Primal
Wednesday, April 23, 1969
Show stats
- Wednesday
- Day 113 of 1969
- Show #
- 38 of 112
- Era
- Primal
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 8
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (3)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 135,984
- Show length
- 2h 40m
- Longest track
- Dark Star · 20:55
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · gems circa 4/69 · chris phillips · 2015
The third performance from The Ark is the most consistent. The set lists are inventive. Friend Of Mine and The Eleven > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) are excellently done. The slide guitar work in Hard To Handle is noteworthy. The Eleven and Caution contributed mightily to the '69 oeuvre along with Alligator and his tail. I'm in agreement how nice theaters like the Capitol (Port Chester), Fillmore, L'Olympia, Stanley, Palace, Fox (St. Louis), Boston Music Hall etc. figured in positively.
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- ★★★★★ · Great Show, Great Run · Pangolin22 · 2011
The third show of this great Ark run is another blast of ragged, raw, primal Dead. The He Was A Friend Of Mine that starts off is one of the high points with some stellar guitar work by both Jerry and Bobby. Just loved the It's a Sin sandwich with St. Stephen bread. The It's a Sin itself is as excellent a blues as you will ever hear the Dead perform. Following a thunderous Caution, the feedback is just stunning.
- ★★★★★ · April highlight of 69 · rf23635@hotmail.com · 2010
there are so many good shows from this spring tour it's hard to elevate one over the other. check out the "friend of mine", best one I've heard and a great intro to a fine night of rock and roll and jamming to cap off the three night Ark run. Dark Star is great and the jam out of Alligator into the eleven is unique and very good. thank you charlie miller for your hard work on these shows, sounds good.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Not Fade Away teaseonly 2 plays ever
- ◦It's A Sinonly 10 plays ever
Setlist
Set
- 1.He Was A Friend Of Mine
- 2.Dark Star
- 3.St. Stephen
- 4.It's A Sin
- 5.St. Stephen
- 6.Cryptical Envelopment
- 7.Drums
- 8.The Other One
- 9.Cryptical Envelopment
- 10.Sittin' On Top Of The World
- 11.Turn On Your Lovelight
- 12.Morning Dew
- 13.Hard To Handle
- 14.Doin' That Rag
- 15.Alligator
- 16.Drums
- 17.Jam
- 18.The Eleven
- 19.Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
- 20.Feedback
- 21.And We Bid You Good Night
- 22.Not Fade Away tease
- 23.It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 8
Top-rated source
gd1969-04-23.partial.sbd.gems.98793.flac24
SBD -> ? -> Cassette -> gen1 cassette · ★ 5.00 (3 reviews) · 2,904 dl
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- gd1969-04-23.partial.sbd.gems.98793.flac24SBD -> ? -> Cassette -> gen1 cassette · ★ 5.00 · 2,904 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.barry.patched-fixed.98927.flac16SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD · ★ 5.00 · 7,394 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.barry.patched.98820.flac16SBD -> Master Reel · 4,071 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.fixed.cribbs.28297.sbeok.shnfMSR>C>D>CD (fix of http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=70) · ★ 5.00 · 6,555 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.miller.88501.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD D · ★ 4.89 · 16,225 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.miller.98892.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD · ★ 5.00 · 6,497 dl
- gd1969-04-23.sbd.miller.98968.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD · ★ 5.00 · 45,477 dl
- gd69-04-23.sbd.wise.70.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.50 · 46,861 dl