Primal
Saturday, May 24, 1969
Show stats
- Saturday
- Day 144 of 1969
- Show #
- 48 of 112
- Era
- Primal
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 2
- Top rating
- ★ 4.73 (22)
- Official release
- Road Trips Vol 4 No 1
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 48,085
- Show length
- 1h 46m
- Longest track
- Turn On Your Lovelight · 27:06
Curator Score
How this is computed →Featured on: Road Trips Vol 4 No 1
From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry
- Listened Sunday, May 24, 2026 · Archive
Soundboard. Huge half hour Lovelight to start the set and it’s raucous. Love that we get Doin that Rag. Always one of my favs off of AOX and they only played it live in 69. He Was a Friend of Mine is so tight with really strong soloing by Jerry slamming right into China Cat. Bob tells a joke and then they launch into a tasty Alligator to drums to blistering St. Stephen start with drums still GOING OFF. Strong show overall.
From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" May 24, 1969 at the Seminole Indian Village, Hollywood, FL, U.S.A. · oh_uh_um_ah · 2009
` ~^|\_@|@_/|^~ ~ / \ ~ Classic 1969 sound. Solid performances of the 69' set list. ALLIGATOR!!! If you are a fan of the original GRATEFUL DEAD you'll want this show. I recommend adding this show to your 1969 GRATEFUL DEAD collection. And for your 1968 GRATEFUL DEAD collection I highly recommend you check out this show: http://www.archive.org/details/gd1968-08-21.sbd.unknown.1183.shnf The aforementioned show is probably one of the best "live" GRATEFUL DEAD shows ever recorded.
- ★★★★★ · Fantastic · rollandfin · 2006
This show is great, short of a dark star, and any further connection to the workingman's material that would blend into the later half of 69, this show has it all, and great sound to boot. Ever made a mix tape/cd that stuck in your car stereo for so long that the combinations solidify in your head, strong enough that when you hear a song from the mix elsewhere in life, you involuntarily hear the next mix-track in your head?
- ★★★★★ · nobody seems to have mentioned lovelight · Dylan M · 2011
A unique and noteworthy version. They closed the night before with Lovelight and opened this day with it. Wonder how people felt about hearing the same song twice back to back? Either way I would have been psyched cause this lovelight is completely different from the previous days. More exploratory and uninhibited than the before nights closer. Naturally the Alligator>St.Stephen is also worth mentioning. One of the top shows of 1969 for sure.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Official release
- Road Trips Vol 4 No 1no streaming · physical / CD release
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Alligator-> drumsonly ever played here
Setlist
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 2
Top-rated source
gd69-05-24.sbd.kpfa.16177.sbeok.shnf
Soundboard · ★ 4.73 (22 reviews) · 40,806 dl
Compare all 2 sources
- gd1969-05-24.sbd.unknown.10737.sbeok.shnf★ 4.25 · 7,279 dl
- gd69-05-24.sbd.kpfa.16177.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.73 · 40,806 dl