1970-05-10 [Sun]

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Atlanta Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA

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Grateful Dead
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
Guest Musicians
Duane Allman (partial show) - guitar
Gregg Allman (partial show) - organ
Berry Oakley (partial show) - bass
Butch Trucks (partial show) - drums
Dickey Betts ? (partial show) - guitar

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) and first time played by any act next known performance on 1974-04-20 by GASB
Tour
GD-NRPS May 1970 East Coast/Midwest
Also Appearing
Stonehenge and Hampton Grease Band
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Notes
  • There is no circulating tape of this show. The setlist comes from the 1970 Show List post on deadessays.
  • 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].
  • Most of these shows were billed as "An Evening With The Grateful Dead". The standard architecture was Acoustic GD, then New Riders, then Electric GD (sometimes two sets). For more, see JGMF, An Evening With the Gratetul Dead
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    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.
    Show Certainty
    Confirmed
    Setlist Certainty
    Uncertain Setlist
    Time
    4:00 PM
    Ticket Price
    $300.00 / $3.00