old and dead
Being a long time deadhead I’ve always kept some Dead music around. Truth be told, I was never a big fan of their more recent music and albums, Guess I’m old school too when it comes to psychadelic music! Anyway after getting the box set “The Golden Road (1965 – 1973)” it rekindled my interest in their earlier songs and concerts.
About the same time I came across a new site complete with podcasts called Closet Deadhead which unfortunately no longer puts together podcasts. Legal issues made it tenuous to continue. The podcasts were fun for awhile but were so random in their selection and also random as to whether I liked the selections or not.
So using a few of the links from the closet deadhead site I started hunting around for concert tapes. One in particular. My first dead concert! April 3, 1970, University of Cincinnati Field House. After poking around I found a site that had the concert available for download. According to the concert review this was the first time that they played the acoustic version of Candyman. So now I’ve got my “tapes” and it’s great to listen to them nowing I was in the front row. Now I need to breakout my old photos & slides from the show and make them digitial!
Footnote: I’ve tried to relocate the site, but no luck. It seems that there was a change in policy regarding a major source of online Dead music, archive.org [ read here ]
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