Steve Martin recently e-mailed me this:
There is a partial board tape of the Dead at UC. Davis 1/21/71. I've been out of circulation for many years, raising my kids. Anyway, recently got back into transfering reels, DAt & PCM onto CD-R. I've found your web page useful for sorting out some of these old tapes. I was surprised not to see UC. Davis not on your list. Thare is a copy in the archive of a partial show. That is the first tape I ever listened to in the archive as it was my first Dead show, and naturally I was very interested on how it sound on tape. Dick Latvala used to keep a book in the archive with entries for all the shows & a Blank area for entirs for set lists. There was a little desk with a 1/2 track reel deck and head phones. When we were there I would sit and listen to the tapes and write down the set lists. That UC. Davis show among others is in my hand writng in that book, if it still exists. It's kind of funny, but I was probobly the first person to ever listen to that tape. UC Davis 1/21/71 two 7" ,1/2 track reels: China Cat-> Rider, Uncle John's Band, Mama Tried, Around & Around, Cumberland, Casey Jones, Cryptical/cut. The order was uncertain. As was always Dick's policy, we took the reels out of the boxes they had originally been stored in and placed them on the shelves in the same order. Always, we would take them off the shelf, and put them back in the same order. I can remember that one of the reels seemed to have some fragment of live Dead that had apparently been taped over. Makes one wonder if some shows not in the archive weren't taped over. At the show at UC, Davis the sound was so loud, and hit such a pitch that it shatterd some of the windows up high in the hall. We at the time thought that was very cool. We almost smuggled in a 16mm. motion pcture camera, but chickened out at the last minute. A friend took some very good black and white phots. Wish I could track him down. The only song that I can honestly remember from the show was Casey Jones. The reason being, we were at the edge of the stage, and could see Garcia at the back side stage before Casey Jones. He had what appeared to be a tournicate around his arm, hold it with his teeth. When he rushed out onto the stage he yanked the tournicate off and ripped into Casey Jones. Wo, "Drivin' that Train" ...Quite exciting for us country boys. I do have more information about other shows and tapes if anyone is intereted. Also some queries. Steve Greenfield,CA.
