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THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Fillmore West 1970 [no label, 2CD]
Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA; June 5, 1970. Very good audience recording.
Posted at dlr2008.wordpress.com:
What a difference a year makes. In June, 1969 the Dead preformed a monumental four night run at the Fillmore where they preformed as leader of a tribe of loyal psychedelic followers. Reality hit pretty heavy in 1969:
August 6, 1969 Manson Cult Murders
August 8, 1969 Hippy goes main$tream with Wood$tock (Dead has equipment troubles and trouble connecting with the mass audience at same)
December 6, 1969 Altamont Speedway Concert/Murder
December 31, 1969 American annual combat deaths in Vietnam reaches 11,616, total combat deaths for the War reaches 47,000. Vietnamese death toll is unknown but is thought to approach 1,000,000.
January, 1970 19 members of the Grateful Dead are busted for illegal possession after a concert in New Orleans. Included in the bust was Owsley Stanley (aka The Bear). This bust effectively ended The Bears’ involvement with the band as sound engineer and chemist.
May 4, 1970 At Kent State four students are murdered by panicked National Guardsmen during an anti-War protest. Massive national anti-war protests begin.
Along the way Jerry records what is perhaps his best known mainstream riff - the petal steel guitar intro on Teach Your Children Well on CSN&Y’s mega album Deja vu (probably recorded in November, 1969). The slender Workingman’s Dead (eight tracks) was recorded in February, 1970 (released June 14, 1970)
The June 5 set features fine versions of Friend of the Devil, Black Peter and New Speedway Boogie. The electric set has a super smooth version of It’s a Man’s World with Jerry in fine form as the grandson of soul and Pig Pen is, well, Pig Pen. Some don’t like the version of Uncle John’s Band here, but compared to some of the live recordings from the 1980s, this is a great Uncle John. Cryptical Envelopment/Drums/The Other One fails to catch fire and St Stephen just seems out of place. All in all a nice and professional set but it is clearly no longer the summer of love or even the summer of 1969. The Grateful Dead, like the rest of America’s under-30 set, seem to have taken a deep breath and said: “What’s Next?” Or as the kids would say today: WTF.
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Thanks to owsleysbear for sharing the show at the Bay.
Lineage:
7 Inch Half Track Reel Master @ 7.5 ips (Recorded In Venue By Bear on a Sony 770 Reel 2 Reel) - 1st Generation Cassettes Transfered By Dick Latvala (Master Reel Playback on a Technics 1506 Reel 2 Reel-Tascam 122 MK111 Cassette Deck no dolby)
Analog to Digital Transfer (Cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon-Sony PCM-R500 DAT @ 44.1KHz by Jim Wise circa late 1990s)
Zero Gen DAT play back on a Sony PCM R-500-Digital Out @ 16/44.1kHz-Digital Audio Labs Carddeluxe-WAV @ 16/44.1KHz
Editing (Adobe Audition CC) - Mastering & Processing (iZotope Ozone 6) - FLAC encoding (dBpoweramp)
JW:February 2015
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Disc 1
Acoustic Set
Track 101. I Know You Rider 8:49 (14.8MB)
Track 102. Silver Threads And Golden Needles 4:05 (6.9MB)
Track 103. Friend Of The Devil 5:16 (8.9MB)
Track 104. Me And My Uncle 3:36 (6.1MB)
Track 105. Black Peter 7:46 (13.1MB)
Track 106. New Speedway Boogie * 6:30 (10.9MB)
Electric Set
Track 107. Cold Rain And Snow 5:14 (8.8MB)
Track 108. Easy Wind 6:08 (10.3MB)
Track 109. Mama Tried 3:42 (6.2MB)
52 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Cryptical-Drums/Other One/Cryptical Reprise - Part A 12:16 (20.6MB)
Track 202. Cryptical-Drums/Other One/Cryptical Reprise * - Part B 9:02 (15.2MB)
Track 203. Attics Of My Life * 2:08 (3.6MB)
Track 204. Hard To Handle 7:01 (11.8MB)
Track 205. It’s A Man’s World 12:51 (21.6MB)
Track 206. Uncle John’s Band 6:40 (11.2MB)
Track 207. Saint Stephen * 6:16 (10.5MB)
Track 208. Casey Jones 5:26 (9.1MB)
62 mins
The track, Cryptical-Drums/Other One/Cryptical Reprise, has been arbitrarily split for easier access.
* denotes cuts or abrubt reel stops and start
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