Grateful Dead
Gaelic Park - August 26, 1971
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Gaelic Park
August 26, 1971
Bronx, NY US
Notes:
Pigpen's last show until 12-01-71 - final "Empty Pages"
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This was my first Dead show and the first time I dropped acid. It all came together that night. We didn't have tickets but talked a security guard into letting us in. Jerry was playing by himself on stage until the others joined him. Though it was my first show, I loved the tune ups between songs trying to figure out what the next song would be.
Set 1:
Bertha
Playing In The Band
Mr. Charlie
Sugaree
El Paso
Big Boss Man
Big Railroad Blues
Hard To Handle
Beat It On Down The Line
Loser
Sugar Magnolia
Empty Pages
Good Lovin'
Casey Jones
Set 2:
Me And My Uncle
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider
Deal
Cumberland Blues
Truckin' ->
Drums ->
The Other One
Next Time You See Me
Me And Bobby McGee
Uncle John's Band
Saint Stephen ->Not Fade Away ->Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
Not Fade Away
Encore:
Johnny B. Goode
Ten Years After
Gaelic Park Bronx NYC
August 26 1971
Alvin Lee - guitar/vox/harp
Leo Lyons - bass
Chick Churchill - keyboards
Ric Lee - drums
74:84
01. one of these days 7:16
02. no title 13:08
03. once there was a time 3:46
04. here they come 5:10
05. hobbit 8:20
06. slow blues in C// 7:17
07. i can't keep from crying sometimes 19:51
08. i'm going home 11:16
You never forget your first time! I also got the "In the land of the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead" handbill - still have it... Show started about 20 minutes early - Bobby said that it was to get going before it started to rain. We got really close to the stage, so I never heard the subway during the show. I was an experienced tripper by then and we dropped what we thought was some acid. I was really flying during the show - turns out that the "acid" was saccharine, but the atmosphere was so charged that I was seriously tripping on the placebo until we left the show. We had parked in someone's place so they tore out our plug wires - fortunately we had some auto mechanics in our group. I fell asleep in the car for the ride home and awoke when we hit the guardrail during a spin in a horrendous rain storm along the New Jersey Turnpike back to Cherry Hill.
Wow!
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This show can be seen, more or less, as the last show of the Dead's early psychedelic era.
The first departure of Pigpen and the arrival of Keith & Donna Godchaux occurred after this show. So when the next gigs occurred in October 1971 there was a noticeable change in style. Plus a whole batch of new songs.