Grateful Dead:
Avalon 69
Avalon Ballroom (4/6/69)

CD471 - 2 CD
Mojo Filter, MFRCD2001, 2016

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Grateful Dead: Avalon Ballroom, S.F. - April 6th 1969

On the weekend of April 4-6, 1969, the Grateful Dead headlined at the Avalon Ballroom, the last rock show at the Avalon for almost 40 years. The final night was broadcast on KPFA-FM Berkeley, generating a tape that was one of the few good quality '69 tapes in early circulation. The Dead put in a great performance - most notably on "It's All Over Now Baby Blue", "Death Don't Have No Mercy" and "The Other One". The band was forced to conclude "Viola Lee Blues" acapella after the plug was pulled on the equipment for playing past the ballroom curfew!

Band:
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann drums
Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan - keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Tom Constanten keyboards
Mickey Hart drums.

Disc: 1
1. Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
2. Tuning
3. Beat It On Down the Line
4. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
5. I'm A King Bee
6. Cryptical Envelopment
7. Drums
8. The Other One
9. Cryptical Envelopment
10. Death Don't Have No Mercy

Disc: 2
1. Turn On Your Lovelight
2. Tuning
3. Viola Lee Blues