Category: 1970
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NRPS: January 19, 1970, Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley
My Blackberry takes the world’s worst pictures (see below), and there was neither scanner nor photocopier handy as I was going through a handful of Berkeley Tribes from late 1969-early 1970 today. But I found a reference to a NRPS gig on January 19, 1970 at Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley. Scan from Berkeley Tribe, January…
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GD: September 11-12, 1970: Pepperland, San Rafael (POSSIBLE) (NOW DISCONFIRMED)
**UPDATE: DISCONFIRMED. SEE COMMENTS** I don’t have tremendous confidence that this ever happened, but since Corry has educated me a little about booking practices and such, the fact that it’s a Friday-Saturday that is otherwise unfilled in GD/Garcia chronologies makes me more open to it. In a July 1970 Billboard article on Pepperland (“scheduled to…
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Where were the NRPS in late 1969 – early 1970?
Light Into Ashes notes the following about the April 17-18, 1970 NRPS billing: these were the first known shows Garcia had played with NRPS since November ’69 NRPS shows were advertised for March 12-14, and March 18, 1970 (see), while the NRPS concert history lists 2/7/70. The latter seems very unlikely (see comments to this…
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GD at Mammoth Gardens, Denver CO, April 24-25, 1970
It seems that these shows have been shrouded in mystery and legend for a very long time. Maybe it’s because April 1970 was such a hot month, because the tape circulating from this weekend reveals a characteristically hot show, because the next gig (4/26/70 at Poynette Wisconsin) is similarly enshrouded, because “Mammoth Gardens” just sounds…
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Jerry Garcia at the Matrix, 1970-1971
As I noted a little bit ago, Ross Hannan sent some wonderful info on Matrix gigs. In this post I respond to some of his listings with questions, additional or different information, etc. I was just going to email this, but one never knows when someone else might see this and be able to weigh-in.…
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Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales: June 7, 1970, Matrix, San Francisco, CA (PHANTOM)
The Jerry Site still doesn’t have any way to keep a list of deleted shows. If one is deleted or its date is changed, the old entry evaporates. So I am trying to keep track of what disappears under this “TJS-deletion” tag. Anyway, TJS has listed a Garcia/Wales show for Sunday, June 7, 1970, probably…
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GD: August 17, 1970, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
I am sure this has been gone over many, many times over the years. I imagine that in the days before ubiquitous tapes and information the Playboy article “Grateful Dead I Have Known” by Ed McClanahan (1) was probably scrutinized very closely, like some Rosetta Stone capable of unlocking the 1970-era GD. That it was…
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GD: November 11, 1970, 46th Street Rock Palace, Brooklyn, NY
From a website on forgotten NY places, which links over to setlist.net, I found this really neat recollection of the GD’s November 11, 1970 show at the 46th Street Rock Palace in Brooklyn, NY. This was possibly one of the weirdest shows I ever saw (but enjoyable nevertheless). It took place on a Weds about…
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GD: July 3-4, 1970, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago (CANCELED)
Grateful Dead Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL July 3-4, 1970 CANCELED The Aragon Ballroom, at 1106 Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, was reportedly leased by American Tribal Productions in spring 1970 in order to put on “monster rock shows” (1). A mention is made of restoring the venue to its “pre-Cheetah” condition, leading me to wonder if this…
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GD: ca. December 27, 1970, canyon east of Laguna Beach, CA
It seems that a rather loosely organized hippie gathering took place in a Canyon (presumably Laguna Canyon) east of Laguna Beach, CA starting on Christmas in 1970 and ending on Monday, 12/28. It was broken up by city police, who in good Orange Curtain fashion sang “Here Comes Santa Clause” as they rousted sleeping hippies…