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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Piedmont Park on 1969-07-07 (July 7, 1969)

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Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: July 7, 1969 (check for other copies)
Venue: Piedmont Park
Location: Atlanta, GA

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: Master Soundboard Cassette > Cassette > DAT > CDR > EAC > SHN
Transferred by: Scott Clugston
Keywords: Live concert

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Morning Dew, Mama Tried > High Time > Casey Jones, Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Lovelight

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Reviewer: DJ Psychomike - - July 2, 2009
Subject: 30 Years Ago This Weekend
I was 15 when I went to this festival in Atlanta and the day after party with the Dead.

http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/59.html

What a time. What a celebration of freedom.

Reviewer: lantapop69 - - September 28, 2008
Subject: I went to Grady in 1969
A great night! The first time I saw the Dead. on Pink Peace Sign.

Reviewer: LisaNewMexico - - March 11, 2008
Subject: ToRupert47
Rupert - saw your review - I think I know you from those old Atlanta days - did you go to Grady and did you hang with Kathy (I think that was her name) at the house on 13th Street - or was it 12th?

Reviewer: mystere2@bellsouth.net - - March 6, 2008
Subject: What a night! So glad it was captured.
This was a night to experience! (read about it here: http://www.thestripproject.com/Hippies_Stories/Entries/2007/5/19_Dead_in_Piedmont_Park.html
Hear Duane Allman's "yes there is a mountain" riff in Lovelight?
I'd seen the Dead before and many times afterwards, but this night broke through dimensions

Reviewer: davidaron - - October 29, 2007
Subject: ....And leave it on!
Man! This version of Lovelight is sick. Hear how Pig really works the crowd in this one. Show gets 5 stars for this tune and the audience alone!

Reviewer: TheEleven1969 - - October 28, 2007
Subject: great jamming from dark star down
Dark star is quality
Good show, the beginning of that eleven is a part of st stephen

Reviewer: Rupert47 - - July 22, 2007
Subject: I was there
This was a "thank you" free concert staged by the organizers of the first Atlanta Pop Festival which had gone off quite well a few days before. Opening for the Dead in Piedmont Park picnic pavilion were Delaney & Bonnie, Spirit and Chicago Transit Authority . . . amazing that this was taped! Pigpen was hobbling around with a cast on one of his legs . . . we drove to the bay area right after this show and later lived on St Stephen's Farm in Tenn

Reviewer: dcc292 - - March 6, 2006
Subject: 7-7-69
This rough and tumble show has good energy and a real fine Dark Star. Mama Tried is a bit of a trainwreck and Casey Jones is the old rough draft, only a notch above the version from 6/22/69.

Reviewer: williscat2000 - - March 1, 2006
Subject: great show
sound quality not perfect, but absolutely fine. great playing.

Reviewer: tipsycat - - February 20, 2006
Subject: First Deadshow for A Generation X'er
This was my first Deadshow. Rode on My Dad's shoulders during most of the show. I was one year old! It took me 15 years to rediscover the dead. By that time the sound had changed, but the spirit remained! Now the spirit still manages to slip through tight fisted corporate fingers via this internet stream. Bob Weir in a penstripe suit? Hippy Flower Power Ideals bringing in hard cash on slick packed compact discs for a new generation of yuppies looking back to the past-perhaps looking back and wondering what the spirit was that they don't grasp though tight fists grabbing for hard cash? Keep on streaming!

Reviewer: phleshy - - April 20, 2005
Subject: Wow.
This is a very underrated Dead show. Apparently this was a free concert, and due to the band's lack of pressure to do well (not that there was much anyway) they pulled off an incredible show, bursting with energy. However, the first several songs are rough, with the exception of a very early Casey Jones (with a different intro and instrumental sections) and High Time and Morning Dew have some very rough Jerry vocals.
But the Dark Star is fantastic, and the beginning jamming is landmark, taking 13:32 (!) to hit the first verse. Hear the audience go nuts, it's that good. I still prefer 11/2/69's Star, but this one is damn close. Amazing 37-minute Lovelight to close out this show.
Plus, this is one of those shows that has DICK'S PICKS written all over it. Though the quality is very raw with considerable hiss, that could be cleaned up for a Dick's Picks. Smoking show.

Reviewer: MushroomEagle - - December 3, 2004
Subject: Very underrated true...
Just the pure story behind this show makes the notes rip through you harder. The sound quality isn't excellent, but nothing that will keep you from listening to it again. Truthfully an amazing show all the way from the first track to the last...not something that can always be said for dead shows. Recording quality is dwarfed by the actual quality of sound that the dead display. Their notes are spot on and flawless. Very clear and focused show. I love it.

Reviewer: dirty jev-o - - October 12, 2004
Subject: feedback
nice dark star...too bad they were getting terrible feedback during the first 15 minutes....why wasn;t this mentioned in the 1st review? great playing once again.....nice quality too except for the feedback..

Notes

unfortunately, Dark Star thru Lovelight would require an 86 minute disc,so, the the Dark Star > St. Stephen disc break was done with no fades or overlaps to facilitate a seemless "re-assembly".