tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post8060388390260189574..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: April 15, 1969: Music Box, OmahaLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-54792315883585058412021-04-13T19:44:46.549-07:002021-04-13T19:44:46.549-07:00I did move to Haight Street. Left home the next mo...I did move to Haight Street. Left home the next morning. it's been a long strange trip!<br />lavacountryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15985796442547366836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-30479904709475424762017-10-19T16:23:57.837-07:002017-10-19T16:23:57.837-07:00A short but great review. The Daily Nebraskan was ...A short but great review. The Daily Nebraskan was the student paper of the University of Nebraska, and this writer had also covered the February show at the Music Box - he and the rest of the crowd were clearly excited to greet the Dead again. <br /><br />RFO was KOWH-FM Radio Free Omaha (an odd slogan), which presented the two shows.<br />This confirms that the Liberation Blues Band opened. Being from Lincoln, naturally he gives plenty of attention to the opening band from Lincoln (he'd seen them before, and there's some hometown pride here). <br /><br />He brings out how many people were onstage during the Dead's show - back in February he thought there were nine members in the group. Now he knows better, and can tell that some of them are part of the crew ("at least half a dozen sound and equipment men...a reverb man and a bevy of other knob twisters"). I hadn't thought the Dead had so many crew-members onstage at this point, but he even notes the firecracker explosion that had become a standard part of the show.<br />The audience was just as joyous at this Lovelight as they'd been two months earlier, and you can tell why it regularly got stretched out to 30 minutes.<br /><br />The audience tape cuts off in the Eleven, and it's always been a mystery how the show ended. He says it ended with "an hour-long version of Anthem" - a 20-minute Other One suite had come at the start of the set, followed by a Dark Star suite; it's possible he's being loose, not knowing song names, but he said the show was three hours, whereas the surviving audience tape is only about two hours. So I'm guessing the show possibly closed with an Alligator>Caution, which would make this a massively jam-packed show. (The Dead did plenty of those in '69, when they were comfortable with the venue and had time.) And finishing off with a Baby Blue too!<br /><br />The Dead didn't return to Nebraska for four years. The writer refers to "culturally deprived Nebraskans," and you can imagine seeing a show like this and then never getting to see the Dead again... Might make you move to California! Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com