Somebody was wise enough to put this up on YouTube:
When I was a teenager, I had a soundboard-quaility version of this show but it was recorded out of time. It played too fast, so that it was out of tune. I still thought it was amazing. What do you think?
I don’t get it. When I saw the auto tweet with said title, I thought, for a split-second, you meant this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hofheinz
But then he’s been dead for 30 years. And you aren’t an Astros fan either.
Sorry, the show was at the Hofheinz Pavilion at the University of Houston in November 1972.
I know all about the Hofheinz Pavilion. I used to listen to Clyde the Glyde, “The Dream” and Phi Slamma Jamma on radio back in the day. I once saw J.R. Richard strike out Willie Stargell and Dave Parker in succession on 6 pitches. 😉
Isn’t this the show with a 40 minute Dark Star containing the infamous ‘screaming baby’ Echos-esque freakout? If so, that was my favorite Dead recording back in High School. Find THAT on YouTube and I’ll kiss you.
It has a Dark Star and it’s long and good, but I don’t remember any “‘screaming baby’ Echos-esque freakout.”
Hofheinz was a high quality tape that had been copied on a double-deck where the wheels on each deck didn’t turn at quite the same rate, which had the effect of speeding up our recording slightly.
Nonetheless, the show was so spacey that we all loved it.
Speaking of Echoes, here are 3 different performances. One Pink Floyd and two David Gilmour solo:
Pink Floyd:
David Gilmour:
I don’t know anything about screaming babies either, but 40 minute Dark Star sounds like 12/6/73 in Cleveland.