Primal
Friday, July 29, 1966
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- Friday
- Day 210 of 1966
- Show #
- 19 of 31
- Era
- Primal
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 3
- Top rating
- ★ 4.81 (23)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 83,868
- Show length
- 53m
- Longest track
- Viola Lee Blues · 9:47
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Great sound for this early gig · Darrylizer · 2014
Excellent sound, a little hiss but everything's clear. The Dead go through much of their standard repetoire for this time but do it very well. Bob may be low in the mix, but the other guys, especially Pigpen and Jerry are tearing it up. Pig's early organ playing is a delight, he was really good and with Jerry is the main instrumental voice in the band. The real surprise here tho are two songs I'm not that familiar with: You Don't Have To Ask and Cardboard Cowboy.
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- ★★★★★ · super quality · skullsnroses · 2008
This is a great recording. Its interesting to see how they mixed these older sets. This was (obviously) a huge growth period and they were really pushing the envelope as for as what they could do eltronically. Interesting how they distribute the different tracks to right and left speakers. I can tell the vocals are where most of the hiss is coming from. Probably could write a thesis on this stuff.
- ★★★★★ · a good place to start ... · Ridge · 2006
I am blown away by the sound quality and performance on this recording, 40 years to the day (if the date is correct). Standing on the Corner ... Cardboard Cowboy ... Big Boss Man ... Baby Blue ... Viola Lee ... wow, the boys really spun Vancouver's heads with this one ... and whatever became of Captain Consciousness? Anyway, onward to '74 (Cap Center) in my never-ending quest to listen to the best of each day in Dead history.
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Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Standing On The Corneronly 5 plays ever
- ◦Cardboard Cowboyonly 5 plays ever
- ◦You Don't Have To Askonly 6 plays ever
Setlist
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 3
Top-rated source
gd66-07-29.sbd.vernon.9051.sbeok.shnf
Soundboard · ★ 4.81 (23 reviews) · 63,838 dl
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- gd1966-07-29.sbd.2243.sbeok.shnfprobably MR>C>DAT>CDR>EAC>WAV>SHN · ★ 4.50 · 9,350 dl
- gd1966-07-29.sbd.GEMS.94633.flac16SBD > 10" 1/2 track 15ips MR · ★ 4.67 · 10,680 dl
- gd66-07-29.sbd.vernon.9051.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.81 · 63,838 dl