![]() That's what everybody is there for, and we knew nobody was going to get hurt. 'Okay Bill, okay, we'll play some lame shit.' You know what I mean? What kind of thing is that to say to us? I mean, that's what we're there for. The audience started freaking out and the cops started getting uncomfortable and Bill Graham told us to stop playing so exciting. Bill Graham even did it to us up in Montreal. We were perfectly happy with our regular amplifiers, but they wouldn't let us go on. It was like they drove us to it, I must say. We want something that nobody can fucking turn off, ever. Jesus Christ, I mean, that's the evolution, really, of our whole sound system and our power things - with those big fuckin' things that clamp onto the main trunk route - that stuff all evolved from that. We're not going to let this go any further.' Boom. As soon as they started seeing people freak out, they thought, 'Okay, that's it. So everybody associated us, for some reason - I don't know why, God knows we were never very political - but they associated us with danger. It seemed like that never stopped happening for one year, maybe '69 or '70 or somewhere in there, right when college campuses were in their greatest upheaval. Someplace in Ohio or some dumbshit college somewhere, and it just makes you crazy. You have no idea what it's like - building up and all of a sudden the power is gone. And we started to get pathological about it. Garcia: There was a while there when every tour, our second set - the last half of our show, somebody would fuckin' turn off the power, would shut us down. ![]() We'll start with an interview Jerry Garcia did with Dennis McNally, complaining about this issue, which happened to the band repeatedly. Some of these shows are well-known, but it happened more often than we know about. As you might expect, all these shows are from the early days, none after 1970 - back in those days, the Dead were more like "psychedelic guerrillas" crashing through music venues that were ill-prepared for them, and performance conditions could be more chaotic and haphazard. This post is simply a list of the Grateful Dead shows that were cut short by their power being shut off.
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