9/19/70: fillmore east, new york, NY.

the third night of this 4-show run is quite special, primarily because of the dark star suite. unfortunately the opening acoustic set is a very poor quality audience recording, distant and plagued by an extremely rowdy, hollering bunch of folks positioned around marty weinberg’s Uher 4000L mono reel-to-reel. the soundboard of this evening, however, is another story.

the portion of the soundboard we have contains one of the finest dark stars ever committed to tape. it made its debut on david gans' GD hour, courtesy of some reels that were gifted to him from alan mande who worked on the stage of the fillmore east in 1970. the story is that a few members of the crew recorded the set in the "E" shop under the stage. gans shared on the air that these were copies of the master reels, not the originals. to date, no one is sure who is in possession of the masters. in time they may surface and, if we're lucky, an official release of the entire september 17-20 stand will follow. for now, we’ll have to live with this stellar fragment.

https://archive.org/details/gd1970-09-19.mtx.chappell.SB14.31510.sbeok.flac16