Grateful..Dead..1969-03-01
Early and Late shows
Fillmore West
San Francisco

"The American version of the Japanese film 'Magnificent Seven' The Grateful Dead"

-Bill Graham intro (actually 'The Magnificent Seven' was the American version of the Japanese film 'The Seven Samurai', but either way it's still the Grateful Dead!)

unofficial pre-release version, sounds great, not as polished as official, but you won't care. Found on Lossless Legs, they are careful not to tread on toes of official vault productions. (Still, threw the dots in just in case the Dead mafia run a search and send an LSD drone to spike me in my sleep.)

2 cd WAV . . . to keep sets complete, last two tracks of show, 6 min of noise and banter and 7 minute-ish Hey Jude are included at the end of disc 1, which is a short set. Otherwise would have had to break up Set 2, or have encore alone on a 3rd disc : p

SBD, clean, fat

For me this is THE definitive 1968-69 Grateful Dead show. From the same Fillmore run as the "Live Dead" album. By far best sounding Anthem of the Sun - Aoxomoxoa recording I have heard yet. First 33 min is solid Anthem of the Sun. Dark Star is stellar. Great stage banter. Band streamlined, Garcia on point, in tune, not the ballsout chaos of other shows of this time (not the maniacal screaming on St. Stephen and that which makes 1969 a rare visit for me) multilayered Anthem of the Sun vox in tune, guitars in tune, sound intimate, compressed . . . this show is flat out tight.

This one is for the tigers. Kittens stay away. The Holy Grail runneth over with electric kool-aid.

Now, I am probably in error here, but heard some acoustic bass, and acoustic guitar on Mountains of the Moon that sounded mysteriously like Pentangle. John Renbourn and Danny Thompson, to be precise. Turns out Pentangle was on the bill. Got me wondering if Pentangle raised the bar to where the Dead made it a more strict musical evening.

This is one of those moments where I am really regretting having been born too late to attend and born too early to have a time machine. Pentangle and the Dead on the same bill. . .

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Grateful Dead

March 01, 1969
Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA
Sets I & II

- Set I - Early show
01 - Bill Graham Introduction
02 - Thats It for the Other One ->
03 - New Potato Caboose ->
04 - Doin' That Rag ->
05 - Cosmic Charlie

- Set II - Late show
01 - Bill Graham Introduction
02 - Dupree's Diamond Blues
03 - Mountains of the Moon
04 - Dark Star ->
05 - Saint Stephen ->
06 - The Eleven ->
07 - Turn On Your Lovelight
08 - encore break
09 - Hey Jude

[Edited on 9/17/2019 by BrerRabbit]