Grateful Dead
2-14-69
Electric Factory,
Philadelphia, PA
Set I:
101-d1t01 – //Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
102-d1t02 – Stage Banter
103-d1t03 – //Dark Star ->
104-d1t04 – St. Stephen ->
105-d1t05 – The Eleven ->
106-d1t06 – Lovelight
Set II:
107-d2t01 – Morning Dew
108-d2t02 – Cryptical Envelopment ->
109-d2t03 – The Other One ->
110-d2t04 – Cryptical Envelopment ->
111-d2t05 – Death Don’t Have No Mercy
Source 1:
shnid: 6286
SBD>MC>C>C>D>CD>SHN
Notes from the original uploader:
It is possible that there is one less analog generation in thelineage (as listed at Deadlists). The sound quality is rather ragged despite fairly low levels of hiss, so this may simply be from old and degraded cassettes with only one analog generation.
Be warned.
-There is a minor splice just before the 7:00 mark in Schoolgirl from what sounds like a cassette recording overdub. It has been cut out and smoothed over with Sound Forge.
-There is a minor dropout in Dark Star roughly 18 minutes in.
-The splice in Lovelight occurs just after the 6:00 mark.
-The quality of the recording diminishes during the Cryptical Reprise where tape (not from the master) ran out. Overlapping tape segments were spliced seamlessly at this point using Sound Forge. Therefore, no music is lost although there is diminishing sound quality for the first half of the reprise.
-Alligator> Caution> Feedback> AWBYGN often mistakenly circulates at the end of this show, but is actually from 8-22-68.
This show may or may not be complete.
Source 2:
This is a tagged version of shnid: 141006
Source Info:
Master Soundboard Cassette > Reel to Reel > PCM (Sony HG tape)
Transfer Info:
PCM (Sony SL-10)> Sony PCM-601ESD > Behringer Ultramatch Pro > Tascam DA-3000 (wav 16-bit/44.1k)> Adobe Audition 3.0 > TLH flac16
Notes:
– Thanks to Tim Dalton for the source PCM
– Thanks to Charlie Miller for the transfer
– First few notes of “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” clipped
– Beginning of “Dark Star” clipped
– Anomaly at 0:25 of Schoolgirl, which is also present on the previous version (shnid6286), has been minimized
– Pitch corrected
– Upgrade to what is in general circulation (2/18)
Mastered by Scott Clugston
February 14, 2018 – Happy Valentine’s Day
The original electric factory (which is where this show was) at 22nd & arch, was a strange & cool place. Fairly roomy inside but not really big enough for the gargantuan acts that played the. Having grown up in Philly I attended a few shows there. The only one I remember was Janis for $3. Unreal. Knowing me, I maybe attended the who and/or even this dead show, but memory of.. ahem… alot of those particular days is… uh…a bit spotty at best. I can tell you that right around d this time, I was driving a mister softee ice cream truck & had disconnected that mister softee tune & installed an 8 track & played this kind of stuff over the spkr & went to my hangout neighborhoods, instead of my assigned route. Obviously, I didn’t last a long time (esp since once I stopped the truck at a gas station to use bathroom & when I came out, some jerks had opened up the ice cream valves & threw the cones all over & it was a huge mess & loss of inventory). But that was nothing compared to what else happened before I lost the job… As I said, I went to my own neighborhood hangouts & sometimes & after all, it WAS 1969 & sometimes a little bit of “ice cream trading” took place, like for a little crappy weed. But what happened next was totally unexpected & changed my life forever. I had a friend come up to the truck & offer me a bottle of coke for a cone. We traded. But he kept looking at me funny. I asked him (as I was gulping down the coke) why the funny looks? He just laughed & kinda gestured or kept glancing at the bottle of coke. (I should interject here that at that point, I had not done anything except smoked some weed or some hash a few times). He pointed to the bottom of the bottle. I got the idea that maybe he put something in the drink but I didn’t really believe he would do something like that. But I kept drinking & looking. Finally, when I had exposed enuff of the bottom to see, there it was, or the little that was left, of what I later found out was…a genuine, bear/Owsley, 500 mg hit of of “orange sushine”.. I didn’t have all that much time to consider what was about to happen to me, but all I can say is I’ll never forget what happen over the next very long time……
Anyway, not sure if I attended this dead show or not, but what I remember the most about the Electric Factory, besides all the black lites & day glow posters & paint everywhere, was the crazy, lean seats. Not really seats but they were like a long wooden box, with a head cushion & they stood up but were leaning like at a 50-60° angle, so you just kicked back, half standing up, half laying down, facing & listening to the music. I thought those boxes were the cats meow of cool. There was also…check this out…a small, kids like “playground apparatus”, much like you would see nowadays at a McDonald’s, except all painted dayglo w/blacklites everywhere. That place was crazy & everybody was tripping. I have a couple lo rez pics of the outside & inside if anyone is interested in seeing. It didn’t last for very long at that original location & was moved to one nor two other locales & went defunct. Man, what memories….umm…except I can hardly remember.. lol
Great story. I’d love to see those photos.
Did you get the photos & did you get a chance to look if there’s a hi Q copy of the j. Winter w/Janis show I mentioned. They were friends & homey’s so I thought at least the tracks w/winter might be a nice tribute.
Apparently someone had the same idea as me. After last text, I decided to Google the show to see if anything came up pointing to a better resolution show than the very low bit rate copy I have, and the very 1st thing that came up is a 10+ mi long piece on YouTube. It shows a great pic of them playing together & presumably is the segment I mentioned to you from the Joplin show. I had a problem getting it to play on my phone w/poor Internet speed & overtaxed memory issue, but I bet that’s what it is. I’ll email you the link to check out.
I got it to play & it’s indeed the segment from that show w/Johnny winter, except that it’s only 1 song. The audio I have is at least 2 numbers they did 2gether. The YouTube also has a series of great photos of the 2 of them, presumably from that show. I don’t know what is the song but she is singing get about “figuring she’s gotta get outta Texas…”. The blues guitar from Mr Winter in this is as good as it gets. Janis singing here is nothing short of hair raising & goose bumps. You can see from the photos that they are so happy w/ea other & the music & look like 2 little kids in heaven…which I reckon they are. The audio I have is the whole show. I really think it would be great if you posted this link. It’s only had 7k views.
Jeff
Janis at Boston Tea Part (Gardener Remaster) 11 dec 69 early show circulates as “One Hot Winter Night” . I got it from T.U.B.E. a long time back, quality is very good. 2 trax only with Johnny. First is usually listed as either ‘Ego Rock’ or ‘Port Arthur Blues’. Second as ‘Help Me Baby’
Both also on the superb Janis boot box set ‘Blow All My Blues Away’
Presumablt Johnny was already on the brown sugar by this time
‘Kick Hit 4 Hit Kicks u’ as John Lee put it and he meant it as a good friend to them both ‘It’s too heavy for your heart…’
R.I.P. Johnny
Another great one gone
Ok yes that’s it & I figured it prolly was in wide circ but just wanted to make sure. I thought those 2 tunes w/winter would be nice to post here as a tribute even if it’s been around. I just watched a 10 min long interview supposed to be his last on 70th birthday. It was very difficult to watch. I knew nothing of his addictions (I’ve come to assume they (the big rockers from back in the day) all were. In the interview, several times he appears to be almost gasping for air, extremely nervous & sometimes looking close to passing out, esp the last few seconds of the interview. Tough to watch but he got thru it & had few interdsting things to say. Lol, if I heard him right, he said he did Janis 3 times, lol. One hell of a blues guitarist & singer, that’s for sure. I’m gonna have to try to put together a transfer of the show I taped with the few wow & flutter problems. My guitar frustration is that every time I pick the guitar up, I can’t help but try to play like he did except I can’t, but sometimes I can for a few seconds at a time. His style of full tilt flourishes is what I can never stop trying get to do. R.I.P.
Must have been a difficult watch. I’ve seen some footage of him gigging, sitting down and putting down some heavy licks in recent years. i was lucky to catch him at close range in a relatively small venue in london in the early 90s when he was still running on full power. After a decade on the nasty stuff in the 70s, another decade on all kinds of stuff in the 90s and the stroke he suffered about 8-9 years ago, we should consider ourselves lucky that we had him around for as long as we did.
At least one survivor (out of three) of John Lee’s grim prediction. Had a big impact on me the first time I heard that track. It was on one of the first John Lee Hooker albums I got when i started collecting as many as possible on vinyl as a teenager in the 80s.
Along with Mike Bloomfield the finest white blues guitar payer from America IMHO.
Whoa…surely you can’t leave srv out of that group, can you?… nah..
The interview is on YouTube. You’re correct it was very difficult to watch & I recommend not watching it. It was horrible, but at least he did his best to do the interview. Those 2 songs he did w/Janis in Boston were/are a great thing to listen to. The pics from the YouTube video link of the 1st tune (10 min) about getting out of Texas are great pics & the last one tells you yeah, he did her at least 1 of those 3 times that nite, lol.
Well at least he made it to 70. W/o all the crap he prolly would made it to 100..
I still have to put together the James cotton/BB King & then I think I’ll see how viable the j. Winter show is. The wow & flutter parts will have to be removed, unless you know of anything or anyone capable of fixing that which I doubt. But it was intermittent, not continuous & I think it only comprised less than 10 percent of play time & I think you guys told me it wasn’t shown as any other sources, so I’ll try to get to it. But now this lappy is overheating & malfunctioning also. We had 3 record days in a row here. 113, 114 & today (yest) was 116. During this time, my a/c died & so did I almost..