Grateful Dead/NRPS
Fillmore East
New York City
5.15.70
MR > DAT > ZA2 > CDR
except the NRPS sets which have 2 cassette generations
This is apparently the best possible copy
Thanks to David Hollister and Jeff Tiedrich

dfinney@cts.com

[[[Note by Leigh Orf, who uploaded this show to orp.etree.org: I did
some very minor editing to this show, mostly putting tasteful fades
where there were cuts in the original. No NR whatsoever was applied! I
also removed the mysterious double-strum near the beginning of Don't
Ease Me In (sounded like a digital thing)...  Thanks again to the
aforementioned folks, plus David Finney for hunting the show down in its
best form... Leigh <orf@mailbag.com>]]]

disc 1
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--< Early Acoustic Dead >--
Don't Ease Me In
I Know You Rider
The Rub
Friend of the Devil
Long Black Limousine
Candyman
Cumberland Blues*
New Speedway Boogie*
Cold Jordan*
(* w/ NRPS)

--< Early NRPS >--
Six Days On The Road
Whatcha Gonna Do
I Don't Know You
Henry
Portland Woman
Fair Chance To Know

disc 2
------
Last Lonely Eagle //

--< Early Electric Dead >--
Casey Jones
Easy Wind
Attics Of My Life
St. Stephen >
The Other One >
Cosmic Charlie
(E) Minglewood Blues

--< Late Acoustic Dead >--
Balld of Casey Jones
Silver Threads and Golden Needles

disc 3
------
Black Peter
Friend of the Devil
Uncle John's Band
Candyman
She's Mine
Katie Mae
I Hear A Voice Calling (w/ NRPS)

--< Late NRPS w/ Weir, 1st copy >--
Mama Tried
Sawmill
Me and My Uncle
Connection

disc 4
------
--< Late NRPS >--
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Louisiana Lady
Can't Pay The Price
Truck Drivin' Man
All I Ever Wanted
Workingman Blues
Henry
I Don't Know You
Lodi
Last Lonely Eagle
Mama Tried*
Sawmill*
Me and My Uncle*
Connection*
(* w/ Bob Weir)

disc 5
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--< Late Electric Dead >--
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider
Cumberland Blues
Hard To Handle
Beat It On Down The Line
Morning Dew
Good Lovin'
Dire Wolf
Next Time You See Me

disc 6
------
Dark Star >
St. Stephen >
Not Fade Away >
Turn On Your Lovelight

(E) Cold Jordan (w/ NRPS)


This is the 2nd etree copy in circulation. It has one fewer tape
generations than the first copy, and it has the complete NRPS 2nd set.


From www.Deadlists.com (some edits):

Early Show acoustic Dead set. On Cumberland and New Speedway David
Nelson joins in on acoustic guitar while Jerry shifts to electric. On
Cold Jordan Nelson switches to mandolin. Marmaduke adds harmony vocals
to the last three tunes. Pigpen plays organ on New Speedway. Early Show
NRPS set with Garcia, pedal steel. This is about half their set -- all
there is on the master. Before Last Lonely Eagle Marmaduke asks where's
"Bobby Ace" -- probably Weir was a guest vocalist later in the set.
electric Dead: Before St. Stephen Pigpen says "Alright you people, you
know who you are."


Enterprising Fillmore East stagecrew patched a reel-to-reel machine
underneath the stage into the PA feed and saved most of this show for
us and eternity. They were busy setting up for the Early Show electric
Dead set and blew their flip during the Early Show NRPS set, losing
the second half of that set as a result, but the rest of this enormous
evening's proceedings are recorded in their entirety. The master has
only the left channel through the middle of Candyman (there are also
splitter-generated 2-channel mono copies circulating). Around 4 hours of
this show were broadcast by KPFA-FM Berkeley in 1971, further speeding
the propagation of this tape (some early FM copies are dated "6/21/71;"
this may be the date of the broadcast). For many years 5/15/70 was THE
representative 1970 Dead tape -- Harpur College 5/2/70 and Winterland
10/4/70 its only rivals for wide circulation.

Late Show acoustic Dead: David Nelson plays mandolin on I Hear A Voice
Callin and Marmaduke adds bass vocals. Late Show NRPS set with Garcia,
pedal steel. Bob Weir guests on vocals for Mama Tried, Sawmill and Me
And My Uncle. There is a brief cut in Sawmill, with less than 10 seconds
lost. After this set the master contains 15:13 of continuing signal,
comprising parts of Side B of Abbey Road (playing on the PA during
the break) interspersed with the sounds of the stage being rigged --
drums nailed down, etc -- followed by the sounds of tuning up. SET 3
is electric Dead. Beat It On Down The Line gets 14 beats. There is a
cut 2:17 into St.  Stephen; probably around 60 - 90 seconds are missing
here. There is a cut 13:33 into Lovelight, but probably only a few
seconds are lost. Over the last year it has been rumored that there is
another SBD master of this show in the vault, which includes the rest
of the Early Show NRPS set (and which would probably allow us to patch
the few other glitches on the circulating master); however, nothing has
emerged besides rumors thus far. Meanwhile, we owe an enormous debt of
gratitude to those resourceful Fillmore East crewmembers who took the
bull by the horns and MADE TAPE. Muchas Garcias, guys.

CONTRIBUTORS Jim Powell Alan Mande 
