Wesleyan Class of 1972

A virtual Downey House

Grateful Dead Concert

A report on the Grateful Dead Concert in the “Grateful Dead Guide“: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2013/02/may-3-1970-wesleyan-university.html

Seen on the Facebook group “Wesleyan in the 70s“ , this is titled “Wesleyan University Spring Concert May 3, 1970 (Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, etc.)” :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGjg56e_9N8

This appears to be another edit of the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7CmmweLZU

Seen in the comments of this version:

When working at Wesleyan, I found this recording about 25 or more years ago in a storage closet we were taking over from the AV department. It was a tape format that was rare for that time. I turned it over to the Olin Archives and often wondered what happened to it. I heard that they successfully were able to dupe it to a modern format but they could not release it because of unknown copyright ownership so I never got to see it. I was talking with some guys at work today and went to google the date the dead played at Wesleyan and found this link!! After all these years, I finally get to see the video I discovered all those years ago!!

 

“The Grateful Dead – Live at Wesleyan”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7CmmweLZU

“Vintage New Riders footage from Wesleyan University May 3, 1970”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh4-2Vf924M