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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Fillmore East on 1970-09-17 (September 17, 1970)

Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: September 17, 1970 (check for other copies)
Venue: Fillmore East
Location: New York City, NY

Source: Remastered Audience
Lineage: See Notes
Taped by: Jack Toner
Transferred by: Dwight Holmes, David Minches, Jack Warner, SIRMick
Keywords: Live concert

Description

GD acoustic: Truckin' False Start, banter, Truckin', Monkey And The Engineer, Dark Hollow, Friend Of The Devil, Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Box Of Rain, Rosalie McFall, Cold Jordan > Swing Low Sweet Chariot

NRPS set: Six Days On The Road, I Don't Know You, Superman, Henry, Portland Woman, Cecilia

GD electric: Sugar Magnolia, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin'

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Reviewer: rick e. - - October 8, 2005
Subject: First live Box of Rain ?
Now I wonder if they played Box of rain at any other shows In '70 that aren't listed in deadbase. I really like this version !

Reviewer: skwimite - - August 25, 2005
Subject: Wow! Box
Box of Rain the way it was meant to be! I echo the sentiments of others hoping for a SBD, but there is something quaint about this rickety recording. I admire the effort. From an era when we used to take cardboard and aluminum foil to make an antenna, just to get a snowy picture on channel 11 to watch Sherlock Holmes. The reception has improved over the years, but the content hasn't kept pace. The NRPS set and the electric Dead sound less muffled than the acoustic Dead set to me. 3 stars pretty much for historical value, by cracky!

Reviewer: phleshy - - July 8, 2005
Subject: Great show, so-so quality.
No doubt that this is a great show (the Dark Star is especially nice), not as good as 9/19 but still great. Gotta love the early Box of Rain that is definitely better than its electric performances of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. However, is it just me, or does Box's intro sound just like the chord sequence for a Dancin' jam? If the Dead had arranged Box of Rain electrically in 1970, we just might have heard this unusual segue: Dancing in the Streets>Box of Rain>Dancing in the Streets. It would have been odd, given that the two songs were polar opposites in subject matter; the former about partying good times and the latter a lament of death and mortality. It would have worked, though.

The AUD recording is another matter. It's listenable, for sure, but I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the annoying high-pitched whine present throughout the entire show. It's not horrible, but it's distracting and in places is almost as loud as the instruments. In the text file, the guy says that Noise Reduction was applied. It certainly doesn't sound much like it.

Reviewer: rollandfin - - June 3, 2005
Subject: box of rain
shame this recording is so week, you can hear phil vocally strong, only wish they had played box more often back in 70 and 71, by the time they are doing it in 72 73, donna is just too dominant and the new faster electric style, just as with friend of the devil, doesnt have the same magic, guess one can only dream, And beg that a loud anbd clear soundboard version of this show falls out of someones attic some time soon, it would be valued. I agree with the above comments reguarding the qualtiy of this unpluged material.
thanks though for the music. 3 for historic value.

Reviewer: SIRMick - - May 20, 2005
Subject: It's the same source
This IS the same source as the other version circulating. I spent a lot of time cleaning it up.

Reviewer: beckettwatt - - April 15, 2005
Subject: Considerably Better Quality
Although this is still a proverbial bitch to listen to by the standards of most people, I must say that the quality of this source is a little more palpitable than the other one; apparently this one is a couple of generations younger. You can _almost_ make out the pedal steel and piano on Box of Rain.

Nonetheless, this recording does feature one of THE BEST acoustic sets from 1970 and is also one of the most developed. When they started in December 1969, the acoustic sets pretty much just consisted of Garcia and Weir playing Workingman's material and old folk songs. Here, though, you get the whole band more or less (even Pigpen joins in on piano for the American Beauty material, which makes you wonder why he didn't play keys on that record) joined by Nelson and Marmaduke from the New Riders on a few numbers. Classic. Get it for this acoustic set alone; the decent incomplete electric set is just icing on the cake.

Ratings: 5+ (acoustic), 3 (electric), 2.5 (sound), 3 (overall)

Notes

this is a remaster of shnid 16090

- hiss and nouse reduction has been applied throughout
- a considerable number of small droputs, pops and clicks have been fixed
- numerous volume adjustments have been made
- I found that from St Stephen through to the end there were a number of sections where the channels appear to have been switched, these have now been corrected.
d2t01 20 seconds starting from 2:50, 44 seconds from 4:33
d2t05 first 9 seconds
d2t06 from 2:07 to the end
d2t07 first 3:43, 1:33 from 5:21
- the tape wobble at 4:26 on d2t01 has been partially repaired by patching in 2,61 seconds from the following repeated sequence
- final mastering with iZotope Ozone