Primal

Saturday, August 30, 1969

San Francisco, CA · Family Dog at the Great Highway

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Saturday
Day 242 of 1969
Show #
78 of 112
Era
Primal
Keys
Pigpen
Recordings
12
Top rating
★ 5.00 (1)
Top-rated tape
SBD
Total dl
75,867
Show length
1h 21m
Longest track
Dark Star · 28:51
18SolidRank #1,460 of 1,999
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  • ★★★★★ · Thank you Seth Kaplan! · oh_uh_um_ah · 2008

    High quality stereo audio with excellent mix. Excellent preformance. 5 star show. This is the GRATEFUL DEAD. Classic. Easy Wind falls apart...but Pigpen keeps singing in time and brings it all back together then hands it over to Garcia for a solo. Garcia calmly and patiently comes in several bars later and funks the whole groove so intensely that it's like his guitar is speaking and talking in tongues...Man, Jerry could make things come alive...and the EW groove is reborn.

  • ★★★★★ · Once more, with feeling... · thewaymouth · 2009

    In Defense of Disc One - Don't pass go without it. SQ A- (tape distortion/wobble last min of China & first min of Rag, otherwise HQ). Show is a mournful follow after the lighthearted set the night before. Maybe they'd been tripping b**** Friday night, and this was a Saturday night early-start/dive-splash into Sunday morning coming down. The Dead play with such deep, hard of feeling.

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Setlist reconstructed from archive.org recording track listing. Set breaks and segues unknown from this source.

Recordings on archive.org · 12

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gd1969-08-30.122267.upg.sbd.tobin.flac16

Master Soundboard Reel > Cass > DAT > CD; via Seth Kaplan; Seeded to etree by Steve Barbella - Patched and Tagged by Kevin Tobin · ★ 5.00 (1 reviews) · 6,690 dl

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