Sue: capacity 3,500 x2, tix $13.50 adv and $14 door, GP minimum $94,500 for the two shows. Wage: $30k JGB guarantee plus $8k production plus 85% of total gross receipts exceeding $75,214 plus 100% of the difference between estimated and actual expenses.

ref: Grateful Dead Archive, MS332, Ser. 2: Business, Second Accrual (preliminary), Box 1008, folder 23: [Grateful Dead-JGB Itineraries/Old and New]. Special Collections, UC Santa Cruz;

review: [mixed] Wrzesniewski 1983. He discusses both shows and puts good context on JGB on the Great White Way. He seemed to like 5/31 more muscially than 6/1, though he does note the Rhapsody and Don't Let Go the second night. It sound slike the second night was oversold with "angry mob of drunken assholes", very hot, not even empty wine pouches allowed so as to maximize concession sales. He also notes that there were lots of tapers the first night, some of them way too close. (A Minkin photo, presumably from 5/31, indeed shows a taper with a mic on a boom over the plane of the stage!) A taping ban was implemented for the second night. "None of the security guards could explain the taping ban, although one person said 'maybe Jerry didn't like getting microphones shoved in his face last night.' And it's true that many amateur tapers had their mics way up close. Nevertheless, about twenty hardcore (Hi Barry) tapers smuggled impressive gear into great locations" (p. 25). All told, he starts off pretty blissed about the ballroom and ends up pretty burned by the whole scene.

ref: Billboard, July 2, 1983, p. 39