Wage: $20,557. Only 120 tickets shy of a sellout. Why did Garcia get such a low wage? He would usually capture much more of the revenue from such a big gig. Scher listed over $30k in expenses for these gigs. Update: our hypothesis is that these gigs paid John Scher back for his support for the Grateful Dead Movie. We recall he moved money right at the end to get it over the finish line.
The ticket and revenue figures come from Billboard, though for some reason we don't have the precise publication information. Aggregate figures appear in Variety, July 13, 1977, p. 54, reporting SRO, so we code both shows as sellouts.
expost: "Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts," Asbury Park Press, July 11, 1977, p. unk: "More than 30 persons, most of them from North Jersey and New York, were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday morning" after the Garcia Band shows. 22 police. Crowd of 250-300 (per police) gather at Bradley Park, across Ocean Avenue from Convention Hall, about 6:30 pm. Drinking. Cops announce they're gonna bust the drinking, etc. over the bullhorn. Crowd mostly dispersed 7:30, when JGB scheduled to start. Arrests begin at 10:30 pm, after the early show. "Police arrested people as they came off the Boardwalk and were visibly intoxicated. The arrests continued until about 1:25 am [text not clear]". Most was possession of alcohol, maybe 28? That'd be a summons or $100 bail. Nine for possession of marijuana or LSD, $500 bail. One Prince Charming got three charges and $5,000 bail for possession of a large knife, assault and battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest.