Dead of the Day: 02-12-1969

Fillmore East

New York, New York

The February 12, 1969 date at the Fillmore East is just too good to pass up. The recording, which has exceptional sound, begins in the middle of a Dark Star, missing the Dupree’s and Mountains of the Moon from the early show of the same date, which is a bummer given how good everything else here is. After five minutes of Dark Star, a fabulous Stephen roars forth, followed by one of the – no joke – best Elevens of all time. The Eleven alone could have made this show, but the rest is phenomenal as well, especially the Caution, which is truly spectacular with its bluesy vocal vamping – Pig in full effect – on top of eerie organ, guitar, and tight drums. This is the sort of show that can convert any Touchhead into a diehard psychedelic Dead aficionado.

Recording info
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Identifier:
gd69-02-12.late.sbd.kaplan.9072.sbeok.shnf
Source:
Soundboard
Notes:
* – 11:29 minutes of the Alligator Jam > Caution segment were missing from the previously seeded version of this show and have been patched into the current version from an alternate partial SBD source containing the Alligator ====> Feedback segment and bearing the same lineage + one cassette gen. The corresponding Feedback segment of the alternate SBD source is also missing approximately 2:00 minutes of Feedback that are actually present in the current version before any patching from the alternate SBD source. The current version would then appear to contain the complete Alligator ====> Feedback segment of the show for a total timing of 28:54. The disc picks up with the last 04:59 of Dark Star. If Deadbase XI is accurate, this disc is missing Dupree’s, Mountains of the Moon and the better part of Dark Star.Total disc time prior to patching in the missing 11:29 from the alternate SBD source is 57:03. Total time per Deadlists and Eaton’s list is 84:00. If the Eaton version is missing the 11:29 minutes of the Alligator Jam > Caution patched from the alternate SBD source, this could logically account for the resulting 27 minute time difference.
Description:
Dupree’s Diamond Blues, Mountains Of The Moon, Dark Star-> Saint Stephen-> The Eleven-> Death Don’t Have No Mercy, Alligator-> Drums-> Alligator*-> Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
Lineage:
SBD > Cassette Master > DAT > CD > EAC > shntool > mkwACT > SHN
Transferrer:
Seth Kaplan
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00:00
1
Dark Star
04:58
2
Saint Stephen
05:53
3
William Tell > The Eleven
15:43
4
Death Don’t Have No Mercy
08:22
5
Alligator
03:57
6
Drums
04:22
7
Drummers’ Chant
00:19
8
Alligator Jam
06:11
9
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
09:21
10
Feedback
04:41
11
And We Bid You Goodnight
04:39
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This show marked the final night of a two-night, four-show run at the Fillmore East, where the boys opened for Janis Joplin. While the Dead were perfecting their psychedelic sound throughout 1969, Janis was in the process of reinventing her music and getting used to a new band. She had left Big Brother and the Holding Company just two months before and started playing with the Kosmic Blues Band, as she would for the rest of the year. Despite the upheaval, her shows were nearly as outstanding as the Dead’s. Janis’s sets have been unofficially released at least once and are available out there if you dig through the internet a bit.

The Fillmore East was, of course, the East Coast outpost of Bill Graham’s San Francisco-centered promotion empire and the counterpart to Graham’s celebrated Bay Area music hall, the Fillmore West. Built in the 1920s, the Fillmore East had gone from a Yiddish theater to a corporate-owned movie house before Graham took it over in 1967, opening it on March 8, 1968. Although “The Church of Rock and Roll” was only open until June 27, 1971, the Dead played an astonishing 43 concerts – and an astonishingly high number of exceptional ones – there in that time.

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