Live at the Fillmore East

The recordings on this release come from the Grateful Dead’s two shows at the Fillmore East in New York on 15 May 1970, an early and a late show. Each had an acoustic and an electric set, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel, played between them; their sets are not included. The shows were issued in 2010 as Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3, billed as a 40th-anniversary celebration of Workingman’s Dead and the first title in that series to run to three discs. Real Gone Music reissued it in 2019.

The credited band is Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. “A Voice from On High,” credited to Bill Monroe, comes at the end of the late show’s acoustic set, with John Dawson adding harmony vocals and David Nelson playing mandolin.