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Poster: Old_NJ_Head_Zimmer Date: Mar 12, 2007 4:15pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

The most mysterious-yet-legendary performance in Dead History? Did it happen?

Interesting link!

http://www.theblackdog.org/gd-bpo/

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Poster: ghostofpig Date: Mar 13, 2007 6:18am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: No way, Jose. Proof.

No. No. and no. I will tell you why. First, at that time I went to college a few hours from Buffalo. At that time, my fellow heads and I knew about evey date they were playing east of Chicago and did our best to attend them. We were at the January and February Fillmore East shows which occurred before this alleged show and, more to the point, the Capitol Theater shows in March----3--20 and 3--21. Not one person in the audience mentioned any Buffalo show. Something of this nature would have caused a major stir in the community. (Mind you, though we didn't have the internet, we had mouths. If said show had taken place, within a week, at least 10,000 heads would have claimed to have been there). Not a word. The Dead didn't sneeze without someone knowing and, most likely recording it. Almost every show in 1970 was recorded from the audience. Someone would have nailed this one. Second: In April, they followed Miles at the Fillmore West. This was written up in Rolling Stone with several quotes from Phil and Jerry about how they would love to broaden their musical horizons and jam with the likes of Davis or, in Lesh's words, a classical orchestra--Philharmonic or modernist. Third: such a show would have made it into at least one of the post Garcia books--Scully, McNalley, and certainly Lesh's book. There would be local aricles, not alleged recollections. Forth, Owsley an/or Lemieux would have acknowledged the concert. Instead they merely maintain that Owsley was not on tour then and that no tape exists. Surely, they would have taped such an event, even without Owsley. And they would have at least acknowledged such an event. As to Foss, his works were composed, not improvised, and no mention of this event is in his biography. Nothing is listed in the list of compositions. Nothing. But I was there, I swear it.
This post was modified by ghostofpig on 2007-03-13 13:18:20
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Poster: Old_NJ_Head_Zimmer Date: Mar 13, 2007 2:45pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: No way, Jose. Proof.

Thanks - I don't believe it happened either. Just too huge to pull off without someone taping at least a portion.

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Poster: smi2les Date: Mar 12, 2007 4:37pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

am I getting warm >

http://www.archive.org/details/1994-05-11.bso.fm.vernon.19784.sbeok.flacf

http://www.archive.org/details/1996-06-16.sfo.aud-fm.vernon.19785.sbeok.flacf

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Poster: Chris Freedom Date: Mar 12, 2007 4:45pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

Smi2les
That is pretty cool, we were just talking about that on the other thread.
Classical Dead !

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Poster: Arbuthnot Date: Mar 12, 2007 7:56pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

[if Cush wasn't there it didn't happen]

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Poster: Street Pig Date: Mar 12, 2007 5:45pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

http://www.deadbase.com/essays/forum5.html

There is a review of that show here, the only info i/ve seen so far

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Poster: smi2les Date: Mar 12, 2007 6:15pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

That's cool,

Kris Delmhorst does a tune called 'Yellow Brick Road'........Cool that she stayed in her own movie w/ guts of her own and her little dog too.

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Poster: Chris Freedom Date: Mar 12, 2007 4:47pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

Jersey Zim,

That article is cool.
Does anyone else claim to have been there or is there any recording out there?

What does the band say?

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Poster: tigerbolt Date: Mar 12, 2007 7:22pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: 3-17-70 Did it happen?

doesn't seem to circulate in the trading world yet http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=554