Grateful Dead - 1969-01-17 - Santa Barbara CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1969-01-17

Civic Auditorium

Santa Barbara, CA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

Setlist:

01. Turn On Your Lovelight

02. Dark Star >

03. St. Stephen >

04. The Eleven >

05. Death Don't Have No Mercy

06. That's It For The Other One >

07. Cosmic Charlie

Grateful Dead - 1969-01-17 - Santa Barbara CA (SBD)

GD 1969 - Back To Back - #1: Every now & then here at So Many Roads, we like to bring you some Grateful Dead, from the 1969, a year in which the dead closed out the "Psychedelic 60's" with live music that embodied everything that nickname symbolized, and then some.  This show from January 17, 1969, 45 years ago today, is one of the precursors to the legendary Fillmore shows in February 1969 that spawned the album Live Dead.  an album that critic Robert Christgau rated an A+, writing that "side two of this four-sided set contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded, and the rest is gently transcendent as usual. Beautifully recorded, too." The entire Fillmore run was later released as a 10 CD box set entitled Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings.  So this soundboard gives you a good look at a band building toward some of the peak performances of their career! Download this one, then come back tomorrow for the 2nd half of this Back To Back set.