1. Dancin' In The Streets :10:27
2. It Hurts Me Too :04:00
3. Cold Rain & Snow :03:13
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl \ :10:34
5. \ Viola Lee Blues \ :22:49
6. >Big Boss Man :04:15 introduced as "an old song"
7. Alligator :14:35 no "Caution" yet, it simply
returns to the shouted
"Alligator" refrain & then ends
This tape is not a master, it's a 1st gen.
It takes several minutes for the mix to come together in the beginning
"Schoolgirl" is cut @ 10:43
"Viola Lee" is cut @ both ends
The sound quality deteriorates towards the end of the "Alligator' jam
Uploaded by Jon Miller; originally from a BUDD SHN vine.
Reviewer:
c-freedom
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January 14, 2016
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Can i come home with you???
This is pretty much essential Dead.
As each day passed in 1967 the band were going to becoming so much more psychedelic. Yet this is the raw blues swagger that would continually rise up in the band's repertoire.
I was listening to Jerry doing Big Boss Man from New Years 1983-84 and I was struck with how soulfully deep was Garcia's version of this tune. (A man who lived a full life and saw and experienced so many things.)
Likewise I think of Pigpen and that song 'TWO SOULS', man I can feel Pig's sorrow.
Or Brent "I don't need love, I don't need anyone to tell me that I 'flipping' do"
But this is the party blues here. young men in their prime cranking out music,, WE GONNA PITCH YOUR WANG DANG DOODLE ALL NIGHT LONG!!!
And you get that taste of tripping during the jam in Viola Lee Blues. Yes, it is a little muddled but you can just vibe this school bus blues bar band turn into an interstellar rocket ship!
Also I take my hat off to Pigpen, He went for the ride, He is firmly in the middle of the Viola jam. And he schooled the rest of the boys in how to front a rock and roll band.
"Shake the hand, that shook the hand"
Reviewer:
Mind Wondrin
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January 12, 2016
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Phil's fave
An historical show for these reasons:
+Played adjacent to a lodge in the timber, at an obscure location, with no PA, for a few dozen people
+In the Midnight Hour (on Fallout) finished the show with a 31-minute jam, the longest known version
+Viola is a killer 23-minute version - and that's just the part that survives! (it's a bonus track on newer versions of the first album)
+Alligator is in an early version; after this it always went into Caution, which is instead experimented with during Viola
+Even the band (mostly Phil) fondly remembered the gig decades later, though they likely learned not to travel as far to such a small booking
+Robert Hunter wrote Dark Star at this gig
A track or two circulated (for many of us, the first '67 jams in our collection) but others said these were mislabeled. The entirety we have now finally circulated in 2000. Was somebody sitting on a large-reel? Vault leak? No perfect sources exist but the show has some good moments inside the typical '67 formative sound, chiefly Midnight Hour (their dance number, it gets warped by Jer after 13 minutes and after 20 minutes gets pwned by Pigpen) and Viola Lee. The band sounds relaxed; earnest to play. Makes you wonder about all that's missing from that year (5/20, 7/14, 9/22). You'd have to trudge through the small repertoire, and the band was still using repetitious riffs, but tangents are there. It was a different animal in '67. You can hear the youth, the acid, the frontiers, the primacy in a group still mostly unknown outside of the Bay area.
I can see why some like this set but I prefer 18Mar, 10Nov and RT2-2. This has a sentimentality attached that isn't supported by best-of-67 versions or overall sound quality. If you're one of the rare '67 heads, you'll like the whole show. Others will just need the wild, raw Viola - parts of it are sort of standard and then a section will come along that's pretty amazing. It's the Viola that sets it a notch above other '67 sets; the lengths of Dancin' and Midnight Hour don't really add quality as much as historical interest.
Overall: C+
3 Stars
Highlights:
Viola Lee - good but repetitious example of where the extended jams were in '67
Sources: oconnel-clevenger is best (of the archive selections). Sound is good for '67 (even though Alligator eventually has lots of phasing-flutter on all sources). One track on Grateful Dead (1st album) and one on Fallout from the Phil Zone.
Reviewer:
njpg
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January 14, 2014
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Although this may not be the tightest show, it is rightly famous in terms of the sheer amount and quality of musical exploration.
Reviewer:
FoodNanny
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September 7, 2010
Subject:
Truly an Archive
There are cuts and they are, of course unfortunate, but consider the date friend, and be Grateful for what remains.
Do you enjoy a good Viola Lee? Then check it out. C,R & S sounds like a practice and Schoolgirl is like testing new water and seeing who will lead...remember though that the organ is P.P.
It's a raw, exploratory Dead, and great for what it is. Remember being blown away for the first time? Was it 9/3/67?