tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post2041986253025026975..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: August 17, 1970: Fillmore WestLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-41153733699494778622019-10-09T23:50:45.709-07:002019-10-09T23:50:45.709-07:00Lydon may have made a few lyric mistakes! (Or Weir...Lydon may have made a few lyric mistakes! (Or Weir did.) <br />What I notice now is that midway through the acoustic set, "Jerry switched to his Fender" - and his regular guitar at the time was the Gibson SG. This supports a theory of mine that Jerry kept using his Fender strictly for the acoustic sets through 1970.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-57484687361327213462019-10-08T21:53:24.212-07:002019-10-08T21:53:24.212-07:00Interesting that Lydon references Friend of the De...Interesting that Lydon references Friend of the Devil as being a track on Workingman's. It was a very new song, he definitely paid attention. Although quite strange he references "Annie" in that new song "Juggin." I don't know how he got Annie out of Sweet Jane. Then again, he heard the line in Dancing in the Street as "it doesn't matter who you are..."Jim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775659356285581409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-28747396633518253352012-07-21T00:43:03.190-07:002012-07-21T00:43:03.190-07:00It's unfortunate that Lydon got tired and left...It's unfortunate that Lydon got tired and left during Not Fade Away. But he stayed long enough to give us the same first 4 songs for the electric set as McClanahan does, confirming they were at the same show. <br />(Though these songs were repeated on 8/18, it's very unlikely two reporters on that night would independently list just the same four songs in the same order!) <br />It also shows that McClanahan didn't jumble up songs from different shows, as Tom Zito did in his review of the July '70 Fillmore East shows. So the rest of his setlist is likely to be accurate.<br /><br />The only discrepancy is that Lydon has Truckin' start the acoustic set, and McClanahan puts it in the electric set. I go with Lydon here, and assume McClanahan mixed up his notes: as far as we know, Truckin' wasn't played electric until October '70.<br /><br />Some things to note: <br />- Kreutzmann was the only drummer in the acoustic set, and Pigpen was on piano. (Noted by both reporters.) <br />- the audience members shouting "Play louder!" in the acoustic set, and Jerry's reply. (This seems to be a recurring theme in acoustic sets: see 7/12 and 11/6.) <br />- Lydon says the Hartbeats played "a lot of golden oldie rockers." This is obviously referring not to the late-'68 version of the Hartbeats, but perhaps to the later acoustic version. (It seems to specifically refer to the 6/11/69 "Bobby Ace" show, though possibly other lost club shows were played with the same oldies format.) <br />- Lydon on acoustic Dead: "The small quiet groups could and did do club work, around the Bay which meant gigs without touring or equipment hassles." Though he places this before Workingman's, as far as we know it describes the Dead's acoustic shows of July/August '70, only shortly before this show.<br />-McClanahan describes the band leaving the stage during Lovelight (Jerry last, after some final guitar syncopations), so that Pigpen is left by himself to sing over the audience beat. Pigpen also dances, struts around the stage, and sets off a cherry bomb to bring back the band. It's interesting to correlate this with the Lovelight tapes we have. <br />- According to Lydon, the acoustic set started at 9, and by 1:30 they'd only gotten to Not Fade Away (four songs into the electric set). Perhaps he's not being precise, but the breaks must have been REALLY long... (Presumably films were shown?) McClanahan reports lengthy incidents backstage during the breaks.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com