Fillmore West 1969

Fillmore West 1969
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	November 2005
Recorded	Fillmore West, February 27 – March 2, 1969
Genre	Psychedelic rock, jam
Length	203:01
Label	Rhino
Producer	David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
Grateful Dead chronology
Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings (2005) Fillmore West 1969 (2005) Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8 (2005)

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Fillmore West 1969 is a three-CD album composed of selections from four concerts by the Grateful Dead. These concerts, performed on four consecutive nights from February 27 through March 2, 1969, were the basis for Live/Dead (rock's first 16-track live album, released in November 1969). In addition to the three-disc set, the entire run of four nights was released as The Complete Fillmore West 1969, a 10 compact disc set that was limited to 10,000 copies.^[2]

Fillmore West 1969 includes highlights of the four nights that did not appear on Live/Dead (with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on Live/Dead).

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 11:05
2. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 11:00
3. "Doin' That Rag" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:56
4. "I'm a King Bee" (James Moore, arr. by Grateful Dead) – 7:31
5. "Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:02
6. "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 19:09

Disc Two

1. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:48
2. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:52
3. "Dark Star" (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Hunter) – 19:43 >
4. "St. Stephen" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 7:51 >
5. "The Eleven" (Lesh, Hunter) – 15:13 >
6. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 9:48

Disc Three

1. "That's It for the Other One" – 23:30
   • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
   • "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
   • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
2. "Alligator" (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 4:00 >
3. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 6:52 >
4. "Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 25:31 >
5. "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) – 9:13 >
6. "Feedback" (Grateful Dead) – 7:54^{[lower-alpha 1]} >
7. "We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead) – 2:01^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Recording dates

• Disc 1 track 5 recorded February 27, 1969
• Disc 1 tracks 1 – 4 and 6, disc 2 tracks 3 – 6 recorded February 28, 1969
• Disc 2 tracks 1 – 2 recorded March 1, 1969
• Disc 3 recorded March 2, 1969

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Tom Constanten - organ
• Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Phil Lesh - electric bass, vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - harmonica, organ, percussion, vocals
• Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

• David Lemieux – producer
• Cameron Sears – executive producer
• Bob Matthews – recording engineer
• Betty Cantor – recording engineer
• Jeffrey Norman – mixing, mastering, producer
• Eileen Law – archival research
• Rosie McGee – photography
• Herb Greene – photography
• Michael Merritt – photography
• Baron Wolman – photography
• Peter Simon – photography
• Amalie R. Rothschild – photography
• Suanne C Skidd – photography
• Sylvia Clarke Hamilton – photography
• Richard Biffle – cover lettering
• Brian Connors – art coordination
• Robert Minkin – package design
• Dennis McNally – booklet essay

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