New 1/17/68 entry: Band Grateful Dead Date 1/17/68 Venue Carousel Ballroom, Location San Francisco, CA
One [[61:09]] Intro (1) [0:04] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [11:56] ; (2) [0:58] % [2:10] % [0:13] % Dark Star (3) [#4:48] > China Cat Sunflower [3:20] > The Eleven [9#:46] (4) > Feedback [0:37] ; [0:22#] % New Potato Caboose [#8:35] > Born Cross Eyed [2:30] > Spanish Jam [15:32] ; [0:18] Two [[34:28]] Intro (5) [0:10] ; Beat It On Down The Line (6) [2:37] ; [0:06] ; Morning Dew [7:05] ; [0:15] % [0:20] Cryptical Envelopment [1:47] > The Other One (7) [3:15] > Cryptical Envelopment [5:04] > Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [13#:39] ; [0:10] % Comments Earliest available live performances of Dark Star, China Cat, The Eleven, Born Cross Eyed, and Spanish Jam. Splices/tape flips at 7:45 in The Eleven and 11:02 in GMLSG (1) Intro: "Grateful Dead", spoken in a high pitched squeaky voice. (2) After Lovelight, Jerry: "Thank you, thank you. Nice to be back in San Francisco after a long absence of uh, uh, going to other places. And uh, Bob has some funny stories to tell you about it." Bobby: "Hey, hey, hey, I know its Ben Franklin's birthday and all that, but did you know that George Washington had wooden teeth?" Bobby's comment confirms the date and location for the recording (January 17th is Ben Franklin's birthday) (3) Minor Dark Star lyrics variations: "Reason SHATTERS, the forces tear loose from the axis" and "Mirror shatters, TO formless reflections of matter". (4) Instead of singing "Eight-sided whispering hallelujah hat rack", "Six proud walkers on the jingle-bell rainbow", and "Five men writing with fingers of gold", Garcia gets confused and sings "Six proud walkers on the jingle-bell rainbow", "Six prouuuud... ...walking of gold", "Five men writing with fingers of gold" (5) Intro: "And presenting, The Grateful Dead", spoken in a high pitched squeaky voice. (6) Six beats before BIODTL. (7) Alternate lyrics to The Other One: When I woke up this morning, my head was not in sight I would ask the walls about it, but they vanished overnight ...think or spell my name, or fly there was no way The heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day ...through the lily fields, when I came across an empty space It quivered and exploded, left a bus stop in its place The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land Download Sources (no changes) Recordings 61:09/34:39 SB Master recording source(s): 7 inch Master Reels @ 7.5ips Contributors David Sorochty , Noah Weiner , "The Art Of Rock" book p181, Adrian M. Johnson , Brian Pollard
