Fillmore West 1969

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Fillmore West 1969
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 2005
RecordedFebruary 27 – March 2, 1969
Venue Fillmore West
Genre Psychedelic rock, jam band
Length203:01
Label Rhino
Producer David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
Grateful Dead chronology
Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
(2005)
Fillmore West 1969
(2005)
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8
(2005)

Fillmore West 1969 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contain selected songs recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on February 27 through March 2, 1969. The album was remixed and remastered from the original 16-track concert soundboard tapes. The album is packaged as a hardcover booklet, with photos of the band and an essay by Dennis McNally.

Contents

In addition to the three-disc set, the entire run of four nights was released as The Complete Fillmore West 1969 , a 10-CD box set that was limited to 10,000 copies. [1]

Five of the seven songs on Live/Dead (rock's first 16-track live album, released in November 1969) were taken from these shows. Fillmore West 1969 includes highlights that did not appear on Live/Dead, with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on that album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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On AllMusic Lindsay Planer wrote, "Collectively [the Grateful Dead in 1969] created an incendiary ensemble embracing R&B with the same passion and sense of intrepid experimentation as they did their own unique imprint of sonic psychedelia. And nowhere is that seemingly odd amalgam as evident as it is here.... Three and a half decades later those tapes were revisited and revitalized by longtime Grateful Dead producer Jeffrey Norman." [2]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)February 28, 196911:05
2."Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson)February 28, 196911:00
3."Doin' That Rag" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)February 28, 19696:56
4."I'm a King Bee" (James Moore, arr. by Grateful Dead)February 28, 19697:31
5."Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter)February 27, 19696:02
6."Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone)February 28, 196919:09
Disc 2
No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)March 1, 19694:48
2."Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)March 1, 19694:52
3."Dark Star >" (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Hunter)February 28, 196919:43
4."St. Stephen >" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)February 28, 19697:51
5."The Eleven >" (Lesh, Hunter)February 28, 196915:13
6."Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis)February 28, 19699:48
Disc 3
No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."That's It for the Other One
  • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
  • "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
  • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)"
March 2, 196923:30
2."Alligator >" (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter)March 2, 19694:00
3."Drums >" (Hart, Kreutzmann)March 2, 19696:52
4."Jam >" (Grateful Dead)March 2, 196925:31
5."Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) >" (Grateful Dead)March 2, 19699:13
6."Feedback > [lower-alpha 1] " (Grateful Dead)March 2, 19697:54
7."And We Bid You Goodnight [lower-alpha 2] " (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead)March 2, 19692:01
  1. Previously released on Live/Dead
  2. Previously released in edited form on Live/Dead

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References

  1. Fillmore West 1969 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  2. 1 2 Planer, Lindsay. "Fillmore West 1969". AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2018.