tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post2841107961983550171..comments2024-03-28T17:56:00.841-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Guide: Cut Us Off Again! Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-20117149487666262072023-03-30T20:57:13.218-07:002023-03-30T20:57:13.218-07:00I bet they preferred fines to having the power shu...I bet they preferred fines to having the power shut off on them! Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-73914700887293489222023-03-12T18:17:44.439-07:002023-03-12T18:17:44.439-07:00Later in their career the Dead paid big-time to go...Later in their career the Dead paid big-time to go overtime. On one run at MSG, the Dead were fined $42,000 for going one hour overtime for each night in the six night run. More in my upcoming book...Grateful Secondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866611234014012885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-23217501769795057462021-10-21T23:36:32.649-07:002021-10-21T23:36:32.649-07:00A 4/18/69 witness writes on the Archive about the ...A 4/18/69 witness writes on the Archive about the power outage before the tape started: "The sound system blew a circuit breaker and the sound went dead in the middle of a song. Pigpen was not happy - his screaming expletives were quite loud, even without electric amplification."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-60200371873274616872020-05-30T09:09:11.726-07:002020-05-30T09:09:11.726-07:00The Terrapin encore was played on 3/28The Terrapin encore was played on 3/28Mason's Childrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02627294824967138952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-58855463028463974582019-11-27T07:31:01.604-08:002019-11-27T07:31:01.604-08:00Another power outage!
11/15/69, the Lanai Theater...Another power outage! <br />11/15/69, the Lanai Theater in Crockett - 24 minutes into Lovelight, the guitars die, but Pigpen & the drummers keep going like nothing's happened. After a while Pigpen remarks, "Looks like the electricity's gone off somehow back here - all the instruments don't seem to work no more." So he asks the audience to make more noise, Weir sings a Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-70824582399353519212019-11-12T21:11:58.066-08:002019-11-12T21:11:58.066-08:004/18/69 Purdue University - An audience member rec...4/18/69 Purdue University - An audience member recalls: "The electric power went out in the middle of the first song "Hard to Handle" causing about a forty minute delay. I can still hear Pigpen swearing. They return and took it from the top." <br />This would've happened before the recording started. The first thing on the tape is a bandmember asking, "Power? Finally Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-71001333651780895922019-01-26T11:17:21.936-08:002019-01-26T11:17:21.936-08:00The previous note made me re-read this post, which...The previous note made me re-read this post, which is great. It made me think of a show on June 20, 1983 at the Merriweather Post Pavillion where bad weather caused the power to go off several times during the second set for seconds at a time but the band played through it all. David Leopoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-29727736985124330362019-01-25T19:47:37.378-08:002019-01-25T19:47:37.378-08:00A newspaper review of the 1/17/69 show at Robertso...A newspaper review of the 1/17/69 show at Robertson Gym, UCSB, describes both a power failure and an early cut-off, not apparent on the tape: <br />"Just as the Grateful Dead began, the power blew and both drummers immediately went into solos as if it was part of the number. When the lights came back on several minutes later, most people suddenly realized what had happened." (Lovelight Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-72816593072939248862018-09-05T15:45:57.818-07:002018-09-05T15:45:57.818-07:002/7/69, the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh - in the...2/7/69, the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh - in the Eleven, the guitars stop abruptly around 2:40, but the drummers carry on for a few more minutes until the band comes back and picks up where they left off. It sounds like a power failure, but there's no obvious stage talk about it, so the band might have just stopped for a drum break. There's some chatter onstage, but I can't make it Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-52967016000745440232018-06-06T20:01:30.873-07:002018-06-06T20:01:30.873-07:00In the short snippet of Feedback from 9/4/67, it d...In the short snippet of Feedback from 9/4/67, it doesn't sound like the Dead get shut off, but Garcia announces, "Well, we've been turned off again - it's now 1:00, folks, now the only thing to do is go home and screw." Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-1473212363415410942018-05-11T17:59:46.139-07:002018-05-11T17:59:46.139-07:00A few more quotes on the Dead's attempted 8/3/...A few more quotes on the Dead's attempted 8/3/66 park show, in Vancouver, BC: <br />A local musician recalled, "They wanted to do some publicity for the gig they were playing that night so they were driving around Vancouver and saw the bandstand at English Bay. Without getting any permission, they decided they'd play there; they set up and were promptly shut down by the police. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-45300118867931879012018-04-15T12:22:44.020-07:002018-04-15T12:22:44.020-07:00A few similar cases:
6/30/74 - there was an annou...A few similar cases:<br /><br />6/30/74 - there was an announcement that the Dead were considering playing a third set but stopped the show because of an incident with the crowd after the second set.<br />1/14/78 - Healy was arrested during the show. Lesh announces that they are cutting the show short because of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-74125132741033537692018-04-04T19:06:55.060-07:002018-04-04T19:06:55.060-07:006/14/85 Greek Theatre. They played five songs of t...6/14/85 Greek Theatre. They played five songs of the first set, then left the stage due to technical difficulties. They came back and played the debut of Keep on Growing and three other songs. 2nd set is notable for the Morning Dew opener and a total of three Jerry ballads in the 2nd set--Dew, a pre-drums China Doll, and Comes a Time.Dr. Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771229779025430726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-28894857185685228882018-04-03T17:21:11.243-07:002018-04-03T17:21:11.243-07:00FWIW, at the '91 Nassau stand, 3/29's firs...FWIW, at the '91 Nassau stand, 3/29's first set was cut short due to PA problems; the night before was extremely short, so they played a Terrapin encore; the night before that was extremely long/ went over the limit, and they had to pay a fine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-17195098109790895532018-04-01T00:40:53.800-07:002018-04-01T00:40:53.800-07:00I forgot to mention that police could also shut do...I forgot to mention that police could also shut down a show due to bomb threats, which were pretty common in those days. Usually the place would be cleared and then after a search people would be let back in and the show would go on, but on one known occasion the show was just abruptly ended - at the U of Oregon in Eugene, 11/16/68: <br />"A fake bomb planted near some amplifiers brought an Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-19719695761272064322018-03-31T07:06:19.797-07:002018-03-31T07:06:19.797-07:00I had thought 10/23/73 was cut off short because o...I had thought 10/23/73 was cut off short because of security guards beating on fans during Casey Jones (Around minute 2:10: https://archive.org/details/gd73-10-23.sbd.partial.goetz.18899.sbeok.shnf/10-23-73t13.shn), but apparently they just stopped it short and then played Saturday Night afterwards (some sources don't have the Sat. Night).Dr. Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771229779025430726noreply@blogger.com