Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings [FL

Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings + Bonus Disc

A 10 CD box set of "every note" played at the four Fillmore West shows from February 27th to March 2nd, 1969. Promoted as "the most significant audio release yet to emerge from the Grateful Dead's vault." Mixed from the 16 track master tapes. Mastered in HDCD. 51 tracks, nearly 10 hours of music, 76 pages booklet. Limited edition release of 10,000 copies. Each show is housed in its own digicase. The four shows and the booklet are in a box. Bonus Disc (#11) also included.


Track listing

Disc 1

February 27, 1969 — First set:
1.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 11:47
2.Doin' That Rag (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) - 7:53
3.That's It for the Other One (Garcia, Bill Kreutzman, Bob Weir) - 20:03

Disc 2

February 27, 1969 — Second set:
1.Dupree's Diamond Blues (Hunter, Garcia) - 3:57 >
2.Mountains of the Moon (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:57 >
3.Dark Star (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 21:44 >
4.St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:22 >
5.The Eleven (Hunter, Lesh) - 13:03 >
6.Turn On Your Love Light (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) - 19:21

February 27, 1969 — Encore:
7.Cosmic Charlie (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:52

Disc 3

February 28, 1969 — First set:
1.(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) - 11:04
2.Good Morning Little School Girl (Williamson) - 11:00
3.Doin' That Rag (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:56
4.I'm a King Bee (Slim Harpo) - 7:09
5.Turn on Your Love Light (Scott, Malone) - 19:09

Disc 4

February 28, 1969 — Second set:
1.That's It for the Other One (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir) - 19:46 >
2.Dark Star (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 19:45 >
3.St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 7:51 >
4.The Eleven (Hunter, Lesh) - 15:12 >
5.Death Don't Have No Mercy (Reverend Gary Davis) - 10:38

Disc 5
1.Alligator (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh) - 4:08 >
2.Drums (Hart, Kreutzman) - 4:02 >
3.Jam (Grateful Dead) - 14:57 >
4.Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) (Grateful Dead) - 8:47 >
5.Feedback (Grateful Dead) - 5:40 >
6.We Bid You Goodnight (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) - 1:08

Disc 6

March 1, 1969 — First set:
1.That's It for the Other One (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir) - 21:22 >
2.New Potato Caboose (Bobby Petersen, Lesh) - 11:43 >
3.Doin' That Rag (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:58 >
4.Cosmic Charlie (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:51

Disc 7

March 1, 1969 — Second set:
1.Dupree's Diamond Blues (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:48
2.Mountains of the Moon (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:04
3.Dark Star (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 23:01 >
4.St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:06 >
5.The Eleven (Hunter, Lesh) - 5:47 >
6.Turn on Your Love Light (Scott, Malone) - 23:59

March 1, 1969 — Encore:
7.Hey Jude (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 7:44

Disc 8

March 2, 1969 — First set:
1.Dark Star (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 21:09 >
2.St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:21 >
3.The Eleven (Hunter, Lesh) - 12:43 >
4.Turn on Your Love Light (Scott, Malone) - 15:25 >

Disc 9

March 2, 1969 — Second set:
1.Doin' That Rag (Hunter, Garcia) - 7:38
2.That's It for the Other One (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir) - 22:44 >
3.Death Don't Have No Mercy (Davis) - 11:21
4.Morning Dew (Dobson, Rose) - 10:16

Disc 10
1.Alligator (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh) - 4:15 >
2.Drums (Hart, Kreutzman) - 6:52 >
3.Jam (Grateful Dead) - 25:31 >
4.Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) (Grateful Dead) - 9:13 >
5.Feedback (Grateful Dead) - 7:54 >
6.We Bid You Goodnight (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 2:01

Bonus Disc

June 14, 1968 (late show), Fillmore East:
1.Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) (Grateful Dead) - 30:07

June 8, 1969, Fillmore West:
2.He Was a Friend of Mine (Traditional) - 12:14 >
3.China Cat Sunflower (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:15 >
4.New Potato Caboose (Lesh, Peterson) - 13:36

February 7, 1970, Fillmore West:
5.China Cat Sunflower (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:29 >
6.I Know You Rider (Traditional) - 5:08 >
7.High Time (Garcia, Hunter) - 7:04

Personnel

Grateful Dead
•Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
•Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
•Tom Constanten - keyboards
•Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals, harmonica, percussion
•Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
•Bill Kreutzmann - drums
•Mickey Hart - drums

Production
•Producers - David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
•Executive producer - Cameron Sears
•Recording engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
•Mixing & mastering - Jeffrey Norman
•Archival research - Eileen Law
•Photography - Rosie McGee, Herbie Greene, Michael Merritt, Baron Wolman, Peter Simon, Amalie R. Rothschild, Suanne C Skidd, Sylvia Clarke Hamilton
•Cover lettering - Richard Biffle
•Art coordination - Brian Connors
•Package design - Robert Minkin
•Booklet essay - Dennis McNally


Credits

• Producer - David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
• Executive producer - Cameron Sears
• Recording engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
• Mixing, mastering - Jeffrey Norman at Club Front, Novato
• Archival research - Eileen Law/Grateful Dead Archives
• Photos - Rosie McGee, Herbie Greene, Michael Merritt, Baron Wolman, Peter Simon, Amalie R. Rothschild, Suanne C Skidd, Sylvia Clarke Hamilton
• Cover lettering - Richard Biffle
• Art coordinator - Brian Connors
• Booklet essay - Dennis McNally
• Package design - Robert Minkin/MinkinDesign
• Special thanks - Phil Driver, L Budd, Orion Trist, Stephen Jarvis
• Recorded live at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 27 - March 2, 1969
Related releases
Dark Star and St Stephen from 2/27/1969 and Death Don't Have No Mercy, Feedback and We Bid You Goodnight from 3/2/1969 were originally released on;
•Live/Dead, Grateful Dead, 1969
That's It For The Other One (Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment) from 2/27/69 was originally released on;•So Many Roads (1965-1995), Grateful Dead, 1999