16 years old. I was there with my buddy Pat. We flew down to Seattle from Sitka AK and hitchhiked out to the farm. What a great event and fun for young rascals.

@johnamaral1786

2 жыл бұрын

A great trip for all from the sound of it. /:-)

What makes it even more exceptional...the boys just showed up to play, they were not scheduled.

The poster is actually the back cover of a Seattle Helix newspaper....artwork by Crowley the paper's editor. Nobody in the crowd knew they would play. Other acts playing that weekend were The Alman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Muddy Waters, The Youngbloods, Big Mamma Thorton, a young comedian Richard Priar Stephen wolf, Country Joe and the Fish and many more. I got there before it began and stayed for the duration.

00:00 Intro 00:42 Dark Star → 15:00 Saint Stephen → 19:25 The Eleven → 31:58 Death Don't Have No Mercy // 32:22 Cryptical Envelopment → 33:47 Drums → 34:00 The Other One → 37:48 Cryptical Envelopment 43:49 banter 44:21 Alligator → 47:48 Drums → 51:20 Jam (Jerry, Mickey & Billy) → 53:53 Alligator → 58:24 Caution → 1:05:52 Feedback

@johnamaral1786

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Crann. I always appreciate a good time stamp. /:-)

@GohAhweh

Жыл бұрын

Thankeee

Dark Star/St Stephen/The Eleven were a magic that this group discovered and is unsurpassed by not many other pieces of music.

@ZavnorZ

7 жыл бұрын

You got it.

@astrowarrior3064

5 жыл бұрын

I still rate it over scarlet>fire in terms of continuity of song

@thomasbedell4770

4 жыл бұрын

Stanley Lerner Yeah, Stan. Was Richie Sheinbaum’s roommate freshman year until we swapped roommates and I started rooming with Ogden Fell and Richie got Tom Lord, if my memory still works. I had the white dog, Happy, who was definitely a campus dog. How you doing?

@williamlegare8751

2 жыл бұрын

Love&Light 💯🌞⚡️♥️✌️

Nothing beats the raw intensity of late 60's Dead

@thenazarite2444

8 күн бұрын

I only listen to 1960's Dead, now 😊

This looks like a great set. Oh, for the good old days when you could have the band for brownies and Kool-Aide! Thanks for posting and sharing!😁

Near the Skykomish River just west of the Cascades. My aunt and uncle lived just down the road. They said there was never any rock shows in their neighborhood before or since.

Wow. This setlist is like interstellar space travel via song selection...I can't wait to listen to this full show. Organic Raspberry jams...

@bluesriot2

Ай бұрын

ohyeahtheyare

The dead went through various "stages". i have always believed this early stage was the best. The sound amazing, the creativity unbeatable.

@jamesm8132

Жыл бұрын

Perfect mix of blues, jazz and psychedelic

@craigjohnson2614

Жыл бұрын

Bobby basically thought they just kept getting better

@kosmokritikos9299

Жыл бұрын

An audio ballet.

@jg6698

Жыл бұрын

@@craigjohnson2614 nah. The long decline began in '73

@spinningreelsofrhyme

Жыл бұрын

It was certainly an undistilled concoction of psychedelia & free-flowing musical magik...

Life is amazing with the Dead!

The Energy is so unique. So positive and raw. In essence, GD showed how they enjoyed life together. And it's inspiring to this day.

From my vantage point this IS the Grateful Dead. Just think: almost 52 light years away from Earth there might be beings digging this episode of the acid age. If I had a time machine....

@marcorighini6201

3 жыл бұрын

the sixties would be full of. people escaping from this times

@robgreen900

9 ай бұрын

Not to worry brother I’m working on it right now. What an escape to a better time it would be

@MikeThievery

3 ай бұрын

Rent hotel with window

For 1968 the sound is excellent. Wonderful time piece. Love this

I love that joyfull sound that comes out of the elven any version I hear. Like a World party...

@svenbergman

2 жыл бұрын

I am in tune with you on that...

@svenbergman

2 жыл бұрын

To me, the story of William Tell releasing the bow, you feel the tension as he pulls it tighter, stretching it to its maximum. The releasing of the bow that creates a cascade of joy is the birth of the universe, and the gleeful surrender to the movement of everything. Every Thing. Every single thing is singing We Are Alive. The Universe Smiles at its own Creation, and we are blessed to be an integral part of it, sharing in the Purity of Joy...

@miked1311

2 жыл бұрын

@@svenbergman That's what I like to hear!! Feels good when the work is done

@jeffmargulies3833

2 ай бұрын

im in

JC playin' his SG with level 7 'verb, his best sound in my opinion....so immediate, emotive.

@3243_

2 жыл бұрын

Actually he was still playing a Les Paul. The SG would come later that year.

One of the most beautifully played and sung dark stars imo

@squishybuffalo

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not a fan of Dark Stars... the tamborine or whatever they got rocking in the back was phenomenal and they tore it up. right into a BANGING st. stephen whew

In '68 NWest had Teen Fairs which showed off Musicians + then A Outdoor Jam Festival- 2 dudes + myself went to it- We took LSD every afternoon- was totally Awesome Event- we helped in kitchen+ Medical Tent- if someone was too High we Help Em Relax+ Enjoy the Trip- from a Stoner to a Bad Trip- we get back to Earth- me helped Big Mama Thornton open Bottle of Whiskey- Life was Easier on Us goin to Outdoor Gatherings- would do it All Over Again-

Grateful Dead are the faster than light drive....Ken Kesey

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! I saw them at The Fillmore in SF in 1968. It was quite a show! Somebody asked me to dance (they had an area off to the side of the stage for people to dance). I must have danced for an hour non-stop and The Dead must have played an hour non-stop (the show was, if I remember, about 3 hours long; it was the second show of the night and The Dead played well after midnight). It was an incredible experience for me, one I will never, ever forget.

@jeffmargulies3833

2 ай бұрын

what a great memory

Their greatest era 68-72 thanks so much for posting I've never heard of the show before and I am always looking for new shows from this period

@jcedwards8363

7 жыл бұрын

I'd have to add '73 and '74 to that era.

@darrenkrivit6854

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. This period was quite exploratory while still having enough time behind them to truly get "locked in"

@user-cb5we5dr5g

6 жыл бұрын

73-74 were the last great years. They took on a new side of psychedelic exploration in the music but they also never went to far out there. Some of the best, if not the best, dark stars happened in 73. And they had new songs to give, it was a great period for them and it was a great ending to the true psychedelic side of the dead before the hiatus

@jabbyjabocs

6 жыл бұрын

completely agree! my younger friends like the late 70s-80s. i'm locked into 68-72 picking up shows thereafter

@richardfinlayson1524

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, thats the real Grateful Dead to me,I was just marvelling at the set list,all my favorites.

Thank you for sharing this. The warm, fuzzy, intense, fantastic ride, freeform, charged sound of 1968 Dead. Wow.

that caution into feedback is such psychedelic hardcore yumminess. I bet the people there were stunned when they witnessed these things live.

This has got to be one of the BEST of any Dead shows I've heard over the 50 years I've been listening to them...the intensity of the playing, the DRUMMING!!!, the repertoire here, all make for one memorable performance.

@donaldgehre5964

5 жыл бұрын

They were young folks, like we all were then."God is alive, Magic is Afoot". Leonard Cohen

"Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What for" across the morning sky... Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day good bye" ... be the magic, spreading light through the darkness ...

@absolutelypositively

Жыл бұрын

Hunter wrote some fine lyrics indeed. Especially love St. Stephen and China Cat.

@eeeMauiii

3 ай бұрын

🌅

aside from low vocals this set smokes. Everyone is participating in the sonic flow. Classic set list that accurately portrays a band with a plan for the evening. Reflecting the release of Anthem of the Sun the set delves into dense psychedelic territory.

Thanks for this! Jerry’s guitar sounds excellent. 💯🎶🐊🌹🥀🌝🍄🐐

A show at an organic raspberry farm...how cool is that?!?!

@botvinnik64

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Jacobs It’s very cool, Paul. Very cool!

@clancykobane9102

4 жыл бұрын

It's cool, ok? It's cool!

@alanmande

4 жыл бұрын

The reason they did it was even cooler! Next time you’re at a health food store, check out Nancy’s Yogurt. That’s the business they did the benefit to help kick off and it still exists today!

@jabbyjabocs

4 жыл бұрын

@@alanmande Thanks for that little nugget! Very cool.

@kennethdeanmiller7324

3 жыл бұрын

An organic raspberry farm in 1968!! A very righteous & beautiful benefit for sure!

God, when Jerry was 'on' he was 'ON!"

@grandmabear2840

6 жыл бұрын

uncasist Ah hell honey, I think he was born on...only you who have ear's to hear my song💜

@densely

6 жыл бұрын

The whole band was "on". The interplay in "The Eleven" was amazing.

@iriedeby1761

4 жыл бұрын

Close to the kind of party Woodstock was, a year before.

@donaldgehre5964

4 жыл бұрын

They were on an awful lot in those days. Many friends who weren't experienced found the band a little chaotic alive, but then they would get experienced and follow the alchemists on stage as they pierced the realm of expanded consciousness. The only time I remember seeing them at this time was a gig in GGP where they had these propane burners, as I called them. These huge (25 gallon?) cylinders of gas would have the valves opened by a person and then another person would light them and create this huge flame and explosion. I was scared shitless that a cylinder would blow up!. I kept a safe distance. I remember this craziness like it happened yesterday.

@kennethdeanmiller7324

3 жыл бұрын

@@donaldgehre5964 Wow, that's crazy! I wasn't even a year old in '68. Jerry was getting old when I started seeing shows. I've seen many different musicians & Jerry was one of the few that could make you cry at the sheer beauty of the riffs he was playing. Then five minutes later make you want to jump & shout for joy! Few musicians can convey such emotion & the ones that can truly have a gift.

This my friends is/was what it was all about. The Acid Age.

With headphones on full volume my head thanks you. Love the GD during this period and this recording brings it all out including the banter and layered instruments LLGD

Is this some kind of Mandela effect , I’ve never heard of this in about 30 years of devotion . How remarkable indeed!

@jahrojasexqsys5238

4 жыл бұрын

Not a mandela effect...the was one of the first shows i was given by the person who introduced me to the dead....that was 20 years ago....crazy....20 years ago i fell in love with the grateful dead...while listening (over and over) to a show that was recorded 30 years before that.

Wow I was born on this day 1971

I still miss Pigpen

@bluesriot2

Ай бұрын

forever will be , missed

@aaronharris3397

Ай бұрын

Me too ❤️Pig🤟

the eleven is my fav dead song (dig Scarlet and Bertha too) .....thanks for this....gonna eat 11 raspberries now to toast you for posting this

@jeffmargulies3833

2 ай бұрын

yeah will - eleven/scarlet/eyes - is my go to

Been here so long got to callin' it home.

@jeffmargulies3833

2 ай бұрын

I lived 2 blocks down at Hayes/Ashbury

@hashburystumble8808

2 ай бұрын

@@jeffmargulies3833 I live in Scotland & I've never been to San Fransisco. ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Phenomenal

What a great show. Thank you very much for uploading this.

I just did this. Open the video. Wait around a minute and a half and open it again in another browser. Repeat until you have four of them playing at once. Then open the March 2nd 1969 show, which is.....Dark Star. Listen to all five playing at once. It's crazy.

@thomasbedell4770

7 жыл бұрын

don't think I have enough browers LOL. Sounds like a trippy idea though.

@ZavnorZ

7 жыл бұрын

Sure you do. I don't know what I was talking about. Just right click and keep opening new TABS....DUH ON ME.

@thomasbedell4770

7 жыл бұрын

ZavnorZ I'll give it a try when the opportunity arises and the mood is ripe.😜

@Detroitgravy

6 жыл бұрын

did i miss the part where you suggested taking mushrooms.. they did this in the greyfolded series... multiple shows playing at once is not new.. but awesome someone is thinking it again... lol

@josephgarrahan9763

6 жыл бұрын

thumbs up for the sheer exploratory inventiveness of the idea. its snowing outside (first snow of the season) which is always magical to me. i think its a perfect time to try your idea.

Dark Star - the ultimate Acid Test!

@patlong6905

2 жыл бұрын

si!

Back in the good old days; YES, I'll say it again, the good old days, when unexplored area was the rule of the day. Sometimes it worked, and most of the time it didn't. The best part was everything that was new was totally new. This works. The Muses were definitely dialed in, and helping things along.

@kariaudar

8 жыл бұрын

+Casey Jones Yes, you´re dead right (pun very much intended) that the music of the hippie era, as exemplified by The Grateful Dead, often had a very deep spiritual dimension.

@thomasreams682

7 жыл бұрын

Any show seemed to be over in about 20minutes. ...but in reality it was 3 or 4 hours later

@jsoon71

7 жыл бұрын

I've heard this claim made many times, but the majority of these shows are available on the live music archive and I don't think any of them lasted 8 hours. Unless they were taking 4 hour breaks, I doubt the legendary 8-hour show was a real thing.

@jsoon71

7 жыл бұрын

I didn't mean to come off with an attitude, but you said the Dead "usually played eight hour sets..in those days," which I took to mean that an 8 hr show was pretty typical in 1968, the year of the show under discussion. I did exaggerate about "most" of the shows being available on the Archive though. They played something like 120 shows in 1968 and there are only around 40 or so available on the archive. But, even if a recording isn't available, you can go look at the setlist and see that an 8 hr show wasn't the norm (i'm not counting the times where they played multiple concerts per night). I'm not saying it never happened (e.g., I know the closing of Winterland show was pretty long), but was this really standard back in the early days? That was my impression as well from the early 70s, particularly 73-74 with the Seastones stuff and whatnot. I wasn't there; I only got into them in 1987. Anyways, would be cool to hear more about such long shows. I didn't think many of them lasted quite that long.

@jsoon71

7 жыл бұрын

Dang, crazy story. Yeah, I guess dropping your kid on its head will change your perspective a bit, eh? Hopefully, anyways!

I sure love me some organic raspberry psychedelia.

@stixu1070

5 жыл бұрын

Damb I would want some ,where is this said patch of berries?

Jesus loves all deadheads as His own.

@botvinnik64

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Barbush Yes She does!

@jabbyjabocs

4 жыл бұрын

Fine but the jury is still out on him.

@sheepshead17

3 жыл бұрын

jc is ok, his followers not so much

@ZionForman

3 жыл бұрын

being a Jew is a big responsibility and a heavy cross to bear , they hate you because you are guilty but need you to stick around to play the role of martyr in their next movie. don’t ask to play another or different role , you are typecast forever.

Far out my first show wise in 81 Philly

Awesome. This was before they had their ballads, hits, songs etc and were 'just' an amazing jam band. I mean...look at the set list. My the mid 70's St Stephen would be a closer and the audience would go berserk. Also can hear how much Jerry evolved as a guitar player in the next few years.

@jamesm8132

Жыл бұрын

Too bad Stephen lost the fire it had in the 60s

@xianshep

2 ай бұрын

In some ways - especially ferocity - he DEVOLVED.

@bluesriot2

Ай бұрын

concur, he was such a beast in the early daze

I love raspberries!

Is a classic I was still in mom womb NOT born till 26 of this month ..my dad was in to country..mom loved the blizzard king got some old from the say doors stuff I hate to sound like young whippersnapper is it Phil and true Bob was like a baby 17 super young ?? I first saw 88 n feel in love ty again for this

Thank you,thank you, thank you

What a great show!!!

Thank you for this one. I had an audience tape of this one years ago. My tape was a lot slower. Hard telling how many generations it had come down from.

Just can't hear enough of this

Great drumming

That lil tease while bill is still talkin it up is chefs kiss

God, I love the shows where you can really hear the drums.

A speedly "dark star " never heard before NOW!!!!!

@3243_

2 жыл бұрын

Speedy "Dark Star"s were the norm in 1968.

Oooh what a beautiful board! Have known of this show since God only knows….finally get to hear it. Nice as rice.

Thank you

GREAT BOARD..!!!.. only heard this on cassette..., not nearly as clear. Ya can't even hear the HUGE CROWD!

@richardmoss8949

8 жыл бұрын

+Richard Moss ....and LOOK...only EIGHT DOLLARS...for ALL THREE DAYS (including camping)..!!! It's only $400.00, for this upcoming three day event...in Cowchella, California...in October!

sounds really good

Amazing space and drums

Thank you so much for sharing this!,,,so happy right now!

Thank you. new to me.

I was four years old

Great find, thanks.

this is my fave comment section ever

That eleven

i had a cassette of this

Wonderful recording for an early festival show of the Dead. Love the festival poster, would even more if it was readable. Thanks, NFA, for sharing the joy from Betty's farm in '68. Almost like being there! L1.1KC184V64387/:-)

I was only 11years old..exatly in that day...

damn those 2 sec gaps between songs!^^

Transcendental

they were a different band in the late 60's........................

@thomasbedell4770

4 жыл бұрын

sam hamdan They had Pig Pen still and were blues and folk oriented with, of course, their psychedelic expedition well layered into those influences.

@adamjacobrogers9155

3 жыл бұрын

they lost a lot of mojo when pig checked out. many a night he closed the house down with his spotlight finales of Turn on your Lovelight.

They used to start a lot of early shows with Dark Star . It’s a bit mind bending .

The 'emcee' you hear for the first 20 seconds introducing the Dead is almost surely 'Buddha', the emcee for Sky River 1968'. A Bay Area night club emcee/bouncer, depending on the version. He was mentioned in the historical media coverage several times, not that glowingly, by Rolling Stone magazine, or local news coverage quotes from attendees. I can't remember him.

@brucejaffa9848

3 жыл бұрын

sky river and lighter than air

@user-tp6fo7im3d

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he was hip.

Sounds like the Dark Star they used in Greyfolded.

@christopherperry1271

7 жыл бұрын

You may be right; I love Greyfolded!

@SkepticalRecords

5 жыл бұрын

There are over one hundred Dark Stars combined into Grayfolded! This could be one of them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayfolded

@3243_

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is one of the versions used in Grayfolded.

Love the flat earth poster art.

Chose this for Pigpens birthday!

Can you get a better Match-Up: Betty's Organic Raspberries & the good ol' "Organic" Grateful Dead ? I mean, Come ON !

CHEERS! i wonder if the kind folks back then said, "Don't Panic- it's Organic!"

@donaldgehre5964

5 жыл бұрын

We weren't tripping on slogans, we were tripping. The door wasn't open for very long my friend.

@botvinnik64

4 жыл бұрын

judah sears HHahahaha!

Quick! Turn Phil's mic on!

@FreePercussion

4 жыл бұрын

LET PHIL SING

@daveanthony2959

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Lesh Is More.

@stacyblue1980

5 ай бұрын

Hell yeah 😄🌹

@stacyblue1980

5 ай бұрын

😄🌹

Love the guitar tone and exploratory rhythmic flow of mid-1968 Dark Stars. You could have made the case at this point that society was on the verge of something great. Then the November presidential elections happened and Nixon assumed power. #endwriter #ChasingSun

@grandmabear2840

6 жыл бұрын

Fabric - Chasing Sun right.....xy!#×!!!÷. Just turn on your Lovelight and leave it on........💜

@Twotontessie

6 жыл бұрын

Not sure what Nixon or anything else has anything to do with the fine music of the Grateful Dead.

@georgeshriver2943

6 жыл бұрын

music was great, though the comments can be dumb.

@JimmyFranceable

6 жыл бұрын

You could make that argument and sound like a washed up old asshole, yeah.

@myyootube2

Жыл бұрын

I think you're on point. America went through the wrong door the day Nixon won and we all knew it. Also the day we lost JFK before that, but September '68 (Also pre Altamont and Manson Murders) was still a time for hope.

I could picture TheDead on The Simpsons. Jimbo the bully with his 2 friends would say: “Hey Jerry Garcia! Like improvisation much?!Hahaha.”

44:13 for all you tapers out there to stop, ff, and record on side B

The playbill lists all these great bands but not the Dead. Did they just show up? How cool!

Dave Wilkes listen to this❤

One of their better tunes

@botvinnik64

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Curtiss You think so?

Beautiful playing! Greta fibnd! Thank you.!This was, by far their most interetsing period (for me.) Jerry's, Bobby's and Phil's signals are all a bit hot-distorted, but it is minor compared to the bounty of great playing.

How can I get me some?

Holy shit

@jg6698

Жыл бұрын

68-69 Accept no substitute

💜

Great show by the band, firing on all cylinders. Yet ironically this was during the time they were trying to kick Weir and Pigpen out of the band, because they felt the two were not keeping up with the other four musically.

@philovance1940

2 жыл бұрын

The Dead were not better without Pigpen.

what a treasured document of magic... Too bad the Sons of Champlin weren't recorded from that show also. :):)

@Alexlamecore

5 жыл бұрын

@kcotte59 why did you just wet snitch on yourself?

Was this the 2nd set or 1st set?

Most assuredly TC on organ.

@jcedwards8363

7 жыл бұрын

No ... this was just Pigpen. Though TC had made a few appearances here and there (this was not one of them), he did not become a full time member until that November 1968.

@markturner6942

Жыл бұрын

@@jcedwards8363 Pigpen could fucking rock !

@jg6698

Жыл бұрын

WOO PIG SOOEY!! 🐷🐖❤️

Is it possible to not put ads in the middle of dar star?

Anybody else think the playback speed is a bit fast? Maybe would benefit from reducing it 10%?

@jg6698

Жыл бұрын

Apparently not. Rock on!

AHHHH Darkstar then St Stephen fuckin A what a start

I can't believe this shit happened in Sultan.

didn't know they used maracas in the early versions

@donaldgehre5964

5 жыл бұрын

When they played in the Park they also had large-really large gongs-and propane tanks they would open and light for rather large flames. You know, special effects. Funny, that time I remember seeing the Dead was the last time for some time and... I definitely hung out aways from those propane tanks. Being conservative at that point, I gave the band and those gas tanks a wide breath only because I hadn't yet discovered how well some heads could function on 1000-2000 mikes of Owsley. That would come later. I was a late comer when I began my apprenticeship in the Fall of 1966.

@thomasbedell4770

4 жыл бұрын

Donald Gehre Was that Mickey on those or did someone else play maracas and the propane? 😂✌️

st steve 15:00