BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Fillmore West CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 08/21/68 SET1 Cryptical Envelopment [#0:20] > Drums [0:14] > The Other One [5:35] > Cryptical Envelopment [9:03] ; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [14:39] ; Alligator [3:34] > Drums [4:48] > Jam (1) [2:20] > Alligator [8:58] > Feedback [1:34] SET2 Dark Star (2) [#14:21] > Saint Stephen [4:44] > The Eleven [11:06] > Death Don't Have No Mercy (3) [7:#28] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [15:08] SET3
ENCORE In The Midnight Hour [11:15] COMMENTS Feedback comes to a complete finish followed by "thank you". After "one man gathers what another man spills" in Saint Stephen, Bobby says "a-hem, well I mean uh, a-hem". (1) Garcia and drums. (2) The cut here is probably on the order of 10-20 seconds. (3) The cut here is also probably 10-20 seconds. RECORDING 120 SB CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, "The Art Of The Fillmore" book p.129 [BG 133], "The Art Of Rock" book p.128 [BG 133], Adrian M. Johnson <jelly at thebigj.demon.co.uk>, David Litfin <litfind at polarfab.com>, Uli Teute <uliteute at aol.com>, Brian Pollard <pollard at iname.com> BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Fillmore West CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 08/22/68 SET1 Alligator [3:32] > Drums [5:53] > Jam [9:27] > Drums [0:17] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [7:10] > Feedback [2:32] > And We Bid You Good Night [0:56] SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Sung during Alligator: "Burn down the Fillmore... ...heat alone" followed shortly by "I told my dog he's got to...". Unlike 8/21 and 8/23, Feedback doesn't come to a complete finish, but goes into Bid You Goodnight. The DAT tapes, cassettes, and CDRs in circulation of this date are a compilation that contains the Alligator sequence listed above preceded by the following, which is an edited and reordered version of 8/24/68: //Saint Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't % Dark Star// % Cryptical > Drums > The Other//One > Cryptical > New Potato// %. No wonder the end of Dark Star and the beginning of St. Stephen are clipped! Copies circulate widely with parts of it in mono, and some copies have the Alligator sequence above preceded by material from 8/21/68 instead of 8/24/68! The DAT tapes of 8/21 and 8/22 came into circulation together as a set about the time that Two From The Vault was released. One source says this recording originates from 10 inch 8-track master reels at 15ips, but David Gans received just the Alligator sequence from Dick, labeled as 8/22/68 on a 1/4-track reel he made from Bear's cassettes. Perhaps more of this show exists in the vault on reels or cassettes? RECORDING 30 SB CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, "The Art Of The Fillmore" book p.129 [BG 133], "The Art Of Rock" book p.128 [BG 133], Adrian M. Johnson <jelly at thebigj.demon.co.uk>, David Gans <david at trufun.com>, David Litfin <litfind at polarfab.bom>, Uli Teute < uliteute at aol.com>, <Sdk022769 at aol.com>, <Jcotsman at aol.com>, Brian Pollard <pollard at iname.com> BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Shrine Exhibition Hall CITY Los Angeles STATE CA DATE 08/23/68 SET1 [0:04] ; Cryptical Envelopment [1:50] > Drums [0:14] > The Other One [4:08] > Cryptical Envelopment [6:33] ; [0:06] % [0:03] ; Dark Star [15:26] > Saint Stephen [4:39] > The Eleven [10:53#] % Death Don't Have No Mercy [#8:02] ; Alligator [3:40] > Drums [6:54] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [20:28] > Feedback [3:09] SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Nothing from this show appears on Two From the Vault. After the second Cryptical: "thank you". After "one man gathers what another man spills" in Saint Stephen, Bobby says "that's exactly how it is". The Eleven timing does not include the "William Tell" verse, since that is how the track IDs are set up on the circulating CDRs. At 3:55 into the Drums after Alligator, Jerry joins in with a Caution type solo. Sung during Alligator: "Burn down the Fillmore... ...heat alone", but without the "I told my dog he's got to..." line heard on 8/22. Feedback comes to a complete finish followed by "thank you". RECORDING 86 SB Alligator thru Feedback had been in circulation for several years, since it was played on GDH #364, but the complete show began to circulate in 1999 or 2000. The Warner Brothers boxed set also includes the Alligator thru Feedback sequence. CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, Dwight Holmes <drholmes at erols.com>, Brian Pollard <pollard at iname.com>
