Saturday, April 12, 1969

Has anybody counted how many renditions of the Yellow Dog Story he told in the era he was telling it? Can we make a graph: X performances by the Grateful Dead, Y renditions of the YDS? When did he stop telling it, and why? Why in God's name did he START? All in all a great show, kinda loose & experimental. In fact I'm gonna up my earlier rating, since the Eleven is hot as high heaven, and since this is actually the first rendition of the Dog joke we have on recording.

i had to give a good rating for the "shine on me" section of lovelight, i dig that barbershop stuff and what there is of this show is well worth a listen, and you can hear it, that's worth stars hay man, the hiss is why it is still music, the same thing that creates the hiss gives the glow, don't you know, and besides you don't notice when the music starts