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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

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New Riders of The Purple Sage Grateful Dead Capitol, Theatre , Port Chester NY November 8, 1970

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Disc One – Acoustic Set – 01) Tuning 02) Dire Wolf 03) I Know You Rider 04) Dark Hollow 05) Rosalie McFall 06) El Paso 07) Operator (Final time played) 08) Ripple 09) Friend Of The Devil 10) Wake Up, Little Suzie (Final time played) 11) Uncle John’s Band

Disc Two – NRPS – 01) Tuning 02) Six Days On The Road 03) Superman 04) Whatcha Gonna Do 05) Glendale Train 06) All I Ever Wanted 07) Fair Chance To Know 08) Portland Woman 09) Cecilia 10) Truck Drivin’ Man 11) Last Lonely Eagle 12) Louisiana Lady 13) Honky Tonk Women

Disc Three – Electric Dead – 01) Tuning 02) Morning Dew 03) Me And My Uncle 04) Mystery Train (Only time played) 05)>My Babe (Only time played) 06) Around And Around (First time played) 07) New Orleans 08)>Searchin’ 09) It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue 10) Casey Jones

Disc Four – Electric Dead – 01) Truckin’ 02)>Dark Star (First verse only) 03)>The Main Ten (Final time played) 04)>Dancin’ In The Streets 05)>Not Fade Away 06)>Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad 07)>Not Fade Away 08)>Drums 09)>Good Lovin’ 10)>Drums 11)>Good Lovin’

From the original uploader:

Ken & Judy Lee Proudly Present: The Port Chester Resurrection Project

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This is a very special release from Ken and Judy Lee. It serves as a commemoration of Mark Cohen’s 2nd anniversary in heaven. Mark was a great friend, and a big part of the Dead community. And it is to him that this project is dedicated, and to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude. If not for Mark’s love of music, and love of this band in particular, we would never have known about the Lees’ Port Chester archive. Aside from a few other brave souls known to have taped shows at this fantastic venue, Ken and Judy’s work from the Capitol Theatre stands as the ultimate body of documentation. And if not for Mark’s insistence that these shows be “liberated”, much of what has previously circulated would never have been heard, and this show was one of his favorites.

This show is a keystone of the Grateful Dead, one of those shows that really gives you pause and makes you wonder. A show of firsts and lasts, when it was all said and done, it had laid to rest some old lexicons, and created a new set of criteria by which the band would be judged. This was truly one of the legendary Grateful Dead shows. The Dead had a way of continually redefining themselves in performance, and this show buries the sixties and propels them into the seventies (much like the benchmark show at Lewiston, Maine 9-6-80 redefined them for the Eighties).

This is the last official acoustic set of the 70’s. ( Other than, or But for one Besides an) improptu set in 1978, most of the songs performed acoustically would not see the light of day again untill the fall of 1980, when they were showcased at the 10 night run at the Warfield in San Francisco, and 8 nights at NY’s Radio City Music Hall. The final “Operator”, and “Wake Up Little Suzie”, Mystery Train > My Babe (only time played), New Orleans > Searchin’, Main Ten (last time played), all standout in this performance, and then like a dream, are gone. Around and Around (first time played), and a long stretch before you hear “Baby Blue” again. This release also includes the complete New Riders set, known to circulate only as a fragment.

A sand pendulum that creates a beautiful pattern only by its movement.

But  why does the ellipse change shape?

The pattern gets smaller because energy is not conserved (and in fact decreases) in the system. The mass in the pendulum gets smaller and the center of mass lowers as a function of time. Easy as that, an amazing pattern arises through the laws of physics.

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