tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post5630203573607411973..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: March 3, 1971: Fillmore WestLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-42551198842132240332023-03-30T20:41:59.409-07:002023-03-30T20:41:59.409-07:00The poster artist was Miranda Bergman, who would b...The poster artist was Miranda Bergman, who would become known as one of the Haight-Ashbury Muralists. <br />https://blog.gocollect.com/miranda-bergman-the-haight-ashbury-and-her-very-valuable-poster/ <br />I don't know why the year is off (or why there's even a year listed on the poster). <br />But calling the place the Carousel seems like a tip to a particular audience: those who still remembered the theater as the Carousel (even though that name had been defunct since '68), and missed those days. It's maybe a subtle indication that the benefit will be run the old freeform community way, not under Bill Graham's hand. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-72922151526725593772023-03-08T05:44:42.303-08:002023-03-08T05:44:42.303-08:00Any information on the poster for this show? Firs...Any information on the poster for this show? First off it says Carousel Ballroom and not Fillmore West (even though that renaming happened in 1968), and the date on the poster is 3/3/70. I don't see an artist signature anywhere. Maybe it was some kind of freaky joke on the part of the artist? Maybe he/she was just really high??<br />https://gdsets.com/70posters/1971_03_03%20(AOR%202.171%20OP).jpgMark Scalisehttps://gdsets.com/gdsets.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-29830684481840629422020-04-29T16:11:48.757-07:002020-04-29T16:11:48.757-07:00In those days there were certainly plenty of peopl...In those days there were certainly plenty of people who'd just hop on stage with the Dead and do their thing. Given the flute's sporadic presence, it may well be some random audience member and not any musician we know. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-82063968663530070042020-04-29T07:09:21.306-07:002020-04-29T07:09:21.306-07:00Yeah, the latter is more what I was thinking - tha...Yeah, the latter is more what I was thinking - that the flautist was kind of off to the side somewhere, and we just pick it up along with whatever other random stuff bleeds into one of the mics. It's a little bit of a different interpretation - was he up on stage playing with the band, or did some random tripper wander into the wings and start trying to lead the rats out of the "Carousel".Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-89903998684541468302020-04-28T19:48:25.096-07:002020-04-28T19:48:25.096-07:00Since we can hear the flute at all, he must have b...Since we can hear the flute at all, he must have been somewhere near a microphone. All the vocals (and most the instruments) are mixed in the center in that song, more or less mono; since the flute is heard off to one side, it indicates he wasn't using one of the mics they were singing in. A good place to hear this is at the start of the last verse around 13:40.<br />Listening to the audience between the last few songs, we can hear that the audience was recorded in wider stereo than the band in that part of the show. (The mix changes drastically during the set, you can hear it being fiddled with in Truckin'.) Since the flute was recorded so poorly, it's possible that it actually wasn't in the recording mix at all, but what we're hearing is the echo of the flute out in the room. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-49888572347749723982020-04-28T18:25:56.659-07:002020-04-28T18:25:56.659-07:00How do we know he had his own mic?How do we know he had his own mic?Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-80369418185397901862020-04-28T05:27:22.647-07:002020-04-28T05:27:22.647-07:00Yep: buried and barely audible, but noticeable in ...Yep: buried and barely audible, but noticeable in the right channel (so he had his own microphone). Headphones required! It's likely the flute player only showed up in the Good Lovin' encore. Given how he can hardly be heard in the mix, I wonder whether the audience could hear him at all....but at least they could see him.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-14471392265006176202020-04-28T02:13:32.384-07:002020-04-28T02:13:32.384-07:00jchastain at LL offers the times below. Time ... f...jchastain at LL offers the times below. Time ... for me to break out some headphones.<br /><br />some instance of flute in Good Lovin' (there are likely more):<br />5:10 - 5:35<br />6:04 - 6:30<br />8:30 - 8:41<br />13:36 - 13:48<br /><br />flute is pretty buried, but it's audibleFate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-71189928416483648022020-04-27T14:15:56.496-07:002020-04-27T14:15:56.496-07:00re the flute player
Can you give me a time-stamp?...re the flute player<br /><br />Can you give me a time-stamp? I just listened to the Good Lovin' (crappy computer speakers, admittedly) and did not hear flute.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-14796210347592516142019-07-17T00:21:44.107-07:002019-07-17T00:21:44.107-07:00Just a very brief account of the benefit here; the...Just a very brief account of the benefit here; the only new revelation is that Hot Tuna played unannounced. The show report doesn't mention Shades of Joy as playing, leaving their appearance uncertain, but instead names Straight Funk (a very obscure local band which I think only played a few benefits in early '71, including a previous benefit for Airwaves). The Gestalt Fool Theatre group is said to have been "the night's highlight." <br />I couldn't find any audience memory of this show, but the Fillmore West sold out, Airwaves made $7000, and it was "a great party" that lasted til 3:30 am (on a Wednesday night!). But a later article reveals that one of Airwaves' goals was not accomplished: the people who came just wanted to see the Dead, not "rap with Airwaves members." <br /><br />Garcia & Saunders had a show advertised at the Matrix that Wednesday; I assume Garcia played that and then hurried over to the Fillmore, since the Dead didn't go on til about 1 am. <br /><br />There being so little information about the show, and Airwaves being such an obscure organization, I decided to look up the history of the group the benefit was for, which turned out to be fairly interesting. Pardon the long non-Dead digression! <br />It appears Airwaves approached the Dead early on, since a December 1970 article says the Dead would play a benefit for them next month; but it was postponed, and they scraped together another smaller benefit in the meantime. As things turned out, despite the event's success it appears to have done little more than postpone Airwaves' demise. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com