This is an epic show and took place on Feb. 14th, not the 13th.
The boys were on fire on this Valentine's Day so many years ago...

to be sure, the (Two from the Vault) 8-24-1968 New Potato Caboose is in a class by itself, a highlight of that well-played and equally well recorded for the time show.

Yet others have staked this 2-14-1968 Caboose as the finest their pointy ears have heard.

Certainly this Valentine's has a zap yer mind China Cat Sunflower.

And dig the roots of the Anthem of the Sun Alligator.

Which reminds me of the lost to the ethers hair-raising Alligator I saw them perform at the Carousel Ballroom (Fillmore West) some 2 years+ later in mid-1970.

Don't worry, it's extant in the akashic records just about a mile or two beyond the Sirens of Titan, and can be retrieved by focusing on the ripples originally beamed from our former whereabouts kindly hosted by Billy Graham on a particularly memorable, if non-archived, evening with the Grateful Dead.

I do remember they played it (Alligator) at the 1970 date in quest -shn much like the Anthem version, (and thus this VD '68 version) - if anyone else could perhaps tell me they too saw the band perform the intro on kazoos?

Garcia's solo at the jam was volcanic...
I noticed him turning the volume knob on his axe up seconds prior... and as one song or another reached even higher db levels, finally the amp appeared to blow a fuse...

(an effect perhaps enhanced with the loud pop of a cherry bomb and well-timed flash paper ignition),
...and our minds...

I have an alleged copy of this show that opens with a sick Morning Dew . . . Anyone know if that actually happened?