Category: 1971

  • GD: April 12, 1971, Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA

    Funny … I didn’t have this show in my spreadsheet, came across it and wrote a post, only to see that it’s listed at Deadlists and boasts a gorgeous Miller sbd over at the LMA. Heh Heh. I guess all I can salvage is that tickets were still available as of the day of the…

  • GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties

    I am sure there are more, but I am just putting down a marker to keep track of canceled/rescheduled/uncertain early ’71 GD shows canceled (or maybe only tentatively planned?) shows on March 5-6 in New Haven, CT (Thomas 1970). show at Franklin & Marshall College reschedule from March 6 (busy day!) to April 10th (Weiner…

  • GD/NRPS: March 21, 1971, Expo Milwaukee Convention Center, Milwaukee, WI

    March 1971 is an interesting one to me re the GD. It’s overlooked between the (overrated, IMO) Port Chester shows of February and the college and Fillmore East shows of April. Given my taste for the obscure, I’d naturally be drawn to it. Musically, and thus most importantly, it has one of the most unusual…

  • NRPS 9/15/71 in NYC?

    A mention in the “From the Music Capitals of the World” feature in Billboard, September 11, 1971, p. 22 says that “Columbia’s New Riders of the Purple Sage play the Manhattan Center Ballroom, Wednesday (15) at 34th St. & 8th Ave.” Hard to know what to make of this. That particular week was a blank…

  • GD 19710621 Chateau d’Hérouville

    edited 20110903 In January 2007, Hanno Bunjes made a post at his now defunct blog at yurk.net describing the joy of discovering some almost-unseen video footage of the Grateful Dead playing at Chateau d’Hérouville near Paris, France, on June 21, 1971, from the French government’s archival copy (Vive la bureaucracie!). I had a link to…