Theo1 | Saturday, January 28, 2012 | 4:12 pm

@ mets. My curiosity is killing me. After posting your phone number on this site,were you bombarded mercilessly with calls? Or,as I hoped,are we Vaulters,particularly Dead Vaulters a more considerate group?

mets | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 | 7:02 pm

montaukharv---YES, I AM BURT!! Are you Harvey Federman, MY BEST FRIEND UNTIL THAT MISHAP WITH YOUR BROTHER RONNIE. To this day i keep thinking about the time we went down to the Anderson Theater and we left before you came out with the tickets to the show. Let alone ALL THE GREAT SHOWS WE SAW AT THE FILLMORE EAST TOGETHER!!! Harvey, if you get back to this site, please call me at 512-913-7944. I've been living in Austin for the past 37 plus years or so!! I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!

montaukharv | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | 2:23 pm

Hey Mets....You're not Burt are you??? Harv

rahrah | Friday, March 04, 2011 | 4:40 pm

Hard to believe they could play after the New Year's Even run in Boston a couple of nights previously. No one was left standing in Beantown, including the Dead themselves. From the listener point of view, this was a pivotal time of transition. They came around in Oct of '69. Jerry was doing some pedal steel stuff, but the band was still Owsley electric. This time through, only a couple of months later, Workingman's Dead had been formed and was being introduced for real. Psychedelic for now, but the energy was clearly changing. Listen to Dark Star here and then compare to Live Dead or earlier Vault recordings and you can hear it... still high but slower, a different groove. The 60's are fading away (fast)... who knew what was to come. Great!

fustercluck | Friday, March 04, 2011 | 12:06 pm

Hey folks although my first show wasn't till beyond the Fillmore and after Pigpen , I read your comments and it makes me feel so good to hear you talkin' abot these shows from that era. It's my favorite period of recorded Dead, I didn't see a show till Jerry and Merle at the Bottom Line. It was just amazing, needless to say. I fell right on the bus. Lovelight was always my alltime favorite song, the version from Live/Dead, so it's great to hear it described here in such heartfelt tones. peace and long live the memory of Wolfgang, Jerry and the Pig

mountan_dead_mike | Friday, March 04, 2011 | 8:05 am

Uncle John's Band anyway

mountan_dead_mike | Friday, March 04, 2011 | 8:03 am

Seems it is all playing a bit slow, or is it me and my browser?

montaukharv | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 | 4:11 pm

I'm wondering if METS maybe sat next to me at this show. I was from Flushing and this was my first Dead Show. Never experienced anything like it. The house lights coming on for the last 3-4 minutes of Turn on your Love Light! Just totally spent and trying to hail a cab back to Flushing at 6:00am. (in those days the cost was about $4.00!)

mets | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 | 9:55 am

It was like traveling through the Universe while we were watching and listening to this performance by The Grateful Dead that friday evening in n.y.city!!! What more can you say!! You would have had to have been there to truly understand how CLASSIC A SHOW THAT IT WAS--and everyone who knows anything about the grateful dead and those 1970-'71 nights at The Fillmore East--well--all i can say or can be said--is that this particular late show on january 2nd, 1970, rates right up there ON TOP WITH ANY SHOW THAT FOLLOWED--PERIOD!!! After they closed with this version of "TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT"--we were all--EVERY SINGLE LITTLE PERSON IN THE THEATER--was left in AWE--of what just had taken place!!! Please, do not ever forget, they had PIGPEN at the controls to lead them on---through the COSMOS!!!

mets | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 | 9:07 am

This was the first Dead show that my friends and i went to at the Fillmore East. Of course we went to ALL THOSE OTHER ONES that would follow that winter and spring in 1970!!! I could go on forever about this one in particular---but i'll just say, that was the beginning of a series of shows that would last through the years until my--the birthday show at Manor Downs--outside of austin, texas--on august 31st, 1985. The Grateful Dead first played at that venue on october 12th, 1977!! It was out in the country, the sound was impeccable, as jerry himself would say, and the vibe was GREAT!!!