14422 Finally....a complete and thoroughly listenable version of this great show! Many thanks to those who put so much time and effort into bringing out the best in the audience recordings available. This is one of "those" nights, and the wild electric set is one of the greatest ever. If you haven't heard this one yet, don't hesitate to download it! Best copy I've ever heard of this... John Reddie 2004-06-06 14:52:47 2004-06-06 14:52:47 5 22617 One of the last remaining Holy Grails of Dead taping is soundboards of 6/24 and 11/8/70. Did they ever exist at all? I know that Owsley was in jail at this particular time, but does that mean the shows weren't recorded at all, or the recordings are just lost/destroyed? Oh well, if they ever do surface, you'll probably hear them here first. Soundboards would be the Holy Grail Tampa Red 2004-10-11 05:46:09 2004-10-11 05:46:09 4 27674 Much of this was featured on KBOO's (Portland, OR, kboo.fm) xmas show '04 (including a shout-out to our local crew!)... Good stuff, this, absolutely cosmic jams- what a Baby Blue! xmas show oceantree 2004-12-25 13:53:34 2004-12-25 13:53:34 4 30296 This is a fine audience recording. If you're an old tapehead type, you want this tape iteration (not the other). If not, don't bother. You'll want to listen to it on good headphones. Due to ambient crowd noise start your d/l at Truckin'. Be patient. Dark Star's chimes are crystal clear. Amazing. Be blessed with the rest while dancin' in the beautiful & groovey stars that will not fade away. For those who know... Star Chimes wlmtell 2005-01-31 23:05:11 2005-01-29 00:51:28 5 39000 You are not going to believe the electric Dead set this night, folks. In a year of many fantastic electric sets (9/19, 2/13, 2/14, 4/12, 5/2, 6/24, etc.) this one is one of the very best. The 75-minute Disc 4 of this show is an epic jamfest is nearly every bit as good as the DS>Other One>Lovelight segment of 2/13/70. Unique transitions to boot here; where else have you found a Truckin>DS>Main Ten>Dancin' in the Streets sequence? If there is a weakness to the show, it's the sound. It starts off well, but during Dancin' the sources change to several (far muddier) sources that are nowhere close to the first AUD. But you'd be a fool to let the sound quality get in the way of your experience of this fine '70 show. P.S. Nice xylophone from Mickey (?) during Dark Star. Whoa... phleshy 2005-04-18 17:46:15 2005-04-18 17:46:15 5 45650 Sound quality not perfect, but spirited performance. I agree with the other reviewer, the Dark Star gets pretty intense...you can feel the electricity in the air. The Main Ten jam sounds dead on with the intro to quite a few of the playing in the band jams of 1977-78. 4 Solid Stars. Scariest Dark Star? phl7@cornell.edu 2005-07-09 09:22:06 2005-07-09 09:22:06 4 50485 Sorry about all the commentary If I had only known the whole world would be listening... the dew of dews, imho it defines the time a great night marty weinberg 2005-09-10 20:22:32 2005-09-10 20:22:32 5 50489 Can you imagine if this show were to be a future official download? Re: Lewis/Klitschko 2005-09-10 21:15:44 2005-09-10 21:15:44 3 52315 It's really too bad about the poor sound quality of this show (and for most of the 1970 shows on here for that matter). This show would be one of my favorites to listen to if I had a good sounding copy of it. I love 1970 but for some reason, and I'm not sure why, most of the great 1970 shows on here do not compare to other years. Even the 1968 shows sound better. Does anyone know why there are no stellar sources on here for 1970? Damn, this show would be so f-ing cool if we had a better source. too bad about the sound! hyperboy 2005-10-05 06:33:25 2005-10-05 06:33:25 3 54247 Since there are 3 versions of this show available on Archive.org, and it is a big download, and an important show, I decided to compare an acoustic song (first one) and an electric song (Truckin) on both of the newer versions - this Owens composite version and the March 2005 version of the Ken/Judy Lee tape. My conclusion is that the March 2005 version of the Ken/Judy Lee tape is unquestionably better, and is likely to be as good as this show ever gets in terms of sound quality (failing access to a Tardis :D ). I'm a professionally trained studio engineer, and the first thing that I look for in comparing these sorts of recordings is the sound of the hall in the recording. Not the instruments, the hall. After an instrument sounds, whenever there is a brief space (silence), in a good recording, you can hear faint reflections - the sound of the hall. Millions of dollars are spent in designing halls to get that sound just right. Anyway, to get back to the point, this Owens version has very little hall sound at all. It has less sound of the audience, applause, etc. Most of that has been lost. The new correction of the restoration of the Ken/Judy Lee tape, which can be found here at Archive.org at: <a href="http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=26743">upgrade version from March 2005 </a>. has good hall sound, it has good audience sound, applause sounds natural. But you don't have to take my word for it - there is an easy way to compare yourself. In the new version at the above link, the third track of that version is "I Know You Rider (acoustic)". However, they were missing the part after 03:52 - so they used *this Owens version* for the missing last minute. Go there and stream the VBR M3U link, and listen to the third track. I guarantee that at 03:52, you will say "Bleh !". That is what you would have gotten had you downloaded this version instead ! Be thankful that it is now after March 2005, and you can listen to the better version. By the way, what was done on that version - going back to the original master tape, baking and re-shelling and transferring to digital with a good A-to-D, is going to make far more of a difference than all the work done on earlier versions that started with already degraded sources. So, I hope that I've helped some 'heads get the best version of this fine show - enjoy ! The New Ken Lee version is much better A Dude 2005-10-29 00:52:01 2005-10-29 00:26:42 5 OK, I don't doubt the significance of this show, and it's truly a shame that it wasn't captured on soundboard for posterity. I took it at face value, 4-1/2 stars, and DL'd the show, then as tracks were being converted to wav., I listened and, hey, this show sounds HORRIBLE. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1970 is a crucial year and this is a great show, but performance-wise this may be 4-5 stars, audio-wise it is 1-2! Go listen 9-20 show at the Fillmore East for decent sound. This is just bad, bad, bad. So, crucial to the legacy blah, blah, blah and all that, this baby gets three stars from me -- and THAT'S BEING VERY GENEROUS! How can this murky sound rate 4+ stars? 3 Jac from Tucson 2006-06-21 13:57:33 2006-06-21 13:57:33 AMAZING show! It's funny that two rare performances of the Main Ten jam, which later became Playin in the Band, occur exactly a year apart on Nov. 8. The 1969 show was released as a Dick's Picks... this one never will since no sbd exists. But this show tops my list in the very strong year of 1970. And this whole run at the Capitol Theater was amazing... download every night of it! The other copy of this show sounds much better! Download the other version 4 Stargazin 2006-10-04 06:21:28 2006-10-04 06:21:28 These port chester shows were the tapes I grew up on. These jerry notes imprinted the soundtrack of my existance. I remember back in the 70's listening to a Grateful Dead tape of a PigPen and Janis Joplin duet singing Lovelight. Most of my tapes back then were either Fillmore East or Port Chester. Does anyone know the date of that show so I can look it up on the Archives? Absolutely love the archives!!! Question? Wally Gator 2007-05-24 18:47:53 2007-05-24 18:47:53 5 Is that the "legendary Marty" who actually taped these shows??? If so: Hat's off to you, buddy! Outside of the early 69 shows -- these Portchester's are my VERY FAVORITES. I'm more partial to 11/5 and 11/6 -- but as you say, the salient point is: 11/8 contains the "Dew of Dews." None better. Ever. This self-proclaimed Dead Head of impeccable taste agrees with you! Marty Weinberg speaks ... he speaks the truth Brontis 2007-10-05 22:36:34 2007-10-05 22:36:34 4 So great to hear music from places we couldn't go. Glad to hear the our taper descendants are still carrying the torch,(and mikes, media, batteries). When Judy and I realized how much MAGIC was going down every night, only to evaporate as our ears stopped ringing, we made the decision to record these otherworldly experiences as best we could. So we began at the end of the 60s and caught what we could for posterity, never dreaming of the web and all the people that would end up listening to our work for, well, forever, I hope. As long as we don't totally screw up the planet. We're still out there, going to shows and keeping the light glowing. "Unable to walk, I will crawl, crawl, crawl..." Well, with a broken back, I'm not shaking my bones the way I could, but I'm still smiling. BTW, we've got hundreds of tapes to go, let's hope the New Year sees some more light shed on the past. Meanwhile head over here and check out the full tape that Judy and I made of that night. ENJOY! http://www.archive.org/details/gd1970-11-08.aud.weiner.28609.sbeok.shnf Glad to have been there. Ken Lee NYC 2009-12-21 07:43:29 2009-12-21 07:43:29 0 15 4.21