What is your favorite Grateful Dead “bootleg”?

I own many Grateful Dead “bootleg” tapes, but my favorite is the February 13, 1970, “bootleg” from Filmore East in New York City. I especially love the band’s cover of the blues classic, “Smokestack Lightning.”

What is everyone else’s favorite “Dead” bootleg?

 

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Would’ve been too easy if he rejoined as “Don Draper.”

 

Troll Over Beethoven: March 1, 1980 at Oakland Coliseum. Whole show is Chucky Berry covers.

 

Today's selection: Lyceum, London 5/23/72. Do yourself a favor and check out the "Morning Dew". You can find it on Spotify. It will break your heart, lift your spirit, and stir your emotions. The song fits the times we're living through. Enjoy your day folks. More so now than ever be kind to your fellow humans.

 

Not a boot, exactly. This was my first Dead show. They were still using the Wall of Sound. Tremendous show. Keith and Donna. Maria Muldaur opened, great whorehouse blues.

Once I heard Bob Weir do Marty Robbin's "El Paso", I was on the bus. Figuratively, anyhow.

Dead of the Day: June 20, 1974

 

I saw two Dead shows and this was the second one. Obviously a long way from their prime but various Dead websites pronounced this one as one of the best of that tour. I remember the killer version of "When I Paint My Masterpiece", just listened to it again, still sounds great almost 33 years later.

June 30, 1987

 

10/29/77 Evans Field House, Dekalb, IL

Phil’s self-described “happiest day of my life.”

Ferocious

 

There are tons of full shows on YouTube, particularly here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOn8Nb8Tw5jyEmnmJIIZfTg/videos.

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deadpod

Deadpod a different set every week. There are hundreds maybe a thousand.