Grateful Dead - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 3/2/1969 (RSD Black Friday 2023, 5LP Vinyl)

The fourth night of the famed Fillmore West run that produced the bulk of Live/Dead is an exceptional example--going back more than 54 years—as to why you never miss a Sunday show. Opening (!!) with what would later be known as the Live/Dead suite, 3/2/69 demonstrates the Dead had not only NOT run out of steam after three magnificent shows, in many ways they surpassed the previous nights' wildly powerful music. When your first set is the entire Live/Dead suite, what do you for a second set? Simple! You play for more than an hour and half, making sure everyone goes home way too late, but unimaginably happy. After the first set's Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven>Lovelight, the second set puts so much icing on the cake that it almost becomes a cake made of nothing but frosting: That's It For The Other One, Morning Dew, Alligator>Caution, and so much more. We're thrilled to be completing the quartet of what is widely considered one of the greatest runs in Grateful Dead history, mixed from the 16-track master tapes by Jeffrey Norman, and mastered by Jeffrey along with tape restoration by Plangent Processes.

Side A
1. DARK STAR [21:24] (Garcia/Hart/Kreutzmann/Lesh/McKernan/Weir/Hunter) Side B
1. ST. STEPHEN> [8:28] (Garcia/Lesh/Hunter)
2. THE ELEVEN [12:51] (Lesh/Hunter) Side C
1. TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT [15:36] (Scott/Malone) Universal Duchess Music/Floree Music Co. (BMI) Side D
1. Bill Graham Intro [1:00] [USRH12301726]
2. DOIN’ THAT RAG [6:45] (Garcia/Hunter) Side E
1. THAT’S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE [22:58] I. Cryptical Envelopment> (I) [2:19] (Garcia) II. The Other One> [9:44] (Weir/Kreutzmann) III. Cryptical Envelopment (II) [10:55] (Garcia) Side F
1. DEATH DON’T HAVE NO MERCY [11:32] (Davis) Chandos Music/Hillgreen Music (ASCAP)
2. MORNING DEW [10:17] (Dobson/Rose) Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) Side G
1. ALLIGATOR> [4:27] (Lesh/McKernan/Hunter)
2. DRUMS> [6:51] (Hart/Kreutzmann)
3. JAM [8:05] (Grateful Dead) Side H
1. JAM (Conclusion) [17:51] (Grateful Dead) Side I
1. CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS)> [9:25] (Grateful Dead)
2. FEEDBACK> [7:48] (Grateful Dead)
3. AND WE BID YOU GOODNIGHT [2:13] (Trad. Arr. Grateful Dead) Side J [No Audio]