BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Avalon Ballroom CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 08/28/68 SET1 [43:41 +] Dark Star (1) [#10:38] > Saint Stephen [3:30] > The Eleven [10:35] > Death Don't Have No Mercy [6:20] ; [0:25] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [11:55] ; [0:08] SET2 [39:03 +] (2) [0:08] ; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [15:36] ; Cryptical Envelopment [1:57] > Drums [0:13] > The Other One [10:55] > Cryptical Envelopment [10:08#] SET3
ENCORE COMMENTS (1) The first two bars of Dark Star are clipped. In the first verse, Jerry sings: "Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis." And then, instead of "Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion" he sings: "Glass hand dissolving... recedes in the nights of goodbye". He realizes he's out in no man's land as he sort of trails off a bit while singing "goodbye". The next verse is: "Shall we go, you and I while we can, Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?" He sings "transitive NIGHT fall of diamonds" as if expecting Phil to hit the high harmonies, but realizing as soon as he sings "night" that no one's coming to the rescue. (2) The fragment of Bill Graham's intro on Side B of the tape preceding Schoolgirl runs: "...this whole thing, it's like 900 years old by now, the grateful Grateful Dead." The best, oldest copies of this recording have Bill Graham's intro before Schoolgirl at the beginning of Side B, and there is no splice between the intro & the tune. This insures that at least Side B (if not the entire tape) isn't from 8/28/68 at the Avalon at all! They did play at the Avalon on 8/28/68, but the venue for this recording would have to be the Fillmore West. The most likely correct dates for this recording are Fillmore West shows such 8/20, 8/30, 8/31, 9/1, and 11/7,8,9,10/68. DeadBase used to erroneously list the Schoolgirl as the encore, since many cassette tapes do have it at the end of Side B. They have just dropped it from the listing entirely in recent editions. This Schoolgirl is one of several Schoolgirls also circulating mislabeled "Fillmore Aud 2/12/67." There is too much hiss and the levels are too low to tell what is being said after "one man gathers what another man spills" in St. Stephen. Like the tape that circulates as "5/5/67", this has circulated for ages, no one seems to know where it comes from, and no one has a copy of known generation. There is also some doubt about this being a sbd or an aud recording. There is some echo or reverb on this recording like aud recordings have, but there is not much of an audience to be heard except between songs. It could be a sbd with some reverb or hall effect added. If it is an aud recording, the mics must have been placed where they were separated from the audience and the crowd just sat there quietly and only clapped between songs. RECORDING 83 minute SB CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, Jim Powell <chimpowl at well.com>, Dwight Holmes <drholmes at erols.com>, Jay Strauss <jdsearch at ix.netcom.com>, Thomas Newman <tommyn473 at yahoo.com>, DeadBase XI, Brian Pollard <pollard at iname.com>
