Grateful Dead 1970-05-10 [Sun]

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Atlanta Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA

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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
Guests
Berry Oakley - bass
Butch Trucks - drums
Dickey Betts ? - guitar
Duane Allman - guitar
Gregg Allman - organ

Partial Set
Hard To Handle , The Other One , Mama Tried , Dark Star [1] , Mountain Jam [1][2] > Will The Circle Be Unbroken [1][3] , Turn On Your Lovelight [1]

Songs listed in italics are not sourced from a recording
[1] With Duane Allman on guitar, Dickey Betts (?) on guitar, Berry Oakley on bass, Gregg Allman on organ, and Butch Trucks on drums
[2] First known performance
[3] Only known performance (by GD) next known performance on 1974-04-20 by GASB
Tour
GD-NRPS May 1970 East Coast/Midwest
Also Appearing
Stonehenge and Hampton Grease Band
Images
Notes
  • There is no circulating tape of this show. Hard to Handle and Other One come from attendee Chris Cole via the deadlists entry. Dark Star comes from attendee David Powell via forums.stevehoffman.tv comments. Mama Tried and Will the Circle Be Unbroken and mentioned in the Francis review (Mountain Jam derived from presence of WTCBU). One can only imagine what tasty music might have been interleaved here.
  • Via deadsources Jesse Jarnow reports "On Facebook, multiple Hampton Grease Band fans (all apparently in the front rows) recall the jam concluding with Lovelight featuring Gregg Allman on organ, which ended when Pigpen slid a cherry bomb under the organ, causing the explosion/smoke."
  • The band's gear was late to the gig so they had to use the Allman's gear.
  • The speculation is there was no separate Allman Brothers Band set. Just openers, then the GD, with ABB joining at the end of the GD set.
  • review: Miller Francis Jr, The Great Speckled Bird, May 18 1970, p. 7. Text via deadsources. This review was also the basis of the broader event reconstruction at JGMF, Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Dead and the Allmans, Sunday, May 10, 1970, Atlanta Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA. Francis's bottom line: "Frankly, this was one of the greatest musical/sensual experiences the Atlanta hip community has ever had, rivaled only by another Dead offering in Piedmont Park after last year's Atlanta Pop Festival" [7/7/69].
  • 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: 80.3 °F
    Low: 59.3 °F
    Feels Like High: 81.0 °F
    Feels Like Low: 59.3 °F
    Wind Speed: 10.3 mph
    Humidity: 71.2 %
    Moonphase: 0.16
    Partly cloudy throughout the day.