Primal

Sunday, November 2, 1969

San Francisco, CA · Family Dog at the Great Highway

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Sunday
Day 306 of 1969
Show #
93 of 112
Era
Primal
Keys
Pigpen
Recordings
3
Top rating
★ 4.88 (18)
Official release
Dave's Picks Vol 43
Top-rated tape
SBD
Total dl
113,476
Show length
1h 52m
Longest track
Dark Star · 30:06
68CanonicalRank #31 of 1,999
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Featured on: Dave's Picks Vol 43

From the tapers · archive.org · 3

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  • ★★★★★ · Incomplete Show... · StrawRider · 2005

    ...but am I complaining? Heck no. If Dark Star had been left off, then things would have been ugly. But I jest and borderline waste your time. Don't waste your own time by leaving this show without getting a download. If you did that then you would not hear: Dark star crashes, pouring it's light into ashes. Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis. Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.

  • ★★★★★ · right up there with 2/27 · omnihead · 2011

    Yep...it's f****** awesome. this dark star is as every bit as good as 2/27/69 (Live Dead version). HOWEVER, i've aways been partial to 72' Dark Stars. Then again, its like comparing apples and oranges. Here's a description of Dark star's as I see it: 1969: Rough, ragged, primal, intense, saturated, immature, electric, raw, dense 1970: same as 1969, but add delicate, deliberate, and structured 1972: cosmic, chaotic, psychedelic, transcendent, sequential, complex, esoteric, apocalyptic…

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

Recordings on archive.org · 3

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gd1969-11-02.sbd.miller.32350.sbeok.flac16

Disc 1: SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat (44.1k) DDisc 2: SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat (44.1k) D · ★ 4.88 (18 reviews) · 44,477 dl

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