Grateful Dead – Pasadena, CA (03/22/69)

Grateful Dead
3-22-69
Rose Palace,
Pasadena, California

Download FLAC: Amazon Drive

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–Setlist–
101 – //Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
102 – Dark Star–>
103 – St. Stephen//–>
104 – //The Eleven–>
105 – Turn on Your Lovelight//

The Dead shared the billing with two other bands, and this may be the
complete show for them, although there could be a song or two missing
after Schoolgirl.

The recording was pitch corrected and normalized using Sound Forge.
Track boundary errors were also fixed.

thanks to Andrew Clarke
edits/encoding by J. Cotsman

5 thoughts on “Grateful Dead – Pasadena, CA (03/22/69)

  1. What’s the trouble JL? Can you not download at all, or is it too slow? Or something else?

    I loved Zippy and everyone else seemed to like it as well. But I just tried again and they (or more likely, Cox) are throttling me hard. Uploads are super slow and sometimes crap out entirely.

    How did Mediafire work for you?

    Zowie, I got a couple more from 69 in the hopper. Look for them soon.

  2. Okay, this is the first Grateful Dead file I’ve downloaded and the first Dead music I have ever had in my possession. You post so many of their shows I figured I’d better give one a try. I will NOT allow myself to follow them because catching up would take longer than the rest of my life. Thanks, Mat!

    • Oh wow. I’m not sure this is the show I’d recommend to a newcomer. 1969 was an incredible year for the Dead and this is a classic setlist (however truncated it might be). I haven’t listened to this show in ages (putting it in now, though) but this period of the Dead’s career is not for the faint of heart. This is the Dead at their most primal, most improvisational. Dark Star especially tends to launch them into outer space where all semblance of your typical song structure goes out the window.

      Let me know what you think of it. If you love it there is plenty more of this era to go around. But if you like a little less sonic exploration and a little more songcraft then I can point you towards shows a little later in their career (they were always one for jamming, but later shows have more structure to their setlist – more regular songs to go with their big jammy ones)

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