This mix compiles improvisational highlights of six different live configurations of the Dead (whole or members) and other musicians.
All of these performances appeared on an earlier Save Your Face mix at some point. The focus of this sub-curation is to concentrate great stuff that sounds really different from “normal” Dead of the period. The stuff is that is more literally far out. Alternate universe Dead.
No aspersions are being cast on anything I didn’t include. Poke around SYF for more from nearly every configuration presented here.
In addition to choosing start- and end-points, several performances are edited: The Crosby material is presented as instrumental edits; the Elvin Bishop jam is extensively edited to isolate one theme from other stuff that happened; and the Volunteers Jam has been shortened via a couple of edits.
77-minute mp3 mix zipped up here
- Jam (8/28/69 Harbeats w/Howard Wales, organ)
- Jam (edit, 10/30/68 Hartbeats with Elvin Bishop, guitar)
- Wall Song & Laughing (instr. edits, 12/15/70 Crosby, Garcia, Lesh, Kreutzmann)
- Jam (11/20/70 Garcia, Weir, Kaukonen/Lesh/Kreutzmann, Hart)
- Volunteers Jam (edit, 9/6/69 Garcia, Hart, Jefferson Airplaine)
- Dark Star (8/3/69 w/unidentified sax and violin players)