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Grateful Dead April 23, 1969

The Ark Boston, MA | Listen on archive

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15
St. Stephen
The bread to an It's A Sin sandwich with TOO suite, SOTOTW Lovelight...whew
16
Dark Star
The DS is good, but really notable is what follows...Check it out for your own good
17
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Great early Baby Blue from The Ark in Boston, hot show, hot version.
7
Caution
A Classic
8
The Other One
Electric fluid energy...this wheel's on fire!
6
Hard to Handle
Crazy slide licks, wondeful version from a show with one of the best second sets of all time! Jerry goes nuts a little over 3 minutes in . . .
20
He Was A Friend of Mine
Long mellow intro to a slammin' all out great show. Dig this.
4
Cryptical Envelopment
One of the bluesiest, most mystical versions of this classic jam. Not to be missed.
13
The Eleven
Includes a short but sweet "There Is a Mountain" Jam
3
And We Bid You Goodnight
another amazing 1969 wbyg
11
Morning Dew
Jer + SG x 1969 = wild flaming hot licks that lead to off kilter dissonant cronking into cleansing fanning before the car crash ending.
8
Turn On Your Love Light
Go ahead and air drum the crap out of this one...
3
Mountain Jam
MJ weaves in and out of this extended riffin along with AWBYG echoes, Lovelight stains and I dunno what else
3
Alligator
A crisp, cooking Allligator that was somehow missed. It transitions into Drums, then a t 11, tease, jam then the 11.
3
Feedback
Calm and spacey after a hot and heavy Caution