''Fillmore West 1969'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the

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. It contain selected songs recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on February 27 through March 2, 1969. The album was remixed and remastered from the original

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concert soundboard tapes. The album is packaged as a hardcover booklet, with photos of the band and an essay by Dennis McNally. In addition to the three-disc set, the entire run of four nights was released as ''

The Complete Fillmore West 1969 ''Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings'' is a 10-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains four complete concerts recorded on February 27, February 28, March 1, and March 2, 1969, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. ...

'', a 10-CD box set that was limited to 10,000 copies. Five of the seven songs on '' Live/Dead'' (rock's first 16-track live album, released in November 1969) were taken from these shows. ''Fillmore West 1969'' includes highlights that did not appear on ''Live/Dead'', with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on that album.

Critical reception

On '' AllMusic'' Lindsay Planer wrote, "Collectively he Grateful Dead in 1969created an incendiary ensemble embracing R&B with the same passion and sense of intrepid experimentation as they did their own unique imprint of sonic psychedelia. And nowhere is that seemingly odd amalgam as evident as it is here.... Three and a half decades later those tapes were revisited and revitalized by longtime Grateful Dead producer Jeffrey Norman."

Track listing

Personnel

Grateful Dead * Tom Constanten -

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- lead guitar, vocals *

Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

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* Bill Kreutzmann - drums *

Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...

- electric bass, vocals * Ron "Pigpen" McKernan -

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, organ, percussion, vocals *

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...

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, vocals Production * David Lemieux – producer *Cameron Sears – executive producer *Bob Matthews – recording engineer *

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– recording engineer *Jeffrey Norman – mixing, mastering, producer *Eileen Law – archival research *Rosie McGee – photography * Herb Greene – photography *Michael Merritt – photography *

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– photography *Peter Simon – photography *Amalie R. Rothschild – photography *Suanne C Skidd – photography *Sylvia Clarke Hamilton – photography *Richard Biffle – cover lettering *Brian Connors – art coordination *Robert Minkin – package design *Dennis McNally – booklet essay

References

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