My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong.
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| California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. |
Here’s a little pictorial from the campus newspaper, the California Aggie, regarding the show at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA on January 21, 1971.
So the Marmaduke picture answers the NRPS question. Then I have a few other questions from this great little display. First, who are the guys besides Weir, Garcia and Kreutzmann in the bottom-right panel? The guy far-right could be Mickey, I guess, but to the right of Billy in the picture … who is that? Second, there’s the James and the Good Brothers reference. And, sure enough, a brief review in the same paper (“Dead, Riders, Brothers,” California Aggie, January 27, 1971, p. 6) mentions that the show went James and the Good Brothers, NRPS, and two sets of GD.
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| Reviewer, Aggie. 1971. Dead, Riders, Brothers. California Aggie, January 27, 1971, p. 6. |
So, yes Virginia, the New Riders did play Thursday 1/21/71 at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis. And it appears from Jim Quigley’s photos to have been “fantastic”.
Update 10/12/2014: there is now an audience tape of the GD set in circulation [shnid-131516, flac 2496 | shnid-131517, flac1644], which I hope to listen to and report on soon. In anticipation, here’s the last visual I have for the show (a preview), and, below that, a link to LIA’s post on this show.
LIA: http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2012/07/january-21-1971-freeborn-hall-davis-ca.html, which reproduces the following: Abramson, Hilary. 1971. Grateful Dead Shake Freeborn Hall. Woodland Democrat, January 22 1971, p. unk.
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