And if Bear didn't let these shows out, then who did? C'mon. I have dozens of 68 - 70 shows where Bobby or the band is talking to Bear from the stage about monitors. I don't know what to make of Owsley's comments below. So these shows are a pleasant rarity from a very important year in Dead history, as they began to change their sound from the cosmic distortion of a 1969 Dark Star to the acoustic flavor of FOTD and Cumberland. As is evident from their comments to the crowd at Harper College, 5/2/70 (Dick's Picks #8). The Grateful Dead, born from the same Haight Ashbury mother that created much of the counterculture - both politically and artistically - could not help but be influenced by all that was happening around them. Should we retreat to the country, buy guns, or continue trying to change things? Just to give some historical perspective - this was only one month after the Kent State OH student deaths (murders) which lent a large measure of uncertainty, paranoia and intensity to a year that was already a major turning point for the peace movement, the counterculture and also the rock music world. This is worth getting if, for no other reason, that there are so few good SBD's from the summer of 1970.

Sorry for eating up so much space just trying to give this show the credit it deserves in my opinion

Histortic uniques-5 one of the last great runs in my opinion of the west Vibe/energy(not real upbeat hence the attics but i am referring to the energy of the show) 4 now i can honestly say i have heard better versions of every single song on here from every different dead era they were performed at but thats not why this is getting a five out of five the five comes from first the segues dire>alligator flawless not big on 'drums' but if ur a drum lover there is a decent drum session and more than one i might add i believe two or three great morning dew opener above par for this eras but the magic is def on the second disk the love>nfa>love is unique in its own right and flawess in transistions and lyrical communications in the song ie pigpens rap into the harmony of 'im gonna tell u.' ive heard pig doin better ones but nothing quite as unique as this one please ive only listened to not even a quater of the shows out there so i am not going to pretend i am a true critic and am a dead know it all snob so if this electric set is not unique disregard everything i just said haha please tell me whats up and where i should be looking but in my opinion this show a classic and fun for the matter is def worth ur time and a pure gem of one of the last great fillmore west outing in my opinion of course so to recap also!!!!!!!! forgot the awbygn jam into a darkness jam ahhhhhhh this to my knowledge is one of the last awbygn jams soon after it was thrown at the end of gdtrfb right before the transition into nfa and i believe def sat better by itself as a stand alone jam (awbygn my fav jam biased but check that one out i dont believe they label them on here but on they r there is about a 14 minute jam on my tape between drums>love not that unique until about 8 mins in to it but they r def there awbygn jam starts about 8:30 on my tape and the darkness maybe around 11:00 just guessin im not listening to it right now. its a shame no more downloads but on with the review of the showĪcoustic set missing (oh well) i have read and heard it was average at best, but it would have been nice for completeness. but recommed both Ladies and also the shows for completeness) shortly after the west would share the same fate in july the dead grew up and moved into the arena era (winterland) here and there they would humble themselves and play at the modest theaters but this is definitely a classic fillmore west run 6/4-7 i can not wait until i can listen to the 7th. Just listened to this show and let me tell u it is in my opinion in the top five of the summer shows (70) a nice fillmore west show which i believe starting after this the better shows were performed at the fillmore east until the demise of the venue in april (killer run 4/25-29 71 commercially released as ladies and gentlemen.

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