This curation edits an extraordinary Grateful Dead & Guests passage to eliminate what was not extraordinary about it.
Santana and Duncan joined the Dead for part of the second set on this date, and it resulted in incendiary and surprising music. So many guitarists!
I’ve edited “Iko Iko” into a vocal-free jam, and I removed Garcia’s quite reasonable (but incorrect) belief that “Mona” was going to be “Hey, Bo Diddley.” There are 20 seconds of rhythmic uncertainty about what’s coming next, between the songs, but it sorts itself all of a sudden, and we’re back on track, and on our way to a great jam.
25-minute mp3 mix zipped up here
- Iko Iko > (instr. edit, 9:26)
- Mona > Jam (edit, 15:29)