Dead of the Day: 04-03-1970

University of Cincinnati Field House

Cincinnati, Ohio

The show gets off to a solid start with a clipped entry into Casey Jones. From there we get a standard, but oh so good China>Rider. Then Pigpen makes his first appearance and throws down on the Hard to Handle; it will not be his only highlight on this night. Bobby then calls for a “drummer’s choice,” which elicits a rocking Dancing in the Streets that devolves into a smoking jam, dominated by Mickey, Billy, and Jerry.

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gd1970-04-03.141361.sbd.boswell.smith.sirmick.flac2496
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Source: Soundboard Master Reel > Reel – Provided by Will Boswell;
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Comments: – Per Deadlists: This was all one long set with an acoustic passage in the middle running from Friend Of The Devil through Katie Mae and brief pauses before and after to re-arrange equipment. – Candyman, first time played Notes: This is a pitch corrected version of shnid 141217 Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help edited and mastered SIRMick March 2018
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Set 1

Casey Jones, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Hard To Handle, Dancin’ In The Streets, Me & My Uncle

Set 2

Friend Of The Devil, Deep Elem Blues, Candyman, Wake Up Little Susie-> Black Peter, Uncle John’s Band, Katie Mae

Set 3

Good Lovin’-> Drums-> Good Lovin’-> Cryptical Envelopement-> Drums-> The Other One-> Cryptical Envelopement-> Cosmic Charlie, Not Fade Away-> Turn On Your Love Light-> We Bid You Good Night

Second Set acoustic
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Reel > Technics RS1506 > Tascam DA3000 (1 bit DSD) > dB poweramp > wav 24/96 – Transferred by Matt Smith; Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX6 Advanced > iZotope 5 Advanced > CD Wave > TLH > Flac 24; edited and mastered SIRMick March 2018
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SIRMick and Matt Smith
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00:00
1
Casey Jones
04:16
2
China Cat Sunflower >
04:15
3
I Know You Rider
05:07
4
Hard To Handle
05:37
5
Dancing In The Street
10:31
6
Me And My Uncle
03:44
7
Friend Of The Devil
04:20
8
Deep Elem Blues
06:12
9
Candyman
05:13
10
Wake Up Little Susie >
02:17
11
Black Peter >
07:18
12
Uncle John’s Band
07:07
13
Pigpen comes on stage/setting up
02:05
14
Katie Mae
04:01
15
Good Lovin’
07:51
16
That’s It For The Other One >
18:08
17
Cosmic Charlie
06:36
18
Not Fade Away >
05:29
19
Turn On Your Love Light [17:#16]
17:27
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The second set is acoustic and all Jerry tunes, save Pig on Katie Mae. The early Friend of the Devil includes some alternate lyrics. Deep Elem, Candyman, and Uncle John’s are all tasty and clean little nuggets of Dead sweetness. Jerry’s voice is so resonant and touching throughout all of them. Then Pig gives us a solid Katie Mae to cap off the middle period.

The third set opens with a fine Good Lovin’. With Pig on vocals, the boys enter into a straight-up blues-rock jam in the middle of the tune that has the whole band playing as a single writing beast, culminating in some awesome vocal vamping to end the song. Next up is an Other One Suite that is the standout of the entire evening, especially the second Cryptical which arches outward and then thrashes about before heading off soaring again; it is a thing of beauty. A great Cosmic Charlie follows only to lead to a short, hard jammed Not Fade Away that sort of breaks into Lovelight. While Pig does not get into a full-on rap at the end of it, he still takes out all the stops and delivers a monumental effort. Unfortunately, the We Bid You Goodnight encore is not on the recording.

On this night, the Dead highlighted a bill that included the Lemon Pipers and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. The Lemon Pipers were a psychedelic bubblegum pop band that had a number one hit that year with Green Tambourine. One can imagine that they played a fairly standard musical set. However, it is entirely unclear what the Merry Pranksters would have been doing for their act, short of handing out LSD.

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2 responses to “04-03-1970”

  1. P_P_K Avatar
    P_P_K

    Grateful Dead acoustic. Music to come down by.

  2. Ron Avatar
    Ron

    “…short of handing out LSD…” hahaha, ah, what a long strange trip it’s been…. 🙂

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