Grateful Dead

...the most famous and historical concert ever assembled over three days on a dairy farm owned by a man named Max. I have two/2 original milk crates from the farm stamped/engraved most likely, with the year 1969. One of my favorite Woodstock
Grateful Dead at Woodstock
Performed on Day 2
Started at 10:30 pm, Saturday, 16th
Played for 95 min.
The Grateful Dead are their own phenomenon. Influenced by Blues, Jazz, Country, Folk and of course Rock 'N' Roll, they used to stretch their compositions to incredible lengths, improvising solos and lyrics. Woodstock could have been yet another milestone in their triumphal run of shows, but, unfortunately, it wasn't.
The Grateful Dead came late on stage because Owsley Stanley (a.k.a. "Bear" - their soundman and electrical engineer) wanted to fix the electrical ground on stage. Also their heavy equipment had squashed the turnable stage. Further, the rain had flooded the stage and the band was in danger of electric shocks! Songs got delayed because of long breaks between them. After a while, it all ended in an almost everlasting "Turn On Your Lovelight" after which the band left.
The Dead started at about 10:30 pm on Saturday the 16th. Their gig was supposed to be a little longer than the other bands because of the breaks. So they finished around midnight.

Musicians
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums and percussion
Mickey Hart - drums and percussion
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, harmonica, congas, vocals
Tom Constanten - keyboards, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass
*Setlist
St. Stephen
Mama Tried
Dark Star
High Time
Turn On Your Lovelight

...Sadly, because of technical problems that caused band members to receive electrical shocks when they touched instruments or tried to sing through the microphones, their gig was extremely bad. Though regarded as one of the best live bands at the time, their songs didn't work the way they usually did.

After "Mama Tried" there is a short false start of "High Time" and then a long pause. On the recording there's about 10 minutes of babbling and stoned confusion. "Turn On Your Lovelight" was one of the longest versions of that song ever played, clocking in at almost 38 minutes.
Since the Grateful Dead bootlegged themselves regularly there is a very clean soundboard recording available that features the whole show as well as some tuning, banter and stage raps during the long breaks. See the Deadlists.com entry for 8/16/69 (not directly linkable). Because of the bad performance it was never fully released officially, neither on audio nor on film. However, there are film outtakes and black/white film available.
In 2009 the Rhino box set Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm finally includes one song from the Grateful Dead: "Dark Star". This Version IS PRIMO, I played it over and over when I first bought the Woodstock boxset for the 40th Ann. Also the 40th Anniversary version of the Woodstock movie includes a reasonably edited "Turn on Your Lovelight" and "Mama Tried" in bonus material! ;) The team who put together the 40th box set , did the same job of all the bands that appeared. They wanted to release a mega set of each performer and the performance on Cd, but it never came to be yet. ;)
Some bands have gone forward of releasing their performances., like John Fogerty person was released, which wasn’t on the original movie or soundtrack. Also the long blues jam done by ‘Caned Heat’ for over 45minutes on the 40th release. I loved the 40th. Great job be everyone.
Just listen to the mix done on the 40th Ann boxset of the Dead’s performance of “Dark Star’’ is killer, really I love it a lot .
Have a Grateful Day folks. :)

Morning all , just a thought / question - is the recording / performance of Woodstock so poor / unusable that it couldn’t be used for the aoxomoxoa 50th reissue ? I have copies of the Janis Joplin & sly and the family which sound superb .

This is worth hearing

10/2/80 Birdsong

He sounds really good

....🤔😎😁.
Re; CRB. Tix rarely pass the $40 mark. I saw them a couple of years ago open for Widespread Panic. They kicked Panic's ass. Apologies, but it's true.

Smoke through water. It removes a remarkable amount of carcinogens and other undesirables yet still delivers the goods.

Tincture and edibles are good too.. got a nasty case of bronchitis this summer slumming in the inferno that was the Rocky Mountains. Lord knows what kind of toxic shit entered my lungs, but it seemed everywhere we went was on fire, homes and mattresses and all, and most damaging at altitude. It took almost two months of nasty antibiotics to clear it up, so tincture became a staple.

Good call KCJ.

mmm.. what music goes really well with a good buzz? H>S!>F? A 23 minute PITB?

Yeah...why wait?

Word on the streets is.. one of our own wrote a segment of the liner notes. A tip of the hat to all the early adapters here that still carry the torch.

Looking very much forward to it.. I love 1970 GD.

Icecreamconekid speaks the truth - no announcement yet for the "on-sale" date. If you're looking for a more general time frame, May 1st is the official street date.

Edit - oh, whoops everyone answered that already. I'm a mess until I get that first after-work bong hit in me.

...if you type in your order number for the subscription, Dead.net informs you when each release is issued in the summery part of the purchase...that’s one way to look it/info up, here you go my friend. :)

Dave's Picks Vol. 30 (w/Bonus Disc)
(Pre-order - released on: 4/26/2019)
Dave's Picks Vol. 31
(Pre-order - released on: 7/26/2019)
Dave's Picks Vol. 32
(Pre-order - released on: 11/1/2019)
...hope this helps.
“Good Ol Grateful Dead”!!! I just had to scream that myself ;) lol , rock on everyone. Have a grateful evening...
Ps- your welcome Daverock , I enjoyed the performance ver much. :)

Dave's 30 to be released April 26!