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Grateful Dead 06/06/70
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

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Set I

Don't Ease Me In, The Frozen Logger, Friend Of The Devil, Candyman, Deep Elem Blues, Cumberland Blues, Wake Up Little Susie, New Speedway Boogie

Set II

Morning Dew, Me & My Uncle, Casey Jones, Dancin' In The Streets, Next Time You See Me, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Good Lovin'-> Drums-> New Orleans-> Good Lovin', Attics Of My Life, Dire Wolf, Alligator-> Drums-> Turn On Your Love Light-> Not Fade Away-> Turn On Your Love Light-> Uncle John's Band

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Other artist(s): GD; NRPS; Southern Comfort first set acoustic

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electric set; SBD Reel master > cassette > DAT > CD > SHN; Seeded by Jay Ashley; see info file for listening notes

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flac16; Electric Set Only: Recording Info: SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD Transfer Info: CD -> Samplitude Professional v9.11 -> FLAC. All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller.

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flac16 Acoustic Set Recording Info: SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat -> CD; Transfer Info: CD -> Samplitude Professional v9.11 -> FLAC; All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller

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flac16; 7 Inch Half Track Reel Master @ 7.5 ips(Recorded By Bear on a Sony 770 Reel 2 Reel)- 1st Generation Cassettes (TDK SAX-100's) Transferred By Dick Latvala(Master Reel Playback on a Technics 1506 Reel 2 Reel-Tascam 122 MK111 Cassette Deck No Dolby); Analog to Digital Transfer(Cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon-Sony PCM-R500 DAT @ 44.1KHz by Jim Wise circa late 1990's) Zero Gen DAT play back on a Sony PCM R-500-Digital Out @ 16/44.1kHz-Digital Audio Labs Card deluxe-WAV @ 16/44.1KHz; Editing(Adobe Audition CC)-Mastering & Processing(iZotope Ozone 6)-FLAC encoding(dBpoweramp)-Tagging(Tag & Re-name); Jim Wise

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ken	I went to some 7 Grateful Dead shows in 1970, and this I believe was one of them. I do remember Garcia opening a set with a chilling version of "Morning Dew". I swear they started the opening of "Alligator" by with kazoos - I wasn't hallucinating! Right before that, one of the guys called "Pig man" to the stage (that's what it sounded like they called him)... but I haven't found that banter minor though it is, to help identify the show... Also where is the banter where people in the audience - some of them, anyway, were yelling "Sit down!" while others responded "Stand up!" and Weir quips "Stand on your heads!"? I recently wrote to Owsley, Bear about the rarity of certain Fillmore West 1970 shows or shows seemingly missing songs or portions of shows. An example that stands out in my my mind's eye, is their cover of "It's All Over Now" performed sometime in mid-1970 at the Fillmore West. Only one version, from 09-06-1969 at the Family Dog At the Beach, can be found within the sets or setlists available so far as I was able to locate. (Not to be confused with the Dylan song, "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"). It would have to be among that first year I started going to concerts (that I feel were the best I ever saw of all the Dead shows I went to, which altogether were not that many all told - 7 more in the '70s after 1970; 5 more in the '80s, and 1 in the '90s), beginning with the 1st show I attended, one of the nights featuring the Dead billed with Miles Davis in April 1970 at the Carousel; after that I went to a couple of the next series of evenings they [the Dead] did at the Carousel/Fillmore West in June 1970, and then a couple in a row during August 1970 at the same venue. The night Janis died I saw them billed with Jefferson Airplane at Winterland for the first (at that venue). I've never been able to locate a tape or even a full set list of the complete show that I remember as my favorite. I've taken a journey in my mind to that show in dreams and in thoughts, as this brief story can only begin to tell: Of course, I've added some fantasy to the memory... http://www.livejournal.com/users/crow_fjord/460.html I went on to say in my email to Bear, that of the existing archived 1970 FW/Carousel shows, there are some missing parts that I remember being blown away by at the time. For instance, one show on the Archive is cut right as the Alligator Jam starts, presumably the reels were changed just at the wrong time, if that be the case. Owsley replied: "No the truth is, all the tapes you refer to are bogus- fakes, as are 90% of all 'rare' shows and virtually all early shows supposed to be 'soundboards'. The thing is, the Dead played thousands of shows, and mostly in halls which sounded a lot alike. The had a wide bot repitritive repertoire, and it is child's play to assemble virtually any kind of 'set list' from any taper's extensive and varied collection of tapes. If you, personally, did not actually, on your own machine- record a given show, there is literally no way it can ever be proven to you to be from any particualr show. Thus all that huge taper scene is generally of interest only sop far as teh tape is llistenable, and had zero historic significance- that falls only to the archival tapes recorded by the band's successive soundmen and kept in the GD vault. I firmly believe that my period with them was their golden age, and nothing since has had so much meaning, feeling- or sounds like having so much fun. Whether I had anything to do with that happening, I haven't a clue, but fortunately I was there, and I felt I had to keep a journal of my mixes... Trust me, I NEVER have given any copies of my sonic journals to anyone and no one else recorded the shows, from my board OR in the audience- we did in fact from time to time confiscate tapes and machines. Cassette recorders, especially stereo ones, were very rare, rele to reel machines bulky, and also expensive- live taping in the audience simply did not happen back then, however there are tapes floating around which even claim to be of shows which were cancelled and never happened. Some, like one supposed to be in NYC in Feb '70 (BG would never allow a band he booked to his venue to play anywhere else in NYC- he managed ot kill the Carousel by this tactic in SF- if you wanted to play at his Fillmore, then you could not play at the Carousel, period), it could NOT have happened. I have even had people tell me there were two shows at the Fillmore East in 1970, whereas the Dead played only one show with that standard FE double show format, in Feb '69 with Janis. We (band and crew) revolted on Bill Graham, and told him we woud never again do 2 in one night. We didn't. And yet, in spite of the fact I have complete taped records of all shows at FE, some people, many of which were not even old enolugh to have attended, are trying to tell me there were early AND late shows- I have offered US $1000 cash to anyone who can bring me a (genuine) ticket for any time other than 8PM on any FE GD show after the one with Janis in '69. This offer has stood for years but only 8PM tickets have come forward- several of them. Of course... since they are all that were printed."	\| \|