Grateful Dead - 1969-05-29 - Santa Barbara, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead
1969-05-29
Robertson Gym
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Soundboard recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01.  Morning Dew
02.  Cryptical Envelopment >
03.  Drums -> The Other One >
04.  Cryptical Envelopment >
05.  Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
06.  Me And My Uncle >
07.  Alligator >
08.  Drums >
09.  Jam >
10.  Drums >
11.  Jam  >
12.  Drums >
13.  Lovelight

Grateful Dead - 1969-05-29 - Santa Barbara, CA (SBD)

As the decade of the 1960s came to an end, the Grateful Dead were beginning to take the improvisational style to new heights. Their concerts at The Fillmore West in late February/early March that year, from which the album Live Dead was culled (and more recently a 9 disc box set of the entire run) found the band exploring the depths of space on tunes such as Dark Star, St. Stephen and The Other One.. At the same time, with Pigpen at the helm on vocals, they could produce powerful down and dirty blues numbers such as Alligator or Turn On Your Lovelight. When the Live Dead disc was released in late 1969, it marked the first time the band had released a live performance on disc. At the time, Robert Christgau wrote that side two of the album "contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded." This soundboard recording captures the band during that historic year, on May 30, 1969, a half century ago today, in Santa Barbara.