Grateful Dead
featuring the New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Sunday, July 12, 1970
Fillmore East
New York, NY

This is a combination of the two audience recordings available for this date: shnid 9379 (identity of taper not given) and shnid 122707 (taped by Jim Cooper). Since no soundboard circulates for this show, we are very fortunate indeed to have these two recordings. Thanks, guys!

Source 1 (shnid 9379): AUD>MC>C>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN
edits/encoding by J. Cotsman

Source 2 (shnid 122707): Jim Cooper's Hitachi TRQ-222 Cassette recording > CDR > WAV > FLAC
Recorded by Jim Cooper using a Hitachi TRQ-222 Cassette recorder and 2 Hitachi microphones from Row H, about the 30th row, center.

Each source has advantages and disadvantages. 9379 is more complete and has less audience chatter during quiet passages, but it has more distortion during loud passages. Cooper's recording is generally clearer, especially during loud passages, but it is less complete and has more microphone noise and audience chatter. Happily, these two recordings complement each other more often than not. For details on which source is used when, see the notes below.


Set 1: Grateful Dead Acoustic

1.  The Monkey And The Engineer
2.  Don't Ease Me In
3.  I've Been All Around This World
4.  Dark Hollow
5.  //Black Peter
6.  El Paso
7.  Friend Of The Devil
8.  New Speedway Boogie
9.  So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)*
10. Rosalie McFall
11. A Voice From On High**
12. Cold Jordan**
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot**


Set 2: New Riders Of The Purple Sage

1.  Six Days On The Road
2.  Whatcha Gonna Do
3.  Truck Drivin' Man
4.  Dirty Business
5.  Lodi
6.  Last Lonely Eagle
7.  Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
8.  Fair Chance To Know
9.  Henry//
10.  Honky Tonk Women


Set 3: Grateful Dead Electric

1.  //"Night Of The Living Dead" Intro
2.  Morning Dew
3.  Sittin' On Top Of The World
4.  Me & My Uncle
5.  Not Fade Away
6.  Casey Jones
7.  Mama Tried
8.  Good Lovin'***
9.  High Time
10. Cumberland Blues
11. China Cat Sunflower-->
12. I Know You Rider
13. Viola Lee Blues
14. Uncle John's Band

*     only known performance of the Everly Brothers' So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
**   with David Nelson & John Dawson
*** Bob Weir sings lead. Pigpen played the organ but did not sing any leads this night.


NOTES

(1) The dates for this show (July 12) and the one preceding it (July 11) were incorrectly reversed in most previous sources. Many attendees have pointed out the error, and one of the tapers of the previous night's show, Marty Weinberg, even announces helpfully, "It's Saturday night, July 11, 1970." (This announcement can be heard on shnid 108156, just before Easy Wind.) Both were "midnight shows," so technically this show was performed in the early morning of Monday, July 13, but it is the concert billed as "July 12."

(2) The provenance of the "Night of the Living Dead" introduction to the electric set is uncertain.
This music accompanied a film; some attendees remember this as a clip from "The Night of the Living Dead," while reporter Tom Zito wrote afterwards of seeing "spacemen wrapped in plastic bags emerge from graves." It has generally been assumed that the music was the film's audio track. However, I think it is more likely that the Grateful Dead accompanied the film with a live improvisation. I have reached this tentative conclusion for three reasons:

(a) The music we hear is not from the soundtrack of The Night of the Living Dead.

(b) The introduction sounds like the Grateful Dead playing scary-movie music.

(c) On 9379, at a little over a minute into Morning Dew, a guy near the microphone says, "...[inaudible] one of the most cosmic versions of this song that I've ever heard, opening up like that [inaudible]. It was really scary." Since the opening of Morning Dew itself is not unusual, he must have been referring to the "introduction," and since he viewed the introduction as part of Morning Dew, he must have had reason to believe that the Grateful Dead performed it.

(3) I did not apply EQ or high-frequency noise reduction to either source. My edits were limited to volume, speed, cross-fades at the beginning and end of patches, and such elimination or reduction of drops, static, clicks, and bumps as I could obtain without losing any music. 122707 runs 3-5 percent slower than 9379; I matched the speed of 122707 to 9379 in all cases. Edits were done in WaveLab Elements 7, with gentle use of the iZotope Ozone Declicker.

(a) Acoustic Set:

A mono version of the left channel of 9379 supplies most of the acoustic set. From Monkey and the Engineer until A Voice From On High, the right channel of 9379 is mostly hiss and does not add to the listening experience. The taper fixed the problem after Rosalie McFall, so the final three songs are in stereo.

Friend of the Devil, missing in 9379, comes entirely from 122707. As luck would have it, this is the best-sounding recording of any acoustic tune captured in 122707. For the most part, the acoustic set in 122707 is plagued by mike noise, static, and loud audience chatter, but during FOTD, these problems are largely absent.

Given that this show includes the only known version of So Sad, I devoted special attention to this track. The performance is very delicate and hard to hear over the chattering of the audience. The version included here is a mono version of the left channel of 9379 until 1:18, at which point it becomes a matrix of the left channel of 9379 and the right channel of 122707. (The recording of So Sad on 122707 cuts in at this point, and the right channel is free of the static that plagues the left channel.) For the second half of the song, at least, this combination brings out more detail than any other approach that I could devise. (Many thanks to Light Into Ashes for the suggestion!) It is a beautiful performance; perhaps the band would have played the song again, if the audience had only shut up and listened.

(b) NRPS Set:

By the time NPRS takes the stage, both tapers have solved most of their technical difficulties. As noted above, 122707 is generally clearer than 9379, but it is incomplete and more vulnerable to audience chatter.
122707 supplies the first three songs and Lodi, and 9379 supplies the final four. Dirty Business and Last Lonely Eagle, the quieter songs, are composites. 9379 supplies the first 2:43 of Dirty Business, and 122707 supplies the rest. In 9379, Last Lonely Eagle is missing Garcia's entire solo: it seems to have been deliberately cut out, perhaps because it was partially damaged. 122707 supplies the missing passage at 2:01-2:44, and for once the audience is relatively quiet.

(c) Electric Set:

9379 supplies the Night of the Living Dead introduction. Morning Dew is a composite: 122707 supplies the beginning and end, and 9379 supplies 0:35-4:14. 122707 supplies the rest of the set through I Know You Rider, which is patched with 9379 at 1:30-2:41 and 3:58-3:59. 122707 ends at that point, so 9379 is the only source for the final two tunes, Viola Lee Blues and Uncle John's Band.

In several places, 122707 features protracted bursts of static in the right channel. I patched these with the left channel. This occurs in Casey Jones (1:05-1:51), Good Lovin' (1:22-1:38, 2:22-3:18, 9:57-12:34), and China Cat Sunflower (2:49-2:53).

Enjoy!
Rob Darst
August 11, 2014

gd1970-07-12s1t01.flac:a52d6b4605cfc38a5d74cfa42c56d8a3
gd1970-07-12s1t02.flac:32e5996578d9213f249d79f7ba389a4a
gd1970-07-12s1t03.flac:f952ca83671b58c445c55fd1fb197f8a
gd1970-07-12s1t04.flac:97122225385e0c30499163fa7dfbc9a0
gd1970-07-12s1t05.flac:f7e2bfafb97ef6f83ba3fac23ca3d85f
gd1970-07-12s1t06.flac:d8b1190b6d7fe634b7ccd58e6d87ccc3
gd1970-07-12s1t07.flac:23a3eee7f5909c197e2cf590c00054ce
gd1970-07-12s1t08.flac:46ddca3b7cf478b318c3f57d972b0e94
gd1970-07-12s1t09.flac:63fb05548dab8229836666b48928cd28
gd1970-07-12s1t10.flac:c2206e540599194827a73698230fa6c7
gd1970-07-12s1t11.flac:c8ff46f223ca0a9dd86d80b5924ae0c3
gd1970-07-12s1t12.flac:2ac4be4f5413874347091b897a1eba1a
gd1970-07-12s1t13.flac:738c59b82d2b7bc4fe14c9be0e493aeb
gd1970-07-12s2t01.flac:0a525ae1924327c2f05a475220989d31
gd1970-07-12s2t02.flac:57fede9ec70a8e10f7b48791b84f870f
gd1970-07-12s2t03.flac:5e1551f0da6a1f69ce566ed2c8de38d4
gd1970-07-12s2t04.flac:511bc9a1caae1ee8c0c6c64c32bf5ef6
gd1970-07-12s2t05.flac:28e1f6035ae767f87d4995272dd69f46
gd1970-07-12s2t06.flac:39d3e48f4bdd37de642073f2c42eec99
gd1970-07-12s2t07.flac:c6954d8d82d1b43337bf6c570222bba1
gd1970-07-12s2t08.flac:93d9fca976d7da45212eb737e78990ff
gd1970-07-12s2t09.flac:4aaa7ea1f1a810d2bbe9274814dcd6d8
gd1970-07-12s2t10.flac:d3bda69c039e5f7f0a2e0dfa130abdab
gd1970-07-12s3t01.flac:1f31daaf170f5040bdbdde31d96c10c2
gd1970-07-12s3t02.flac:3ac6a762628facce4fe6e78c38357555
gd1970-07-12s3t03.flac:6119d51ed7db292a078d70c7570ae5d0
gd1970-07-12s3t04.flac:772ce745583356107bb65223ba57800e
gd1970-07-12s3t05.flac:11324e10f824222976bb79b1eb622ec4
gd1970-07-12s3t06.flac:4b2046e43b168960da92d9457d198730
gd1970-07-12s3t07.flac:26aa8ad11608ace0119c4632655f7323
gd1970-07-12s3t08.flac:bdbb3a15c051201eae48b1413d9e4754
gd1970-07-12s3t09.flac:f2fc4c0f08e00bf7b97a6ee08a88268f
gd1970-07-12s3t10.flac:6484797176e8774512c459d51a6fc2af
gd1970-07-12s3t11.flac:c7587b24ff8e615487b021c361a8c374
gd1970-07-12s3t12.flac:22d128e5a887c2a5c9bb85bfd7a4810d
gd1970-07-12s3t13.flac:9bcca4399a0f3c9650185a439b713957
gd1970-07-12s3t14.flac:3891e2837f5fcc39954b12144dc5b6a8

0ef69a06fb1aa44ec821fe612aa3c03c *gd1970-07-12s1t01.flac
2c70576c99e2bf5c1a126b143446b2dc *gd1970-07-12s1t02.flac
e714a8206efb02d3f9c09d346ff224e8 *gd1970-07-12s1t03.flac
1c30afe1c719ed8cca2fa45d56b50da8 *gd1970-07-12s1t04.flac
d9c4012734d57750ee72b48d35d4b60b *gd1970-07-12s1t05.flac
36d3fe6f7503bace43ce796173d0b6d9 *gd1970-07-12s1t06.flac
2b66cfadef6e7ef043e75a8368103565 *gd1970-07-12s1t07.flac
88db917473c97b940bb7a626b1d9f62e *gd1970-07-12s1t08.flac
50577d76fc9d7f9afa54d05d3956ef7e *gd1970-07-12s1t09.flac
8f26d3719cc35d5b735990a3ab17174d *gd1970-07-12s1t10.flac
18c5e084b26c56b14096be4eab690869 *gd1970-07-12s1t11.flac
e9809dd3b8fdbd6585db04aa84596d47 *gd1970-07-12s1t12.flac
2910f2405b77f8995dab0d09d509b4aa *gd1970-07-12s1t13.flac
fd118e1cf606b91821cb54540d899c9e *gd1970-07-12s2t01.flac
b6f6aac79b6bfd27a812c180c67ecd2d *gd1970-07-12s2t02.flac
ea29ce45cea3b82a7559c891db330eb5 *gd1970-07-12s2t03.flac
e96713f496ade27a3302245acc529655 *gd1970-07-12s2t04.flac
6b17e29fb28fed821d5b55f223dadb2d *gd1970-07-12s2t05.flac
74038aa7b02a05a6358df10e21c1ab45 *gd1970-07-12s2t06.flac
4a24476dd59b82d36d3e43fbc04709dd *gd1970-07-12s2t07.flac
fec9cda315baefc62be7a309539a3e32 *gd1970-07-12s2t08.flac
5b776641dc7a4778a18257306fa7f1b0 *gd1970-07-12s2t09.flac
32db2ba626d3f13245c27f4022257bbb *gd1970-07-12s2t10.flac
bebf9c5185c63f947ba37d770ddf3046 *gd1970-07-12s3t01.flac
b29c9d9611047216bdf5ba16496a4435 *gd1970-07-12s3t02.flac
8ed180b5497fcabf92f5f53e09da9995 *gd1970-07-12s3t03.flac
7a6280d4008c9445f58223fa9d1bb9a7 *gd1970-07-12s3t04.flac
9719665884d2b52387dc0a109b879896 *gd1970-07-12s3t05.flac
832ada4b584ced6168a449c486965416 *gd1970-07-12s3t06.flac
bf34248f97de2d31d957da9182a774e8 *gd1970-07-12s3t07.flac
d795de0a5495d17c350af9fc2f4158e8 *gd1970-07-12s3t08.flac
954696f9a215d9ed9e14447c08b7c8a1 *gd1970-07-12s3t09.flac
67c77d47345218eb41172908883d9eda *gd1970-07-12s3t10.flac
f191f3879673f57d803925a9ab1071cc *gd1970-07-12s3t11.flac
e6f55b96c9d4bf156752309dbca9635c *gd1970-07-12s3t12.flac
5cec4815a1b2f42c75b5a4d3b26e0485 *gd1970-07-12s3t13.flac
9c1b251facfa06bd66d47cb88dd9aee3 *gd1970-07-12s3t14.flac