Dead of the Day: 01-17-1968

Carousel Ballroom

San Francisco, California

Lovelight starts the show and is filled with elemental, sparse, totally righteous jamming. After the tune, there is some hilarious stage banter from the boys who were clearly enjoying themselves. After that, a short, early Dark Star – the first live one that is on Archive – comes out, luscious and nearly wholesome through early portions before it gets deep and rapturous in its short, five-minute spell. The first China Cat follows; the vocals are oddly delivered, but the runs are familiarly smoking though incipent. The China Cat spills right into the first Eleven, which is full of straight speed-racing, insane jams. From there, a short Feedback jam takes it into a cool and noir-ish New Potato Caboose. Somehow reminiscent of a Raymond Chandler novel, the tune eventually segues to a frenetic, first Born Cross Eyed. Then the real highlight of the show comes out, an exquisite Spanish Jam that ends the first set. It is a truly amazing piece of music, transporting you to some masterful psychedelic duel in the sun with the torero going head to head with a hip, paisley-colored bull, all finished off in a laser blaster fight.

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gd1968-01-17.sbd.jeff.fixed-3927.7995.sbeok.shnf
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very noticable hiss and a hum so may have the extra cassette generation indicated on resources for tape trader site but was listed as MSR>cass>dat>cdrs and then eac>wav>cooledit2000>wav>shn; Channel weirdness at begin of cd1t3 where beginning is missing, cd1t5 7:01; A few miniscule spikes around the weirdness were deamplified in cooledit2000 to improve their listening for playback; cd2t4 drop/cut 11:00 same as SHNID 3927 through d1t09. d1t10 through d2t04 now circulate with an unexplained ‘fix’.
Description:
1 Turn On Your Lovelight; 2 technical difficulties 3 Dark Star > 4 China Cat Sunflower > 5 The Eleven > 6 Feedback; 7 New Potato Caboose > 8 Born Cross-Eyed > 9 Feedback > 10 Spanish Jam; 11 Cryptical Envelopment > 12 The Other One > 13 Cryptical Envelopment > 14 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
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Turn On Your Lovelight;
12:12
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technical difficulties
03:10
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Dark Star >
04:48
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China Cat Sunflower >
04:04
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The Eleven >
08:49
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Feedback;
01:12
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New Potato Caboose >
08:30
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Born Cross-Eyed >
02:34
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Feedback >
00:37
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Spanish Jam;
15:05
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Cryptical Envelopment >
01:56
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The Other One >
03:14
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Cryptical Envelopment >
05:05
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Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
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The boys come out of the break with a quick BIODTL into a solid, though not transcendent, Morning Dew. From there, the set gains steam with a spooky Cryptical that heads right into an amazingly focused and tensely energetic Other One. Then the boys continue to unleash in a ripping second Cryptical. The whole show is seen out with one of best Schoolgirls you are going to find anywhere with the band’s playing just barely matching Pig’s intense, pregnant harp and bawdy, bluesy vocals.

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4 responses to “01-17-1968”

  1. Irwin Wikler Avatar
    Irwin Wikler

    One of the few China Cat/Elevens

  2. Douglas Buzby Avatar
    Douglas Buzby

    wasn’t there a time-line type of thing for the songs as they played? I think I remember clicking on it to advance a song towards the end or to hear a long part over again without starting from the beginning… just my imagination?

    1. Raoul Avatar
      Raoul

      Not your imagination at all. I can click on that red line at the top to the right of the controls to move around in songs.

  3. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Tell me Jerry didn’t influence the Allmans, that solo in TOYLL was straight up Jessica vibe.

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