tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post3379940796389261741..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: January 17, 1969: Robertson Gym, UC Santa BarbaraLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-7019657379901932402019-01-29T14:40:44.320-08:002019-01-29T14:40:44.320-08:00If only there were hosts of Dead bloggers all scan...If only there were hosts of Dead bloggers all scanning old papers for Dead articles! Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-19786904390408297512019-01-26T06:49:01.314-08:002019-01-26T06:49:01.314-08:00One thing that struck me from my recent queries to...One thing that struck me from my recent queries to college archives is how many campus papers have been and are being digitized. There are loads of GD Sources out there for you to play around with, more every day.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-36916296171804318242019-01-25T19:40:46.457-08:002019-01-25T19:40:46.457-08:00El Gaucho was the student paper at the University ...El Gaucho was the student paper at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The show had been prominently advertised in the paper ("bring your own pillow," the ad advised), and a day-of-show front-page notice also announced that the Dead would be "dropping in Robertson Gym... The Kappa Sigma sponsored event gets under way at 8:30 with ducats running $2.50 in advance, $3.50 at the door. If your musical tastes don’t fall here, you might try Campbell Hall at the same time where guitarist John Fahey will be presented by Zen Center."<br /><br />Evans wrote a great review covering the whole show - he conscientiously reviewed even the light show and the police! I wonder if he was a drummer, since he paid particular attention to the drummers in every band, rarely mentioning any other band members. <br />He was thrilled with the Dead, a "mind-expanding experience." Impressed as he was with Santana's beat, the Dead took him to another plane: their "graceful flowing music...produced a mood that can only be experienced, not explained." They "created visions of the pool of eternal calm" and gave everyone "an emotional ecstasy that cannot be forgotten." <br />And this wasn't even a very good show! <br /><br />He also describes the PA problems that plagued the show (and may have distracted the band), and were apparently still present when the Dead returned to Robertson Gym on May 29. Although El Gaucho unfortunately didn't review that show, it's described at length in Michael Lydon's article on the Dead that month: <br />http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2015/03/may-1969-three-days-with-dead.html <br /><br />This show ends with the Dead's rather rough debut of Cosmic Charlie, as the band are told to stop. Weir sighs, “Well they say that’s all there is, so I guess that’s all there is.”Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com