Deadlists currently shows Empty Pages being played on both 8/23 and 8/24/71. I've found this is incorrect. Though it shows up at the end of our 8/23 audience tape, it was not played on that date.
Charlie Miller has posted on etree (and his setlist is confirmed by David Lemieux from the vault copy): "I have the complete 8/23/71 sbd and I can confirm that this is the setlist." Set 1: d1t01 - Big Railroad Blues d1t02 - Playing In The Band d1t03 - Mr. Charlie d1t04 - Sugaree d1t05 - El Paso d1t06 - Next Time You See Me d1t07 - Bertha d1t08 - Me And Bobby McGee d1t09 - Cumberland Blues d1t10 - Big Boss Man d1t11 - Loser d1t12 - The Promised Land d2t01 - China Cat Sunflower -> d2t02 - I Know You Rider d2t03 - Casey Jones Set 2: d2t04 - Truckin' d2t05 - Bird Song d2t06 - Cryptical Envelopment -> d2t07 - Drums -> d2t08 - The Other One -> d2t09 - Me And My Uncle -> d2t10 - The Other One -> d2t11 - Cryptical Envelopment -> d2t12 - Wharf Rat d3t01 - Tuning d3t02 - Deal d3t03 - Brokedown Palace d3t04 - Sugar Magnolia d3t05 - Not Fade Away -> d3t06 - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad -> d3t07 - Not Fade Away -> d3t08 - Johnny B. Goode Our lousy 8/23/71 AUD is missing some chunks of the show - it's easy to spot that the Empty Pages at the end is from a different source, as it sounds markedly better than the rest of the tape. Indeed, Empty Pages seems to come from the following night, 8/24. Miller suggests that it's from the 24th, and it doesn't match the Empty Pages from 8/26. Part of 8/24 was released on DP35, including the SBD of Empty Pages. (As far as I know the full 8/24 setlist hasn't been posted anywhere - perhaps Miller knows it?) It's a nagging thought that more of the 8/24 audience tape must have survived at one point, and just one song from it got tagged onto our lesser-quality 8/23 source. Jeff Tiedrich once claimed on the deadlists forum that this Empty Pages was taken from one of Latvala's tapes: "It was Latvala's filler on the first version of 1/26/69 to circulate...the Chicago aud source of Empty Pages, labelled '8/23/71'." So my conjecture is: that there was a more complete audience tape of 8/24/71 that was traded in the '70s (when Latvala probably got it), but it more or less stopped circulating later on (hence 'disappeared') because people thought it was the same tape as our 8/23 AUD (and that show was then also labeled as 8/24!). Another possibility is that so few people got (or cared about) the 8/24 AUD in the first place that it's never "circulated" at all. Anyway, this leaves us room to hope that someday, some old-time trader will go digging through tapes and realize that he has an overlooked, unheard AUD tape from 8/24/71...
