Mr. Sandoz Dilaudid

I have a memory of hearing Phil say this over the PA during one of the Dead's Egypt shows, but I have no idea if this was just a dream I dreamed, it happened at another show, something like this but not exactly like this happened, or something else.

Does this ring a bell to anyone?

update: 11/2/77 - Canada, not Egypt. After FOTM and before Estimated, https://archive.org/details/gd1977-11-02.mtx.chappell.sb23.86233.sbeok.flac16/gd77-11-02s2t07.flac at about 9:35

Would Mr. Sandoz Dilaudid please come to the backstage area?

Deep River Blues on the Festival Express

--> Early-on, riding the Festival Express: "A few people started to drift into the forward lounge. Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi pulled out guitars. West, toying with his tiny, ancient Les Paul Gibson as if it were a stalk of grass lazily picked out Delta bottleneck blues, and Mountain's drummer, Corky Laing, sang along: Let it rain, let it pour / And let it rain some more / Got those deep river blues. Jerry Garcia, Delaney [Bramlett] and Kenny Gradney, Delaney's bass player, joined in" (Dalton and Cott 1970, 31).

Because I like to build out the sociomusical nodes in the Side Trips Social Network, I thought I'd mention this. I don't know the precise date.

BTW, and related to the post I just made regarding GD setlists, Dalton and Cott report that there were free gigs at Coronation Park on both the first and second days in Toronto, i.e., both Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28. They identify GD, NRPS, Ian and Sylvia, James and the Good Brothers and the People's Revolutionary Concert Band as playing those gigs, to 4,000 the first day and only 500 the second (p. 32).

Dalton, David, and Jonathan Cott. 1970. The Million Dollar Bash. Rolling Stone, September 3, pp. 30-34.

Where Was the Grateful Dead on Sunday, August 24, 1969?

Here are the listings from the great San Francisco Express Times, vol. 2 no. 32 (August 21, 1969), p. unk. There's lots of interest here, of course. But I have circled the item that interests me most greatly. It's under the listings for Sunday, August 24, 1969, and reads as follows:

Hippy Hill: Trans-Cultural Rip-Offs, Inc. presents Steve Gaskin & the Grateful Dead in concert with Shiva Fellowship. Bring dope (the sacrament) and good vibes. noon. free.

"Hippy Hill", a.k.a. Hippie Hill, is apparently at the far eastern edge of Golden Gate Park, close to the entry from the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It seems like a perfectly good place to go share a sacrament and a free show by the Dead.

The Grateful Dead List traditionally shows the GD at Paradise Valley Resort, Squamish, BC, at the Vancouver Pop Festival [dead.net | deadlists]. There is a handbill, but I have never seen any eyewitness or other accounts of the GD's performance. This listing makes much sense given the band's presence in the Northwest (Bullfrog Festival in Oregon on 8/23/69).

That said, I find the listing in the Express Times to have a lot of verisimilitude. I have been reading a lot of stuff from ca. August 1969 around The Common and the Wild West Festival. The Dead doing a free gig in the Park makes sense in the context of all the shit that was going down, about which I will be writing, soon.

Thoughts?

GD: November 18, 1970, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada (CANCELED)

Political unrest in Quebec in the fall of 1970 caused cancellation of a GD show scheduled for November 18, 1970 at the Montreal Forum. Promoter Ken Walker of Toronto (who had dealt with a little show-related unrest as one of the "Festival Express" principals earlier in the year) seemed to be assigned responsibility, rather than the band or someone else, but who knows.

REFERENCE:

"Poco Show Canceled," Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1970, p. 48. Accessed via Google News.