tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post2308498099104041454..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: June 20 & July 11, 1969: New York City showsLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-5802491695483492002017-10-24T02:05:25.846-07:002017-10-24T02:05:25.846-07:00A note on the Fillmore East show:
Though I've...A note on the Fillmore East show: <br />Though I've found a couple other reviews of the 7/11/69 Pavilion show (which was very well-attended by journalists), I haven't found any full reviews of the June '69 Fillmore shows, just brief mentions. They're less well-remembered than the Dead's return to the Fillmore East in September '69, so audience memories are scanty.<br />Christgau's description of the Friday 6/20 late show: it opened with Garcia on pedal steel & Weir singing country songs, included Dire Wolf, Mama Tried, and King Bee, and closed with Lovelight. <br />Initially I suspected Christgau might actually be describing the Saturday 6/21 late show, since our tape has all those songs. <br />But as it happens, the dead.net Taper's Section has revealed that this tape is in the Vault under the date 6/20. <br />This seems to be more than coincidence - so now I think the "6/21" late show soundboard tape is actually from 6/20 after all, so we do have the same set Christgau describes. (Unfortunately missing the acoustic-spiritual encore, likely Cold Jordan.) <br />https://archive.org/details/gd1969-06-21.sbd-late.bove.2195.sbeok.shnf <br /><br />But the result of this is that now the 6/21/69 late show is completely unknown - what songs were played or whether it's in the Vault. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-53729710708120163822013-07-31T12:23:33.343-07:002013-07-31T12:23:33.343-07:00For a look at Christgau's brief reviews of Dea...For a look at Christgau's brief reviews of Dead albums over the years, see: <br />http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=grateful+dead <br /><br />He has a few other pieces here: a review of the Monterey festival, a short description of the audience at a Felt Forum Dec '71 show, and a review of 3/21/72. <br /><br />Here's an excerpt from a July '72 article on the Rolling Stones he wrote - via Altamont, he detours into a little Dead digression: <br /><br />"Altamont was as much the Dead's show as it was the Stones'. The Stones consulted with the Dead when the event was conceived, and recognizing that a free concert in California was Dead turf, scheduled them to perform last, although in the end the Dead fell back before the bad vibes. The Angels were - and still are - the Dead's friends, and the Stones' Altamont coordinator, Sam Cutler, went to work for the Dead when it was all over. Yet no one ever accused the Dead of laying their star-tripping bummer on Woodstock Nation West - least of all me. Ignoring the contradictions, I found myself transformed into a Grateful Dead freak. <br />I ignored the contradictions, but I was quite aware of them. Even as I stomped out the key lines of 'St. Stephen' - 'Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills / One man gathers what another man spills' - I recognized how smoothly the Dead Americanized volatile intellectual imports like karma and eternal recurrence. Only within a culture as benign and abundant as that of Northern California could anything real and humane accompany such vast notions, but it did, and the Dead were its highest manifestation. They were not uncomplicated men, but within the controlled environment of the concert hall they generated a joyful noise that went beyond complications, and I was happy to sing along with Jerry Garica on 'New Speedway Boogie': 'Things went down we don't understand / But I think in time we will.'"<br />(from his book "Any Old Way You Choose It" p.220-21)Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com