Grateful Dead - 1969-04-18 - West Lafayette, IN (SBD)

Grateful Dead 

1969-04-18

Memorial Union Ball Room

Purdue University 

West Lafayette, IN

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Hard To Handle

02. Morning Dew

03. Cryptical Envelopement > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopement >

04. Sittin' On Top Of The World >

05. I'm A King Bee

06. Doin' That Rag

07. Turn On Your Lovelight

08. Cosmic Charlie

09. Beat It On Down The Line

Grateful Dead - 1969-04-18 - West Lafayette, IN (SBD)

1960s - #4: For the Grateful Dead, the year 1969 saw them take the live performances deep into space, displaying a level of pyschedelic improvisation that had never been seen before, and has rarely been matched since. In reviewing the album Live Dead, which was band released in November 1969 and featured their performances at the Fillmore West in late February/early March 1969, famed critic Robert Christgau wrote that side two of the album "contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded."  This soundboard recording captures the Dead just over a month after the concerts that spawned the Live Dead album (and later a 9 cd box set!), in West Lafayette on April 18, 1969, 56 years ago today.