Grateful Dead

This was one of the best-ever shows I've ever seen. In the second set, they played the whole "Live Dead" album set with Dark Star thru Livelight. for over an hour! Jefferson Airplane was on earlier after the Dead's first set, but the Dead had the entire place up and dancing.

Dark Star is beautifully jammed out. Lots of teases. Beautiful.

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Jerry was on fire that night; the improv solo on Dark Star was amazing! And Hot Tuna definitely put on an incredible set: Papa John was at his finest, and Jorma and Cassidy were playing off each other's riffs as if they could read each other's mind.....every band there was incredible, but the Dead were hands down the favorites.....

According to DeadBase IX before Dark Star they played Good Lovin' ; Me & My Uncle ; China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; Casey Jones ; High Time. Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Turn On Your Love Light*

Jefferson Airplane Winterland San Francisco, CA 10/25/69 (Sat) Source: SBD>MR>Cassette>DAT>CD>EAC>WAV>SHN Disc One: 01. Somebody to Love 02. Young Girl Sunday Blues 03. Wooden Ships 04. Volunteers 05. Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon 06. Uncle Sam Blues 07. Fat Angel 08. Greasy Heart 09. Martha 10. The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil Disc Two: 01. Tuning 02. Eskimo Blue Day 03. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds 04. Mau Mau (Amerikon) Jam 05. Other Side Of This Life//

I didn’t make it that night, but my friends did and they had a really great time. This is one of the few shows I will always regret not being able to catch. Heard Jorma and Cassidy were incredible that night. :::: visit

There was so much incredible music that it couldn't all be fitted into the allotted time. I remember Bill Graham coming out on stage at 2:00 AM and saying that since daylight savings time was ending, it was actually only 1:00 AM so the band had another hour to play! The most vivid recollection for me was Pigpen singing Lovelight! Geez I miss those dudes.

First time I'd seen the Dead. Don't recall Hot Tuna, so it seems we got there late; 1st band up was the Sons. GD blew my mind right of the bat; expecting something rather cosmic. Opened the show w/ Good Lovin', a song my band played in Jr High. Something else distinctive about the night was Stephen Stills sitting in w/ the Dead, as well as Jefferson Airplane. He & Graham Nash did a few numbers ("David's not here tonight, so we'll play some new stuff"). Had the great pleasure of catching the DarkStar/StStephen/Eleven/Lovelight medley on GD Channel XM last year from this very night. This show was halfway between the recorded date for Live Dead & Working Man's. Didn't catch it in '69, but listening to the show last year, caught shades of Cumberland Blues in Lovelight. WOW!

The opening acts were great. Funny to think of the Airplane as an opening act though. I remember that the Airplane had Steven Stills as a special guest who jammed with them on a couple of songs. It was really late by the time the Dead came on stage. There was a 2 AM curfew that would have cut the Dead's performance short. But wait, it was the return to Standard Time so that 2 AM became 1 AM. Bill Graham came out on stage to announce that the show could go on another hour! The music did play on!

I'm glad that other folks remember some of these details. My memory is faulty to begin with and it's been a long time. Of course it didn't help my memory that I was, ahem, chemically altered. It is a bit difficult discerning which of the many '69 and '70 SF shows I attended but I was definitely at this one!

Ha! I just noticed that I had already commented 4 years ago!