Grateful Dead: Fillmore East 20/09/1970 full show

[@peterbroderson6080]

Vietnam was happening and I was a brain-washed 19 year old when The Grateful Dead changed my life for the better!

[@leftyspade]

You weren't alone; I fucking hit the road and made Nederlands my home. The worst fucking war of all time. If the Vietnamese had blond hair and blue eyes, that war never would have never destroyed so many great people.

[@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN]

😅😊

[@susiefairfield7218]

🤘🏼🎧🪶🔥🫶

[@BOBBOTO]

​@leftyspade hogwash. You can't even spell The Netherlands. Lol. That blue eyed blonde stuff is just some stuff you are parroting from another clown who, like you, wasn't even alive back then. Fraud. Poser.

[@BOBBOTO]

​@leftyspade What a load of baloney. You can't even spell the Netherlands. As for the blue eyed blonde blather, that's just nonsense you heard from another pseudo hippie who, like you, was not even alive when that war raged. Your superfluous use of the f- word also gives you away. Very emblematic of your generation. Go back to class, poser. Phoney. Fraud.

[@bobpurcell5162]

Best Dead Ever 1969 - 1972. Loved every minute.

[@missyounorm33]

This is God bequeathing his children the joy of being alive in the music

[@stevenwernli3933]

Indeed. Well said

[@MrKramjet]

You can say I said it.!! Steller show. This stuff informed my joy meter at 15yrs old...back in 1972. Transformational. I'm 66 and still groovin' my ass off. Thanks for a sweet share. Best audio quality I've heard for this show!!

[@danieljosephleo]

Thanks so much! Love the '69-'72 era...

[@ApolloSuns]

Agreed, love 73 as well!

[@marcsimon1720]

​​@@ApolloSunsMe too!!69-73and74 as well...👍🎶⚡☮️💨💨💨69-74

[@ApolloSuns]

@@marcsimon1720 those were golden years.

[@marcsimon1720]

@@ApolloSuns 👍 Totally agreed 💯

[@minusstage3]

They certainly steal the wheel

[@phillipbruff6643]

Not only because of their talent/music; the GREATFUL DEAD treated their fans with awesome respect, Which makes them the most bestest band ever. Plus no 2 shows were the same. Who else has this many shows on KZbin??? NOBODY!!! SO MUCH POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THEM...CAN'T TYPE THAT LONG...

[@DavidAcevedoAlvaro]

Im so grateful to youtube and all the guys who share this inmense wealth , I d never imagine in a thousand years that we would be so gifted with the magic of the dead. If I dont hacve about 500 shows on cd and now they are many on video even one click away, the only problem is I might injure my indez finger 🙏

[@lifeonsibuyanphilippines7212]

Would have been so much better if the crowd and dead space we're not edited out. As Pigpen said, "don't fck with it, keep it as it happened"

[@freew0rrld]

I think this is already my favorite show of 1970. What a great for the band and what a gift to be able to listen to this so clearly. Thank you for the upload!

[@Moki-z5m]

Watkins Glen 🌹!

[@jamesmack3314]

@@Moki-z5m The Allman Brothers featuring Dickie Betts killed it at Watkins Glen. I believe it’s showcased on the live album, wipe windows check the oil -killer stuff.

[@sweetjane8195]

Downloaded this one!!! (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@AllenCohn-o9d]

Saw many of these great acoustic/electric shows at Fillmore East, Academy of Music, and the Capitol in Port Chester in 69-71 both with and with out the New Riders., (Jerry playing pedal steel for the NRPS) They were just INCREDABLE.! Unquestionable the most talented incredible folk, jazz/rock band ever!!!

[@direwolf6234]

yes .. feb 71 portchester - the bomb scare show !!

[@josephspott3132]

Celebrating my 50 year anniversary of seeing them with 600 ,000 others at Watkins Glen. A Long strange trip it was. Peace.

[@ApolloSuns]

Thats amazing!

[@markcampetti5460]

lucky you!

[@LucyLennon909]

I was at Watkins Glen, too. Hitch-hiked from North Jersey 👍

[@joefelice5062]

Hope you arrived early ;)

[@LucyLennon909]

​@@joefelice5062like they say ... if you can remember ... you weren't there. 😅🤣

[@amyyargosz9387]

This show is absolutely incredible! So grateful I stumbled upon it. Easy wind and attics of my life 🔥🔥

[@Darrylizer1]

1970 Grateful Dead shows were pure magic. My favorite year... maybe. It's hard to pick.

[@sweetjane8195]

One of my favorite years!!! (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@billshechtman1524]

Definitely loved 1970 shows, went to as many as I could, and then I knew I would have to follow Jerry wherever he may be playing because I knew he was super special and magical. I still miss him every day. Rest in peace Jerry, millions will never forget you.💙🌹💚🌹☮️🌹💚🍄💚

[@456subway]

Yeah, to me there's sometihing about late 1970. I love these Fillmore East September recordings. My favorite shows I went to might be November of that year in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the recordings of those shows are really bad quality.

[@direwolf6234]

@@456subway yes the 46th street theatre 4 night run .. !!

[@Scottymo-pj7iw]

Every time I hear broke down Palace the hairs on my arms stand up I get all freaking emotional. I guess I'm getting soft in my old age❤❤

[@benzminibusdoc]

Never heard that Brokedown Palace. It is sweet and beautiful beyond the words, which are awesome

[@maitaifine1351]

the good news is that we have this amazing fillmore east show to cherish forever...the bad news is that the fillmore east is now an apple bank to blemish second avenue!

[@santanughosh2313]

♥♪♥♪ Let there be songs to fill the air ♥♪♥♪

[@tonycarmody5574]

I was lucky enough that this was my 1st Dead show. I was a couple months shy of 14. Me & my buddy hit it off so well with the ushers they hid us out so we could stay for both shows. Just the beginning of many mind blowing nights at Fillmore East! They used to call me Little Man.

[@deancaron988]

Acoustic Dead, my favorite any year.

[@stevenwernli3933]

My mind starts wanderin' about one hour and seventeen minutes into this. All who wander, are not lost.

[@danielturner5671]

Amazing show both the musical experience and tonal quality. Easy Wind is as good as it gets.

[@danielmoore7332]

The sound quality is amazing. I saw a couple acoustic sets by the boys but not on this tour. American country music at it's finest!

[@scotty6124]

I wouldnt ever call this american country music. Country music is simple and repetitive, this is a genre that the Dead created themselves.

[@danielmoore7332]

Repetitive? IDK. What I listened to as for country music in the 50's & early 60's was great stories & musicianship. Apparently you're well versed in 'modern' country which is nothing but pop music with a twang. The boys knew what they liked & covered- Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens etc. Jesse Fuller folks songs. It's REAL country @@scotty6124

[@woundedknee3303]

Love hearin Pigpen sing Easy Wind. Killer Deep Elem too - thanks for posting!

[@ChrisByrne-dr4gu]

My favorite acoustic dead show, we played this set as my deadhead buddy was dying he passed during to lay me down, 😢 RIP Joe

[@mikemestas9835]

thats very how can i describe it very near something so high and i dont mean drugs but if so who am i yet that touches my heart

[@larrym2434]

❤

[@jazzandrocknroll3235]

Very sorry for your loss, RIP Joe

[@seankeay7045]

Acoustic Big Railroad! Love it.

[@davidwaltzer2235]

and in a the key of G which is an interesting switch. Has more of a country feel

[@joefelice5062]

It’s amazing that the Dead were one type of band from say 67-69, then they just opened up in 1970 and showed everyone that they were everything.

[@jamesmack3314]

This is very interesting to hear first time, but yes, for sure kind of a psychedelic acid rock band and then became pretty much full country ( not quite but folk rock)which was kind of cool, but it was that time in history when you had people like James Taylor, Neil Young, and other country rock outfits like the birds and the flying burrito brothers..Dead going oh natural I guess

[@ocoeepicture]

true man!

[@sweetjane8195]

They are everything!!! (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@mattb645]

69 was when this kind of thing started

[@jackdepalma]

Electric and less electric, acoustic to electric. In the 1969 and 1970 dead it was creating new space. It was electric but also folk rock. 3:23

[@Havoc-bc6oy]

Best uncle John I’ve ever heard. It’s like they just recorded the studio version and played that night.

[@brettbeattie]

This so wonderful. Thank you for posting!

[@golds04]

Any recordings with Bob on semi hollow and Jerry on any Gibson- are sonically sumptuous. I get their desire to experiment- but for my ears 🎉🎉❤. Ty. Great 👍.

[@ApolloSuns]

It sounds so good!

[@Lea99Jones]

Getting an earful of Bobby's excellent work.

[@ocoeepicture]

damn i got so lucky the other night! this vid happened to be suggested so i clicked and laid back. so much greatness in this one. the Dead at their ramshacklin', Muppets Take Caution best. INCREDIBLE they made it thru songs the way they did. like forming the direct scenic route path

[@henrywroclawski5527]

Best rendition of Attics of My Life imo. They usually sound like cats in heat. My first Dead show was Nov. 27,1970 Thanksgiving weekend. I was 16 yo

[@thenazarite2444]

The greatest band on Earth

[@hangerbird]

Love the quality of this! Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@observablebear]

This is treasure! Thank you.

[@jimhausman]

My 9 yr old has my cassette and he loves uncle John’s band and he loves the cassette. It is his now. Passing the torch. And thank you for posting this. My son discovered your KZbin yesterday.

[@susiefairfield7218]

Excellent 👌 Tone & Mix❤⚡💙🔥🛤️🔥🤘🏼💯👍☮️🙏🌹💃🎶🎧🎶 Thank You

[@marcsimon1720]

😊✌️ High Susie 💨💨🎶

[@sweetjane8195]

♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@susiefairfield7218]

hey now ✌🏼Happy Jerrydays Eve🌈🔥🎶🫶🎧🌊🏄‍♀️🌙🌌💃🗿

[@Stevopapito]

To Lay Me Down one of the most beautiful things I ever heard 🍀

[@mattb645]

It's maybe my least favorite Garcia/Hunter tune, but this is the best performance.

[@Gyduker]

Stoned man

[@herbbirdsfoot]

One of the best gigs they ever played and also one of the last shows where it feels like the band and everyone in the venue is heading to another universe, like it or not.

[@stevenwernli3933]

Whats not to like?

[@thomkerr]

We

[@willieluncheonette5843]

was there. Bobby took me in for free when the band went in. (He did it a few times) I was abut to bum for a free ticket just like many of us poor boys did back then..

[@jamesmack3314]

So you’re saying, Bob weir took pity on you and said come on in for free well that’s pretty cool

[@sweetjane8195]

Very happening!!! (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@jamesmack3314 Jack from Jefferson Airplane did the same thing a few times. Compare to Pete Townsend who when I asked him to take me in gave me the dirtiest look I've ever received.....lol

[@jamesmack3314]

@@willieluncheonette5843 fucking Brits😩😂

[@Gyduker]

Brook benton did it for me

[@drogba4evah672]

Incredible performance and amazing sound quality. What a find. Thanks for the upload.

[@ChinacatSunflower-cw1cd]

That'll china cat grease duckin my ear up sideways real good! Blessed guitar strumings from beyond. Thank you!

[@stevenwernli3933]

Phil during China Rider!

[@sweetjane8195]

Totally!!! My kitty has your name! (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@jackdepalma]

Jerry JERRY deep ellum blues 8:03

[@Gyduker]

Trippin

[@jackstraw4129]

Good evening, don't know if this is in my files but excellent, excellent sound quality. Fantastic show and setlist. Thank you for keeping grate music alive.

[@lhk1951]

70 was a wonderful year but i still love 71 into 72. the singing was wonderful, keith adds to pigpen before he dies, i like the one drummer lineup. garcia was at his best during this run. They were a bit more refined but still the best damn rock and roll bar band in the universe.

[@jamesmack3314]

Well, those two years are the greatest in popular rock music without any hesitation, when you think of all the music that came out of those two years not just the Grateful Dead, but countless others it’s an embarrassment of riches you had some of the greatest albums in history, like who’s next Sticky Fingers Led Zeppelin 4 LA woman aqualung ELP trilogy the list is endless

[@thomkerr]

Wonderful to see, hear, almost breath the enchanted Dead paths of harmony. >TB

[@tylerthompson1842]

Acoustic Brokedown Palace👌

[@ScottlovesCarol]

Hell yeah!!! What a wicked, awesome setlist!!! Got this on cassette but the quality is not the best. Thank you, for posting this one!!! My wife and my friends saw you at Wrigley last year. You were eating ice cream and walked by us to check out the view!! Many thanks to you!!!!

[@namijnebruhtra7683]

This is just like Tony the tiger said "Great"

[@paulmaggiar8274]

Excellent quality, and no long banter segments between songs. This is so good, thank you...

[@Hotpuppy]

more "tuning" than banter... except for Bobby and the "Yellow Dog Story", which occasionally entertained the heads

[@paulmaggiar8274]

@@Hotpuppy: I was referring more to the audience, but whatever. I just appreciate the fact that I don't need to press the skip button half a dozen times after every song.

[@johnhayes8520]

Happen to be listening to this on 9/20/24, great recording, you can really hear Bob's guitar work.....the bass and drums on Caution (Do not stop on tracks) are fantastic....

[@tilibro3]

For all the comments about ads throughout the video: My channel isn't monetised. KZbin put them there. Unless you have an ad blocker, that's the only way you can remove them.

[@archstanton_live]

This is another outstanding show. Thank you.

[@kevinrudisill3527]

I lived through those days 💜

[@Magnetron33]

This is around the first time I saw them in Iowa City with New Riders as opener. Jerry played pedal steel with them for their entire set I was riding with someone else and at 1:40 am they wanted to leave. So we did and they were still playing

[@TryingToDoBetter01]

I’m just two songs in and wow! Better than anything put out officially as of late. Just beautiful.

[@mikemestas9835]

making music is an artistic thing these guys are to music what Picasso was to art, in my humble opinion.

[@sweetjane8195]

More like Michelangelo... (~);} ♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️🫶🤙

[@chrischanin767]

Oh yeah, baby, this is the One! ❤❤❤

[@gretchentofflemire]

I was 1 year-old when this show took place I love it ❤

[@mirkozimmermann4682]

This is music absolutly nice

[@thestewlaw]

Just a phhenomenal stretch from Truckin through New Speedway Boogie. That's the best live version of Cumberland Blues I've ever heard. First acoustic set should be packaged separately somewhere.

[@nasticanasta]

Just a few years later I saw my very first concert at age 16, it was The Dead and I mostly saw all bikers there, there weren't any "flower children" ... I actually got my father camera and his carryall and talked the security into allowing me to sit in the first row so I could take pictures, and every concert after that there I would go find that security guard and ask him to allow me up front and he did, that next concert was Robin Trower! I continued to do this for many years until the guy retired I assume.... I told them I was taking pics for the local Campus rag at OSU

[@jonathanpoor1833]

how'd the pictures turn out?

[@kurtschreiber908]

Oh how awesome it would be for you to put those photos on a you tube channel for us to enjoy. Add in some colorful memories too. Either way ✌️

[@J0hnC0ltrane]

New Speedway Boogie was a brand new song at the time of this performance. Chills

[@ocoeepicture]

9 months old here

[@jamesmack3314]

That is one of the more unique Grateful Dead songs,very cool riffs/ tempo…love that song.

[@direwolf6234]

workingman's dead had come out in july 1970 ....

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Fantastic upload and pic! TY!

[@simonepinori9017]

GREAT SHOW

[@markfriedmann1670]

Wow they sound great. To me 70-72 is my favorite GD era

[@YoutubeTM432]

This is so fantastic.

[@EelRiverJadeBand]

fare thee well Phil!! may the four winds blow you safely home friend!!

[@thomasmccullagh1300]

incredible

[@direwolf6234]

at this point in fall 1970 this show boasts 16 tunes that had not yet been released on vinyl and so the only place to hear them was live at the show .. that was a special treat ...

[@stevenwernli3933]

Yep. According to Deadbase, they began recording American Beauty some time in sept 70

[@direwolf6234]

yes .. official release date 11/1/70 ...@@stevenwernli3933

[@ReedRosson1987]

WHAT A TREAT! THANKS!

[@bobdobs23]

9 19 one day before, Hendrix dead, the world has changed. Listen to these two with the death still echoing in all of us who were there. And does again as I listen to this. Peace

[@sandpointcinema7557]

Color me jealous of anyone at this show. An hour long acoustic set to start things off, at arguably the best time to see them? A primo set list to boot.

[@1elare]

That’s a pretty wild Caution

[@direwolf6234]

primal sugar mag .. basically a totally brand new tune .. wah wah wah .. rolling with the 'rushes' !!!

[@Mr.Bojangles12]

Taking a time traveler journey here,WALSTIB❤

[@wm.g.975]

Best dead show here, maybe? Perhaps I'm just in that sort of space that it spoke to me?

[@Gyduker]

Stoned

[@billkress2606]

Is that Grisman or Jerry playing the mandolin? The acoustic chemistry and Jerry's voice in its prime is such a treat. Thanks man!🤗

[@Jsgro69]

sounds like Grisman but could have Pigpen maybe been on the Mando

[@direwolf6234]

david nelson ... new riders ....

[@Darrylizer1]

It's David Grisman on mandolin playing live with the Dead for the first time at the beginning, then David Nelson joins on another mandolin on Big Railroad Blues which is the third time The Dead had played this song live. So both are playing.

[@billkress705]

Very cool, thanks for the deep history👌

[@EliotGreenspan]

@@Darrylizer1 yes, Phil announced Nelson as the second mandolin right before BRB. I was wondering if it was Grisman or Sandy Rothman on FOD. Also, that must be Jerry playing piano on To Lay Me Down...

[@shill9315]

Thnks

[@russhaven1575]

Peak period, great singing, terrific harmonies, playing is loose, band is tight, music uncluttered.

[@maddogsstar]

Holy Hell an acoustic RR Blues!!

[@stevenwernli3933]

When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me.

[@jamesorr50276]

Skull n roses is best live album of the Dead,maybe best live album ever....every song sounds like a studio recording in my opinion.,especially Bertha

[@sweetdaddyjangles7194]

I'd have to say I like Live Dead and Europe 72 better, but I purchased Skull N Roses when I was young and studying in Italy, and listening always brings me back to those train rides with my headphones, grooving out to that NFA>GDTRFB and Me and Bobby McGee.

[@ilkkaensio9346]

Vocals are done in a studio afterwards, confirmed on Dead Gear book by Blair Jackson

[@trubbeltron]

That Dark Hallow😮😊

[@michellesovereign4564]

They knew the future

[@paulferranti8536]

This is the show where Jerry plays piano on. “To Lay Me Down “ !!!!

[@AlbertLaplante]

Good to see Pig Pen…he was a fun character! 🎉

[@paulferranti8536]

That’s the biggest understatement I’ve ever heard!

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

Acoustic Truckin? Wow

[@paulferranti8536]

That’s gotta be David Nelson on Mandolin on “Deep Ellum”

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

I thought it was Grisman but Nelson makes more sense

[@mort2902]

The Dead played 143 shows in 1970, and 4 of them were at the Loews 46th Street movie theater in Brooklyn on November 11, 12, 13 and 14. New Riders too with Jerry on the pedal steel.

[@jamesmack3314]

You mean 46 street movie theater Manhattan? Yes, not Brooklyn.

[@mort2902]

@@jamesmack3314 It was Brooklyn. New Utrecht Ave and 46St.

[@jamesmack3314]

@@mort2902 wow, you got me there what a strange place for them to play I thought they did pretty much exclusively Manhattan, Fillmore, Madison square garden, etc.

[@jackdepalma]

I attended two shows there. Hot Tuna papa John jammed that Thursday. AND UJB on Sunday. Sam Cutler passes for Thursday night it was empty on New Utrecht Ave 46 st theatre BROOKLYN NY

[@jackdepalma]

​@@jamesmack3314after suny stoneybrook Halloween It was magic that fall.

[@tonyterme1769]

RIP PHIL LESH

[@racializedkanadian]

Muchas Garcia!

[@danieljones1981]

Love to see pig with em.. And playing American Beauty tracks ⚡🌹⚡🌹⚡🌹⚡

[@direwolf6234]

the soon to be released LP ...

[@cayweinel5340]

Who is playing piano to early for Keith I believe it sounds great hell all of it sounds amazing...

[@23skidd00]

Thank you for posting this. But what moves me to write has to do with To Lay Me Down, and I wonder if (and why) other artists wouldn't cover this song.

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

They did on Deadicated Cowboy Junkies

[@Jsgro69]

did Bill Graham not sound too happy about The Dead being unplugged...pretty sure that was Bills intro..They sounded sooo sweet.reminds me more of JGB than The Dead

[@shill9315]

been wrong often. sounds like Bill to me, not sure if I hear newyorker dialect. my take is he sounds like he's introducing what may sound like a different dead to some in attendance. :)

[@sweetjane8195]

I think it's that British guy!!!??? I should know the name... 🤔💭

[@Jsgro69]

@@shill9315 Yea..i def thought i could hear something inflected into his intro..and you could be right on...i thought he had a hint of anger..but why wouldnt he have been maybe apprehensive about the band maybe not sounding as they had been..and maybe BG was not in favor of an unplugged GD at the Filmore..and he possibly didnt realize in the moment that his voice communicated subtly of his opinion of an acoustic set...and I would almost bet it was Bill doing the intro at The Filmore

[@Jsgro69]

@@sweetjane8195 the Dead was playing at Bill Graham's venue The Filmore East...i would certainly guess it was Bill doing the intro...just something about him adding "acoustic" and how he inflected it as if he wasnt digging the whole unplugged...i could be way off..but it just seemed a bit off..😏🎶

[@sweetjane8195]

Ooops, wasn't really listening... I'm pretty sure that was Uncle Bobo... He didn't sound too enthusiastic!!! (~);}♥️💀⚡🌹🎶🌋🌈

[@wizard_deluxe]

Best set

[@richarderskine4905]

Is that Pigpen looking on from the sidelines he should be playing ! 😅

[@jazzandrocknroll3235]

HAHAHA I was thinking the same exact thing. Thought I was tripping 🤣🤣🤣

[@wizard_deluxe]

The best new speedway boogie on record

[@marcosferre1725]

♡

[@strangher11]

Jus wondering .... in To Lay Me Down someone is tossing some little lead licks around Jerrys vocals, could that someone be Bobby or was there a guest onstage with them?

[@johnt4774]

Is that David playing mandolin?

[@JerzyBorowski-ot3ie]

Łatwo KOCHAĆ GRATEFUL DEAD ŁATWO KOCHAĆ JERREGO GARCIĘ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BOGU za wszystko dziękuję BARDZO

[@doodahdavesrecords4319]

My 13 birthday wish I was there