Primal
Sunday, August 3, 1969
Show stats
- Sunday
- Day 215 of 1969
- Show #
- 72 of 112
- Era
- Primal
- Keys
- Pigpen
- Recordings
- 3
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (1)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 55,210
- Show length
- 1h 43m
- Longest track
- Dark Star · 23:08
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Hi heeled sneakers! · c-freedom · 2014
Wow! Love the way Pig and Jerry alternate verses on Hi-heeled. High Time in 69 is just other worldy (and this is just a little after the moon landing) The sound early is snarly at times but one can only ponder if the jazz flavor of this show was an early precursor for the horns on Wake of the Flood. DARK STAR brings clarity here as a point of departure. I was at the Nassau Dark Star show 3/29/90 with Branford and this gives me that same free form jazzy feeling.
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- ★★★★★ · Tremendous historic show. · SethWax · 2017
To be a fly on the wall, at the Family Dog. Not sure if Charles Lloyd (sax) and David LaFlamme (violin) is 100% accurate, but from the sound of both, it seems very likely. Beautiful playing, Jerry, after a few minutes in Dark Star, takes a back seat, plays rhythm and simple patterns, to allow the sax and violin to come in. Some great moments in the Star.
- ★★★★★ · Unique · JoeShoe · 2025
This is a very unique and wonderful show featuring violinist David Laflamme from the SF rock band It's A Beautiful Day. Their song White Bird is worth checking out if you dig the sound. Also West Coast jazz great Charles Lloyd on saxophone, who's jazz bona fides are unquestionable. Imagine if you will a Sunday night in 1969, Grateful Dead at the Family Dog on the Great Highway in San Francisco. Waves crashing on Ocean Beach nearby.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Hi-Heel Sneakersonly 3 plays ever
Setlist
Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.
Recordings on archive.org · 3
Top-rated source
gd1969-08-03.137365.sbd.miller.eaton.flac24
SBD > Reel Master (10" 1/2 track 15ips) · ★ 5.00 (1 reviews) · 6,387 dl
Compare all 3 sources
- gd1969-08-03.137365.sbd.miller.eaton.flac24SBD > Reel Master (10" 1/2 track 15ips) · ★ 5.00 · 6,387 dl
- gd1969-08-03.137368.sbd.eaton.miller.flac16SBD > Reel Master (10" 1/2 track 15ips) · ★ 4.83 · 9,701 dl
- gd1969-08-03.sbd.miller.30652.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Cassette Master -> Dat · ★ 4.76 · 39,122 dl