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Grateful Dead Columbia Revolt 1968-05-03



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Most of the Columbia University Class of '68 walked out of graduation on a prearranged signal -- students carried radios under their gowns and walked out when WKCR played "The Times They Are A'Changin'" -- to a countercommencement on Low Plaza, rockin' out with the Grateful Dead, who were smuggled past the barricades in a bread truck to the steps of the student plaza and from there to Morningside Park for a big picnic.
What the band actually played was not recorded, so the song we've filled in the time frame with works as well as any, and fits like a glove at slightly over 2 minutes, a rare live performance of Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion.
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it's public domain. ... ( 1 year ago by usedMTVpromos)
it's public domain. see archivedotorg for more info.
it was shot by a ... ( 1 year ago by usedMTVpromos)
it was shot by a student group.
Awesome again just ... ( 1 year ago by jimleap80)
Awesome again just amzing to think they could set up shop there and play at Columbia like that just a bit before my time wouldve been cool to be there, jim
I'm fourteen as ... ( 11 months ago by 710haightashbury)
I'm fourteen as well and the dead is my farvorite band.
Ignore my account age.
And now these ... ( 11 months ago by ClueSign)
And now these radical students are buying scalped 'Hannah Montana' tickets for their grandchildren.
this was right in ... ( 10 months ago by tomandshel)
this was right in the midst of the student revolt
what song is this? ( 10 months ago by punkasspete)
what song is this?
This occured a ... ( 9 months ago by hutsell)
This occured a couple of weeks later.
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I'm going to 'guess' the day the campus was closed and the cops came in to end the weeks old student strike was April 20th, 1968.
enjoying family and ... ( 9 months ago by usedMTVpromos)
enjoying family and supporting the black market
"Well you know, ... ( 9 months ago by ClueSign)
"Well you know, we're all doing what we can" - John Lennon, 'Revolution'. But, usedMTVpromos,we digress. It's a very interesting post and I wish I was there in 1967 instead of traipsing around my junior high school thinking I was radical for wearing bell-bottoms.
"The Golden Road" . ... ( 8 months ago by funkberto)
"The Golden Road" .
launched in single in 1966, included in LP debut in 1967.
ummmm they had quit ... ( 7 months ago by StrawberryTerry)
ummmm they had quit performing golden road by 05/03/68. according to dead base all that is known of the setlist is cold rain and snow and sittin on top of the world. list is definatly incompleatebut i can garentee there was no golden road played. possibly qa song or two from anthem of the sun was played or maybe a pig blues or two
maybe dead base is ... ( 7 months ago by usedMTVpromos)
maybe dead base is dead wrong about the setlist.
Cold Rain and Sitting On Top Of The World (studio cuts off the 1st GD lp, not live versions) were edited onto the footage in the cutting room.
A newspaper said the GD played Morning Dew at this gig.
Morning Dew is longer than this footage and the tempo being played appears faster.
Dennis McNally was there & said this set lasted 30 mins.
Anthem suites tend to stretch beyond that.
Pre 1969 GD setlist data is often sketchy!
Looks I'm joining ... ( 7 months ago by hendrix726)
Looks I'm joining the club of fourteen year olds who love the dead. haha
The concert was ... ( 7 months ago by morrisolder)
The concert was played on the patio of Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia's Student Union, in support of the student strike that spring. This was not on graduation day but a while before that; if May 3 is correct, 3 days after 720 students were arrested and many beaten by the NYPD. Don't recall the playlist, but it was about an hour. Truly a great moment, in a great year, when young people from Mexico to New York, from Paris to Prague to Orangesburg, SC, rose up to demand an end to war and tyranny.
And in San ... ( 6 months ago by usedMTVpromos)
And in San Francisco too in '68, at SF State College where my Dad and others fought for peace.
I presume the patio was called Low Plaza, since several sources confirm that's where the Dead played, definitely on the 3rd.
It was a pre-Graduation dress rehearsal that was a springboard for the gathering at the patio and other events that took shape that day.
You were there then?
The campus has a ... ( 6 months ago by morrisolder)
The campus has a big open area, and Low Plaza is in front of Low Library, the admin building that the students took over. The concert was in front of the student union on the other end of the open area. The Dead had been asked shortly before if they would do it and we were thrilled that they did...
It all ended with ... ( 6 months ago by rogerrodd)
It all ended with the repeal of the draft. American youth stopped attending college to avoid being inducted producing subsequent wholesale ignorance and apathy. Not one generation since (and including) then has collectively stood for any political or social cause.
Tell an 18 year old man AND woman today that for the next 6 years the military will be ruling their life and forcing them to fight and die. Then we might not have a nation full of brain dead jingoists chanting "Support our troops".
You're right, I ... ( 5 months ago by tballz420)
You're right, I wish you would tell me what to do instead.
Why did the US govt ... ( 5 months ago by TheRealCritique)
Why did the US govt avoid a general draft and drive us into bankruptcy with mercs in Iraq? Because they didnt want to risk igniting the hippie gene in the current generation. Still, sh*t is finally hitting the fan, and lets hope it has positive activist result. People are at least finally giving up on right-wing horsesh*t. I'm 43, and I've always been a lib (was on arch digs in the late 60s and 70s), but I think a lot of people my age and younger who were right-wing are seeing reality.
really groovy dead ... ( 3 months ago by folkrockm14)
really groovy dead stuff man.ill always hate the war and ill always love the dead.
I like the shot of ... ( 3 months ago by sovietdawn)
I like the shot of those two kids banging on Mickey Hart's cymbals, and Mickey doesn't seem to mind. That's pretty cool.
NOT JERRY'S VOICE ... ( 2 months ago by mcmike9858)
NOT JERRY'S VOICE IT IS PHIL
pretty sure i hear ... ( 1 month ago by gawkkkkkkkkkkkkkk)
pretty sure i hear some pigpen singin backup.



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