Grateful Dead perform "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" into "Feedback" during their first performance at the Fillmore East, New York, NY June 14th, 1968
Someone once wrote The Grateful Dead were like standing next to a great freight train roaring down the tracks. I saw them in 67 and I agree with that. Thanks for the share. I don't know what my musical life would have been without The Grateful Dead.
How amazing, my first Grateful Dead concert! The photo is correct, Jerry did play this gold P90 Les Paul. It was not the opening night of the Fillmore East, which was 5 months earlier, this was the first appearance of the Dead there. The Seventh Sons, 1st appearance of the new Jeff Beck Group, and the incredible Dead was just a extraordinary night, thank you so much!
From the early Fillmore East, I've had copies of the Who in April '68 and Quicksilver Messenger Service in June for about 40 years, and the Grateful Dead have been my favorite band for that long too. Makes me want to get that time machine out of the shop.
Well shit. If you like early dead this is the bomb. I do have the 69 Fillmore set but earlier is always fun. Love to hear Pig. RIP. We have not forgotten you.
I'll never forget getting the Fillmore 69 box set and finding this on the bonus disc, it was a total surprise. I'd struggled through that old audience tape for years, never imagining any of the performance survived on a soundboard reel.
Another birthday show for you..6/14/69 Dark Star is soaring...could possibly be the show they played nearest to the Big Sur coast (that was recorded). They performed at Monterey Performing Arts Center
Stunning. Peter Rowan said the first time he ever heard Garcia and the dead live and electric, Garcia and the dead scared him because of the power. Now you understand what peter meant. This stuff is astounding. BTW, I think there is a picture of a dude NOT Garcia playing a guitar in the pics about 3/4s of the way through
What a treat hearing Jerry on that Les Paul! He could play anything, Stats, Tele’s, Les Pauls, SGs, Travis Bean, and the many different incantations of the Doug Erwin masterpieces! Thank you for sharing this very special piece of music history!
The 1st time I saw the GD (Feb. 1968) Jerry was playing that very same guitar. My friend & I were sitting on the stage (right next to Pigpen). I can still.see it as plain as Day - Jerry pickin' & grinnin' with his Twin Reverbs blaring away through the thick psychedelic Light Show 20 feet away from us. Unforgettable.
I have never heard this Caution Jam but I can say it’s next level….certainly my new favourite. This one is so”in the pocket”. Totally rolling…must add to my collection. Jake thank you so much for posting!
This masterpiece was heavily influenced by Van Morrison's rock band Them song Mystic Eyes, including the harmonica playing. But the Dead took it to a whole new Mystic level!
Donna Keith and Brent never cave Jerry a sounding board and influence close to pigpen. They were never great after Pig Died. They were damn good many times. But never but they never had the psychedelic primal urgency they have here. Saw Dead in 69. Effed up my head with out acid. go 24 mins jesus!!
These are the sounds we all fell in love with the dead in the beginning. Wild. New. Out there. All of the above. Where did you get this!? Great quality!.
There's 1 hour of music recorded from this show, from a taper, not soundboard though. It's on YT. There are no known recordings of the early show from the same date or from either the early or late shows the following day.
@@InService77how am I supposed to account for the Akashic Record with my finite brain, id have to be taking psychedelics ALL the time. Oh wait I am lol
I watched a documentary on music venues when I was in high school about 20 years ago. It was a low key doc about legendary underground clubs. One was based in California somewhere and there were interviews with Garcia and Lesh. I had never really heard of the dead until then. There were all kinds of bootlegged footage of acid test era shows. The guys looked so young and Pigpen was NAILING it! It was just wild crazy sounds with the audience going absolutely nuts. At one point Phil says in the interview that at some point people were all over the dance floor having sex lol. Shortly after I bought Anthem of the Sun and Live/Dead. I bought a van and spent the whole summer blasting the Dead with friends in the back seats, experimenting with all kinds of substances and learning how to jam like Jerry. I miss those days...
I just came across this video today even though it was posted years ago LOL a brilliant video killer version great picture effect pigpen melting into Bobby and Phil in their Prime!!!
eeegads, this is one glorious, exuberant piece of music. thank you soooo much JP. My first hearing. I messed up my order of the 10 CD box set, so I never got it (only the 3 CD jewel). Sure wish they'd re-release that 10 CD set, w/ bonus disc. this recording is just astounding. 1st show was Aug '68.
That first pic is awesome - was certainly hoping it was going to be film footage. Doing some "needle drops" here, however, makes this sound like perhaps the best 'Caution' I've ever heard.
That Les Paul really highlights the similarities between Jerry and Carlos Santana, and in this early form, the band has that fire that Santana was bringing at the time as well. The Dead and Santana really both were bringing the SF sound to new levels!
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING 💯💯💯 ❤️ Was a little too young for my ol' man to let me go but first show was 1972 Roosevelt Stadium. 3 1/2 hour Eyes of The World, an UA-cam upload, is considered the best Eyes ever. Best solo acoustic guitar I ever heard was Jerry Garcia at The Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ, 1980. Also an YT upload🌹🌹🌹 Bill Kreutzman is AWESOME 🌹‼️🌹
By ‘88 Jerry was definitely coasting. It’s very obvious when you listen to how much more engaged he was in JGB & his other solo projects compared to how he was in the Dead. Hell even his stage presence was different.
Bill “Summers” was an awesome drummer!! lol They had played the venue once before on 12/26/67 but the place was still called Village Theater at the time. In San Francisco, at this time, they were jamming a lot at the Carousel Ballroom. Soon to become the Fillmore West. Those Mickey & The Heartbeats shows started around this time too. That was some interesting jamming. No Bill, Bob, or Pigpen. Awkward, and imbalanced, but still very interesting and fun.
@@SammoFong basquiat? Ha. Great name. Yes the box set- the proverbial Desert island keeper. What a run. The SG was a dagger like Travis. Ty for uploading.
@@SammoFong Wait, what? The purple box that was going for hundreds on eBay after the run had sold out? I HAD that (copied it all and then sold it for hundreds on eBay to pay rent...). How did I miss THIS? [Ah, yes: the "bonus disc" - I BETTER have copied that, too.]
Donna Keith and Brent never cave Jerry a sounding board and influence close to pigpen. They were never great after Pig Died. They were damn good many times. But never but they never had the psychedelic primal urgency they have here. Saw Dead in 69. Effed up my head with out acid. go 24 mins jesus!!
XLNT BEEF TAMALE' SOMEONE HAS GOOD EARS GOOD TASTE AND IS A GOOD DIGGER + A CONNISEUR NOT ANY OLD WHAT HAVE YOU WILL SUIT THIS PERSON WHO BROUGHT TO OUR MEMORY! THANX CHIEF! OR CHIEFTRESS! EQUALLY!
Someone once wrote The Grateful Dead were like standing next to a great freight train roaring down the tracks. I saw them in 67 and I agree with that. Thanks for the share. I don't know what my musical life would have been without The Grateful Dead.
Captain Trips knows TONE - love the pre 1970 set ups
How amazing, my first Grateful Dead concert! The photo is correct, Jerry did play this gold P90 Les Paul. It was not the opening night of the Fillmore East, which was 5 months earlier, this was the first appearance of the Dead there. The Seventh Sons, 1st appearance of the new Jeff Beck Group, and the incredible Dead was just a extraordinary night, thank you so much!
Thanks for your insight
Good memories dude. Thanks😊🎈
Great rare insight of what had to be a magic night
Thanks Rachel! I corrected the title:)
I really love Jerry’s early psychedelic era playing like here the best. So strong.
Like they say if you didn’t catch the dead in 68 you missed them🟤
This might be some of the best dead I've ever heard gonna be honest
Right On man!
Might be some of the best Dead there is
I agree. After listening to 10/12/68 on Archive.org I decided that the Dead peaked in '68!!!
@@daskitten1 10/12/68?
@@jakepadorr421 Yes, you're right 10/12 not 10/2. I'll edit that...thx
When pig came in with the harmonica around 15 mins I literally felt my body go into space
Early Psychedelic Blues. The Dead in their first(and possibly best) incarnation.
All but the last incarnation were so very, very good.
I dont know if its the best but with Pig it was my favorite for sure, space jams and white boy blues second to none.
Primal Dead
For me my favorite line up was Billy's 2nd time being the only drummer. So late '69(?) Mid to late '74(?) Lol I have trouble remembering stuff 🤪
Damn another one lol. I just replied to another Jack Straw in here n said "I c we r really original with our user names!" Lol 🤣🤪✌
From the early Fillmore East, I've had copies of the Who in April '68 and Quicksilver Messenger Service in June for about 40 years, and the Grateful Dead have been my favorite band for that long too. Makes me want to get that time machine out of the shop.
Well shit. If you like early dead this is the bomb. I do have the 69 Fillmore set but earlier is always fun. Love to hear Pig. RIP. We have not forgotten you.
I c me n u r really original with our user names lol 🤣✌
@@bluecollar825 nah he copied u bro. u should sue
This is so good it's deranged. Mm, mm, early Dead. They took a flying leap forward after the first album.
This song was actually before the first album, i believe this and a couple others were recorded by Tom Donahue but nothing came of them.
Light
Damn when they start sliding around 18:10 thats the good shit
I'll never forget getting the Fillmore 69 box set and finding this on the bonus disc, it was a total surprise. I'd struggled through that old audience tape for years, never imagining any of the performance survived on a soundboard reel.
YEAH Primal Dead, Les Paul Jerry, Pig loud in the mix. GIVE ME MORE - Also, I was born on 6/14 so me and this show are soulmates
Another birthday show for you..6/14/69 Dark Star is soaring...could possibly be the show they played nearest to the Big Sur coast (that was recorded). They performed at Monterey Performing Arts Center
Stunning. Peter Rowan said the first time he ever heard Garcia and the dead live and electric, Garcia and the dead scared him because of the power. Now you understand what peter meant. This stuff is astounding. BTW, I think there is a picture of a dude NOT Garcia playing a guitar in the pics about 3/4s of the way through
That’s Mickey
What a treat hearing Jerry on that Les Paul! He could play anything, Stats, Tele’s, Les Pauls, SGs, Travis Bean, and the many different incantations of the Doug Erwin masterpieces! Thank you for sharing this very special piece of music history!
...and no matter what guitar Garcia played, you could always tell he was the one playing it.
And, from hearing THIS, he should have played it a lot more often. (Maybe he borrowed it from Jeff Beck?)
The 1st time I saw the GD (Feb. 1968) Jerry was playing that very same guitar. My friend & I were sitting on the stage (right next to Pigpen). I can still.see it as plain as Day - Jerry pickin' & grinnin' with his Twin Reverbs blaring away through the thick psychedelic Light Show 20 feet away from us. Unforgettable.
@orangeclawhammer777 Jerry played a Telecaster on some of the shows during the Festival train tour through Canada.
@orangeclawhammer777 he played a brown Telecaster during the Festival train tour through Canada.
I have never heard this Caution Jam but I can say it’s next level….certainly my new favourite. This one is so”in the pocket”. Totally rolling…must add to my collection. Jake thank you so much for posting!
I love the hall reverb on this...surfy psychedelic Dead. I love this era. THank you for posting!
This masterpiece was heavily influenced by Van Morrison's rock band Them song Mystic Eyes, including the harmonica playing. But the Dead took it to a whole new Mystic level!
Very interesting observation.
If you didn’t see the dead in 68, you missed them
Donna Keith and Brent never cave Jerry a sounding board and influence close to pigpen. They were never great after Pig Died. They were damn good many times. But never but they never had the psychedelic primal urgency they have here. Saw Dead in 69. Effed up my head with out acid. go 24 mins jesus!!
This is unreal.
These are the sounds we all fell in love with the dead in the beginning. Wild. New. Out there. All of the above. Where did you get this!? Great quality!.
Turns out this is all that’s left of the soundboard….damn it’s a gem
Seems plausible.... if you don't account for the Akashic Record
There's 1 hour of music recorded from this show, from a taper, not soundboard though. It's on YT. There are no known recordings of the early show from the same date or from either the early or late shows the following day.
Smoking crater of a soundboard
@@InService77how am I supposed to account for the Akashic Record with my finite brain, id have to be taking psychedelics ALL the time. Oh wait I am lol
I watched a documentary on music venues when I was in high school about 20 years ago. It was a low key doc about legendary underground clubs. One was based in California somewhere and there were interviews with Garcia and Lesh. I had never really heard of the dead until then. There were all kinds of bootlegged footage of acid test era shows. The guys looked so young and Pigpen was NAILING it! It was just wild crazy sounds with the audience going absolutely nuts. At one point Phil says in the interview that at some point people were all over the dance floor having sex lol. Shortly after I bought Anthem of the Sun and Live/Dead. I bought a van and spent the whole summer blasting the Dead with friends in the back seats, experimenting with all kinds of substances and learning how to jam like Jerry. I miss those days...
This is absolutely fantastic!
I just came across this video today even though it was posted years ago LOL a brilliant video killer version great picture effect pigpen melting into Bobby and Phil in their Prime!!!
Wow!!!!
eeegads, this is one glorious, exuberant piece of music. thank you soooo much JP. My first hearing. I messed up my order of the 10 CD box set, so I never got it (only the 3 CD jewel). Sure wish they'd re-release that 10 CD set, w/ bonus disc. this recording is just astounding. 1st show was Aug '68.
That first pic is awesome - was certainly hoping it was going to be film footage. Doing some "needle drops" here, however, makes this sound like perhaps the best 'Caution' I've ever heard.
holy shit, this is excellent!
I love Grateful Dead 68. This is a wonderful post thanks for this
Audio heaven😊🎈🎉
This is stunning, all the great comments & background stories on the recording specs really help make this listening experience a fun time.
Krunchy like Utz potato 🥔 chips! ❄️🌍❄️
Great sound quality - top notch
That Les Paul really highlights the similarities between Jerry and Carlos Santana, and in this early form, the band has that fire that Santana was bringing at the time as well. The Dead and Santana really both were bringing the SF sound to new levels!
The background photos are fantastic!
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING 💯💯💯 ❤️
Was a little too young for my ol' man to let me go but first show was 1972 Roosevelt Stadium. 3 1/2 hour Eyes of The World, an UA-cam upload, is considered the best Eyes ever. Best solo acoustic guitar I ever heard was Jerry Garcia at The Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ, 1980. Also an YT upload🌹🌹🌹
Bill Kreutzman is AWESOME 🌹‼️🌹
Early psychedelic rock. It sounds so fresh, and it was. It was completely revolutionary at that time.
GRATEFUL DEAD GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO i MIŁOŚĆ ☮️ POKÓJ MUZYKA tak
Cieszę się. Tak niewielu nas jest.
Absolutely fantastic 🙏❤️
f yea hot show.
Hey baby you shook my bones all night long
I Love
Wow.. I've been taken to Space...lol..again...hehe
Hearing pig doing a nod to jack bruce who was doing train time gonna look up the cream fillmore west gig.
Can't go wrong with a little Bill Summers!
crazy. interstellar sound.
Oh what a start!!!!
I went downnnnn
This is some badass shit here!
i love it, thanks for posting...
Great show and stories!!!!
Incredible guitar sound
Right on Rachel one love
Better than 1978 , and much better than 1988 . At some point , they were just coasting on the legend . Yet that legend is still strong .
By ‘88 Jerry was definitely coasting. It’s very obvious when you listen to how much more engaged he was in JGB & his other solo projects compared to how he was in the Dead. Hell even his stage presence was different.
Hey come on they didn't play Caution either of those years. Unless that's what you meant lol
When pig went so did caution sad sad sad@@newusernamehere4772
And when we first walked in feedback
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That's some top notch chooglin.
Bill “Summers” was an awesome drummer!! lol They had played the venue once before on 12/26/67 but the place was still called Village Theater at the time.
In San Francisco, at this time, they were jamming a lot at the Carousel Ballroom. Soon to become the Fillmore West. Those Mickey & The Heartbeats shows started around this time too. That was some interesting jamming. No Bill, Bob, or Pigpen. Awkward, and imbalanced, but still very interesting and fun.
Any more photos like these?
Bill Summers?
What is the source of this?
Extra track on the Fillmore West 1969 Complete Recordings
@@SammoFong Thanks, I found it shortly after I posted that!
@@SammoFong basquiat? Ha. Great name. Yes the box set- the proverbial Desert island keeper. What a run. The SG was a dagger like Travis. Ty for uploading.
@@SammoFong Wait, what? The purple box that was going for hundreds on eBay after the run had sold out? I HAD that (copied it all and then sold it for hundreds on eBay to pay rent...). How did I miss THIS? [Ah, yes: the "bonus disc" - I BETTER have copied that, too.]
❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
Pig Pen Flowing
Donna Keith and Brent never cave Jerry a sounding board and influence close to pigpen. They were never great after Pig Died. They were damn good many times. But never but they never had the psychedelic primal urgency they have here. Saw Dead in 69. Effed up my head with out acid. go 24 mins jesus!!
Wow another pig pen dead I never heard.
XLNT BEEF TAMALE' SOMEONE HAS GOOD EARS GOOD TASTE AND IS A GOOD DIGGER + A CONNISEUR NOT ANY OLD WHAT HAVE YOU WILL SUIT THIS PERSON WHO BROUGHT TO OUR MEMORY! THANX CHIEF! OR CHIEFTRESS! EQUALLY!
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