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| The Capitol Theatre Presents Unreleased 1971 Grateful Dead Concert If you missed the Grateful Dead in their heyday at the Capitol Theatre, where they performed 18 times in 1970-71 alone, The Cap is giving you another chance to experience an all-out Dead dance party. On Saturday Feb 16, the rock palace will present a complete, unreleased concert recorded live at the theatre in 1971, played in its entirety through the Cap's state-of-the-art D&B sound system at full-concert-volume and accompanied by visual effects from the theatre's concert lighting rig. "It's no secret that the Grateful Dead loved playing at the Capitol Theatre, " says the band's archivist David Lemieux. "The show, from 2/24/71, the final Grateful Dead show at the Capitol, and the last show of a six night run, features many recently-debuted songs ("Bertha, " "Loser, " "Greatest Story Ever Told, " "Playing In The Band, " "Deal, " and "Bird Song"), as well as a Pigpen-centric batch of great music, including "I'm A King Bee, " "Good Lovin', " and "Lovelight, " with these latter two clocking in at nearly 20 minutes each." The show was mixed from the original 16-track analog master tapes recorded at the Cap for the Skull & Roses album, although none of this show was included on the album. Following the concert, the theatre will play a greatest unreleased hits "mixtape" assembled by Lemieux, drawn directly from the vault's master tapes and from a recently discovered batch of tapes from 1969-70. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |