This reflects the new version that includes the ending to Hurts Me Too
and the fragment of Cryptical before the batteries gave out.
In Cryptical, it sounds like "but it was cold and faded" and they don't
say "you know he has to die". I never noticed that before. Is that the
way it was originally sung, or is this one just different?
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE
Haight Street
CITY
San Francisco
STATE
CA
DATE
03/03/68
SET1
[1:26] ; Viola Lee Blues [21:02] ; [1:00] ; Smokestack Lightnin' [12:04]
; [1:54] % Turn On Your Lovelight [#14:12] ; [0:49] % It Hurts Me Too
[#5:05] ; [0:14] % Cryptical Envelopment [#1:15#] (1) > The Other One >
Cryptical Envelopment ; (2) Dancing In The Street
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS
(1) The master tape is incomplete, as the tapers' batteries ran out. (2)
DeadBase XI reports that the taper remembers that the closer was Dancing
In The Streets. It is possible that additional songs were played
between the second Cryptical and Dancin'. Most copies in circulation
end with It Hurts Me too getting cut off. A new circulating copy of
3/3/68 on CDR that is Steve Brown's Uher MAR>DAT>WAV>CDR, has the
complete version of It Hurts Me Too, and the beginning of the first
Cryptical Envelopment before the batteries finally do die. It Hurts Me
Too & Cryptical Envelopment were speed-corrected via DAL Card Delux. In
Cryptical, it sounds like "but it was cold and faded" and they don't say
"you know he has to die". Cryptical cuts off at "it doesn't seem..."
Larry, an eyewitness writes: "i remember getting off the bus on haight
street That spring day, pushing my way through the crowds to see what
all the excitement was about (i didn't know- did anyone? -that the dead
were parking a flat bed truck across haight street to play a free gig!)
...completely by accident, i got there (well, within a few hundred feet)
just as they fired up the music... the bus came by and i was splattered
like a bug on the windshield!!! ...the version of "dancing in the
streets" (which, unfortunately, isn't on the tape) was not the "disco"
version they came up with later, but a much stronger r&b/rocking tune...
I never forgot that set.... and, though mickey had been with the band
for a while, it was news to me, since this was my first time seeing them
(only one drummer on that first, imo, great album!"
RECORDING
60 A? Only Viola Lee Blues thru the first Cryptical were recorded.
CONTRIBUTORS
David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, David Gans <tnf at well.com>,
Gordon Sharpless <gorshar at loxinfo.co.th>, Andy Lemieux <ajlser at
tiac.net>, Larry <Joker4153 at aol.com>, Robert Jacobson <NYLifer at
aol.com>, Dan Lynch <dflynch.esq at internet.mci.com>, Tim Anderson
<t_spaceman at yahoo.com>, DeadBase XI, Brian Pollard <pollard at iname.com>
