1981-11-27 [Fri] canceled

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Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, FL

show in calendar
Jerry Garcia
Bill Kreutzmann
Bob Weir
Phil Lesh
Mickey Hart
Brent Mydland
Cancel Reason
Lack of ticket sales
Also Appearing
Allman Brothers
Images
Notes
  • Ref: Grateful Dead Archive, Special Collections, University of California Santa Cruz, MS.332.Ser. 2, Box 14, Folder 19
  • Sharpless: "As well as I can recall, cancelled due to lack of ticket sales." Clipping: "Allmans- Grateful Dead twin bill canceled": Nine years ago, the Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead teamed up for the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in upstate New York and drew 600,000 fans-the largest crowd in rock history. But a show with those same two groups, scheduled for November 27th at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida, was canceled ten days before the event with fewer than 10,000 of the 60,000 available tickets sold. The reason? The Rolling Stones and their late-October dates at the Tangerine Bowl. According to a spokesman for the Allmans and the Dead, the Stones apparently had scooped so much of the available money out of the market that concertgoers just couldn't afford the $12.50 price tag for the concert, and rather than risk an embarrassingly small turnout, the promoters decided to cancel the show. At press time, there were no plans to reschedule the concert."
  • Ref: Gordon Sharpless correspondence, 11/24/2015;
  • Ref: unidentified clipping, possibly BAM;
  • Apparently this was to be called Rock Super Bowl 13 .
    • Ticket Price
    $12.50