04-09-1970
Fillmore West
San Francisco, California
With a 1970 show at the Fillmore West, we really do not have to say anymore; you know the night is going to be awesome. But things get even funkier in the second set when, just out of Good Lovin’, someone joins in – folks who were there insist it was someone random from the audience who jumped on stage. The interlocutor somehow gets the boys (was he also on an instrument?) into a down-home hoe-down jam unlike anything else. As the jam gets into some serious psychedelic bluegrass territory, the guest suddenly busts out in some hard to decipher lyrics. The Grateful Dead site reports the lyrics as:
Slow it down [where it too far]
Gotta slow it down [where it should be]
Slow everything down [out in the country]
Gotta slow it down [keep it slow, cat]
[Can you give it pony truckin’ for a beer, gal]
[Go out and find it wrapped in sin]
[If you don’t mind one brand, six will do]
Seven’s a lucky number […]
Whoooo
[The price is up] where I belong
Singing them old country songs
Get everybody singing country songs
Get everybody back where we belong
Get everybody back where we belong
Get everybody singing songs
Hey
Said fee fi fip yi yo
(fee fi fip yi yo)
Fee fi hoo doo doo doo
Whatever is getting sung, it is a unique and fun little interlude in an already outstanding night.
Guests at this show:
Today’s Dead of the Day:
Other April 9th Shows and Recordings:
- 1967 – Panhandle, Golden Gate Park – San Francisco, California
- 1982 – War Memorial Auditorium – Rochester, New York
- 1983 – Hampton Coliseum – Hampton, Virginia
- 1987 – UIC Pavilion – Chicago, Illinois
- 1988 – The Centrum – Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1989 – Freedom Hall – Louisville, Kentucky
- 1991 – Orlando Arena – Orlando, Florida
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