Fate Music

Category: 1970

  • Alex Bennett interviews the Dead, September 16, 1970

    Bennett, Alex, “Alex Bennett with the Grateful Dead. Interview broadcast on WMCA in New York City in 1970 [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed August 2, 2015, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/378659. Nothing here is verbatim, but hopefully this can provide some markers if anyone else wants to go check this out. A few things of interest. First,…

  • Link: David & the Dorks: 1970 SBDs

    http://sweetblahg.tumblr.com/post/75940158763/david-the-dorks-1970-sbds adding: “fwiw it sounds like Mick on both recordings to these ears”. h/t Silberman

  • Where Were the GD on December 24, 1970?

    My list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs shows Thursday, December 24, 1970 at City Center, New York, NY. Deadbase listed as canceled, with note “Not possible with Winterland the night before”. Two things. First, I think we are learning that they’d fly for a gig, so I am not 100% sure this is a safe…

  • GD: August 19, 1970 at the Fillmore West

    ! R: field recordist: Gene Taback ! R: field recording gear: Sony TC-124 with Sony stereo mic ! R: transfer: Master/1st generation cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard (96Mhz/24 bit)> HD. My goodness, I love love love love love this acoustic set. The recording really captures a feeling.…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1970

    **updated 8/10/2015, especially under heading D** **update2 8/11, more, especially, in section D** **updated 8/12, re-ordered sections (now goes from more micro and Jerrycentric to more macro (and less so)), also reworked some of section D, though not really many new words.** I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of…

  • Deep River Blues on the Festival Express

    –> Early-on, riding the Festival Express: “A few people started to drift into the forward lounge. Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi pulled out guitars. West, toying with his tiny, ancient Les Paul Gibson as if it were a stalk of grass lazily picked out Delta bottleneck blues, and Mountain’s drummer, Corky Laing, sang along: Let…

  • Garcia, Cutler, Hunter, unidentified woman chatting, ca. 1970

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_g2GWeAgYQ Not much very revelatory, but nice to hear Hunter rapping, and they talk together about Altamont. Around 20, we get some Hells Angels talk. Garcia: “It’s almost like having tigers on the streets.” Hunter, in a classic case of how these guys romanticized the Angels and other outlaws: “Hells Angels are Robin Hood. Cutler…

  • Zabriskie Point in Sausalito

    Zabriskie Point (IMDB) played at the Marin Theatre in Sausalito, let’s say around Thursday, April 2, 1970. It had debuted nationally on February 9 (less than three weeks after Garcia recorded his contribution to the soundtrack, the stunning “Love Scene Improvisation”). Maybe it had been playing for awhile already. I want to note that there’s…

  • Just Play

    Going through some scratched up old CDs, I found a copy of the Crosby, Stills and Nash release Carry On (Atlantic 7567804872, 2006). Entering some dates to trace Croz’s whereabouts in the various periods in which he frequented the Garciaverse (most intensely, fall 1969-fall 1971 and again March-September 1975), I am reminded that Crosby, Stills,…

  • Darkness, Darkness

    **Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers  I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…