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Englishtown NJ History
September 3, 2020 ·
45 years ago Labor Day weekend...9/3/77... @ Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ.
With 150,000 people in attendance at the non-festival gig, the Dead played one of their best shows of that fabled year, 1977. Breaking out Truckin' for the first time in two years, throwing down a beautiful Eyes, and encoring Terrapin, the boys mesmerized the crowd in the midst of a late-summer heat wave. Here’s what Rolling Stone wrote about the show:
"The park normally held about 50,000; the band sold 102,000 tickets – up to that point its biggest nonfestival gig. Until then, everyone assumed the Dead’s on-the-road success was a result of repeat business – the same fans buying tickets to more than one show. But Raceway Park proved that the Dead could pull in huge numbers for just one show. “It said, ‘We’re a big band,'” says Loren. “It put the Dead up there with anybody else who was performing: ‘Yeah, the Allman Brothers are a big band, but they’re not the Grateful Dead.’ The industry stood up and said, ‘Holy mackerel!'” Were you there?
Englishtown NJ History
September 3, 2020 ·
45 years ago Labor Day weekend...9/3/77... @ Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ.
With 150,000 people in attendance at the non-festival gig, the Dead played one of their best shows of that fabled year, 1977. Breaking out Truckin' for the first time in two years, throwing down a beautiful Eyes, and encoring Terrapin, the boys mesmerized the crowd in the midst of a late-summer heat wave. Here’s what Rolling Stone wrote about the show:
"The park normally held about 50,000; the band sold 102,000 tickets – up to that point its biggest nonfestival gig. Until then, everyone assumed the Dead’s on-the-road success was a result of repeat business – the same fans buying tickets to more than one show. But Raceway Park proved that the Dead could pull in huge numbers for just one show. “It said, ‘We’re a big band,'” says Loren. “It put the Dead up there with anybody else who was performing: ‘Yeah, the Allman Brothers are a big band, but they’re not the Grateful Dead.’ The industry stood up and said, ‘Holy mackerel!'” Were you there?