''Fillmore West 1969'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contain selected songs recorded at the

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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'', a 10-CD box set that was limited to 10,000 copies. Five of the seven songs on ''

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'' (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 ''

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'' 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 *

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- organ * Jerry Garcia -

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

* Mickey Hart - drums *

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

- drums * Phil Lesh -

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, vocals *

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973), known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972. McKernan grew up he ...

- harmonica, organ,

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, vocals * Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals Production * David Lemieux – producer *Cameron Sears – executive producer *Bob Matthews – recording engineer * Betty Cantor – recording engineer *Jeffrey Norman – mixing, mastering, producer *Eileen Law – archival research *Rosie McGee – photography *

Herb Greene Herb “Herbie” Greene (born April 3, 1942) is an American photographer best known for his portraits of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, The Pointer Sisters, Carlos Santana, and Sly Ston ...

– photography *Michael Merritt – photography *

Baron Wolman Baron Wolman (June 25, 1937 – November 2, 2020) was an American photographer best known for his work in the late 1960s for the music magazine ''Rolling Stone'', becoming the magazine's first chief photographer from 1967 until late 1970.Rhodes, ...

– 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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