Category: Fillmore West
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Dawn of the NRPS
I am sure you have already pre-ordered, as I just did, but just in case, here’s link to the upcoming Owsley Stanley Foundation (OSF) release called “Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage”. I cannot freaking wait to hear this! https://owsleystanleyfoundation.org/bears-sonic-journals/dawn-of-the-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage/
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GD Fillmore West April 9, 1970
https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-09.137104.aud.cousinit.flac16/gd1970-04-09-d2t03.flac What a hottie this Good Lovin’ jam is! These shows are only represented in imperfect audience tapes, but they are crucial documents from a period relatively underrepresented on soundboard tape. 7/12/70 at the Fillmore East is another one of these shows that has gotten too little attention because of soundboard snobbery. For this period,…
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Altamont Dreams
I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin’s Altamont, among other things. With that in mind, I did want to put down this little tidbit I found in the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC concerning the…
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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.…
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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,…
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JGMS: Matrix, May 11-12, 1971
There is a great half-hour tape labeled as Garcia-Saunders at the Matrix, May 11, 1971. I had always thought it was a little suspect, as I had never seen any other corroborating information, though it is listed at the Chicken’s Matrix List. This calendar listing from the San Francisco Chronicle (May 10, 1971, p. 45)…
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GD/NRPS: May 28, 1971, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (CANCELED)
In an earlier post I discussed the infamous May 29, 1971 Grateful Dead show at Winterland at which a large number of people reacted adversely to being dosed. As Corry noted in comments, the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage show scheduled for the night before (May 28, 1971) was canceled due…
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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…