Grateful Dead 1970-05-09 [Sat]

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Harrington Auditorium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

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Musicians
Jerry Garcia - electric guitar (lead), vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, perc
Bob Weir - electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
Mickey Hart - drums, perc
Phil Lesh - electric bass, vocals
Ron McKernan - organ, vocals
Garcia also appeared with the New Riders of the Purple Sage at this show — View full show
Partial Acoustic Set
Black Peter , Monkey And The Engineer , Cold Jordan

Partial Electric Set
Cold Rain And Snow , Sitting On Top Of The World , Minglewood Blues [1] , Morning Dew , Good Lovin' > Drums > New Orleans [2] > Good Lovin' , High Time , Feedback [3]

Songs listed in italics are not sourced from a recording
[1] Last known performance (by GD) 1969-08-21 (98 events ago)
[2] Last known performance (by GD) 1969-09-07 (92 events ago)
[3] Presumably some tunes are missing between High Time and Feedback, but as per LIA Feedback ended the show.
Tour
GD-NRPS May 1970 East Coast/Midwest
Also Appearing
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Images
Notes
  • The circulating tape is a misdate of the 5/3/70 acoustic set.
  • There is no circulating tape of this show. The setlist comes from the 1970 Show List post on deadessays, primary source unknown.
  • deadsources has a posting of an unfavorable review by Tech News. On that page there is a gem of a comment by LIA summarizing what we know, then in reply an anonymous poster provides a detailed partial setlist but with no explanation of source. The setlist for the electric portion is derived from that comment.
  • deadessays: Deadbase Corrections
  • Billed as "An Evening With The Grateful Dead". The standard architecture was Acoustic GD, then New Riders, then Electric GD. For more, see JGMF, An Evening With the Gratetul Dead
  • expost: Harry Jackson hung out and rapped with the whole band and scene May 15 and May 16. "On Tour with the Dead," Zygote III, July 22, 1970, pp. 41-44. Full-text via deadources, JGMF Reading Notes.
  • cryptdev: The Grateful Dead Unplugged - 1968-1970
    • Weather
    High: 82.5 °F
    Low: 57.5 °F
    Feels Like High: 82.4 °F
    Feels Like Low: 57.5 °F
    Wind Speed: 10.3 mph
    Humidity: 66.8 %
    Moonphase: 0.13
    Partly cloudy throughout the day.