• SUNY Gym - October 31, 1970
    Final "Viola Lee Blues" - also: NRPS

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  • Till The Morning Comes
    Hard To Handle
    Mama Tried
    China Cat> I Know You Rider
    Dire Wolf
    Cold Rain
    Me & My Uncle
    Dark Hollow
    Brokedown
    Viola Lee Blues> Cumberland> Uncle John

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  • canonico
    13 years ago
    my birthday
    I lived 2 miles from SUNY at Stony Brook, back then. And, Halloween is my birthday. So, with a couple of good friends, we celebrated.The concerts were held in the gym, which had the acoustics you'd expect, but the Dead still sounded great. In spite of its deficiencies, a lot of good people played there: Janis Joplin, James Taylor, Tim Hardin, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Miriam Makeba, Pink Floyd, the Who, etc.
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    eeephour
    13 years 3 months ago
    I was on the university
    I was on the university basketball team and worked security ;- ) for these shows on Saturday night.. Dosed via a bottle of wine (from a team mate) and the rest is history. A remembrance from the weekend was the thousands of heads who crashed the university that weekend- sleeping in the lounges, on the floors. Nothing's been the same since. ;- )
  • Strider 808808
    13 years 5 months ago
    First Dead show by myself
    I hitched from Ct. to Stony Brook.Got there early afternoon. Went to the commons.Charlie O had an early boom box and was playing a tape from the night before. The first Dead bootleg I remember. NRPS on a roll. I painted my face for the night of the Dead. Then outside the Gym between shows. Next Slide please.
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Final "Viola Lee Blues" - also: NRPS
setlist
Till The Morning Comes
Hard To Handle
Mama Tried
China Cat> I Know You Rider
Dire Wolf
Cold Rain
Me & My Uncle
Dark Hollow
Brokedown
Viola Lee Blues> Cumberland> Uncle John
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Halloween nite, purple oswley, all of us painted in day-glo one of the wierdest and greatest nites for me ever
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tj crowley this is a primary example of the power of majic..this seque is INCREDIBLE..one minute your swinging to he intensity of viola then before realizing your swaying to cumberland..WOW! how's that happen? it's a powerful piece of music
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I remember this show as being the early show 10/30. Am I crazy?Peace, Fred
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In any case this began my long strange trip with the Dead.Peace, Fred
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.First time I saw the Dead live as well as the NRPS. I came alive!
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I hitched from Ct. to Stony Brook.Got there early afternoon. Went to the commons.Charlie O had an early boom box and was playing a tape from the night before. The first Dead bootleg I remember. NRPS on a roll. I painted my face for the night of the Dead. Then outside the Gym between shows. Next Slide please.
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I was on the university basketball team and worked security ;- ) for these shows on Saturday night.. Dosed via a bottle of wine (from a team mate) and the rest is history. A remembrance from the weekend was the thousands of heads who crashed the university that weekend- sleeping in the lounges, on the floors. Nothing's been the same since. ;- )
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I lived 2 miles from SUNY at Stony Brook, back then. And, Halloween is my birthday. So, with a couple of good friends, we celebrated.The concerts were held in the gym, which had the acoustics you'd expect, but the Dead still sounded great. In spite of its deficiencies, a lot of good people played there: Janis Joplin, James Taylor, Tim Hardin, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Miriam Makeba, Pink Floyd, the Who, etc.