Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Grateful Dead - Morning Dew

Grateful Dead - Morning Dew
OIL WELL RSC 086 CD

1 Morning Dew 11:44
2 Me And My Uncle 3:24
3 Deal 5:24
4 Hard To Handle 9:31
5 That's It For The Other One 11:03
6 Sugar Magnolia 6:27
7 Dark Star 13:45
8 St. Stephen 6:31

Note:
All songs by Hunter/Lesh/Garcia/Weir
Live in New York City, NY - April 28/29, 1971 - Vol. 2
All songs recorded live at Fillmore East on 28 April 1971

Lineup:
Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – keyboards, harmonica, percussion, vocals
Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Tom Constanten - keyboards on tracks 7,8

This album is a clone of: "Typical Daydream" CD2 - Silver Rarities – SIRA 119/120/121
Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
On the front cover Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir performing live. Soundboard quality.

Dead head or not you will enjoy this album. Good music played by a very good band. The recording could not be better everything is clear and crisp and the vocals are right out front. From drum solo to rockin' guitar all hail the dead!!

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© Official released material:
Tracks 2, 4, 7, 8 have been released officially on: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead
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Dead of the Day: April 28, 1971

This show, the penultimate of the fabulous spring '71 tour, is another monster. As you would expect, Pig dominates, playing an unreal Hard to Handle and an excellent King Bee. But he is in the background for most of the show as the rest of the boys serve up some seriously mind-altering jams. Jerry is sublime on Dew, and everyone comes together to make the magic happen after the Hard to Handle with a 20-minute Other One into a Wharf Rat. But, as you might have guessed looking at the setlist, The Dark Star> Stephen> NFA> GDTRFB> NFA may very well be the best part of the show. Tom Constanten sat in on that latter stretch, and his presence is much appreciated, as you will hear.

Despite an unbelievably resplendent show up until this point, the real highlight of the night begins with the steamy - and, sadly, the last - Alligator, and continues on with the insane Drums and the Jam> GDTRFB> Cold Rain and Snow. The jam, with the Stephen tease, takes a little time to get going, but then rockets off into incredible territory with all five members of the band coming together into a writhing mass of pure awesomeness to make it happen. The boys continue on into Going Down the Road and then head off to an incredible Cold Rain and Snow. From there, the rest of the show is just icing on the cake, albeit some of the best frosting ever.

Dead of the Day: April 29, 1971
Truckin’ opens the show in strong fashion, with some alternative lyrics and an eruption of laughter from Bobby at one point. A few songs later, the Cumberland absolutely smokes with fiery picking and so much more stuffed into the short little version. The Bird Song – one of the first dozen they played – a song later is elemental, so far from the richer, though no more splendid, renditions from the late eighties and early nineties, nearly three hundred iterations later. After a Dark Hollow that is sumptuous in its simplicity, the band switches gears completely by heading into a Hard to Handle, which is certainly among the best ever.

Pig is solid on the standard vocals and delivers an extended, funky rap before the song transitions into a scrumptious, extended jam featuring Jerry and Phil, returning again to Pig and the chorus one final time. A bit later, the Morning Dew comes forth as a glorious thing of beauty with the band regally launching off into jams then coming back down for Jerry’s vocals backed by Pig’s luscious organ fills. Next, the Minglewood offers up something else entirely; I have never heard Bobby sing the tune – or any song, for that matter – quite like he does here, all big and up front. Moreover, Pig’s organ is really coming through, providing some depth and texture to the tune along with the blues guitar riffs and strong work by Billy on the drums. As we have commented before, the Dead do a tremendous version of I Second That Emotion, and this one is second to none. It is also the last of the far too few seven that they played.

GD 70s
Classically trained trumpeter Phil Lesh performed on bass guitar. Bob Weir, the youngest original member of the group, played rhythm guitar. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan played keyboards and harmonica until shortly before his death in 1973 at the age of 27. Garcia, Weir, and McKernan shared the lead vocal duties more or less equally; Lesh only sang a few leads, but his tenor was a key part of the band's three-part vocal harmonies. Bill Kreutzmann played drums, and in September 1967 was joined by a second drummer, New York native Mickey Hart, who also played a wide variety of other percussion instruments.

1970 included tour dates in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the band performed at The Warehouse for two nights. On January 31, 1970, the local police raided their hotel on Bourbon Street, and arrested and charged a total of 19 people with possession of various drugs.[33] The second night's concert was performed as scheduled after bail was posted. Eventually, the charges were dismissed, except those against sound engineer Owsley Stanley, who was already facing charges in California for manufacturing LSD. This event was later memorialized in the lyrics of the song "Truckin'", a single from American Beauty which reached number 64 on the charts.

Mickey Hart took time off from the Grateful Dead beginning in February 1971,[34] leaving Kreutzmann once again as the sole percussionist. Hart rejoined the Grateful Dead for good in October 1974. Tom "TC" Constanten was added as a second keyboardist from 1968 to 1970, while Pigpen also played various percussion instruments and sang.

After Constanten's departure, Pigpen reclaimed his position as sole keyboardist. Less than two years later, in late 1971, Pigpen was joined by another keyboardist, Keith Godchaux, who played grand piano alongside Pigpen's Hammond B-3 organ. In early 1972, Keith's wife, Donna Jean Godchaux, joined the Grateful Dead as a backing vocalist.

Following the Grateful Dead's "Europe '72" tour, Pigpen's health had deteriorated to the point that he could no longer tour with the band. His final concert appearance was June 17, 1972, at the Hollywood Bowl, in Los Angeles;[35][36] he died on March 8, 1973 of complications from liver damage