Grateful Dead show guide

May 9, 1977 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

May 9, 1977 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium · Buffalo, NY, US · Post-Hiatus era · 6 circulating recordings · Archive listener rating around 5

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Setlist Songs

Help On The Way · Slipknot! · Franklin's Tower · Cassidy · Brown Eyed Women · Mexicali Blues · Tennessee Jed · Big River · Peggy-O · Sunrise · The Music Never Stopped · Bertha · Good Lovin' · Ship Of Fools · Estimated Prophet · The Other One · Drums · Not Fade Away · Comes A Time · Sugar Magnolia · Uncle John's Band

Highlights

Help On The Way · Slipknot! · Franklin's Tower · Peggy-O · Comes A Time · The Music Never Stopped · Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower · Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Drums > Not Fade Away > Comes A Time

Guide Note

Buffalo opens with one of the sharpest Help Slip Franklin entries of the month and stays taut deep into the second set. It feels slightly less mythic than Cornell on reputation alone, but not by execution.

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