The Grateful Dead
May 06, 1970 Kresge Plaza, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
(a personal reflection)
Eric,

     This is in regard to the 5/6/70 tapes of the Kresge Plaza performance. At that time I was the
sole dhead at MIT's radio station WTBS(call letters since changed). Of coarse it was thrilling to
watch them set up to play, I asked their sound guy (I believe his name was Cutler) if I could get a
feed off his board. When he agreed, I bent the arms of the technical staff ( at the station) to help
me run it down one of our existing telco lines on the campus to the station where our head
engineer at the time (I believe named Larry Killgallen) recorded the show onto an Ampex 350.

      Over the next few years, as the amount of dead heads grew, these tapes took on more
importance. Somewhere in the winter of 70/71, a bus full of freaks (ostensibly some lagers from
the hog farm) broke down in Boston. I befriended the like minded souls. At one point I "lent"
them the master tapes, they in turn were to give me a set they had from a Cincinnati gig. It was
not clear, what I ended up with after all was said and done, I was prone to being under a bit of a
haze in those daze ;-).

      By the summer of 1971 my interest in the dead had waned, though I kept a fond place for
them in my heart. Some one once told me that concert ended up on a bootleg.

     Sadly, this of coarse, has come up over the memories stirred by Jerry's death. Some one told
me there were tapes extant of the shows done at the Ark in Boston(maybe 68-69), and I might
have on tape somewhere, some interviews I did with the Dead, backstage at those shows (I went
every night).
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