Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland; Reel 9

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Up Well that was the Grateful Dead and we're live from Winterland. The Grateful Dead's first coming back for more. We hope you'll stay around with us. You're listening to this broadcast in stereo over KSAN. And if you're watching us on television and you see a little live or Milan sign that's right. We're live on channel 32. TV will be leaving us in just a matter of minutes. KQED TV. Channel 9 they just joined us recently and happy new year everybody I'm Norm Weiner Glenn labrat and I have been here all night we were backstage when I land and we got an amazing show in store for tonight The Blues Brothers have already performed we talk to a number of people over the course of the evening there are all sorts of celebrities and. We intend to bring you all of the action the excitement and the most importantly all the music that's going on here tonight at Winterland live. Near everybody KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco.

KSAN attended just under it. We mention the people who are making this possible. Now is that what you'd like us to do. Certainly making it unlikely. Well let me say that New Year's Eve it when a land is being brought to you through a grant from Pacific stereo Gap stores and bass tickets. I think you're going to. Be Channel 9. For the rest of the night. Of course we're broadcasting in stereo and KSA and 95. And up.

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And. And. Well that's the Grateful Dead. We're live from Wonderland. Happy new year everybody nor minor with Glenn Lambert backstage or when I land. And while the Grateful Dead I guess take one of their inner missions they're planning to do. Three sets tonight as I understand it right now. That's what we've heard. And I think it's going to be a little while before the dead come back on but we understand that there's going to be a very pleasant surprise. I would like to welcome all our viewers on Channel Nine KQED TV. They're about to play another song. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yes. Up. To the Grateful Dead life in Winterland KSAN in San Francisco. More grateful to KQED Channel 9 KQED channel 32 has signed off so ignore the bottom of this. If you can even read it you with larger sets. At any rate is Channel 9 in case and at this point we're going to be broadcasting through the rest of the night the dead will be coming back in a little while and we have a surprise coming up and thank you fast readers might have seen a slide go on your screen for about a tenth of a second. Subliminal. They call it sublime gave it away but only for you people you Evelyn Wood graduates. Doing your have in your heart. We haven't officially been here but have a plan and everybody will be here all night long the Grateful Dead will be back they'll be playing we understand two more sets and the surprises to come breakfast to come for the people. For the people who are here when

our land with us tonight of course is the closing of Winterland and we discussed that at length earlier on in the show perhaps will be showing us some of scoops interviews that he did earlier today with some of the Deadheads and and with Bill Graham later on. But it's really had an amazing event I hope you are all tuned in to see the bringing in of the new year the arrival of the New Year as only Bill Graham could do it arriving in a in a mammoth. Flying joint. Right as a Father Time and from one end of the stage but one end of the hall rather from the from the rear of the hall on a cable. All the way to the stage at the stroke of approximately the joint was equipped with a red light in the front to signify a burning front end and some smoke coming out of it. The vehicles like that then that's why they say getting there is half the fun of being brought back to normal after the concert and about 30 people jumped on it and took it off into a side room I never saw it again. Those are Jamaicans clan and that's a tradition that I grew up in Jamaica myself where I went to Jamaica

High. Well anyway. And here we are waiting for the audience who are waiting for the Grateful Dead to return and some stuff is going to be happening in between we're going to be bringing it to you when action returns to the stage. A lot of things have happened so far we have the New Riders of the Purple Sage. That's right remember that. Well you can actually tell the people that we've been telling you it's a surprise up until now but always telling us that you are going to call in the red zone. And then this tells us what's on the air. You know all of them out there. We're back here. Here we are but now you can read our names anymore and you probably have a short memory by now here we are. No it's normal on New Year's Eve. Really. At Winterland. No I don't know if we can believe that norm. It is truly astounding. Can we pass it on should we take calls from the audience.

Well at the announcer that we just heard on the red phone for those of you who are watching in black and white or perhaps listening on your radio and are not in the state of mind that many people here seem to be what's the announcement. Well the announcement is that there's going to be a very special surprise coming up next. I don't think I'm going to give it away. Let's talk about something else. OK well how about some of the people who are here. We talked to a number of celebrities earlier and we talked to probably 10 people so far and there must be. Five thousand four hundred or more here so we have a long way to go before we cover everybody. Well if there were subtitles on all the people involved and been identified but a number of the cast of Saturday Night Live were here of course too. Well I guess to help root for their com Padres and the Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers did a great set In fact I hope everybody was to dinner early enough to catch it with Jake and Elwood really well when we saw them appear backstage with their Wellwood was still chained to his briefcase and we never got to find out what was in it. That's right. And and of course they had that all star band behind them. People who have been

on records that are considered history now Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn and and some all star studio musicians to Malone Steve Jordan and Alan Reuben Tom Scott Scott and Paul Shaffer who talked with us briefly who's the music director of Saturday Night Live a member you have come up with all those names just like that. You know it's right there. And it seems so long ago because since then we've had we've had some time to get ready for New Year's and then we have had new years and it's 1970. And many resolutions. I mean any offhand that you could think of anything you'd like to share with our viewers. I don't think I have any I'd like to share with our viewers the milk on a private and personal. Yeah yeah. What do you think you know a lot of a lot of people listen to you on the radio probably are sort of surprised to see what you look like. Well actually people don't realize that I'm really normal and that you're going in that they'd have the title's reversal and I've been you know we decided to go along with it rather than have them turn the slide over because then I would have said they would have understood. So that's you know I hadn't thought of it they'll just pretend that I'm going in this is norm here.

Well I don't know nor one of the things about radios that people don't come up to us on the street and recognize us and this could really end all that we could be assaulted by hordes of screaming people tomorrow. I don't know then I wonder how many people who are watching us right now can really focus. That's right quick how many fingers am I holding up. Oh here's a call. Yes and where you're calling from Freemont really. And how many fingers welling up. No I'm sorry six is not the right answer. Well that's interesting the vertical hold control in the back of your set if you're having trouble with this test. I see that a lot of our listeners and viewers pass it in fact some of the people who were only listening saw how many fingers you were holding up. They must be having an awfully good time tonight norm those people. Oh I think so people are having a great time here I mean all those balloons cascading down on to the crowd the blown head and all that great music. The Grateful Dead and The Flying brothers speaking of flying who performed on the stage earlier tonight we picked up a little bit of their act between the Blues Brothers and the arrival of New

Year's Eve. And around we're hoping to get them on camera a little bit later to maybe juggle some torches or throw some Sickles right through your TV screen. They do an amazing act. Well here you have a shot of the crowd here where land has been set I think the official capacity is fifty four hundred people. Of course the ranks are swelled tonight with celebrities and people who want to have a piece of history you know. Bill Graham mentioned before of course how difficult it is for this event I mean he did it almost lottery style and people from the Bay Area of course had the top priority. But there were people here from from all over the country people from all over the continent who were trying to make it to the dead and were willing to pay exorbitant sums for tickets. People were selling tickets for several hundred dollars out here this afternoon. Well I think the bill said that they have half a million people who ended up at the outlets for tickets and they had of course only 5000 people with pocket calculators out there in the audience will figure out what the odds were on that one. But lots of people who wish they were here and I hope that most of you are

out there watching it on television. Of course many of the people who wanted to come in can see it on television or at least can see that. How crowded it is here and they might have been able to have access to their refrigerator or their shoe box or whatever. You know they're actually could you move over a little bit it is awfully crowded here. This is ample space. Let's see now. We're looking at our programs here for the evening. Well I've just been told that we're going to have tape next. Now I don't know what this means I don't know what the tape is going to be it could be adhesive it could be mistake it could be Scotch. But in any case we're going to have some tape coming up in just a few seconds you watch and you tell us exactly what it is. And we are live from Wonderland that scoop with a taped segment that was recorded earlier in the

day. I'm going Lambert. That's normal. We're back here with the funny hats and noisemakers in the news. Happy New Year. For those of you who are just tuning in what have you been doing before this broadcasting. Well I call it a simulcast we're broadcasting on case and in stereo. Ninety five FM and we're also on Channel 9 TV and some of the people who are watching or listening are probably receiving us tonight without the aid of radio or TV. So I know this is a very. Extravagant night for a lot of people. There's some amazing people out there today you know they they've been on television a lot they've been on they have gotten newspaper coverage and stuff but the Deadheads really are an entity unto themselves as there's really nothing like a Deadhead and and do something about it brings them out to see if really the safe ones. Yeah. Brings out the best in them of the worst in them and I just.

You having a good time tonight and I'm having a real good time. You're a Deadhead you're went to the resident Deadhead as a matter of fact the first concert that I ever went to in San Francisco was a Grateful Dead concert it was here at Winterland on a New Year's Eve. And it was also the first time that I ever attempted to drive a shift car was driving a Volkswagen. And we're getting to the top of the San Francisco hills you know for a particularly interesting New Year's Eve. Back in the hall people are just waiting for stuff to happen and everyone is expecting that there will be some surprises that aren't mentioned on the marquee tonight. And of course the Grateful Dead will be back they tell us that at least two more sets. Are waiting to see what happens and of course the audience is there's going to be breakfast at dawn in the morning or relatively close to dawn. This crowd is one of the most well behaved that has been

seen in a while the Graham security people. Have been commenting on how easy it's been to deal with the people. Who are really very happy here and. It looks like we have some special guests right here while we wait for anyone to appear on the stage. Well maybe we should explain to people that where we are right now we're sitting backstage and you. See here and grab them so they can get their respect. I think you know introduction to the TV audience. We're. Playing with a great heart rate

number of people like me. We have all kinds of numbers. Nobody can quite remember you know my memories. Some of the New Year's Eve memories are understandably easy to make you feel to think you might never played Winterland again begin to get out of this place I used to hate it because it is sort of an acoustical snake pit. But. We sort of learn to work with the place over the years. It's going to be kind of it's going to be kind of sad but nonetheless. There's got to be a better place somewhere with you know the place. Yeah. You know. All the people out there listening in and watching some encouraging mail encouraging to get it on and build a place. It really a good place for a rock n roll. I mean just keep those letters common all the time.

Don't give them a moment. You know if you really you know no mercy. Maybe he'll give in I guess this is where they should superimpose the address where they can send their cars but I don't know if we have that ready. Oh you can see that you can see that in the phone book. Management or whatever FM productions production Bill Graham productions telling him to please build a good place for rock and you were born and raised in San Francisco. Come here when you're a kid for events. Sure I don't think I ever came here I never did. The rest of my family did but I wasn't much interested in going to ice skating or. Political conventions you know this is also the place where some famous boxing event happened really famous boxing event a long time ago 1929 or something. One thing about this place is it really is kind of a hazard. One time we were playing a soundcheck getting getting everything tweaked and we had a big thunderous cordoning great

action of plaster of the ceiling landed on the floor David Crosby was in there listening and it landed maybe six feet behind him and it was about six by six feet big enough to really somebody I was hearing a story earlier tonight of that happening during one of your shows last year that Phil hit the perfect bass note and brought down a shower of plaster from the ceiling just tearing the place wouldn't hurt you. And yeah. We don't know. A little bit about because you haven't been on television in the Bay area really. I think. We have.

A whole bunch of people here. We heard him recently was part of your broadcast from New Jersey. Great great moment in the broadcast when they're doing it. Well and last night when I was really excited the whole audience clapped. That was related and. I guess you have to go I guess you're going back there were two people. Thank you very much and Happy New Year. From the

Grateful Dead. Joining us here backstage or waiter land you know Bob Weir and Mickey Hart. That's what I thought you said you really think you know good thing. It's a good thing I'm not here nor was I could certainly be embarrassing if I was. I tell you there are people walking around here I think some of them have been tested in altered states of consciousness. I don't think there's any doubt about it. Well some of the people who just have minor alterations around some parts of their clothing but a lot of them it seems like a whole consciousness has been taken and a whole lot. This is a lot more than a concert and certainly the fact that this is being brought to you on television and on the radio at the same time. You know it tries to bring that home. But the fact that there's so many people here and the amount of feelings and. Sentiment and just. Good Vives you know Hollis hall is decorated with memories of the past and we just had a couple shots close shot of a Steve Miller picture. And some of the other

posters that are around wonderland in the pass or some of our memorabilia party here and here. Is all these things were handed out to people at the door of Wonderland as they came in tonight. Many of them even are. Unembarrassed enough to wear them but not us. This is the good old fashioned noisemaker you know I think over the years this has really been my favorite Haven birthday party. There have been New Year's celebrations but but these are these I think are my favorite noisemakers the ones that roll out kind of you know that I don't even know what those are called Norm I think there must be a name for them and I'm sure that some of our listeners have them have it on the tip of their proverbial tongue but I don't know what they're called. But I think we have another guest being ushered in here just when they took the chairs away. How do you I do all right. Car.

Yeah. It's allowed but it might hit that ball that hangs in the middle.

OK OK OK well I think that explains it pretty well. Explaining that to make you almost everywhere actually at the moment. But looking someone like yourself in San Francisco are you. I mean you. Know what. Tell us something about the Grateful Dead from way back when. They're really working out. They understand why people come to these things and

they know that something builds and builds and if it isn't brought up someplace else and the reputation of being able to thing just the way that the wind strikes the clouds until finally it attracts the lightning out of the ground. Yeah they're good. They're classic. Yeah. They gave it up that much but. Incredibly they were going on about what had plans they were talking about Superman classes last year. They were giving it class status or they were giving it class until. They found out that it had 25 million dollars spent for advertising and watching the dead in Egypt had

class superclass people and then millions of other people and and were doing the same thing it was actually with music moving trying to move in with their scale they were trying to match the musical and philosophical and religious norms. How did the people respond. Had the Egyptians we've been having an affair with Egypt. You know they're like a lock and they can't work without us and they being over there. They chatted me because they thought he was. Looking more and more like. And you know it cost them half a million bucks and they probably sold thirteen hundred tickets and then they work at all by working concerts you know and they just come back from four nights of hard busting ass rock n roll labor. You know they've got a

tremendous backlog of integrity that nobody denies and they get they get rest and yet they don't they continue to work as hard as they can all the time and it was like it made me think of a satchel thing where when Armstrong went to Russia you know that whole feeling that was why it was the way it was happening. OK fair enough. Yeah it was good. OK here's what's going to happen next. That's talking to us about his experiences with the Grateful Dead and having a whole other experience even as he spoke he musta seen a dead. Hundred thousand. Whatever here Norm. This is a light show or was it one of the people in the audience. It's more the people in the audience there. It's harder and harder to tell them apart. This is a great way to spend a New Year's here. Now that is no longer with us.

I mean this is it. I mean considering the sort of fare that Dick Clark offers every year some of that was on earlier tonight on network. I mean this is really the sort of way that people would want to bring in the New Year. Couldn't ask a better music. I guess it's an all star cast plan not to mention the stars who haven't even been on camera here a lot of Saturday night. Lorraine Newman was roaming but never made it here. We're here with the Blues Brothers So I guess we're just one of their favorite actually follow them everywhere. Yeah they've been diehard Blues Brothers fans for quite some time as I was your Marson. While these are some of the things you're talking about before these especially sort of tapestry would you say that are hanging on the walls of Wonderland anyone who's been away before has never seen the occasion and they

probably weren't before because they wouldn't have lasted very long. But they have these miniature murals representing certain acts and certain groups that have played here over the years and they stayed on those blacks when the first time was that they might have played here when the significant date was. Bruce Springsteen played here for the first time just earlier this month. One thing for sure is Winterland certainly closed with. A splash. I was at a bank just last night Tom Petty and Greg timey about that today that. I was only yesterday the next to last concert tonight of course is the last one the 553 concert that was put on here. Well among the people who have been roaming around backstage here or land are the flying brothers who were going to get the matter to do a little bit of juggling for us and this might take a little bit of a quick

set changing here backstage I think we're going to have to make some room. This is something I was really looking forward to because I mean you know there's only so much that we could do on the radio but jugglers. I mean not only the brothers my favorite. Well if there was ever a time for radio listeners to turn on their TV channel I think this is got to be otherwise it better have good imaginations a rare opportunity to see some immortal juggling and the sort of implements that they'll be juggling as a very relaxed member of the crowd the sort of objects that will keep you on the edges of your seats or water beds depending upon it's pretty hard to keep on the edge of a waterbed particularly while juggling. You want to write down. You're going to be talking about probably.

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I don't have to stay that very brave. Thanks same to you and I hope you catch me too. Thank you. That's been several of the flying brothers out of a possible even more and certain limitations. We have a low ceiling and a fairly high floor at this point. And they did pretty amazingly considering pretty well they did that on the news and they don't get on the news. But the Grateful Dead are about to return to the stage. We're live from enjoying your evening. Just settle back watch Channel Nine and listen in case and it's going to be music for a while. Ha.

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