Yes it exists - it's a fairly common tape to have on cassette. I don't think it has ever circulated on PCM, DAT, or CDR.
Dave S. > > From: "Vernon, Matthew F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:36:56 -0700 > Subject: Does the music reflected by the 8-28-68 songlist exist? > > This is not a tape/CD request, because I know to use the Resources for > Traders site for that. > > I've never seen this show on any list - that's not to say I've looked > everywhere but I'm curious if the music reflected by this song list is out > there, or if it has been reassigned to another date/year. Anyone know? > > Here's what deadlists has to say: > BAND Grateful Dead > VENUE Avalon Ballroom > CITY San Francisco STATE CA > DATE 08/28/68 > SET1 [43:41 +] Dark Star (1) [#10:38] St. Stephen [3:30] The Eleven [10:35] > Death Don't Have No Mercy [6:20] ; [0:25] ; Lovelight [11:55] ; [0:08] % > SET2 [39:03 +] Bill Graham intro [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. 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 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. It sounds > like it's from August of 1968 and 8/20/68 seems the most likely date. > 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." > RECORDING 83 minute SBD > CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty , Jim Powell , Dwight Holmes , Jay Strauss , > DeadBase XI, Brian Pollard > >
