5/29/71: winterland arena, san francisco, CA.

one month to the day after their final historic show at the fillmore east, the dead play a benefit gig with nrps, rj fox, and james & the good bros. the performance will forever be known as the acid punch show for the two 35-gallon garbage cans full of lysergic spiked cider that made their way through the backstage doorway and into the venue. the liquid refreshment coupled with the $2 admission fee, sounds like a recipe for a darn nice evening. a few years back a beautiful sounding partial soundboard surfaced on the archive, which happily replaced the muffled audience recording i acquired back in my tape trading days. sit back, relax, pour yourself a glass of punch, and queue this beauty up.
https://archive.org/details/gd1971-05-29.sbd.miller.110324.flac16