Great Anthem material: but is it the 2/2 show or a collection?
February 1968 is an outstanding month of shows near the end of the 6-month Anthem of the Sun recordings. The run of 2/2, 2/03, 2/14, and 2/23-2/23 Kings Beach Lake Tahoe (aka, Dick’s Picks Vol. 22) are all outstanding shows in an outstand run of Anthem shows. You can also throw in 1/20/68, and it rivals any run in the history of the Dead.
Cryptical/Other One is short, but high-energy, driving psychedelia, but also tight and musical, in the classic Anthem style. Cryptical simmers down not to New Potato, as it usually did in this period, but to the rare Clementine, played on 5 times (according to Deadbase). Jerry soars on guitar after his first verse of vocals. Clementine was inspired by John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, which also is in 3/4 meter and has a long jam on two chords. Here, Clementine seems to go into New Potato. But does it or is an edit?
There is another 2/2/68 show here at Archive with a different set list, that may be the actual show. In that one, Clementine slips easily into Good Morning Schoolgirl, not New Potato. It sounds like the same Clementine. Listening to it, it sounds like the Clementine>Potato is an edit with fades, and that real performance was Clementine>Schoolgirl of the other tape.
I think Other One and Clementine are the same in both tapes, but that the other tape is a real show, that this is a collection. I also like it better than this. If you want to hear the other, it’s here:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd68-02-02.sbd.jools.15801.sbeok.shnf
Still, this tape here still rates 5 stars.