tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post1941135758960895789..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: Halloween 1969: San Jose State CollegeLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-25667881989011566972019-01-25T16:11:46.130-08:002019-01-25T16:11:46.130-08:00Dead Sources returns! I'll be posting a bunch ...Dead Sources returns! I'll be posting a bunch of articles from 1971 soon - but first, a few new discoveries. <br /><br />The Spartan Daily was the campus paper at San Jose State, and ran a couple announcements for this show. Unfortunately there was no later review of the show (and no eyewitness accounts that I've found), but it sounds like a fun evening, with a masked audience, monster movies, and apple-bobbing! <br /><br />The first piece isn't very well-written, but gives an interesting look at how the Dead were seen in late '69. The Dead's music is said to have "a euphoric effect." The author's heard from other show-goers that "the Dead have added a little country" to their set, but this is a positive turn: "the blend works well." He even names Mama Tried as a highlight (though mistaking the singer) and says the two-drummer approach is "ideal in the country tunes." <br />Pigpen, alas, didn't sing Schoolgirl for the San Jose student crowd, but they did get a half-hour Lovelight.<br /><br />The New Riders had played in the same ballroom a couple weeks earlier, on 10/17/69. Here's the announcement from the 10/16 Spartan Daily: <br />"TWO BANDS TO APPEAR FOR ONE DANCE<br />“Riders of the Purple Sage,” with special guest appearances by Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the “Grateful Dead,” will be one of two bands playing tomorrow night in the new College Union on Ninth Street. <br />A dance, sponsored by the College Union Program Board, will feature “Sage” and “The Fourth Way,” with guest appearances by members of the Charles Lloyd Quartet and John Handy’s group. <br />The dance will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the ballroom, on the third level of the College Union. Admission will be $1.50 for students, and $2 for the general public. There will be no pre-sale; all tickets will be sold at the door."<br />[The 'guest appearances' were, of course, regular members of the groups.]Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com