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Anyone have this cd? i read the thing inside and it doesnt fully explain what it is, is it one of the concerts from the live/dead run or is it live/dead plus a few tracks?

They released two versions.

1. 11 disks incorporating everything from 2/27, 2/28, 3/1 and 3/2 plus a bonus disk with some tracks from earlier in the year. This was a limited 10,000 copy release.

2. 3 disk highlight set from the same run.

I've had the complete "unofficial unrelease" for about 4-5 years now. The first two shows are absolutely killer across the board. 2/27 Mountains>Dark Star is the highest of the music most high! And the entire Eleven>Death Dont, Alligator>Caution>Feedback is soul-boggling.

I'd say the 3/1 and 3/2 are a bit less consistently awesome, sometimes due to technical problems, but they have their share of astounding primal Dead moments, esp. the Cryptical Reprise, the New Potato outro jam, the Dark Star> Stephen and the Cosmic Charley from 3/1 (my favorite DS of the run, just slightly ahead of 2/27- most pollees 4th fave) (and the rather comic Hey Jude)and the TIFTOO and the Alligator>Caution of 3/2.

There's just too much to love about February 69. Narrow song selection, IMMENSE range of music!

Those are must have shows.

I believe it is not one show but some nuggets from the same set of shows that lead to Live/Dead. Just picked it up a few days ago. Fan-freaking-tastic.

As stated, the 3 discs have bits and pieces of shows from 2/27 - 3/2. Here's some info on which songs are from which dates:

Disc One
All from 2/28 except "Cosmic Charlie" 2/27.

1 Morning Dew 11:05 (Rose, Dobson)
2 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 11:00 (Williamson)
3 Doin' That Rag 6:56 (Garcia, Hunter)
4 I'm A King Bee 7:31 (Moore, Arr. By Grateful Dead)
5 Cosmic Charlie 6:02 (Garcia, Hunter)
6 Turn On Your Lovelight 19:09 (Scott, Malone)

Disc Two
From 3/1

1 Dupree's Diamond Blues 4:48 (Garcia, Hunter)
2 Mountains Of The Moon 4:52 (Garcia, Hunter)

From 2/28
3 Dark Star > 19:43 (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hart, Hunter)
4 St. Stephen > 7:51 (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
5 The Eleven > 15:13 (Lesh, Hunter)
6 Death Don't Have No Mercy 9:58 (Davis)

Disc Three
All from 3/2

1 That's It For The Other One 23:30
Cryptical Envelopment (Garcia)
The Other One (Kreutzmann, Weir)
Cryptical Envelopment (Garcia)
2 Alligator > 4:00 (McKernan, Hunter)
3 Drums > 6:52 (Hart, Kreutzmann)
4 Jam > 25:31 (Grateful Dead)
5 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > 9:13 (Grateful Dead)
6 Feedback > 7:54 (Grateful Dead)
7 We Bid You Goodnight 2:01 (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)

Are you for real? I mean are they for real? They really botched those picks.

The Dupree's, MotM>Dark Star should definitely be from 2/27 ... the 3/1 acoustic numbers have feedback problems and the transition from MotM into Dark Star is nowhere near as dreamy creamy... I do love the 3/1 Dark Star but they didn't pick that either.

The Alligator>Caution>Feedback should most certainly be from 2/28

THIS IS MADNESS

i dunno i liked this cd a LOT, i have the 3 cd version of it and on the back of the thing holding the first cd theres a guy i dont know and i feel incredibly stupid, can anyone help me out here, guy with a handle bar mustache and a middle part

sorta looks like phil

gratephulphish123 wrote:i dunno i liked this cd a LOT, i have the 3 cd version of it and on the back of the thing holding the first cd theres a guy i dont know and i feel incredibly stupid, can anyone help me out here, guy with a handle bar mustache and a middle part sorta looks like phil

Thats not Phil. Phil is on the back of the SECOND CD the one on the first is Constanten, Tom Constanten. I also have this CD set and I know for a fact that some of the jams were cut together, like the Mountains Of The Moon>Dark Star, from diffrent days but the first time I listened to the CD's I could have sworn that they came from the same show. Only later did I find out that they were cut together after I read the booklet, I was blown away by the fact that they can peice together something that perfectly.

My favorite Other One's on disc 3

About the 11-disks release, does anyone know the exact information about the 11th disk's tracks?

guilhermeful dead wrote:About the 11-disks release, does anyone know the exact information about the 11th disk's tracks?

All songs recorded live at the Carousel Ballroom/Fillmore West.

1. Caution - 6/68
2. He Was A Friend Of Mine - 6/8/69
3. China Cat - 6/8/69
4. New Potato Caboose - 6/8/69
5. China Cat - 2/7/70
6. IKYR - 2/7/70
7. High Time - 2/7/70

The 'He Was A Friend Of Mine' is, in my opinion, the highlight of this disc.