I saw my first Grateful Dead concert on this day in 1970. Five minutes into their set, I was a Deadhead for life. Apparently, only one audience tape has survived the perils of time; if the sound crew recorded the show, it's been lost. That's sad because the jam with Jorma Kaukonen of the Jefferson Airplane, who were playing at a different venue the same night, is worth a listen. (Jack Casady may also have played; my memory is fuzzy, though some reports suggest he did play).
From Rolling Stone: "Serendipitously, the Jefferson Airplane were playing the War Memorial in Rochester, New York, the same 1970 evening that the Dead were doing a college late-nighter. So after his band’s gig ended, Airplane guitar pilot Jorma Kaukonen headed over to campus to join the Dead for a hot take on the Bobby Womack-via-Rolling Stones nugget “It’s All Over Now,” some smoking blues jams (both country and Chicago-style) and a rocking rendition of the old folk standard “Darling Corey.” Sketchy sound on the surviving bootlegs, but fiery playing."
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