tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post2091874479164955919..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: October 31, 1971: Ohio Theater, Columbus OH Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-52100832990461472042020-10-23T00:56:57.210-07:002020-10-23T00:56:57.210-07:00This short review from the Columbus Dispatch isn&#...This short review from the Columbus Dispatch isn't the best writing, but no doubt the reporter was hurrying to dash off a brief piece for the newspaper deadline. It still has a few items of interest.<br /> <br />This wasn't one of the shows broadcast on radio, and the October 31 Dispatch had proclaimed that the concert was "a complete sellout." The reporter observes that the place was "more than packed" with the Dead fans dancing in the aisles as usual (and many of them in Halloween costume). One showgoer recalls, "At some point, the audience just had a party by themselves, and the band just sort of played along." Phil requests early on, "Don't jump up and down on the nice seats, jump up and down on the floor!" <br />Many attendees remember the Halloween night festivities, and one calls it "ass-to-ass packed." The Dead had some equipment troubles at the start of the show, and some listeners could barely hear Keith. Boots was also onstage doing his pyrotechnics. <br /><br />The New Riders' set wasn't recorded as far as I know, but Clark names a couple songs from it. She says the Dead played 'Hand Jive' but her notes were in error; it was almost certainly the closer in the NRPS set, as it often was on that tour. <br />She doesn't try to describe the Dead (calling it "impossible"), but she knew enough about them to notice that "much of the material was new." She compliments Keith's playing in "Back to Tennessee" and says that "'Jack's Straw' was particularly effective." (I wonder how she knew the name of that song, there's no way she could have known just from listening!) <br />She's another reporter who left after the first set, though, thinking that the concert came to a roaring finale with Casey Jones and Saturday Night. (Phil introduces the last song of the set: "This here's a new one designed to rock you all the way out to the parking lot.")Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com