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The Dead played its first show at Folsom Field on September 3, 1972, with. Six years later, the band took to the state's most iconic venue, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, on July 7 and 8 and August 30 and 31. From then until 1987, the Dead would play twenty shows at Red Rocks, out of a total of about fifty shows in this state.After that first CU concert, Garcia made a big purchase.
in 1964 . In 1966, Garcia sold his Fender pedal steel to Lowell"Banana" Levinger of The Youngbloods; by '69, he was ready to give it another shot. After playing the show in Boulder, he bought a Zane Beck Double-Ten pedal steel guitar at a Guitar City in Lakewood. In the bookHere's what happened. I’ll tell you. It’s really very simple. I’d fooled around a little bit with pedal steels and stuff, but I couldn’t make any sense of them.
Being in that music store finally, with one correctly tuned and one together the way they’re supposed to be, and just a chance to touch it and fool with it for about 15 minutes, I finally could start to see the sense of it. And seeing the sense of an instrument is the whole instrument. You know what I mean? If you don’t understand the logic of an instrument, the sense of an instrument, how it works, what makes it do what it does, you’ll never understand the instrument. Never.
Still, Garcia was never satisfied with his work on the instrument, and only played it live sporadically after the Dead's acoustic tour in 1970.In 1969-’70, the Dead experimented with doing acoustic sets to shake things up. As Weir put it:"We're gonna take a break from all this sweat and steam and uproar and tumult, and we're gonna break out our acoustic guitars and regale you with some wooden music.
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