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Jim's Collection

Grateful Dead   05/15/1970

Fillmore East (Late Show), New York, NY
Source SBD>MR>DAT>CDR (except NRPS sets which have 2 cassette generations)
Media CDR   6 discs
Notes CD I:
Early Dead Acoustic:
1- Don't Ease
2- Rider
3- The Rub
4- FOTD
5- Long Black Limosine
6- Candyman
7- Cumberland *
8- New Speedway *
9- Cold Jordon *
Early NRPS:
10- Six Day's On The Road
11- Whatcha Gonna Do
12- I Don't Know You
13- Henry
14- Portland Woman
15- Fair Chance To Know

* w/ NRPS

CD II:
1- Last Lonely Eagle//
Early Dead Electric:
2- Casey Jones
3- Easy Wind
4- Attics
5- St. Stephen
6- O1
7- Cosmic Charlie
8- E: Minglewood
Late Dead Acoustic:
9- Ballad Of Casey Jones
10- Silver Threads & Golden Needles

CD III:
1- Black Peter
2- FOTD
3- UJB
4- Candyman
5- She's Mine
6- Katie Mae
7- I Hear A Voice Calling (w/ NRPS)
Late NRPS (first copy):
8- Mama Tried *
9- Saw Mill *
10- Uncle *
11- Connection *

* w/ Weir

CD IV:
1- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2- Louisiana Lady
3- Can't Pay The Price
4- Truck Drivin' Man
5- All I Ever Wanted
6- Working Blues
7- Henry
8- I Don't Know You
9- Lodi
10- Last Lonely Eagle
11- Mama Tried *
12- Sawmill *
13- Uncle *
14- Connection *

* W/ Weir

CD V:
Late Dead Electric:
1- China
2- Rider
3- Cumberland
4- Hard To Handle
5- BIODTL
6- Dew
7- Good Lovin'
8- Dire Wolf
9- Next Time You See Me

CD VI:
1- Dark Star
2- St. Stephen
3- NFA
4- Lovelight
5- E: Cold Jordon (w/ NRPS)

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.


Tech Notes All
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A
Reference / Generation 0001505185
Owned by Jim · Last Updated May 23, 2023