New Riders Of The Purple Sage 4-28-71 Fillmore East

Recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York City. April 28, 1971

1. Workingman's Blues
2. Superman @ 4:49
3. Truck Drivin' Man @ 9:16
4. I Don't Know You @ 13:07
5. Runnin' Back To You @ 18:15
6. Down In The Boondocks @24:12
7. Garden Of Eden @ 29:03
8. Glendale Train @ 36:57
9. Fair Chance To Know @ 41:55
10 Sailing Song @ 46:21
11 Connection @ 50:54
12 Henry @ 55:21
13 The Weight @ 1:00:36
14. Last Lonely Eagle 1:08:00
15. Louisiana Lady @ 1:15:52
16. Fun, Fun, Fun @ 1:20:15
17. Honky Tonk Woman @ 1:21:15

Category:

Music

Tags:

• nrps
• new
• riders
• purple
• sage
• garcia
• nelspn
• marmaduke
• dawson
• lesh
• hart
• tolbert
• buddy
• cage
• pedal
• steel
• guitar
• country
• blues
• fillmore
• east
• grateful
• dead
• jgb
• fbb
• 4-28-72
• april
• 28
• 1971
• myinnereyemike
• Workingman's
• Blues
• Superman
• Truck
• Drivin'
• Man
• Don't
• Know
• You
• Runnin'
• runnin
• running
• Back
• To
• Down
• In
• The
• Boondocks
• Garden
• Of
• Eden
• Glendale
• Train
• Fair
• Chance
• Sailing
• Song
• Connection
• Henry
• Weight
• Last
• Lonely
• Eagle
• Louisiana
• Lady
• Fun
• Honky
• Tonk
• Woman
• rolling
• stones
• yt:stretch=16:9

[moliken3]

Jerry's steel guitar sound , i love it !

[TheBobomano]

@head5338 every1 knows that bob weir was the best----- everyone!

[Dylan10777]

Thank you for uploading this. It doesn't get much better than this era, as far as NRPS goes, in my opinion. A whole show?! This is what the internet was made for. Thanks brother

[dadzbluz]

When any of you post yourself playing music I may listen to your opinions. Everyone's a critic...

[MrGeltabs]

@head5338 Jerry died from indirect Heroin Use.... Keep that in mind pal... Bobby is still alive because he chose to not use!!!! Thats all I need for me... Hey man, to each his own

[head5338]

@MrGeltabs what ru shootin?! bobby over jerry???wtf!!!! jerry is da man!!!!!!!!!

[eaglewray]

Brings back fond memories.

[MrGeltabs]

@salgoudsamoht Wow is all I can say.... W-O-W u like a heroin user over good ole Bobby Weir???? To each his own, cause we all love music :) I just never met anyone that didn't prefer Bobby over Jerry

[TheDrmedina]

There was a tremendous amount of inter-generational hostility in that era. CSNY's suggestion that both parents and children should "know they love you" was a very needed statement at that time. Jerry always disclaimed being a guru of the psychedelic movement, but of course he was. The presence of his pedal steel on "Teach Your Children" added authority to CSNY's very positive message. It's very fitting, in my mind, that it ended up being Jerry's most widely-heard musical contribution.

[TheDrmedina]

@salgoudsamoht Actually, I'm a PRE-Deadhead, as that was the name of a fan club formed in 1972 which I refused to join. And, yes, the solo version of The Wheel (with Jerry playing all of the parts except for Bill Kreutzman on drums) remains a gorgeous piece of music.

[salgoudsamoht]

@TheDrmedina a Deadhead? I've never quite understood that tribe. As I mentioned, I enjoy the musical talent of the late Mr. Garcia, may he rest in peace. The only reason i listen to the Dead is because he played most often with that group. I have a 4 CD album of the Dead closing winterland or something like that, but have to skip songs when Mr. Weir is demonstrating his vocal stylings. i listen infrequently to vocal music anyway, and there are some 'singers' who i can't bear to hear. he is one.

[TheDrmedina]

I'm a Deadhead, too, and have no particular interest in tearing down the music. But even in the early era, it was Pig Pen's numbers that were usually the hottest in any given show. Again, this was because, with no vocal responsibilities, Jerry was able to weave all kinds of interesting melodies into or around the singing - as he's doing here with the NRPS. Just because Jerry wanted to do something (like sing) doesn't mean it was good. Did ANYBODY ever really enjoy "Feedback"?

[salgoudsamoht]

@TheDrmedina Good point Doc. i prefer the late Mr. Garcia, may he rest in peace, sans the Dead, that way listening to the one who sings worse is avoided. i've had Garcia, solo album (1st 1; 1974: bought the 2nd one by mistake - i just wanted the song 'Sugaree') for many years and my favorite music of his is The Wheel. Eep hour and To Lay Me Down are nice, but The Wheel levitates. so your idea of him weaving wonderful steel guitar improvisations for an entire concert is quite appealing.

[TheDrmedina]

@salgoudsamoht There is no doubt that Jerry wanted to sing. There is also no doubt he played a lot better than he sang. Jerry also ruined the limited vocal gifts that he did have by endlessly smoking cigarettes, pot and "Persian" heroin. By the late 1980's, one of Brent Mydland's jobs with the band was essentially to drown out Jerry's vocals. And, as you yourself admit, Jerry couldn't play LEAD and sing at the same time. Nobody ever went to a Dead concert to hear Garcia play rhythm.

[salgoudsamoht]

@TheDrmedina besides being an astute appraiser of the aptitude of gifted musicians, you possess the ability to know the musical direction an artist wished to pursue. so, why did Mr. Garcia produce solo records with himself singing? &, watch him singing 'Wharf Rat' at Rockpalast in 1980. He sings with more musical sensitivity and creativity than 98% of the other 'rock singers.' one doesn't fake that. He sang because he wanted to sing, and he did it well, singing and playing rhythm simultaneously.

[salgoudsamoht]

@TheDrmedina and we should care about the 'mainstream musical imagination' (sic)? one of the problems with usa culture is that it has no 'mainstream musical imagination.' it could be more accurately characterized as an imagination created for the mainstream by quasi-clever marketers that contains music. the late Mr. Garcia, may he rest in peace, was a genuine musical artist who would probably not wish to have any connection to an aesthetic perversion like a 'mainstream musical imagination.'

[pinkus44]

great great great post!!!!!

[TheDrmedina]

@TheDrmedina And it all had a happy ending -- at least for me. Within a year, I had completely stopped taking recreational drugs, and managed to make it through the psychedelic era alive and only half-crazy! Now, forty years later. I think my head is probably screwed on right. But I still love the same music (not the junk they play today) -- which it is not necessary to abuse substances to enjoy! And I can't think of anything sweeter than this set! Thanks for sharing!

[MyInnerEyeMike99]

@TheDrmedina I have the 5-2-70 Hapur NRPA show on CD. I've had it for years. In fact, maybe I'll just post the whole show here on YouTube for the whole world to enjoy. It really isn't all the great of a show, honestly. Fuck Rob Bleetstein anyway!! The music is to be shared, not horded by an elite few who think they are privileged. If everyone thought like him, there wouldn't be any bootleg shows for the public to enjoy, just his "inside circle" of friends. I've never been that kind of Deadhead.

[TheDrmedina]

I happen to have the NRPS set from the greatest Dead concert in history, according to the late Dead archivist Dick Latvala. That was Harpur College 5/2/70, the acoustic and electric sets of which are immortalized in DIck's Picks 8. I was a student at Harpur. I talked Rob Bleetstein, the NRPS archivist, into giving me the NRPS set from that show, so I now have that show in all of its glory. Rob made me promise not to share it, so I can't. But that NRPS stuff is not as beautiful as this.

[TheDrmedina]

@TheDrmedina Jerry's work with NRPS was, in a way, what he should have been doing on guitar with the Dead. But it's hard to really see yourself, and Jerry sadly thought that he wasn't quite good enough on pedal steel. How wrong he was! The proof of this pudding is that the ONLY Garcia stuff that really survived in the mainstream musical imagination was his pedal steel stuff on CSN&Y's "Teach Your Children"!

[TheDrmedina]

Only people who were there can really appreciate how wonderful Jerry was with the NRPS. The dirty little secret is that Jerry couldn't really play and sing at the same time. So letting him sew his endless improvisations on pedal steel behind Marmaduke's singing set Jerry free in a way that actually never quite happened with the Dead. The Grateful Dead vocals, which they spent so much effort on, mostly all sucked anyway, and people were just waiting for them to shut up and let Jerry play.

[hutley58]

I AM SO THRILLED I FOUND THIS .....THANK YOU THANK YOU

[phileesarah]

love your inner eye Mike 99!!!!!

[beenshaw]

great stuff thanks