Grateful Dead Live at Crystal Ballroom

Grateful Dead Live at Crystal Ballroom on 1968-02-02 (February 2, 1968)

Grateful Dead Live at Crystal Ballroom

Cryptical Envelopment>

The Other One>

Cryptical Envelopment>

Clementine>

New Potato Caboose>

Born Cross-Eyed>

Spanish Jam

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Venue: Crystal Ballroom

Location: Portland, OR

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Subject: Great Anthem-era material: but is it the 2/2 show or a collection?

Great Anthem material: but is it the 2/2 show or a collection?

February 1968 is an outstanding month of shows near the end of the 6-month Anthem of the Sun recordings. The run of 2/2, 2/03, 2/14, and 2/23-2/23 Kings Beach Lake Tahoe (aka, Dick’s Picks Vol. 22) are all outstanding shows in an outstand run of Anthem shows. You can also throw in 1/20/68, and it rivals any run in the history of the Dead.

Cryptical/Other One is short, but high-energy, driving psychedelia, but also tight and musical, in the classic Anthem style. Cryptical simmers down not to New Potato, as it usually did in this period, but to the rare Clementine, played on 5 times (according to Deadbase). Jerry soars on guitar after his first verse of vocals. Clementine was inspired by John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, which also is in 3/4 meter and has a long jam on two chords. Here, Clementine seems to go into New Potato. But does it or is an edit?

There is another 2/2/68 show here at Archive with a different set list, that may be the actual show. In that one, Clementine slips easily into Good Morning Schoolgirl, not New Potato. It sounds like the same Clementine. Listening to it, it sounds like the Clementine>Potato is an edit with fades, and that real performance was Clementine>Schoolgirl of the other tape.

I think Other One and Clementine are the same in both tapes, but that the other tape is a real show, that this is a collection. I also like it better than this. If you want to hear the other, it’s here:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd68-02-02.sbd.jools.15801.sbeok.shnf

Still, this tape here still rates 5 stars.

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Comments from www.deadlists.com

Although this circulates labeled as "1/23/68 Eagles Aud", no documentary evidence (posters, reviews, newspaper ads, etc) has been found for shows there during the Quick and the Dead tour, other than the two on 1/26 and 1/27. Joe Jupille researched the University of Washington Daily and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspapers and only found an ad for QMS and the Dead on 1/26 and 1/27 in the 1/26/68 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (the weekend entertainment insert, p. 6). He turned up no mention of other Quick and the Dead shows at Eagles Auditorium. This show has one of the early versions of the Other one lyrics: When I woke up this morning, my head was not in sight I would ask the walls about it, but they vanished overnight I could not think to spell my name, or fly there was no way and the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day I was skipping through the lilly 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 Not listed in DeadBase XI. There is no Drums after the first Cryptical, the Other one has the original lyrics, and there is a tape flip in New Potato Caboose. Timings should be updated.

Note that Deadlists now argues for a different setlist on 2/2/68 -- the date if htis material is still in question.