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 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö Encore:
7.Cosmic Charlie (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:52

Disc 3

February 28, 1969 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö Encore:
7.Hey Jude (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 7:44

Disc 8

March 2, 1969 ΓÇö 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 ΓÇö 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
ΓÇóJerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
ΓÇóBob Weir - guitar, vocals
ΓÇóTom Constanten - keyboards
ΓÇóRon "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals, harmonica, percussion
ΓÇóPhil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
ΓÇóBill Kreutzmann - drums
ΓÇóMickey Hart - drums

Production
ΓÇóProducers - David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
ΓÇóExecutive producer - Cameron Sears
ΓÇóRecording engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
ΓÇóMixing & mastering - Jeffrey Norman
ΓÇóArchival research - Eileen Law
ΓÇóPhotography - Rosie McGee, Herbie Greene, Michael Merritt, Baron Wolman, Peter Simon, Amalie R. Rothschild, Suanne C Skidd, Sylvia Clarke Hamilton
ΓÇóCover lettering - Richard Biffle
ΓÇóArt coordination - Brian Connors
ΓÇóPackage design - Robert Minkin
ΓÇóBooklet essay - Dennis McNally


Credits
 
ΓÇó Producer - David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman 
ΓÇó Executive producer - Cameron Sears 
ΓÇó Recording engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor 
ΓÇó Mixing, mastering - Jeffrey Norman at Club Front, Novato 
ΓÇó Archival research - Eileen Law/Grateful Dead Archives 
ΓÇó Photos - Rosie McGee, Herbie Greene, Michael Merritt, Baron Wolman, Peter Simon, Amalie R. Rothschild, Suanne C Skidd, Sylvia Clarke Hamilton 
ΓÇó Cover lettering - Richard Biffle 
ΓÇó Art coordinator - Brian Connors 
ΓÇó Booklet essay - Dennis McNally 
ΓÇó Package design - Robert Minkin/MinkinDesign 
ΓÇó Special thanks - Phil Driver, L Budd, Orion Trist, Stephen Jarvis 
ΓÇó 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;
ΓÇóLive/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;ΓÇóSo Many Roads (1965-1995), Grateful Dead, 1999