Category: acoustic
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An Evening With the Gratetul Dead
edited 20110502 am LN jg1970-05-01.gd.all-126mins.sbd-miller.95683.flac1644 It is presently “commonly known” that the “An Evening With The Grateful Dead” show concept / set format debuted in Alfred, NY on Friday, May 1, 1970 [Jerrybase | shnid-95683 | archive.org]. McNally (2002, 366) narrates things this way, Deadlists’ entry presents the show in conventional AEWTGD form, and so…
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LN jg1970-09-20.nrps.all.sbd-reynolds.97866.flac1644
Program cover for An Evening With the Grateful Dead; Featuring The New Riders of the Purple Sage; Joe’s Lights. Fillmore East, September 17-20, 1970. Already the September 17-20, 1970 GD-NRPS run was the New Riders’ third trip to Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in the “An Evening With The Grateful Dead” format. On May 15 they…
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LN jg1970-07-30.gd.33mins.sbd-cotsman.17077.shn2flac
Vegas is skeptical that I can do the NRPS-Matrix-1970 thing in seven posts, but I never claimed I’d do them consecutively. And, well, if I happen to cover related terrain, well, that’s just how it goes. And it just so happens that LIA’s post “The Hartbeats – July 1970” mentions some GD material that I’d…
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Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (Castelli MAC)
Having just posted on the sbd recording from this show, I’ll post my notes from the newly circulating audience recording by Robert Castelli (1644-shnid 110663, 2496-shnid 110798). I’ll start with a few analytical points, then produce my listening notes based on the 24/96 version. Not a ton to say about this, except that this is…
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Listening Notes: Great American String Band (GASB), Lion’s Share,San Anselmo, June 12, 1974
**update 20140823 – Elwood 1974 is clear that GASB played the Lion’s Share on Wednesday, June 12, 1974. Thanks to Blair Jackson!** Here are some thoughts based on my notations from this recording (shnid-7331). I’ll start with a few analytical points, then reproduce the raw notations below. It sounds like a single two-set show to…
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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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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…