. The Scarlet>Fire is very interesting, sometimes sounding like it was going to spiral out of control but it remained.
I always remember how Garcia looked when palace was played, he looked so tired.
Great Show.
I drove from Florida for this one show. I met up with friends once I arrived and met some other cool people from New Jersey who had been on the entire west tour. We drove up to the northeast after the show.
It was so extremely hot at this show. I removed my shirt during the break. Two girls tried to pick me up and get me to leave the show before the second set. I explained that I had driven from Florida to go to the show and there was no way I was leaving before it was over.
I lost them in the crowd and moved up towards the stage. I met a very cool deadhead chick and spent the majority of the second set with her. I never saw her again after that.
I also remember Jerry looking extremely tired and old at this show. Must've been a long tour.
And I couldn't believe it. Got there to the scene for the first time and it was like I was finally home for the first time in my life. A girl came up to me asking if I had a spare ticket. I said that there were plenty of tickets left for sale and she said "yeah, but ten dollars is a little steep." Took the blotter and we set up the tape decks and a mic stand made from a Tom's peanut display stand about 20 feet up in the air. I kept looking at my friend and saying "Man! These guys are incredible!" Went home and sent off my money for tickets to the New Years Shows in San Francisco. Good times.
sloppy but enlightening too.
That looks like Jerry Garcia with a Jerry Garcia mask on.
Location
I remember going to Austin to visit friends and taking them to this their first Grateful Dead Show.....We bought tickets at the gate of Manor Downs and went in for one of the best times I ever had a a Grateful Dead show. The scene was so cool .....it was general admission but you could walk right up to the stage from the back of the venue. The crowd was so spaced apart down front ....no pushing, no shoving, no crowding it was a wonderful crowd. And as I remember some 370 shows and 24 years later the show was great as well. My new Dead Head friends loved them as well...... their first show. Many more would follow !!!! Todd