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Category: AEWTGD

  • 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,…

  • 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.…

  • Harpur College NRPS set

    “Enough about the Dead, how was the New Riders’ set?” – one guy, once Any Deadhead worth her salt knows the Harpur College gig from May 2, 1970. It’s a monster, one of the Dead’s best, and long-circulating from FM tapes; it has blown a lot of minds. I don’t remember hearing much about the…

  • A Pigless Monster at the Fillmore East: July 12, 1970

    LN jg1970-07-12.nrps-gd.aud-cooper.122707.flac1644 More old listening notes. The “Not Fade Away” and “Good Lovin’” from the electric Dead set feature absolutely top shelf rock and roll playing. Look at how I go off on this stuff wow wow wow wow wow and all that. If this tape sounded better, this’d be in the canon with 5/2/70.…

  • RN Sandy Troy’s One More Saturday Night (1991)

    Troy, Sandy. 1991. One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Reading Notes “by the fall of 1974 the band’s business ventures began to unravel” (Troy 1991, 27). #business JG and MG moved in together early 1967 (Troy 1991, 68). #women #v-Carousel as described…

  • New Riders of the Purple Sage and Acoustic Grateful Dead: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, July 30-August 1, 1970

    (This is an updated version of an earlier post, “GD/NRPS19700731-19700801: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA, 4/20/2011.) Some time back, I reported listings for “New Riders of the Purple Sage & Grateful Dead, Lion’s Share, 9 pm” for both July 31, 1970 and August 1, 1970, in the calendar section of the Berkeley Tribe. Here’s the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…