Grateful Dead Kresge Plaza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA May 6, 1970 Free Concert -- nationwide campus strikes to protest Kent State killings Disk 1: 1. Dancin' In The Streets 2. Lost Kid Announcement/Tuning/Crowd 3. China Cat Sunflower // -> 4. I Know You Rider 5. Next Time You See Me 6. Morning Dew 7. Tuning/Crowd Disk 2: 1. Tuning/Crowd 2. Good Lovin'-> Drums-> Good Lovin' 3. Casey Jones 4. St. Stephen-> 5. Not Fade Away Source: MSR (MIT Reels) > Sonic Solutions Digital Editing (gans) > DATs > CDRs > EAC > SHN Shorten Convered by Rango Keshavan (THANKS!), seeded to etree by dnsacks@usa.net. Notes: Reel splice at China/Rider transition (track boundary at splice) ======================================= [sdf 12-14-2000] here is a little story i found online about this show ------------------------ 05/06/70 Kresge Plaza, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA Eric, This is in regard to the 5/6/70 tapes of the Kresge Plaza performance. At that time I was the sole dhead at MIT's radio station WTBS(call letters since changed). Of coarse it was thrilling to watch them set up to play, I asked their sound guy (I believe his name was Cutler) if I could get a feed off his board. When he agreed, I bent the arms of the technical staff ( at the station) to help me run it down one of our existing telco lines on the campus to the station where our head engineer at the time (I believe named Larry Killgallen) recorded the show onto an Ampex 350. Over the next few years, as the amount of dead heads grew, these tapes took on more importance. Somewhere in the winter of 70/71, a bus full of freaks (ostensibly some lagers from the hog farm) broke down in Boston. I befriended the like minded souls. At one point I "lent" them the master tapes, they in turn were to give me a set they had from a Cincinnati gig. It was not clear, what I ended up with after all was said and done, I was prone to being under a bit of a haze in those daze ;-). By the summer of 1971 my interest in the dead had waned, though I kept a fond place for them in my heart. Some one once told me that concert ended up on a bootleg. Sadly, this of coarse, has come up over the memories stirred by Jerry's death. Some one told me there were tapes extant of the shows done at the Ark in Boston(maybe 68-69), and I might have on tape somewhere, some interviews I did with the Dead, backstage at those shows (I went every night).