tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post6793467406947486327..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: April 26, 1970: Poynette, WisconsinLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-31855669042890170472019-01-23T22:10:11.413-08:002019-01-23T22:10:11.413-08:00Paul Gudel wrote an eyewitness review of 4/26/70 f...Paul Gudel wrote an eyewitness review of 4/26/70 for Deadbase, which interestingly contradicts Deadbase's setlist:<br />"The Dead came on in the middle of the afternoon and played two sets. The first set was two hours long and the second set was an hour and a half. The total show was three and one half hours... The Dead opened with a very long Lovelight... From Lovelight they went directly into...a complete That's It for the Other One, including the Cryptical Envelopment sections. And from that they went without stopping into China Cat Sunflower (not followed by Rider)... My most vivid memory of the first set was of a very long Dancin' in the Streets... All I can recall of the second set was that it opened with a very intense Morning Dew... I know they did not play Dark Star...I would have remembered if they had done it... They did material from Workingman's Dead, but I can't recall what specific songs." (Deadbase XI, p.255)<br /><br />The deadlists witness, Ron Ramsey, writes, "They played from 2:30 to 7:30. With a couple breaks. Opened the 1st set with Lovelight. Phil Lesh announced the 3rd set: 'We're gonna do a sunset raga.' Launched into Dark Star."<br /><br />I think that Gudel unfortunately missed the Dead's third set with Dark Star (leaving early to drive home, perhaps), since the show definitely went longer than he recalls. A newspaper article above said "the Dead came on at two in the afternoon and played til the sun went down" (which would have been almost 8pm). <br />The setlist in Deadbase (from an unknown source) looks bogus, although they did play many of the songs in a different order.<br />Witnesses on setlists.net confirm more show details:<br />"They opened with Lovelight, which totally blew our minds, this usually being the closer. [Then] the Other One. Jerry had trouble getting his guitar going at the beginning, then when he did come in mid-piece he totally scorched it... At sunset they played Dark Star. Black Peter was also a standout."<br />"The Dead played for nearly 6 hours! Their show began at noon, they took one 15 minute break and played until about 6:00ish. The sun was going when they stopped playing... They played a 20-30 minute great rendition of Dancing In The Street."<br />"Lovelight came early... Everybody took their hands out of their pockets... The Other One appeared early on its own, and later as part of 'That's It For The Other One.' They must have played every song they knew - 4-5 hours - Dark Star at sunset - St. Stephen."<br /><br />One setlists.net witness recalled the Dead consulting the I Ching between songs to decide on the next song (the Other One), however another witness on dead.net said that it was a guy onstage who threw the I Ching after the Dead played. (He thought it was Ken Kesey, but it wasn't.)<br /><br />In short, this is what we know of the 4/26/70 setlist: <br />I<br />Lovelight <br />That's It for the Other One <br />China Cat Sunflower <br />Dancing in the Streets <br />II <br />Morning Dew <br />Workingman's Dead songs, including Black Peter<br />III <br />Dark Star <br />St. StephenLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-73106945196712994722018-09-24T21:06:01.756-07:002018-09-24T21:06:01.756-07:00I added a short untitled article on the festival f...I added a short untitled article on the festival from the Chicago underground paper the Seed. "The Dead are just Something Else" - they're praised for aiding the success of the festival, and for their "endless acid wipeout" communion with the audience. The afternoon sounds like the 1970 counterpart to Veneta. (But with no cameras rolling.) Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-42930133378836414392013-05-22T16:33:56.978-07:002013-05-22T16:33:56.978-07:00I remeber "Strawberry Alamclock" playing...I remeber "Strawberry Alamclock" playing. All the nude bodies in the stream. The hot sun. And peace at the fest as clearly as yesterday.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442514564144091916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-44503248126507193422012-07-18T01:00:24.056-07:002012-07-18T01:00:24.056-07:00The Lost Live Dead post links to the Wisconsin Mag...The Lost Live Dead post links to the Wisconsin Magazine of History, where you can find Michael Edmonds' article on the festival: <br />http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wmh,50344<br /> <br />One witness "recalled that the the end of the third set most of the band left the stage exhausted and happy, but rhythm guitarist Bob Weir remained at his microphone trembling and entranced, almost catatonic. The Dead's crew came forward, picked him up under the armpits, and carried him backstage." <br />Garcia is said to have praised the festival as "the best festival they had ever performed at, the most mellow." <br /><br />Note that the article above says they played for 4 hours - well within the range of, say, a day at the Fillmore East - and that they played in the sunset.<br />Witnesses say they started in the late afternoon. Apparently they played Lovelight & the Other One in the first set, and Dark Star at sunset. (The sunset there that day was around 7:50.)Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com