tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post3040426524675600760..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: July 9-12, 1970: Fillmore EastLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-3314678702757701862023-02-05T19:34:51.314-08:002023-02-05T19:34:51.314-08:00I can't disagree with Zito's comments. The...I can't disagree with Zito's comments. The loss of Pigpen took a lot of grit out of the band.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-92088555093189066022022-01-20T01:45:46.915-08:002022-01-20T01:45:46.915-08:00That was 9/18/70 at the Fillmore East - Hoffman, S...That was 9/18/70 at the Fillmore East - Hoffman, Shel Silverstein, and Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show played before the Dead's show, for the movie "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" <br />The Fillmore scene: <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktXR-2mmaHo Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-23064150100356903022022-01-14T11:52:45.580-08:002022-01-14T11:52:45.580-08:00I was at the show that Dustin Hoffman movie was sh...I was at the show that Dustin Hoffman movie was shot first...The Dead played like 3 songs and Jerry said I I can't get into this and walked off the stage...we waited like 90 mins before the New Riders came on,then a break and the Electric dead to over.i had work that morning ...lol.Limomangus@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316979217103539699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-10848689994883520792021-04-03T00:12:40.167-07:002021-04-03T00:12:40.167-07:00By the way, Tom Zito has confirmed that he did see...By the way, Tom Zito has confirmed that he did see multiple nights of the Dead at the Fillmore East, not only in this run but when they came back in September '70. Of the later run, he wrote Dave Davis, "I did attend much of the run but alas, remember very little of the setlists. Certainly several versions of 'St. Stephen,' and every show closed with 'I Bid You Goodnight.'" <br />So I believe this is a composite review of a couple shows. <br /><br />Zito was a big Dead fan in 1970 - this was only his second article for the Washington Post (after a review of "Let It Be"). He wrote in another article of his tastes: "I can listen to any kind of (good) blues, the Grateful Dead, and the Rolling Stones endlessly." Workingman's Dead was among his top-five desert-island records that year, and he praised American Beauty on its release. He wrote in an October '70 piece that the Dead typified "the real essence of rock." Describing a typical Dead show: "A lot of their music takes off from basic blues patterns, but where it goes is impossible to say... They now make mellow, mellow music. They'll start off with a basically acoustical set, work into country-western material, and finally build into some very loud yet amazingly soothing rock music... I have never seen the Dead play for less than five hours." <br /><br />But by 1973 his enthusiasm had dimmed and he found their shows dull. By then, he said, they'd "gone astray...the music isn't what it once was." The Post's one-line review of Wake of the Flood: "Their first studio album in several years. For this we had to wait several years?" Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-55149041052983475172020-10-15T12:02:35.787-07:002020-10-15T12:02:35.787-07:00Wow, I just came across this & see there are v...Wow, I just came across this & see there are very recent comments, so I'll add one that may be of interest. I was at 2 of these shows, the 11th & 12th. I first met Jerry Garcia at the end of the first show; we talked about music for awhile & he said "Come back tomorrow night, I'll get you in & we can continue this." I showed up at the stage door the next evening & he was already out there smoking a joint. So this was a memorable weekend for me; I still sometimes stop where that doorway is (the only still-recognizable part of Fillmore East) & have a hit in commemoration.Mr. Know-It-Allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02594297475755377702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-68955710361940466862020-08-20T21:09:56.220-07:002020-08-20T21:09:56.220-07:00Also, Zito mentions this exchange in the acoustic ...Also, Zito mentions this exchange in the acoustic set: <br />"Someone in the audience shouts 'Turn it up!' and Jerry Garcia quickly retorts 'Don't worry man. It'll get louder!'"<br />This sounds quite a bit like the exchange after Dire Wolf on 7/11, when people shout "Louder!" Garcia replies, "Yeah, make it louder, turn everything up louder, we need it all loud." (Applause.) Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-18822857205926199352020-07-12T01:11:55.272-07:002020-07-12T01:11:55.272-07:00It's very tempting to assume that Zito went to...It's very tempting to assume that Zito went to the "lost" show of this run, but there are some difficulties with that theory. <br />One, due to the setlist reports of people who attended July 10th, which don't match the tape at all, it's now thought that the tape dated "July 10" is misdated (like all the tapes that first circulated from this run), and actually comes from the first night, July 9. <br /><br />Two, Zito's song list doesn't seem entirely trustworthy and may not come from just one night. He gives us: <br />ACOUSTIC <br />Dire Wolf [played on 7/11] <br />Me & My Uncle [played as an electric song on 3 nights in this run - so it's very unlikely to appear in an acoustic set]<br />Wake Up Little Susie [said to be in NRPS set, but they never played this song - was in acoustic set on 7/11] <br />NRPS - The Weight closer [as on 7/11] <br />ELECTRIC <br />Morning Dew opener (preceded by horror film) [this was how the electric set on 7/12 opened]<br />Not Fade Away [played on 7/12]<br />Casey Jones [played on 7/12]<br />Dancing in the Streets [played on 7/11]<br />Lovelight [played on 7/11] <br />Show ends at 6:30. [The actual 7/10 ended with UJB at 5:30.] <br /><br />The "7/10" tape has not a single song on Zito's list except for NFA, which was the encore, so he couldn't have attended July 9. <br />People who attended July 10 report Morning Dew (opener), Casey Jones, Dark Star>St Stephen>NFA>Lovelight, UJB (closer). One attendee remembers Lovelight ending the show at 5 am; a newspaper review has UJB ending the show at 5:30. (UJB also closed the shows on both July 11 & 12.)<br /> <br />If we say Zito went on the 10th, some songs match but we'd have to account for his not only giving a much later end time, but scrambling the song list and somehow failing to mention the popular "Live/Dead" numbers. This is possible. But I'd be much more impressed by his reporting if he actually went to two Dead shows in a row, July 11-12, conflating his notes on both shows for the article. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-44168270487335641822020-07-11T12:06:30.161-07:002020-07-11T12:06:30.161-07:00Zito would seem to be on the show that folks would...Zito would seem to be on the show that folks would have entered on July 9th, calling it the "first concert-at-midnight".Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-4390103241783371362012-07-19T21:58:00.591-07:002012-07-19T21:58:00.591-07:00The Variety reviewer (Jeff) is the same one who ga...The Variety reviewer (Jeff) is the same one who gave a rave review of the 5/15/70 show. I don't know if he was their regular Fillmore reviewer, but he was a Dead admirer. So it's a pity his reviews are so short.<br /><br />Tom Zito would later write a scathing review of the Dead's Baltimore '73 show, lamenting how far they'd fallen since this Fillmore run. I'll transcribe that later.<br /><br />It's not known which show he went to. Possibly he went to the Thursday 7/9 show, which we don't have, but he says it's a "weekend" show. His description seems to conflate songs from the last two shows. <br />Using the tapedates for convenience - on 7/11 the electric set opened with Morning Dew, introduced by a film clip of Night of the Living Dead. (Zombies, not spacemen!) They later played Not Fade Away & Casey Jones. On 7/12 they played Dancing and closed with a big Lovelight. <br />(Also, Me & My Uncle was an electric song both nights, not acoustic; and Little Susie was acoustic on 7/12, not NRPS. NRPS did close with The Weight on 7/12.)<br /><br />So he's not giving us an accurate setlist, just jumbling up a few songs from the last two shows. At any rate, it says a lot for a journalist to attend two all-night shows in a row!<br /><br />These shows are another good example of shortened tape-times - the shows themselves lasted some 6 hours, but the tapes are only 3 1/2 (though with many stops). I imagine the breaks were quite lengthy, if the acoustic set was at midnight & the electric set didn't start til 3:15.<br /><br />The call from the audience to "turn it up!" reminds me of the 11/6/70 acoustic set, when someone calls "Louder!" and Garcia replies, "Listen more carefully."<br /><br />Both reviews mention the merging of band & audience. But Zito, interestingly, never really mentions the Dead's jams and focuses instead on how much they rock. (Viola Lee, the staggering finish to the run, he omits entirely.)<br /><br />Bad as our tapes are, the building of energy levels described in these reviews can clearly be heard on the tapes.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com