Dead of the Day: 01-04-1969
Fillmore West
San Francisco, California
Back in 1969, the Dead played a show at the Fillmore West. But that was the only January 4th show the boys ever did. According to a newspaper article on the show, the setlist was quite good, including Morning Dew, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Dark Star> Stephen> The Eleven> Lovelight. Unfortunately, that is all we know about the show. There are no recordings out there of that evening or any of the others from the band’s four-night run at the Fillmore West in early January of ’69.
If you are really jonesing for a show – and why would you not be – we recommend checking out the closest extant recording to this night in ’69, the Dead’s oft-overlooked performance at the Miami Pop Festival back on December 29, 1968. And be sure to check in tomorrow when we take it back to 1979.

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