![]() ![]() Just because it's '67, that doesn't automatically make it an enjoyable listen. That being said, the quality of 9-15-67 at the Hollywood Bowl is truly borderline horrible. Often what's considered a pitiful Audience copy, I can get into. I have always been on the liberal side of grading shows, never nitpicking on this & that regarding sound quality. Oh yeah.the Airplane did come on and played their usual show for '67 but I went home thinking "Who were those guys? Those guys were wild! What was their name again? Oh yeah.The Grateful Dead!" The Dead seemed to feed off the energy of the crowd.Ha Ha! I wonder how that happened? Anyway they shot everything they had and made a lot of new friends that night. This flimsy plywood covering was soon filled with joyous Deadheads who ignored pleas from the announcer to vacate the area. At one point during the set, Wier asked the crowd in general "Why aren't there any people dancing? Why are y'all sitting down?" This provoked a mad dash for the stage where the Bowl officials had covered the reflective pond with plywood. In purple letters! I got goosebumps even back then. As they played the coda, the words "Grateful Dead" magically appeared on the Hollywood Bowl's band shell. I seem to recall they played a bunch of short snappy songs including "Schoolgirl" and ended with Viola Lee Blues. So here comes the Grateful Dead! Holy Smoke! What was that? The set list shows them opening with Viola Lee Blues but I don't remember it that way. NOT!īig Brother was supposed to open but, fresh from their groundbreaking show at Monterey, they had other committments. I was hoping they'd play "Comin' back to me" and "Today" and Andrea would be all romantic and we would end the evening making love in the back seat of my car. I was there with my kind of lame college girlfriend to see Jefferson Airplane.
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