1970-03-07 Grateful Dead

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

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Jerry Garcia - electric guitar (lead), vocals
Bob Weir - electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
Phil Lesh - electric bass, vocals
Ron McKernan - organ, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, perc
Mickey Hart - drums, perc

Set 1:
Hard To Handle [1] , Cold Rain And Snow [1] , Black Peter , China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > High Time , Dire Wolf

Set 2:
Not Fade Away > Drums > Good Lovin' > The Other One > Not Fade Away > Turn On Your Lovelight

Encore:
And We Bid You Good Night [1]

Songs listed in italics are not sourced from a recording

[1] Not on circulating recording, but recalled by attendee

Average Song Gap

2.0

Songs By Album

Workingman's Dead: 3
The Grateful Dead: 1
Aoxomoxoa: 1
Shakedown Street: 1
Anthem of the Sun: 1

Set 1			Gap Analysis
Name	Notes	Lead Vocals	Album	Last	Next
Hard To Handle	Not on circulating recording, but recalled by attendee	Ron McKernan		1	1
Cold Rain And Snow	Not on circulating recording, but recalled by attendee	Jerry Garcia	The Grateful Dead	3	1
Black Peter		Jerry Garcia	Workingman's Dead	1	1
China Cat Sunflower >		Jerry Garcia	Aoxomoxoa	1	1
I Know You Rider >		Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia		1	1
High Time		Jerry Garcia	Workingman's Dead	2	1
Dire Wolf		Jerry Garcia	Workingman's Dead	1	1

Set 2			Gap Analysis
Name	Notes	Lead Vocals	Album	Last	Next
Not Fade Away >		Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia		3	0
Drums >		Instrumental		1	2
Good Lovin' >		Ron McKernan	Shakedown Street	1	3
The Other One >		Bob Weir	Anthem of the Sun	1	7
Not Fade Away >		Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia		0	1
Turn On Your Lovelight		Ron McKernan		2	1

Encore			Gap Analysis
Name	Notes	Lead Vocals	Album	Last	Next
And We Bid You Good Night	Not on circulating recording, but recalled by attendee	Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, and...		8	3

Also Appearing

Cold Blood

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Notes

Recollection of Cold Rain & Snow, and encore song of AWBYGN courtesy of Robert Gunning. Robert attended this show in the front row and described some banter at the beginning of the show: While the Dead was tuning up, a deejay from KRLA (I think) came out for a forced hip intro. He said, "The last time the Dead played here was at a benefit for Timothy Leary and no one got very high". Someone from the band murmured and the deejay added, "except the Dead". After "Lovelight" they came out and tuned up for an encore, but, after several minutes, decided just to sing "We Bid You Goodnight" and left. Phil Lesh came back onstage a few minutes later to retrieve his leather jacket.

Tape has reportedly circulated for years mislabeled as 3/8/70.

One attendee also recalls a Casey Jones and Truckin. CJ is very plausible, but Truckin did not enter the repertoire until a few months later.

review: [negative] Moore 1970; text at deadsources

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Historical

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Torrents for Date

Weather

High: 70.1 °F
Low: 48.8 °F
Feels Like High: 70.1 °F
Feels Like Low: 48.8 °F
Wind Speed: 12.8 mph
Humidity: 78.3 %
Moonphase: 0.0
Partly cloudy throughout the day.

Show Certainty

Confirmed

Setlist Certainty

Uncertain Setlist

1970-03-07 [Sat]

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

Set 1

Set 2

Encore