Dead of the Day: 02-27-1969

Fillmore West

San Francisco, California

Our Dead of the Day is a soaring, multi-faceted, and beautiful beast from 1969. If you have ever listened to Live/Dead, then you have already heard parts of this show. The sumptuous, attention-grabbing throb of Phil’s bass ringing out to proclaim the oncoming gem of a Dark Star followed by the fast and tight, utterly stratospheric Saint Stephen are both culled from this night at the Fillmore West. But as you listen to the entire recording here, you will wonder how they ever made the decision to forgo the mind-blowing matter that fills the rest of this show. The Other One Suite is a thoroughbred of face-melting jamming, the Eleven is perfection embodied as the band streaks through the nursery rhyme-like lyrics and stretches the possibilities of musical exploration within that tight little tune, and Pigpen delivers again on the Schoolgirl and Lovelight, making you realize anew what a consummate bluesman and provocateur he was.

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gd1969-02-27.132573.sbd.16track.healy-latvala-wise.flac16
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Ampex MM-1000 16 Track Master Two Inch Wide Tape; Multi Track Mix-down To DAT By Dan Healy @ 44.1KHz) circa 1995?; DAT x ONE by Dick Latvala- DAT x TWO via either Dick or Rob Bertrando; Editing (Adobe Audition CC)-FLAC encoding(dBpoweramp)-Tagging(Tag & Re-name); Jim Wise; This is a 100% Flat transfer from the DAT no signal processing what-so-ever
Notes:
This is how it was laid out on the original DAT by Dan Healy: Seven different segments from the 16 track rough mix with recording interleaves between # 3, #4, & #5 #1 /Good Morning Little Schoolgirl -Doing That Rag-Cryptical/ #2 /Cryptical reprise #3 Dupree’s Diamond Blues/ #4 /Mountains Of The Moon-Dark Star/ #5 /St Stephen-The Eleven/ #6 /The Eleven-Love light/ #7 /Love light-Cosmic Charlie Recording: Executive engineer: Bob Matthews Engineer: Betty Cantor Consulting engineers: Owsley, Ron Wickersham Sound: Bear
Description:
Set 1 Good Morning Little School Girl, Doin’ That Rag, Cryptical Envelopment-> Drums-> The Other One-> Cryptical Envelopment Set 2 Dupree’s Diamond Blues-> Mountains Of The Moon-> Dark Star-> Saint Stephen-> The Eleven-> Turn On Your Love Light, E: Cosmic Charlie Other artist(s): GD; Pentangle; Sir Douglas Quintet
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Dick Latvala and Jim Wise
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/Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
11:38
2
Doing That Rag
09:00
3
Cryptical Envelopment Suite
20:40
4
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
03:58
5
Mountains Of The Moon
04:48
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Dark Star
22:56
7
Saint Stephen
05:22
8
The Eleven
15:29
9
Turn On Your Love light
18:11
10
Cosmic Charlie
06:06
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Not only did the band incorporate portions of this night on Live/Dead, they also released the entire show as part of the limited edition Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings and a sort of highlight 3-disc set of the four 1969 San Francisco Fillmore shows as Fillmore West 1969. Back in November of 1969 when it was released, Live/Dead was a watershed for the band. Recorded by Bear over three different nights (January 26 and March 3, 1969 were the other two), the double album brought the Dead’s improvisational live style to the masses, converting thousands of fans both at the time and in the decades since. The album also proved to be somewhat of a commercial success, reaching number sixty-four on the chart and temporarily satisfying Warner Bros.

Listening to the full show from each of the nights that contributed to Live/Dead is a real treat that anyone who has ever marveled at that album’s awesome Dark Star> Stephen> Eleven and incredible Lovelight should experience. Go ahead and fire this one up now.

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album cover with the skull and roses face at the center and the text Fillmore West 1969 Grateful Dead February 27th

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2 responses to “02-27-1969”

  1. trippin n dreamin Avatar
    trippin n dreamin

    one night many moons ago with a pair of koss headphones listening to this dark star on live dead
    I GOT IT. thankfully, I haven’t lost it. Lovely indeed

  2. Graeme Challands Avatar
    Graeme Challands

    Thanks for letting us hear this wonderful music. I’m lazing around the swimming pool of our hotel in Tamraght Morocco and it’s the perfect accompaniment!

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