gd/ed sullivan

[springFallandWinter]

was watching some ole ed sullivan shows and it seems

every band back in the day, including sf own jefferson airplane, was on.

i mean everyone.

any1  know why dead never appeared on sullivan?
 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

I think they took the higher route going on the Playboy show. The Grateful Dead seemed to be connected with who they wanted, there was a scene around them. Ed Sullivan also had his scene illustrated by trying to impose a change of lyrics for Morrison. Just my thoughts on what you started. No steppenewolf, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd either, Jefferson Airplane might have had Kanter and Balin pushing them on

[Greg from Chestertown]

I was just a kid, but the talk at the time was of the generation gap. I can remember the Ed Sullivan Show, watching it with my parents and my older siblings. Hippiedom was going mainstream. The Airplane was more mainstream than the Grateful Dead. Even when I started in ‘80, you had to seek them out, they weren’t typical. There was everybody else, then there was Jerry and the boys. If you owned up to being into the Dead, the next question was about LSD and whether or not you had tripped before. So, if you’re Ed Sullivan and you’re trying to get the San Francisco sound to the entire country, I would imagine you would go with Grace Slick over scary, hairy Jerry. 

[Rbarracoph]

Imagine a two minute Dark Star 😉

[John A]

23 hours ago, Rbarracoph said:

Imagine a two minute Dark Star 😉

 

Not 2 min, but there was a Dark Star post space at Deer Creek in '93 that was shorter than that night's The Wheel.  😲

[Greg from Chestertown]

9/13/93, Dark Star clocks in at 5:32. On the ride home, my buddy was like They played Dark Star !!! I was like, no, they didn’t. 

[Tea]

I saw a shorty (dark Star jams don’t count).  6/22/92 clocked in at a cool 4 mins.  An aborted 2-minute Spanish jam followed soon thereafter.  1992 was tough sledding 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

11 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

9/13/93, Dark Star clocks in at 5:32. On the ride home, my buddy was like They played Dark Star !!! I was like, no, they didn’t. 

I was out there, solo, for those philly shows and the next day one of the local radio stations mentioned that they played a Dark Star the night before after a long sabbatical. Unlike any Cincinnati radio stations, the local Philly station played a bootleg Dark Star on the air to commend the Dead for playing it. That philly fall three were the last of my touring with them. 1994 was all Emmylou and the Nash Ramblers from Nashville to Greenville to Boone to the final Ramble on 2/15/95. I had gotten a safe distance from the band when that fatal news was announced in August.

[Mango]

On 12/29/2024 at 3:05 PM, Rbarracoph said:

Imagine a two minute Dark Star 😉

 
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AF1drAUmMi8ZX0U97UJLw?si=gmWm9eb5QjGzdd7tpJRimg&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Adark%2Bstar

 

here it is- 2:40