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Grateful Dead 06/07/70
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
Set I
Don't Ease Me In, Silver Threads, Friend Of The Devil, Candyman, Cold Jordan, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Cumberland Blues, Me & My Uncle, New Speedway Boogie
Set II
Cryptical Envelopment-> Drums-> The Other One-> Cryptical Envelopment-> Drums-> The Main Ten-> Sugar Magnolia, Louie Louie Jam, It's A Man's World, Mama Tried, Sitting On Top Of The World, Cosmic Charlie, Casey Jones, Good Lovin'-> Drums-> Good Lovin'
Set III
 
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Other artist(s): GD; NRPS; Southern Comfort first set acoustic

"From: David Hollister
Subject: A show to be heard

Interesting info that makes this show so cool:

During the little drumming interlude prior to the Other One, there is some woman
you can hear ranting and raving and generally going on about Viet Nam. It would
seem the band kind of lets her state her piece in its entirety before going into
the Other One. Very cool.

The whole second CD is very cool. The jam after the Cryptical reprise is
great. It goes into a kind of lulling drum beat which goes on for a few minutes
(what I called Drums again, even though it isn't in the official setlist) before
Phil takes it up and you hear the definite Main Ten bass line. A great Main Ten
jam that goes on for about 4 1/2 minutes or so before Bobby takes it into Sugar
Magnolia.

First version of Sugar Magnolia. Very cool :) No, it doesn't rock, but up
until now, the earliest version I'd ever heard was the one from the famed
6/24/70 Cap Theater show, which I thought was unusual enough to be of historical
significance. This one is also interesting historically.

Between Top of the World and Casey Jones the band sits around talking to the
crowd and deciding what to play next. What kills me is Bobby's comment: "Hey,
there's a guy over there, he's always over there and he always yells out 'Golden
Road!'. I wanna know who he is, because man, you really take the cake. To tell
you the truth we've forgotten how to play that song" or something like that.
You can also hear several suggestions for songs, among them "White Rabbit",
which cracks up the crowd.

Great stuff. Let's get it out there. The acoustic set is pretty
straight-forward, but it's the electric set I think that really shines. The
boys just seems to be having a great time the whole show."
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shn set from Bob Clevenger ; derived from some other source with edits/changes by Bob
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ken I went to 7 Grateful Dead shows in 1970, and this was definitely one of them.
I enjoyed reading the prior comments about the banter at this show, which fleshed out my memories of the evening.
What I had previously remembered about this show is when Bobby stopped everything and said something like - "Who is that guy?" (hipster in the crowd requesting some esoteric tune or other)
I saw that feller's beatific smile with a old-fashioned walrus mustache...
it was one of those moments when the lights were half on... usually the lighting at the Carousel was pretty dark except for the strobes at one side and a few black lights in the back, besides the main lights onstage, but at times the main floor was lit up and you could make out some of the interesting faces.

"You're always requesting 'Golden Road'... we don't know how that goes anymore..."
That was funny! The better part of the crowd snickered... we were all in on the obscurity of the request.. for years until I came across that moment on tape
again online at Archive.org I had forgotten what the request was for, and figured the dude was either asking for "So We Leave The Castle" or, "Whatever Became Of The Baby"... and I thought they answered, "sure thing, next set!"
And there was of course the usual extra dollop of clapping at the start of St. Stephen... but no catcalls, we were all one... but...
it was the night of the dividing line! Yes...
Between half or so of the audience getting more into it than the laid back half which had been the bigger half, now intending to pitch tents in there for the duration or something...
with their blankets spread on the floor in the dark, they were all in unison, calling out "Sit DOWN!"
Prior 1970 shows on off-nights, usually the band would come out and start playing to an audience sitting on the floor, why get up?
Until they'd start whipping it up with a fast tempo number, that's when we'd get into shakin it a bit, which was distracting and even BLOCKING the sit-in section and then the rebuttal, between songs, all of a sudden, was, "Stand Up!"
That went on for a little while, Jerry and Bobby watching this new development, like, oh, this is interesting, what are the kids trying to do? It wasn't serious, just a slightly weird argument with no winners... an awkward moment the band just waiting for them to decide, and then Bobby broke the spell... by doing this TV news anchor voice with his amused drawl, "Stand on your heads!", and everyone cracked up.
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