Grateful Dead at Crystal Ballroom Portland OR 02/03/68

//Cryptical Envelopment~
The Other One~
Cryptical Envelopment~
New Potato Caboose
Born Cross-Eyed~
Jam (4)//
//Dark Star (1)~
China Cat Sunflowe~
The Eleven~Jam~Feedback
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(1) The first few bars of Dark Star are missing and at the end of it, Phil says
"Leave the light on, will ya?", then a few more notes, and China Cat starts.
Dark Star maps: 0.00 - start, intro, jam, theme ; 1.31 - start verse one ;
2.22 - end verse one, then various short jams, that later appear full blown on
the "Live/Dead" version ; 4.04 - start verse two ; 4.57 - end verse two ;
5.11 - Phil Lesh says: "Leave the light on, will ya?" ; closing notes; 5.28 -
Dark Star ends. The Eleven maps: 0.00 - starts with Garcia ; 0.16 - the eleven,
for real ; 0.28 - Lesh joins in ; 0.54 - everyone is doing the eleven ; 2.46 -
pre-vocals theme ; 2.57 - start verses ; 3.39 - end verses then jam ; 5.18
Garcia starts a new theme not in 11/4 time.
(2) The first few notes of Cryptical are missing.
(3) After the first Cryptical, there is no Drums intro to The Other One. This show
is the first with the standard Other One lyrics - however, Bobby does flub them a
bit: A Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this rose It rainbows, spirals
round and round, it trembles and explodes It left my mind, crater of a mind...,
what the hey And the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day I
was skipping through the lilly fields, when I came across an empty space It quivered
and exploded, left a bus stop in its place The bus came by and I got on, that's when
it all began There was Cowboy Neal, at the wheel, of a bus to never-ever land It's
the rose from the Spanish lady that rainbows, spirals, trembles and explodes - instead
of the rainbow spiraling, trembling, and exploding. Bob Weir stated in an interview
that after they got back from this tour they found out that Neal Cassady had died on
this night.
(4) This Jam sounds like a Spanish Jam, but it is rather rough, and it is Phil playing
the lead part that Jerry would normally play, with appropriate drums and organ flourishes.

[@thebreathalyzer]

Those early '68 shows are golden. There's some really interesting jams going on and you can really hear the musical growth from one night to the next.

[@skylers_a_bum]

First ever concert I went to with friends was at the crystal ballroom, such a cool venue and has barley changed one bit. If only i was there in the 60’s to see the dead and quicksilver

[@cemery50]

Wowww...50 years later I get a flash back...with replay/capture/reverse and slow mo...whoulda knowed.
I got to heat up the hall and re-imagine it all..the more the merrier.

[@cemery50]

Speaking as a perceptual psychologist, environmental projectionist kinda thoughts...
You got to put it on 11 and set reverb to insane and ripple the floor like jelly while strobe lights melt your mind.

[@cemery50]

And eat a cube of sugar...

[@triplec6453]

Interesting how you can immediately hear the bits they used for the album cut of "The Other One"...

[@clearlyhazed11]

Bob Weir said this was first night he added "There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land" Cassidy weirdly died the next day.

[@chuck6033]

Nice info! On the second floor of the Crystal Ballroom in the lobby of the smaller bar/club under the actual Ballroom called Lola’s Room they have painted that exact lyric around the the room where the walls meet the ceiling. I have been to the Crystal literally 100’s of times. But I did not know the history of why they chose to paint that lyric on the walls. Thanks for keeping me hip. 👏

[@clla9488]

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[@robinsmithdrums8418]

I was there

[@paulsmaczka]

I ts Anthem of the sun. Audio