tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post1647265960846530306..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: March 19, 1973: Nassau ColiseumLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-8633923655884080042024-03-25T08:49:59.283-07:002024-03-25T08:49:59.283-07:00Correct.
Correct.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-89735946228025027392023-07-09T12:59:22.060-07:002023-07-09T12:59:22.060-07:00I was there for this one (upper balcony) and for t...I was there for this one (upper balcony) and for the opening thursday night too (front row) what i recall most that monday nighter was the He's Gone and all the matches lit up RIP for Ron Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-28247986474666728432023-03-20T18:41:53.194-07:002023-03-20T18:41:53.194-07:00I suppose that long, jazz oriented number after th...I suppose that long, jazz oriented number after the other one must have been Eyes... Sounded like thats what he described, & after the other one, def Eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-86830978874751813332022-05-11T18:29:56.780-07:002022-05-11T18:29:56.780-07:00This review originally appeared in Rolling Stone, ...This review originally appeared in Rolling Stone, April 26, 1973, p. 14Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-84788318631369973432012-10-21T20:03:47.702-07:002012-10-21T20:03:47.702-07:00I was at this show. The Dead wore the Nudie style ...I was at this show. The Dead wore the Nudie style shows for the first set, changed into regular street clothes for the second set. It was also the first time I ever heard "Eyes of the World". I can remember Bill Graham outside the Coliseum before the show, yelling at us through a megaphone, a real obnoxous little creep! But it was a great show! Dennis, Levittown, NYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-716730727213333762012-09-27T00:41:00.652-07:002012-09-27T00:41:00.652-07:00One of the few shows in which the Dead wore their ...One of the few shows in which the Dead wore their Nudie suits! <br />And, as in Salt Lake City, the New Riders pop up again - they opened a number of shows for the Dead on this winter '73 tour.<br /><br />As Kaye wrote, the show opened with Promised Land and He's Gone - the first He's Gone since Pigpen died; everyone took it as a tribute to him. <br />It probably was - but note that He's Gone was still sometimes played in the first sets (this was actually the last time), and the 2/17/73 show had ALSO started with Promised Land & He's Gone.<br /><br />This is the third review in a row that mentions the band's relaxed, slow pacing with long breaks between songs. It must have struck reviewers in early '73. <br />Of course the Dead had been taking long breaks for years; but the sense I get is that the shows didn't build like they did in former years; it was more like one song after another, until a jam arrived. (You can tell Kaye was waiting for the buildup, the long extended piece, and didn't expect how many short songs kept intervening.)<br /><br />Kaye describes the show accurately & well - it's notable how much country material is now being played (along with many new "unrecognizable" songs). Kaye sums up the country-heavy start of the second set as being several sons of Cumberland Blues! He doesn't venture to name any of the new songs except for "Stella Green"...(a typo, maybe?) <br />He mentions Garcia forcibly leading the band through a combination of songs - this must be the Mississippi>Stella>Jack Straw medley. (In the ensuing Truckin' medley, Garcia also generally initiates the song shift.)<br /><br />It's always interesting when a witness says that a jam like Playing in the Band didn't quite mesh & the band didn't find what they were looking for. This is the kind of thing that's harder to perceive on tape; most listeners would call Playing a highlight. (On the other hand, maybe the band DID catch it and the reviewer didn't hear it...)<br /><br />I've seen other descriptions around this time of the group huddling in a circle around the drummer during the jams, too. I think the "long, jazz-oriented piece I've never heard before" is Eyes of the World, which came out of the Other One that night. (The medley ended with China Doll, another unfamiliar new song.)Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com