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Sunday, March 3, 1968

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★★★★★ · The Best Of the DEAD · sinceamelia3 · 2006
To me this show is part of why i came to love the Grateful Dead. As i was flipping through my book, "Grateful Dead The Illustrated Trip" I came across this show. Someone asked for history, and although I am not the taper or even from this generation, I would like to qoute this book. This is the passage, "The Haight Street Free Concert - The Grateful Dead played a lot of 'free' often spontaneous, concerts in the Haight-Ashbury years-though the term 'free' seems somehow inappropriate given the…

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★★★★★ · Famous Tape · auggie · 2004
This gets ***** for effort alone. According to the Taping Compendium this tape was made by a forward thinking hippie named Steve Brown. He used an old Uher with a cheap mike he stuck up over the crowd. He thought it was important to document history and we should be glad he did. This gig is famous for the illegal shutting down of Haight St., the pictures, and this tape.
★★★★★ · GRATEFUL · martinzimmer13 · 2008
I'm a German, born in '67, never made it to the US, came to like the GD around '90, only saw them live once (Frankfurt '90), now assembling mostly all I can tip my fingers on... and it started with this show - I learned years later! The first tune I heard was 'Bertha' from the skull&roses album, demonstrated to me by a then-close friend,and then he showed me the LIVEDEAD double LP (remember Vinyl?)...until now I cannot forget about the picture at the inner sleeve, showing the band on a truck…

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