Grateful Dead - 10/12/68 - Soundboard - Complete show
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2018
- *This video is part of an ongoing effort to catalog my favorite shows in the highest sound quality possible (ie, no cassette generations, no mp3 compression). To the best of my knowledge, each recording is the clearest available version. Some recordings may be "Matrix" (a mix of soundboard and audience taping). Files have also been combined so that transitions between songs are seamless.*
Original artwork: unknown
Grateful Dead
October 12, 1968
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA
Recording Info:
SBD ... Master Reel ... Dat (48k)
All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
August 12, 2011
Notes:
-- Pigpen was absent
-- First notes of 2nd Set missing
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction
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-Set 1-
Introduction
Dark Star ...
Saint Stephen ...
The Eleven ...
Death Don't Have No Mercy
-Set 2-
That's It For The Other One ...
New Potato Caboose ...
Drums ...
Jam ...
Feedback
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How about a round of fuckin applause for Charlie Miller; the man who is responsible for the majority of soundboard recordings of the dead. None of us would be here listening to this without him because it wouldn’t exist
fucking aye!!!! When I was downloading shows from E-Tree his was the gold standard I sought.
Ahhh Charlie and Betty are my heroes 🙏⚡🌹
Fuck Dude!
Charlie is indeed THE Man!!!!!!!
They WOULD exist, just in some dusty closet that most people would have forgotten about.
"A elementary dance number; it's a foxtrot and also a ladies choice" -- Bob Weir age 21 describing Dark Star.
That's too f'n cool
I would guess this was when you needed "dance permits" to have events with dancing. Several dead shows were billed as dance lessons or probably needed some disclaimers like this so that the permit was valid.
I'm so glad that those sound engineers decided that recording these shows was worthwhile. Forever in their debt
Especially in the later years when Dan Healy gave all the tapers a direct line from the board. Generosity beyond belief!
Owsley?
and here more specific to the year in question:
deadessays.blogspot.com/search?q=Owsley
Thank You 1ce Again Owsley!
Yeah, thanks for everything, Bear. 😊✌
Who woulda believed what would come From these early tapes. I am 71, and got on the bus very early.Long live our fellow deadheads.
I'm 61 and truly appreciate this year. My God Jerry was taping into the life force and painting masterpieces with his guitar.
'late '67 and '68 were the years when my seat on the bus was firmly cemented. I'm also 71 and my weekend nights while in high school in the East Bay were highlighted by lying to my parents about where I was going, dropping acid, and driving VERY carefully into the City to go to either the Fillmore, the Carousel (and then Fillmore West), and the Avalon.
Agreed! I graduated from high school in ‘72….. saw the band all through the ‘70’s…. Great times, great music! ☮️
@@junglechef1951 i wish i had venues like that near me... where you just KNOW something cool is gonna be happening on any given night.
@@lpndeadhead1961what is this life force you speak of? Are you referring to the so-called “cosmic consciousness” new age theory?
SET 1
00:37 Dark Star →
15:39 Saint Stephen →
20:31 The Eleven →
30:30 Death Don't Have No Mercy
SET 2
39:03 // Cryptical Envelopment →
40:34 Drums →
40:48 The Other One →
48:11 Cryptical Envelopment →
57:00 New Potato Caboose →
1:03:50 Drums →
1:05:26 Jam →
1:12:50 Feedback //
May the thumbs down get lost for ever in the transitive nightfall of diamonds.
Awesome, thank you 🤸🤸🤸🤸
I once spent about 30 mins thinking I was going to be lost there forever. Scary time. All I could think was "my mom is going to be so pissed". I came to peace with it though. And everything has been gravy since.
Love you ♥️⭕❌⭕❌
"Who, I say WHO, is gonna give a 'thumbs down' heah? I'm tellin' ya son, some, I say some, birds like to take wing & never come down" Foghorn
"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones who do what they do"...and, boy, did they do it that night!
gratefuldingus that’s my favorite Bill Graham quote. Forever Grateful
I could easily spend an entire day listening to this show non-stop.
This is the most fantastic, brilliant recording of music that I had not been aware of in the past and I have heard in at least the past 10 years. Discovered this a few weeks ago. It's jaw-dropping superb stuff. I'm just astonished by how good it is. Peak psychedelia.
Crashing, ascending, cascading, levitating, devastating power.
Listened to this on acid during quarantine. Smiling ear to ear laying on top of a small hill. Felt like I got sunstroke being outside for so long. It was absolutely worth it
This warms my heart. Thanks for sharing.
I Bet That Was Awsome😎
This Is Creg🛸👽
Sunstroke ;) I think that captures the energy of this One
Well the Grateful Dead almost changed their name to the sunstroke serenaders so......
@@djmgx I guess Grateful Dead is a good compromise between "The Warlocks" & "The Sunstroke Serenaders"
This was my first Dead show.
It was at the Avalon.
This was like my 50th grateful dead show.
You are Blessed.
I read all the comments and felt none did justice to how great this show was; only when I went to write my own did I realize the impossibility of putting into words the music and energy. WoS -- you are a light.
Wow. That was well said, yeah.
your words resonated with exactly how I felt about this unique show ✌👽✌
Yup
Im no expert, but I know a bad ass performance when I hear one. This my friends and constituates is a bad ass performance! I have been listening to all this wonderful live dead music during Covid/Corona/Novel/19/2020/# whatever TF! I thank goodness for the joy and happiness it brings 🙏 There is nothing like the Good 'ol Grateful Dead. Stay strong brothers and sisters. And most of all, be kind to each other.
"This my friends constitutes a bad ass performance!"................My friend I am high, but you were higher!!!!!!
Con vid
Stay strong as well brother
Beautiful message.
This is one of HIS GREATEST With TEARS streaming down my face listening to this WE MISS YOU JEROME-GARCIA!!! Thank you for this GRATE SHOWE IT sounds FUCKING GRATFUL AND? AWSOME!!!! We LOVE SOUND-BOARD!!!What A SHOWE!!!!This LITTLE-ST-STEPHEN WAS? ONLY TWO-FUCKING-YEARS OLD. When this GEM Was Recorded WE LOVE YOU!!!!! Keep UP THIS? AWSOME WORK Please And THANK YOU!!!!👽👽👽🐢🐢🐢🎸🎸🎸🌹🌹🌹And RUN FOR THE🌹🌹🌹🌹
What he said.
X2
My phone battery is on 5 % and listing to this puts my human energy to work...
Have a nice day.
What a public service! All those involved with music back then and had the forethought to want to share that or keep that memory alive by way of a recording. In doing so you have brought many smiles to the human race. I can't imagine being a 12 or 13 kid now and discovering this huge bounty of tunes all at once. Where would you even begin? I am still finding things that hit the spot when I was a kid and I love it. This is just more magic found on the road of life. Thank you!
Great comment. Stay Grateful. 💀🐢⚡🐻
Very well said my brother. It is such a joy to listen to these jems. Just finished out the years crop and feeling just fine!!
Things are just
Smoke-in!
@@eugeneaxe Be careful with that ax, Eugene! haha
@@josephsilin6041 Definitely a freaky song to listen to while in the dark
You begin at the end of course
Awsome sound! In 68' this is about as good as it gets for sound quality anywhere even in the studio.
It really is quite remarkable.
Bear & crew knew what they were doing!!! From the mic-ing to mixing to stereo on the fly!!! What a massive legacy.
OMG those drums during the Eleven. Bewitching, enchanting, hypnotic, trance-inducing...
Yes!
Yup 😁
11/8 time signature- hence the name. Go in peace DHs.
Like thay said if you didn’t catch the Dead in 68 you missed them so true 68 was when they were at there BEST PIG PEN AN JERRY R.I.P💀🌹
Early Dead at their finest. You can't ask for better than this.
I really get the audio recording pit now. These are the archival gems that really let us progress with the band and watch adaptations grow and become legends. Not classics because they recieved no mainstream radio charting airplay until Touch of Grey. The musical and notation growth is so expansive. They are so important beyond the cult status and us the family. They are what the Smithsonian was built for. There should be an American Music Heritage wing and permanent collection in every American museum.
Just discussing this concept with my Mate here ⚡🌹⚡
I love '68 Dead!
Amen, Amen, A-MEN Brutha !!!
I love ...fill in the blank ... Dead!
Absolute classic show, also one of the better pre-1970 soundboard tapes you will ever hear...
Awesome!!!! A 1968 soundboard!! In a little bit of shock here. Been listening to the Dead for decades and I never heard anything of such quality from so long ago. Damn, I was nine when this was recorded. A year after my first trip on LSD. Never dose anybody. Please never give drugs to children.
Great DDHNM. The vocals are sweet. Peace.
Pig Pen. RIP. Jerry RIP.
DEAD RIP.
+Stefan, If what you say is true and your parents dosed you when you were 8, they have a place in prison for people who do that to kids, and if that place ain't solitary, they won't see their next birthday.
I thought one doesn't find it, it finds you?
RIP Brent
@@davidjutovsky523 Yep! I echo that sentiment.
Soon after Brent died I knew who would be next. I knew it was time to get off the bus. I had about eight years to get ready for Jerry leaving us. My first show was '79, my last show in '88. Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile. There's nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
Pig*
Keith*
Brent*
Jerry*
*Fare thee well.
@@squidmixer I never said, nor insinuated, anything about my parents. ( My dad was an MP for twenty two years!) Why do you think that? I'm not sure who dosed me. But I have a pretty good idea it was one of the two college age women in an apt. complex I was trick or treating at in Odenton, Maryland. It occured to me in later years that their apartment "could" have been used as a honey trap. Odenton is less than two miles from the NSA on Ft. Meade. Anyway it's all in my autobiography which I hope to have published this year in 2021. Being dosed at eight years of age is just one of many, many, odd experiences in my life. I am approaching the government now for the reward money for finding OBL. Watching the movie Men who stare at Goats was surreal. Wish me luck.
Ripple.
Some of the best sound ever recorded
Indeed
This is about the 4th time this month I've listened to this. Ladies and Gentlemen
The Grateful Dead 😎
Wow the sound is excellent - best rendition of the harmonies I've heard, and every member is on fire in Dark Star and the Eleven.
Man.... what I can do with this show and my mind. Talk about mind left body......its a window or perhaps even a door/bus to the great beyond!!!.......shall we go you and I while we can
I’m like still there after all these years ❤️🌎🎸
Love this era
I keep rewinding the first ten minutes.
This is much better than the 10th gen Maxell XLii collecting dust in my basement.
omg
I just cant part with my old cassette and video tape collection. It was too much of a labor of love in creating it to part with it. I have a copy of the Branford 91 MSG show that far surpasses the quality of what's currently available on UA-cam. It curruntly rests in a box full of other dust-collecting remnants of the best times of my life.
Thanks for another epic set of crisp, clear music from The boys....gorgeous.The New Potato Caboose is golden
Grateful for the Music...
Just Outstanding.
~~~~💀🌹💀🌹~~~~
Couldn’t agree more Dave! Hey now how are you out there it’s been a while...
@@whisperinghallelujahhatrac6181 Hey brother, yes we're live and kicking. Trying to maintain in this crazy world, Hope you and all yours are safe and sound as well.
@@davenicholas644 Hey Dave, that’s awesome, I’m really glad to hear it!
Excellent capture of the elemental Grateful Dead sound. As spectacular as some of the D&Co work is, this is the real deal roots. Its great to hear this one again so cleanly offered. Thank you.
please don't compare the two.
I came across this show some time ago just wandering around in the Archive and it immediately became my favorite. Sublime.
50 years ago today...WALSTIB indeed! thank you so much for this, WoS!
Hot show, possibly my favorite take of The Eleven
Yes And👽 Mine Too💯😎💀🔥🛸👽🍄🍄
wow ,great show,mouth watering set list.I really love this era of the Dead 68-70, great stuff.
I love that speed on St Stephen
What quality for a '68 show!!
Thank you family!
I listened to this about a year ago ... and it took my a little bit to find this again. This is such a great recording from '68. I have really been getting into their '68/'69 stuff. There are some pretty great shows out there right now ...💀
Yep. Someone posted the following day's show as well. Another smoker!
WOS ... Could you please email the Dorothy with Stealie eyes ... that is sooo cool ...jgwilliams@hys-erie.org ... thanks in advance from Erie, PA!
@@jimwilliams4215 Done!
Wow !!! I haven't listened to the early years in a while . This is amazing !!
Great show as always, it reminds me of 2 from the vault. Oh and great art work. Creepy ass Dorothy! Thanks.
Illuminati
during Dark Star, I became hypnotized.
Then during Saint Stephen, I remembered that I can re-hypnotize myself but the clear underground stream version.
This is new technology.
I am happy to report that the lights are on inside the earth.
It's not at all what we were told by the boomers.
So glad you posted this, keeping us sane in the craziness this spring
Wow. Just wow. Every note can be felt while under the influence of LSD. Truly timeless masterpiece right here.
My favorite dark star jam. Wow thanks for the post
This is the Grateful Dead. Some nice stuff in '72, '75', '77 and '85, but this is blueprint for the Grateful Dead. Small room, Gibson guitars and cranked Fender Amps........
great sound! love these early shows. thank you keep em coming
The intro to St Stephen (and some of the rest) sounds like Airplane (sans Grace) and the Dead together. This is gorgeous.
Miles O'Neal Good ears 🍭. Thanks for that ,I hear it too, this is the stuff! Peace to you Miles!
And to you, Steve!
Thankyou I hear Airplane tones too that's so awesome and I wasn't sure if the artwork was Dorothy (my first thought) or like the Sunmaid raisin chick
@@tomkeaveney4990 yes, it is Dorothy, we are not in Kansas any more! this is a very different Saint Stephen, especially in its coda, than what was recorded later.
my 1st show was Aug 4,1968. Unforgettable. Thanks soooo much for this recording. Unbelievable by the band, and unbelievable that we can still enjoy it. If you ever get a 8/4/68 audio, please post. :) No problem with the maracas. That was so much a part of this time.
ua-cam.com/video/OJcMUMh5IA8/v-deo.html
cleanliness is next to godliness, and this show is so immaculately smooth that it leads me to strongly suspect, in more ways than several, that this is indeed a bear board.... one of the very best extant documents of the tripped-out dance hall era in san francisco, circa the year of the earth monkey 1968. never heard this show before, it receives my coveted and rare 9 star*********rating for superlative live performance, and the extraordinary recording also receives a 9 star********* rating . featuring the inimitable bear-man. the g.o.g.d. in their primeval incarnation!!!!this is practically why i can't listen to anything after 1978. i.e. the tunes are played with a certain elan vital which after all, is the proper delivery.........thanks guys, especially charlie miller, and bear, rip...play this on a good analog stereo for yr ancestors, and yr neighbors....
Cleanliness is godliness? dang I guess all those deadheads and traveling folk are devils then
@@drakonidesthevigilant5155 haha... i was referring to a purity which has nothing to do with taking a shower, altho that would be a good thing also
Interesting read Mate, TY ⚡
🙏👍
Love the early GD--thanx for the crispy recording, sounds awesome!
The whole band is on fire, SUPERB for 1968. Amazing really beyond words.. Jerry G. be the hands of God
Sound quality is amazing. Thanks for uploading!
thanks! this one of my fave '68 shows :)
What astoundingly beautiful performance and sound fidelity!!! Thank you for putting it up!!!🌈🎼🎶👂
Grear quality...I was only 3 when this originally came out...the tapes are in better shape than I'm in...
same here, born in 65 same year as the Dead
The sound is outstanding!
Thanks for putting in the work for others to enjoy wonderful music.
Yes, indeed. Muchas, MUCHAS gracias ...
Thanks for the great show. This was right at the time I started going to the Fillmore and the Avalon almost every weekend.The version of Caution is ethereal and The Eleven is a monster. Just like I remembered it...
Controlled chaos. Love it
This is really great. Thanks very much.
Never saw them do Dark Star live, listening to this atones for that gaping hole in my sole. Thank you!!!
Thanks for providing this, it's a great recording.
A musical snap shot of another place and time.
While listening I feel myself being transported to this room, this night. FREAKING Amazing 🙏
Man, this is really great! Thanks for posting this!!
The boys are flowing! They're one with the universe...
Thank You for the share.
cant believe this was not an official release!
agreed. so many lat 60’s shows wsre simy epic
The Eleven!.....Heaven
Thank you, just Thanks so much W.O.S. !
I've been listening to this show for a couple years, and I just realized, The Eleven is #1/100.
I had a cassette of this show in the 70's. I wore it out. I found it years later on the internet. It's one of my favorite Dead shows. Thanks!
Thank you David Sorochty for all of your good work.
That was one of he few times I really like the feedback, I really did.
Excellent, thank you so very much for sharing this.🥑
Thank you kindly
Amazing.
sir or maam you are a true top shelf connoisseur of the tastiest shows that dance between my ears!
I used to listen to this all the time when I was a teenager. Blisteringly good show!
Thanks very much.
Frenetic! Thank You!
There is a tape of this show out there where an announcer says in a deep welcoming voice right after bobby's banter and right before the beginning of Dark Star, he says "Welcome to San Fransisco". It was such a cool thing to hear. I am guessing that bit of voice was recorded much later on from a GD radio show but at the time I thought it was live. This is a fantastic show and is hands down one of my all-time favorites. When I first came across this show 25 years ago it was mislabeled as 10-13-68 and I just found out recently it really is 10-12-68. This is a fantastic show.
10/13/68 is already on UA-cam in pretty amazing quality, so I haven't bothered posting it: ua-cam.com/video/E7WvJVdFdPw/v-deo.html
10/13/1968
0:00 Dark Star
13:32 St Stephen
18:26 The Eleven
31:38 Death Don't Have No Mercy
40:58 That's It for the Other One
59:22 New Potato Caboose
1:09:07 Feedback
My copy on cassette was also mislabeled as 10/13/1968. This recording is more complete though as well.
@@TheRealForrestGeorge Thank you!
@@WallofSound65 What about 10/20/68? I see bits and pieces on YT but no complete show, if you’ve got access that would be great! Thanks for all you do, it’s truly appreciated by so many of us trying to plug into the pure psychedelic madness of these shows.
This is the Dead in their prime - just can't get any better!!!
SO CLEAR!!!!!!!
Wow, 55 years ago today-primal Ur Grateful Dead. Holy Mother of God, that Eleven is just transcendental! Mountain Tiger-Sky Mind The Other One. The absolute it, beyond, beyond, right here. We're so lucky to have this recording.
Thank you great mystery for the grateful god Damn dead
Another absolutely amazing show from Wall Of Sound. Saint Stephen..The Eleven...OMFG
Wall of Sound wasn't until 1973???
@@traviselswick4652 Channel title.
This is beautiful
This is goddamn beautiful
..one man gathers what another spills
bobby: funniest thing I ever heard
when we learned, much later, that Bob Weir was adopted under a "gag order" while his adoptive parents were alive, and that it was much later that he found his biological parents... the lyrics take on another layer of meaning. "wrap the babe in scarlet colors/ call it your own!" Weir didn't write it, but he sang it and he lived it. and the other Robert Hunter,m who DID write the lyrics also lived with a name on his original birth certificate that was not his life-name ... he lost his father later, to divorce and abandonment and was adopted by his stepfather, RIP, Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia (who also lost a father in childhood - in a boating accident.)
@@judithgips2959 I knew about Bobby being adopted, but I didn't know that about Robert. RIP to everyone- Ron, Keith, Brent, Vince, Jerry, Robert :(
Thanks for this transitive nightfall of diamonds
Ahh, this is the show where Pig wasn't present for some reason. He came back by 10/20 and that show is equally amazing, and recorded as well as this one. The two make perfect bookends.
Pigpen wasn't playing because he and Weir had just been fired by the band
a few days earlier. Bob continued to practive and gig with the band, ( As
Jerry Garcia put it, ' they were definately fired, but they just didn''t go away....'
Pigpen came back and performed with the band about a week after this
show, and the band was back together - A bad patch for everyone, but it made
the band stronger in the long run.
RIP Pigpen, Keith, Brent, Jerry, and Vince. You are all missed.
ZOINKS! This performance is fkn bonkers! wag! wag! wag! woof! And that stealie graphic is XLNT! Wag! woof woof woof!
Incredible sound quality.
Whoah, this is really good
The stereo Tom-foolery percussion on Darkstar is great.
tom-foolery ...haha. so apt. :-)
Yesss fantastic
I had to keep listening. I was thinking someone was scratching some vinyl over it....gave me ideas.