Grateful Dead – San Diego, CA (05/11/69)

Grateful Dead
5-11-69
Aztec Bowl, San Diego State University,
San Diego

This is a flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 6296
FM SBD > ? > shn

Thanks to Paul Hartman
encoding/edits by J. Cotsman

–songlist–
101-d1t01 – Morning Dew
102-d1t02 – Cryptical Envelopment–>
103-d1t03 – Drums–>
104-d1t04 – The Other One–>
105-d1t05 – Cryptical Envelopment–>
106-d1t06 – Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
107-d1t07 – /Me & My Uncle
108-d1t08 – /Alligator–>
109-d1t09 – Drums*–>
110-d1t10 – Jam*–>
111-d1t11 – Drums*–>
112-d1t12 – Turn on Your Lovelight*

*with members of Santana

notes from the original uploader:
This has circulated as 5-29-69, though it seems much more likely to be from the 11th. Deadbase lists Canned Heat & Santana as sharing the billing with the Dead for the 11th. Deadlists.com lists a partial setlist for 5-11-69, from Dew through Schoolgirl. A radio announcer can briefly be heard speaking of Canned Heat during the Cryptical Reprise. The guests almost certainly include multiple percussionists from Santana, their singer briefly during Lovelight, and some guitar from Carlos Santana, though his contributions seem low in the mix and infrequent.

The lineage is unknown, although the radio announcers would indicate this being from a radio broadcast. There are probably several analog generations, but quality improves towards the end and is listenable. There is a brief dropout in volume level during the Cryptical Reprise. The first few notes of Me & My Uncle have been clipped as radio announcers were talking. The cut at the beginning of Alligator is minor.