All of a sudden Midnight Hour is starting!?
The cassette I had included Bill doing his More! More! More?
New York... It was a good time for him to let go of the too tight personal grip he had on his business!
But then again, he could do whatever he wanted cuz everyone loved the place, but wanted more, more, more money!
Give the people what they want, unless they don't know no better!
Love the show, great recording, mostly because its not 20 or more generations deep like my cassette!

Overall: Great show. Somewhat over-hyped since there are a lot of good shows this spring. Best BIODTL ever. Amazing CR&S comes out of nowhere.

1st Set: We start of with a very nice TRUCKIN then some tuning. We get a nicely played BERTHA then some tuning. Pig comes out with a very big HURTS ME TOO then some tuning. A high-handed CUMBERLAND BLUES > MAMU then some tuning. A stunningly lovely BIRDSONG that aches for Janis’ voice to be heard one more time. Then some tuning. A nice PITB then … a broken string and some tuning. LOSER is huge and fraught with angst. We get an electric DARK HOLLOW that is played lovingly and in tune. Next is the holy grail HARD TO HANDLE. I’ve always liked this version but I’m wondering if 4/27 isn’t a little better. Next is an electric RIPPLE and I could go home happy but there might be more. There is more tuning. BOBBY MCGEE is perfect with another great CASEY JONES (there aren’t many of them).

2nd Set: Starts off with a raucous and silky smooth MORNING DEW. I forgot they played MINGLEWOOD but this sounded just like the old version, haven’t changed it yet. SUGAR MAG is good. They pull out BLACK PETER and have the place so quiet you can hear someone pick up a paperclip. Then they play a version of BIODTL that really rocks out. I don’t think I’ve heard one quite this good before. They tear it up. SECOND THAT EMOTION is just ok. I believe this is the last one. ALLIGATOR is fun to hear again, no updating it here, just the basics. They come out of DRUMS tentatively and it seems maybe they thought they were going to play something but forgot they had played it the night before so we get this whole jam of them trying to decide then we get a nice intro into GDTRFB. This is as good as it gets for this song and I like that it’s not paired with NFA. Then end it very differently tonight, very abrupt then a quiet jam that get louder and just - morphs - into a very different, mellow, COLD RAIN AND SNOW. Best version of this song. We now get treated to everyone yelling especially the girl that yells out “JOHNNY B. GOODE!”. They do us right by a stellar CHINA/RIDER. After a mercifully short GSET they go into a standard JBG then right into UJB. Good version. Encore of MIDNIGHT HOUR is quite tasty especially paired with a AWBYGN. Before the encore Bill Graham tells everyone to stop being assholes.

Whoever's playing the tambourine during Morning Dew needs to be keelhauled.

-q

46 years ago today my friend Greg and i saw this show. That was the night i got on the Bus. As best i can recall, which is not that well, i saw them 10-12 more times over the years.

This was one of the top five tapes everybody had in the early 80's: 2/14/68 (maybe), 2/13/70, 5/26/72, 6/18/74, closing of winterland, and this one. I recall hacky-sack and a boom-box with 4/29/71 in my high-school gym.

I love this performance for its ragged, short-handed self, for the reckless swoop through Stephen on the way to GDTRFB, for the chutzpah to play Second that Emotion, for Garcia's strut through China Cat, and for Mr. Bob Weir to slash through everything. It's no subtlety, all Dolby C, New Yawk more more more, and, presumably, Steve Parish riding shotgun with Marina on her moped, after this closed, after dawn.

hot second set that circulated well when it mattered

My 4th Dead show.
I was hangin' with my best friend, we were out surfing in Seaside Park, NJ and an older surfing buddy of ours came down to the beach and asked us if we wanted to go to NYC to see the last Dead show at The Fillmore East. My friend and I went to our first 2 shows together so we said "Sure!" We drove up to Jersey City to pick up another older friend who had been with us at our first 2 shows. Got into the city, parked, strolled up to the box office, plunked down $4.50 each for standing room only tix and walked in and the New Riders were playing. 30 years later I downloaded the complete show including NRPS and it was 5 cd's! After 30 years that St. Stephen tease gave me goosebumps, and still does to this day! Pig was on fire (as he always was!) Bill Graham was Bill fuckin' Graham! Classic!

i love just about any show with this tune in it. not sure why but it resonates with me...rest of the show is pretty darn good too...

Attractive set list, but not the best of the year by any means.

Awesome show. Everything sounds GOOD! That is, good in the absolute sense.

It all fits together so tight!

This show is on fire.both sets are very well played and everyone is so on.gr8 set lists,easily one of my top 3 for 71'.

Worth 5 stars for an epic final performance of Alligator alone. The jam before gdtrfb is some of the best playing they ever did. I like that Pig's organ is actually audible; he is the most under-rated keyboard player they ever had. Great sound, no wonder they released this on CD.

if i ever have to show one how the dead sounded, i guess this will be my choice. it's one of my favorite shows, setlist is super, sound is vivid and now even better i feel (hard to tell on cheap headphones), first i thought it leaks a bit in bass, but it's fine. i don't mind the additional track cuts. i know most mp3 players can't handle them proper. you have two options to counter this.

1st buy a different player (ha, ha, i had ONE cheap korean brandless player who handled the prebuffering properly, if you like this from a branded one you pay a lot lot more. a small piece of software and you pay a lot more, grrr.... i also like classical music and always thought it's mean, mr.sony :( yeah, especially you, what a stupid idea to sort tracks only by title and give me no chance to sort by filename, i thought you like classical music mr.sony? how could one listen proper to that without prebuffering and sort by filename?)

2nd download it and join the tracks toghether to your longings. there exists free software which does the job quite good (i.e. mp3directcut).

rrschzw28 - I'm sure I'm not alone in being bored with the point you're trying to make.

Get it into your head that: it's history, it's been done, you can't change it afterwards, for FOOK's sake, it's like saying you think the Mona Lisa was painted the wrong way round ......... YOUR CONSTANT WHINING AIN'T GONNA CHANGE NOTHIN'.

If you really want to hear these 'pieces' uninterrupted without breaks, learn how to burn them onto CD and click the "No Gaps Between Tracks" button.

Learn to look past the end of your nose.

Get a life ...........

And give everyone else a fuckin' break from your constant whining.

Thanks for breaking up Alligator/GDTR/Cold Rain & Snow even more with 'Drums' and 'Jam'; so instead of two interruptions we get four.

Drums? What possessed Billy? And a Jam? At a Dead show? Who woulda thunk?

Nothing personal, just trying to make a point.

What a show! Every song is excellent. Two that are different than any other renditions I've heard are New Minglewood Blues and Greatest Story. I really like the Hard to Handle and Drums. The entire show, especially set II, is phenomenal, really! Great transitions between many tunes...

Great sound quality, too.

The sound quality on this one is fantastic. The show is amazing. Really catches the Dead during their transition from the blues band they were in the 60's to the band I grew up with. Great show!

About 38 years ago I bought a vinyl bootleg with this Minglewood, Second That Emotion and Cold Rain. Old friends...

Ron's organ is clear in this mix!

Pretty good sq here but I still prefer 105925. It's a bit cleaner and has better levels. Sorry to spoil the love fest.

Title says it all.

Great Job Charlie. The depth and clarity are incredible. This is the new 4/29 source. Better than anything else out there.

wow the sound is incredible , crowd noise at the appropriate times, cant think of a better sounding , as significant show here. thank you so much cm for the major upgrade , i thoroughly enjoyed my last 2.8 hours.