Primal
Friday, February 28, 1969
Show stats
- Friday
- Day 59 of 1969
- Show #
- 19 of 112
- Era
- Primal
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 3
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (2)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 125,086
- Show length
- 2h 40m
- Longest track
- Dark Star · 19:55
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry
- Listened Tuesday, April 19, 2016 · Tape
Quality okay. Awesome show. SUPER strong Schoolgirl with Pigpen on harmonica. Also a pretty funky Rag. Out on album Fillmore West 1969. Listened to the cd as well.
From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Best Show of the Year · clementinescaboose · 2010
Well even though you can't get'em here, I really feel this Fillmore run (2/27-3/2) needs my two cents, so here goes: Gonna have to follow the pack here (as well Mr. Latvala) and call this one tops for the year. (but i'm not so sure about all-time). What we have here is a SOLID first set with a great Morning Dew as well as energetic versions of Lovelight and Doin' that rag (especially lovelight with frenetic leads from JJG). But the second set IS one of the greatest of ALL TIME.
- ★★★★★ · It Boggles The Mind · bluestones · 2009
The first set is the "song" set of the Grateful Dead focusing on cover tunes with the exception of Rag. There is a heartbreaking Morning Dew, a killer King Bee, and an orgasmically fascinating Lovelight. In the second set we have The Other One going into Dark Star which is very unique. That's It For The Other One is right up there with the other ones of the Fillmore run. While 2/27 is a monster, 3/1 is exploratory, and 3/2 is more garage band, 2/28 serves a different purpose.
- ★★★★★ · Why not another review, and another 5 stars? · yamarva · 2015
As is most obvious to all the reviewers; this show is hot! Listen and love, the mechanics of artistry are heard here in perfection. This show gives listeners the fullest measure any satisfaction could bestowed upon one’s self. Perfection is relative, and this show is most relative! A great concert to showcase the Dead’s late 60’s psychedelic rock sound, with the obvious blues/jazz rock-a-do transition evolving into form by '74. Never let the music stop! Obvious high point: Dark Star->St.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Bill Graham Intro (Set One)only ever played here
- ◦William Tellonly 6 plays ever
Setlist
Set
- 1.Bill Graham Intro (Set One)→
- 2.Morning Dew
- 3.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- 4.Doin' That Rag
- 5.King Bee
- 6.Turn On Your Lovelight
- 7.Bill Graham Intro (Set Two)→
- 8.Cryptical Envelopment→
- 9.Drums→
- 10.That's It For the Other One→
- 11.Cryptical Envelopment Reprise→
- 12.Dark Star→
- 13.St. Stephen→
- 14.William Tell→
- 15.The Eleven→
- 16.Death Don't Have No Mercy
- 17.Alligator→
- 18.Drums > Drummers' Chant > Drums→
- 19.Power Jam→
- 20.Caution (Do not Stop on Tracks)→
- 21.Feedback→
- 22.And We Bid You Goodnight→
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 3
Top-rated source
gd1969-02-28.139196.sbd.2track.Gastwirt.Miller.Noel.t-flac16
flac16/48kHz ; SBD > 2-track Master Reels > Dat; Charlie Miller · ★ 5.00 (2 reviews) · 14,880 dl
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- gd1969-02-28.132672.sbd.multi.track.healy-latvala-wise.flac16flac16/48kHz ; Ampex MM-1000 16 Track Master Reels Two Inch Wide Tape @ 15 ips; Multi Track Mix-down To a Sony PCM 1630 By Dan Healy @ 44.1KHz); Set #1 DAT x ONE by Dick Latvala-DAT x TWO; Set #2 DAT x ? by Rob Bertrando-DAT x; Editing(Adobe Audition CC)-FLAC encoding(dBpoweramp)-Tagging(Tag & Re-name)-Sample Rate Conversion(r8brain); This is a 100% Flat transfer from the DAT no signal processing what-so-ever. Some pitch correction implemented Jim Wise · ★ 4.78 · 31,430 dl
- gd1969-02-28.139196.sbd.2track.Gastwirt.Miller.Noel.t-flac16flac16/48kHz ; SBD > 2-track Master Reels > Dat; Charlie Miller · ★ 5.00 · 14,880 dl
- gd69-02-28.sbd.16track.kaplan.3397.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.70 · 78,776 dl