The Complete Fillmore West 1969

Infobox Album
Name = Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
Type = Live album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = November 2005
Recorded = Fillmore West, February 27 - March 2 1969
Genre = Psychedelic rock, folk rock, jam
Length =
Label = Rhino
Producer = David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k9frxqedldde link]
Last album = "Fillmore West 1969"
(2005)
This album = "The Complete Fillmore West 1969"
(2005)
Next album = "Live at the Cow Palace"
(2005)

"Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings" is a limited edition box set (10,000 copies), released in November 2005, featuring four complete concerts by the Grateful Dead on 10 CDs. These concerts, performed on four consecutive nights from February 27 through March 2, 1969, were the basis for "Live/Dead" (rock's first 16 track live album).

Released separately was "Fillmore West 1969", a three-disc distillation that included highlights of the four nights that did not appear on "Live/Dead" (with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on "Live/Dead").

Track listing

Disc one

#"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson)
#"Doin' That Rag" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia)
#"That's It for the Other One" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzman, Bob Weir)

Disc two

#"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Mountains of the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Pigpen, Weir)
#"St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge)" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh)
#"Turn on Your Love Light" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone)
#"Cosmic Charley" (Hunter, Garcia)

Disc three

#"Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)
#"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Williamson)
#"Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"I'm a King Bee" (Slim Harpo)
#"Turn on Your Love Light" (Scott, Malone)

Disc four

#"That's It for the Other One" (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir)
#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir)
#"St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge)" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh)
#"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis)

Disc five

#"Alligator" (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh)
#"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzman)
#"Jam" (Grateful Dead)
#"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead)
#"Feedback" (Grateful Dead)
#"We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead)

Disc six

#"That's It for the Other One" (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir)
#"New Potato Caboose" (Bobby Petersen, Lesh)
#"Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Cosmic Charlie" (Hunter, Garcia)

Disc seven

#"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Mountains of the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir)
#"St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge)" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh)
#"Turn on Your Love Light" (Scott, Malone)
#"Hey Jude" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

Disc eight

#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir)
#"St. Stephen (including William Tell Bridge)" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh)
#"Turn on Your Love Light" (Scott, Malone)

Disc nine

#"Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"That's It for the Other One" (Garcia, Kreutzman, Weir)
#"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis)
#"Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose)

Disc ten

#"Alligator" (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh)
#"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzman)
#"Jam" (Grateful Dead)
#"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead)
#"Feedback" (Grateful Dead)
#"We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead)

Bonus disc

All songs recorded live at the Carousel Ballroom/Fillmore West in San Francisco

#"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead)
#"He Was a Friend of Mine" (Traditional)
#"China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
#"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Peterson)
#"China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
#"I Know You Rider" (Traditional)
#"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter)

Recording dates

*Discs 1-2 recorded on February 27, 1969
*Discs 3-5 recorded on February 28, 1969
*Discs 6-7 recorded on March 1, 1969
*Discs 8-10 recorded on March 2, 1969

Personnel

Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
* Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
* Tom Constanten - keyboards
* Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals, harmonica, percussion
* Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
* Bill Kreutzmann - drums
* Mickey Hart - drums

Production

*Producers - David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
*Executive producer - Cameron Sears
*Recording engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
*Mixing & mastering - Jeffrey Norman
*Archival research - Eileen Law
*Photography - Rosie McGee, Herbie Greene, Michael Merritt, Baron Wolman, Peter Simon, Amalie R. Rothschild, Susanne C Skidd, Sylvia Clarke Hamilton
*Cover lettering - Richard Biffle
*Art coordination - Brian Connors
*Package design - Robert Minkin
*Booklet essay - Dennis McNally

References

* [http://www.musicbox-online.com/gd-fil.html Musicbox-Online Review] - Published in The Music Box, Vol. 12, #12
* [http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2005_07_09.03.phtml Gatta, John Patrick. "Truckin' Up To Buffalo (Part One of An Interview with Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux)"] - Jambands.com, July 9, 2005