Desolation Row | 1991-09-28 | Bob Weir

View NotesBob Weir (Robert Hall Weir) - acoustic guitar, vox
Rob Wasserman (Robert S.Wasserman) - acoustic upright bass  

Charlie Miller Notes (2020-04-26):  
--The tape runs out during "Josephine"
--This file set is 16 bit @ 44.1

vg NOTES (2026-01-18):  
--Big, BIG Thanks to whomever originally recorded this Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman 1991 show & to Charlie Miller for transfer, mastering & sharing of this far & wide.  Absolutely Appreciated!!  
--t17 ("Josephine") unfortunately cuts at 1:50 into the track
--this show was billed as "Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman are Scaring the Children"
--tickets were $25  
--this concert started at around 9:00pm
--I added the band members info
--added more detail to the setlist info & venue info
--The Ritz opened on 1980-05-01 at 119-125 East 11th Street (now the location of Webster Hall)...in 1989, The Ritz moved to 254 West 54th Street (former home of Studio 54), opening on 1989-04-05 & lasted there until sometime in July of 1993...it was originally named "The New Ritz" for 1989 & then from 1990 onward it reverted the name to "The Ritz".  
--The West 54th Street venue location was built in 1927 & opened as the "Gallo Opera House" (on 1927-11-08), but they soon went bankrupt & sold the lease & it was renamed the "New Yorker Theatre" in February 1930...during this time, the venue also operated as the "Casino de Paree" nightclub, then the "Palladium Music Hall", before the Federal Music Project staged productions at the theater for three years starting in 1937...starting in 1942, the space served as a CBS broadcast studio until 1975 & then "Studio 54" opened on 1977-04-26 & finally closed (after much controversy) in April of 1986...then "The Ritz" from 1989-04-05 thru July 1993...then it became a topless bar known as "Cabaret Royale at Studio 54" from January 1994 to January 1995...then the building was dormant until 1998 when Roundabout Theatre Company reopened it as a Broadway house named "Roundabout Theatre at Studio 54".  
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritz_(rock_club)
--https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/05/01/remembering-the-ritz/
--https://www.facebook.com/groups/theritznyc/
--https://www.facebook.com/groups/108601409778/
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_54
--added the ffp fingerprints & md5 checksums to the text file
--added pics of the venue & the ticket stub from this evening