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Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore West on 1970-06-05

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1970-06-05 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Audience, Jim Wise, Bear, Dick Latvala

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1

Dire Wolf, I Know You Rider, Silver Threads, Friend Of The Devil, Me & My Uncle, Black Peter, New Speedway Boogie

Set 2

Cold Rain & Snow, Easy Wind, Mama Tried, Cryptical Envelopement-> Drums-> The Other One-> Cryptical Envelopement-> Attics Of My Life, Hard To Handle, It's A Man's World, Uncle John's Band, E:Saint Stephen-> E: Casey Jones

Other artist(s): GD; NRPS; Southern Comfort

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Reviewer: laptaper - - January 18, 2016
Subject: Audience recording? No. Mic recording? Yes.

Obviously this wasn't recorded from the audience, but there are telltale signs that this is a miced stage recording. E.g., slight speaker boominess (an artifact of vibrations coming from the containing boxes themselves) that wouldn't show up on a straight SBD. So while this is a mic recording, strictly speaking it's not AUD. Then again, it ain't no stinkin' board, neither. ;-)

Reviewer: vguy72 - - June 6, 2015
Subject: Off the tracks....

....Hard To Handle gets off rough, but smooths out like butter....nice

Reviewer: njpg - - May 29, 2015
Subject: -

So many good shows from this era that even this nice clean "audience recording" is a bit beige in comparison.

Reviewer: PigpenLives - - February 19, 2015
Subject: a night of classic dead

I can't get enough of these mid-1970 runs from the Fillmore West - April, June, August. This recording now gives us a fairly complete set of SBD recordings from the June shows - 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Thanks for sharing!

ps. very good St. Stephen this night

Reviewer: Chris U. - - February 17, 2015
Subject: Poor Bear

The band rides him mercilessly regarding various problems with the monitors. First they can't hear themselves and then the drums are mic'd too loud.

Pipgen: "There's not going to be another fucking word sung from the stage until the monitors get fixed."

Around 7:00 into the Other One there's some high pitched feedback (from the cymbals, sounds like) and you can hear Bobby scream "GODDAMMIT!"

But, as others have noted, the quality of this recording and transfer is amazing. Personally, I find the sound of the band playing right at the bleeding edge of sonic overload most exciting (and it doesn't appear that this audience minded very much). Plenty of detail here, with all the instruments nicely eq'd and separated.

The cut towards the end of Cryptical is brutal but it's a great version otherwise (the Attics barely exists on this tape).

Pig seems to be pretty fired up for this Hard to Handle. There's a few warts in this version and it never really leaves the atmosphere but still a fine cruise.

The St. Stephen, on the other hand, includes an exceptionally intense, no-nonsense jam. I'm sure Casey Jones was not what most people had in mind for a follow-up but it, too, is played with sharp focus and loads of energy.

Reviewer: DMT - - February 16, 2015
Subject: Thank you. Sounds Excellent !!!

love the acoustic "I Know You Riders"

Reviewer: jwaaoxoaa - - February 16, 2015
Subject: NOT an audience recording

this is NOT an audience recording

Reviewer: EVG_1970 - - February 15, 2015
Subject: Is that really an AUD?

Is that really an audience recording? If so, wow.

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