Tom Wells's Collection
Grateful Dead 04/05/1969
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
| Source | SBD |
| Media | CDR 2 discs |
| Notes | Dupree's Diamond Blues(4:04); Mountains Of The Moon(3:48)> Jam(2:28)>; Dark Star(17:34)>; St. Stephen(5:40)> The Eleven 1st vocals(1:09)>; Turn On Your Love Light(17:42) Set II Hard To Handle(#5:46)>; Cosmic Charlie(7:05); China Cat Sunflower(3:30)> Jam(2:19)>; Doin' That Rag(7:52); Cryptical Envelopment(2:03)> Drums(0:25)> The Other One(9:47)>; Cryptical Envelopment(5:#53)>; The Eleven(9:03)>; It's A Sin(4:54)[1:11]; Alligator(3:56)> Drums(4:14)> drummers' chant(0:11)> Drums(0:14)>; Feedback(8:04)>; And We Bid You Good Night(3:05) Comments Jerry plays acoustic guitar during Dupree's and Mountains, switching to electric just short of 2 minutes into the following Jam. The beginning of Hard To Handle is clipped on the circulating tape, which also has a cut, probably brief, 5:28 into the Cryptical reprise. The Eleven analyzes ... St. Stephen > 1st vocals(1:09) ... ... The Other One > Eleven Jam(3:03)> Eleven vocals(0:42)> Eleven Jam(4:08)> Eleven 2nd theme Jam(1:01)> transition(0:13)> It's A Sin. Just before Cryptical Envelopment and again before Alligator Bobby noodles the opening chords of Weather Report Prelude. In the pause after It's A Sin Jerry asks the audience "What do you want to hear that lasts 10 minutes" -- obviously he'd just been told by the Avalon's stage manager that they had 10 minutes left on the set. The following sequence beginning with Alligator runs 19:44, mostly on the strength of a monumental passage of Feedback. Perhaps this has a bearing on the stage manager's draconian behavior in unplugging the Dead the following night during Viola Lee. Eaton's list reads: 04/05/69 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco Ca - complete 4.9, 133min, Sbd, A0D1, Reel M->Dat 1, 44k, 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk->3700 x 0->3800 x 1 Recordings 134 SB reels Contributors Jim Powell Eric Doherty Harvey Lubar |
| Tech Notes | 2 |
| Trades Allowed | Yes |
| Ratings | Sound: A |
| Reference / Generation | 0004586178 |
Owned by Tom Wells
· Last Updated May 23, 2023
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