Fillmore West 1969

Infobox Album
Name = Fillmore West 1969
Type = Live album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = November 2005
Recorded = Fillmore West, February 27 - March 2 1969
Genre = Psychedelic rock, jam
Length = 203:01
Label = Rhino
Producer = David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gjfexqesldae link]
Last album = "Dick's Picks Volume 36"
This album = "Fillmore West 1969"
Next album = "The Complete Fillmore West 1969

"Fillmore West 1969" is a three-CD album composed of selections from four concerts by the Grateful Dead. 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 in November 1969). In addition to the three-disc set, the entire run of four nights was released as "The Complete Fillmore West 1969", a 10 compact disc set that was limited to 10,000 copies.

"Fillmore West 1969" includes 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

#"Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) - 11:05
#"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 11:00
#"Doin' That Rag" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) - 6:55
#"I'm a King Bee" (Slim Harpo arranged by Grateful Dead) - 7:31
#"Cosmic Charlie" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:05
#"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) - 19:10

Disc Two

#"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:48
#"Mountains of the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:51
#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan, Bob Weir) - 19:43
#"St. Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 7:51
#*"William Tell Bridge" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) - 15:13
#"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) - 10:00

Disc Three

#"Thats It for the Other One" - 23:30
#*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
#*"The Other One" (Kreutzman, Bob Weir)
#*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
#"Alligator" (Hunter, McKernan, Lesh) - 4:00
#"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) - 6:52
#"Jam" (Grateful Dead) - 25:31
#"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) - 9:13
#"Feedback" (Grateful Dead) - 7:54
#"We Bid You Goodnight" (Trad, Arranged by Grateful Dead) - 2:01

Recording dates

*Disc 1 track 5 recorded February 27, 1969
*Disc 1 tracks 1-4 and 6, disc 2 tracks 3-6 recorded February 28, 1969
*Disc 2 tracks 1-2 recorded March 1, 1969
*Disc 3 recorded March 2, 1969

Personnel

Grateful Dead

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

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