Fillmore West 1969

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Fillmore West 1969 is a three-CD album composed of selections from four concerts by the Grateful Dead. These concerts, performed on four consecutive nights from February 27 through March 2, 1969, were the basis for Live/Dead (rock's first 16-track live album, released in November 1969). In addition to the three-disc set, the entire run of four nights was released as The Complete Fillmore West 1969, a 10 compact disc set that was limited to 10,000 copies.[2]

Fillmore West 1969
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 2005
RecordedFillmore West, February 27 – March 2, 1969
GenrePsychedelic rock, jam
Length203:01
LabelRhino
ProducerDavid Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
Grateful Dead chronology
Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
(2005)
Fillmore West 1969
(2005)
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8
(2005)
Professional ratings
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Allmusic [1]

Fillmore West 1969 includes highlights of the four nights 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 Live/Dead).

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 11:05
  2. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 11:00
  3. "Doin' That Rag" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:56
  4. "I'm a King Bee" (James Moore, arr. by Grateful Dead) – 7:31
  5. "Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:02
  6. "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 19:09

Disc Two

  1. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:48
  2. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:52
  3. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Hunter) – 19:43
  4. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 7:51
  5. "The Eleven" > (Lesh, Hunter) – 15:13
  6. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 9:48

Disc Three

  1. "That's It for the Other One" – 23:30
    • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
    • "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
    • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
  2. "Alligator" > (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 4:00
  3. "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 6:52
  4. "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 25:31
  5. "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (Grateful Dead) – 9:13
  6. "Feedback" > (Grateful Dead) – 7:54[a]
  7. "And We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead) – 2:01[b]
  1. ^ Previously released on Live/Dead
  2. ^ Previously released in edited form on Live/Dead

Recording dates

  • Disc 1 track 5 recorded February 27, 1969
  • Disc 1 tracks 1 – 4 and 6, disc 2 tracks 3 – 6 recorded February 28, 1969
  • Disc 2 tracks 1 – 2 recorded March 1, 1969
  • Disc 3 recorded March 2, 1969

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

  • David Lemieux – producer
  • Cameron Sears – executive producer
  • Bob Matthews – recording engineer
  • Betty Cantor – recording engineer
  • Jeffrey Norman – mixing, mastering, producer
  • Eileen Law – archival research
  • Rosie McGee – photography
  • Herb Greene – photography
  • Michael Merritt – photography
  • Baron Wolman – photography
  • Peter Simon – photography
  • Amalie R. Rothschild – photography
  • Suanne C Skidd – photography
  • Sylvia Clarke Hamilton – photography
  • Richard Biffle – cover lettering
  • Brian Connors – art coordination
  • Robert Minkin – package design
  • Dennis McNally – booklet essay

References

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