Transition
Thursday, July 30, 1970
Show stats
- Thursday
- Day 211 of 1970
- Show #
- 61 of 99
- Era
- Transition
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 2
- Top rating
- ★ 4.00 (12)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 35,715
- Show length
- 36m
- Longest track
- To Lay Me Down · 6:47
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Sparkling clover. · DeadCoMule · 2023
A half hour of timeless, rural, shimmering, rustic, silver sound. How can you put into words the soulful, deeply American qualities embedded in their musical craft during that extraordinary yet brief chapter of the long, strange trip? They were dipping into a very special well. This show is the older, yet shorter, dear twin sister of 8/5/70, another incredible audio ambrotype of the Grateful Dead’s “Bakersfield era”. The mandolin and slight tape hiss only add to the magic.
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- ★★★★★ · Like clouds a-streaming... · cloudsplitter · 2010
Well at least we still got the acoustic set, the most important part of a '70 show in my opinion, and they play just excellent. A great To Lay Me Down, and you always gotta love their gospel numbers.
- ★★★★ · 1970th viewer · Dr. Bilvis · 2006
I stopped to listen to this because there were 1969 previous "viewers" of this directory. So this 1970th 1970 show was calling me and was worth the visit. It is short and sweet -- the Dead are deep in their folksy-acoustic moment of 1970. "To Lay Me Down" is downright lovely -- a beautiful, lyrical rendition, and the sequence of three songs, "Rosalie McFall," "I Hear a Voice Calling" and "Swing Low" reveals a folksy post-psychedelic Dead that is refreshingly simple and straighforward, compared…
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦A Voice From On Highonly 3 plays ever
- ◦Swing Low Sweet Chariotonly 9 plays ever
Setlist
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 2
Top-rated source
gd70-07-30.sbd.cotsman.17077.sbeok.shnf
Soundboard · ★ 4.00 (12 reviews) · 27,347 dl
Compare all 2 sources
- gd1970-07-30.sbd.boswell.smith.114020.flac16MR(Abrams)>R@ 7.5 ips.(Peter Kafer)>R @ 7.5 ips.(Will Boswell) > CD; Transfered and mastered by Matt Smith 5/11; cd > flac dbpoweramp cd ripper · ★ 3.00 · 8,368 dl
- gd70-07-30.sbd.cotsman.17077.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.00 · 27,347 dl