Grateful Dead - 1971-04-17 - Princeton NJ (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1971-04-17

Dillon Gym

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

Soundboard Matrix Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Tuning

02. Truckin'

03. Big Railroad Blues

04. Big Boss Man

05. Bird Song

06. Playing In The Band

07. Hard To Handle

08. Loser

09. Mama Tried

10. Casey Jones

11. False Start

12. Sugar Magnolia

2nd Set:

01. Good Lovin' >

02. Drums >

03. Good Lovin'

04. Tuning

05. Me &  Bobby McGee

06. Deal

07. Beat It On Down The Line

08. I'm A King Bee

09. Bertha

10. Sing Me Back Home

11. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >

12. Turn On Your Lovelight

Grateful Dead - 1971-04-17 - Princeton NJ (SBD)

Big Man On Campus - #2: We continue our look at rock on college campuses with this soundboard matrix recording of the Grateful Dead from April 17, 1971, 47 years ago today, from Princeton University.Why this show? Well, I attended Princeton, and I'm always looking to plug my alma mater. The Dead played Dillon Gym, which had been built in 1947 to house the school’s athletic facilities. In 1969, however, Jadwin Gym opened, supplanting Dillon as the home of the Princeton Tiger’s basketball team. Dillon continues to serve as the home for the school volley ball and wrestling teams, as well as housing a swimming pool, a fitness center and squash courts. Dillon also serves as a 3200 seat concert hall. In addition to the Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Steppenwolf, Frank Zappa, and Jackson Browne all played Dillon in the 1970s. Here’s what The Princeton Alumni Weekly said of the Dead’s show: “The Grateful Dead’s invasion of Dillon on April 17, 1971 — Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang in tow — is famous among devotees for a quintessential performance of “Good Lovin’ ” by band member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, then suffering from what would be fatal cirrhosis. 'The concert was expensive, $10,000,' says Lockwood, a faithful Deadhead who treasures a cassette recording he made that night. The band played until 'well past midnight,' Lockwood recalls, and 'a substantial part of the audience, which was all students, was stoned out of their minds.' Concertgoers passed ­marijuana joints down the rows of seats, he says. According to legend, when a Princeton proctor demanded that shaggy singer Jerry Garcia extinguish his joint, Garcia snarled, 'I’ll never play here again.' He never did.” Download this one to hear this legendary show for yourself, then come back on April 21 and 29 for the rest of this his Four Of A Kind. By  the way, you can go here for more on some of the legendary concerts held on Princeton’s renowned campus.