tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post5520384071170346836..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: October 4-5, 1970: Winterland, SFLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-87986901014971275252018-05-16T07:53:06.496-07:002018-05-16T07:53:06.496-07:00I was there that night and it was great seeing all...I was there that night and it was great seeing all those bands, Dino Valenti played with Quicksilver, and Jerry played with the New Riders... all the bands were showcasing their new music... we were all waiting for the big jam at the end but it never came and we couldn't understand why until we found out that Janis had died that night...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-71626906414969592002018-03-23T18:05:22.024-07:002018-03-23T18:05:22.024-07:00Al Aronowitz wrote:
"I was backstage at San ...Al Aronowitz wrote: <br />"I was backstage at San Francisco's Winterland Arena when the word filtered in that Janis had been found dead in her motel room in Hollywood...and the news was too incredible to provoke anythinq but numbness. Some girls began to cry.<br />"What can you do?" said Jerry Garcia... "You just have to keep on." The Jefferson Airplane was in the middle of its set, part of a concert with the Dead and Quicksilver to inaugurate a series of programs at Winterland to challenge the dominance of Bill Graham and the Fillmore West over the music scene in the Bay Area.<br />It started out as a festive night, broadcast live over one television channel and two FM radio stations, but Janis' death took the heart out of the party. The 7,000 who packed the hall didn't learn what had happened until after the show was over.<br />"We didn't want to make any announcement," said producer Paul Baratta, "because the feeling was that this was a party and Janis was so much a part of the scene that she would have understood that it would have been too much of a downer."<br />When the Jefferson Airplane came offstage, Grace Slick couldn't believe the news. "Is it true?" she said. "Is it true?" <br />http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column75d.html Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-42628324600297676262017-09-04T17:04:28.940-07:002017-09-04T17:04:28.940-07:00We were way up in the balcony in a cloud of weed t...We were way up in the balcony in a cloud of weed tripping our brains out that night. Jugs of wine were being passed around spiked with who knows what. At the end everyone jammed with the Dead. It took us 3 hours to find the car. The sun was coming up on 101 and we almost pulled off at Agnew State Hospital to turn ourselves in on the way back to San Jose. Memorable show heheheheninohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11765401769941425042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-66259871080046550432017-06-14T12:58:42.104-07:002017-06-14T12:58:42.104-07:00This was the first show Keith and Donna attended a...This was the first show Keith and Donna attended as fans. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-74657155610600139112016-11-07T11:14:35.095-08:002016-11-07T11:14:35.095-08:00Part of the KSAN broadcast after the Dead's se...Part of the KSAN broadcast after the Dead's set is now available here: <br />https://archive.org/details/gd1970-10-04.137070.KSAN-Setbreak-Broadcast.flac16 <br />DJ Dusty Street receives the news of Janis on the air and is initially speechless: "Wow...wow... After that, I really don't know what to say... It's hard to talk after news like that." She recovers, though, and keeps on interviewing people without bringing it up. <br />I imagine the 'tasteless' KSAN announcements mentioned in the article came in later set-breaks.<br /><br />If I were transcribing this article today, I probably would have included more of it! Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-16676112658206377732013-07-31T12:03:24.811-07:002013-07-31T12:03:24.811-07:00From an October 1970 Robert Christgau article, &qu...From an October 1970 Robert Christgau article, "A Musical Weekend" - <br /><br />If someone were to ask me to name the two best albums of the past twelve months, I'd probably answer Live/Dead and Neil Young's After the Gold Rush... <br />[10/4/70] was the occasion of an important day in the history of media: the first live quadraphonic television broadcast... <br />Susan and I went up to Greil and Jenny Marcus's, and he set up the TV and his big FM tuner and two other radios, and we settled down to four channels of the Grateul Dead. No, it wasn't like being there. The Marcus house was less busy and less exciting than Winterland seemed to be. But it was more lifelike than stereo, you bet. <br />Between acts the two radio stations competed in filling in the void of no music. And then something very strange happened. One station learned that Janis Joplin had just died, and the other didn't. So as the announcer on one station rattled on about the red of someone's guitar blending into the red of his shirt, the other talked about heroin in a blank undertone. The displacement was eerie. Fittingly, our talk turned to Altamont... <br />We didn't listen to the Airplane, and before Quicksilver came on, Susan and I went home... <br />(reprinted in his book "Any Old Way You Choose It")Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-14658866616069193392013-06-28T02:19:57.552-07:002013-06-28T02:19:57.552-07:00It is often asked whether the Dead knew during the...It is often asked whether the Dead knew during the 10/4/70 show. Apparently not til they left the stage. <br /><br />It's also an early look at the Dead's rather unemotional attitude towards death.<br /><br />This account of the 10/4/70 broadcast makes clear that Marty Balin (as was frequently the case) was having dissensions with the Airplane, which may be why he really chose not to return on 10/5: <br />http://cryptdev.blogspot.com/2010/10/40-years-ago-today-three-bands-for.html Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com