Category: GD
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GD: May 16, 1969, Campolindo High School, Moraga, CA
(From the 1969 Campolindo yearbook — thanks to Marcus Buick for the scan!) —Caveat Lector: the really colorful account that follows seems to be somewhere between partly and wholly fictionalized. It’s still a good read. Please read it as a story of what might have been.– Campolindo High School (Moraga, CA) is my alma mater.…
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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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Just for Giggles
On Deadnetcentral (DNC), there used to be ongoing banter between manly lovers of 1977 GD and sissified lovers of 1976. DNC user Chimbley made this up, with apologies to Berkeley Breathed. (http://pages.cthome.net/chimbley/images/76Weenies-b.jpg) IMO, it never gets old, and I wanted to preserve it here for posterity. Thanks for helping me laugh many, many times over…
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GD: 11/28/71, Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, CA (CXL)
“The Grateful Dead will play a benefit [at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium] on Sunday for the benefit of Head Start.” So saith a “Newgrams” in the Pacific Sun, week of Novmeber 25-December 1, 1971, p. 17. update: David Davis found an IJ piece indicating the Marin County supes nixed the gig. Reported by LIA…
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GD: September 15-16, 1972, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (CANCELED)
Security & related concerns among the citizenry led to the cancellation of these shows in late August. Advanced ticket sales had already been underway, with ca. 4,000 ducats sold. GD would end up at Boston Music Hall for these dates … not a bad landing, though presumably much, much smaller. REFERENCES Red Wildy, “SPAC Postponing…
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GD: March/April 1971, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (CANCELED)
More early ’71 scheduling stuff: “The Grateful Dead pulled a last-minute cancellation at Northern Illinois University a few weeks ago.” This was in an article published on May 7, 1971 (1). So depending on the meaning of “a few weeks”, it could have been in March, when the GD were in Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, canceled…
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GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (CANCELED)
Not much to say here, just another monkey wrench in the early ’71 touring works for the GD. A student committee agreed in November 1970 to try to bring the GD out for January 31, 1971. Somewhere along the line a Jefferson Airplane concert took place that offended the University administration’s sensibilities. It seems that…
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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: July 4, 1974, Titan Stadium, Oshkosh, WI (CXL)
A mention in the Chicago Tribune of June 20, 1974 (1) notes that tickets are still available for the GD’s July 4th show at 10,000 seat Titan Stadium in Oshkosh, WI. I had though Corry had written this up over at Lost Live Dead, but I don’t see it there so I thought I’d at…