Grateful Dead are taking it back to their early career with their latest live release.
“Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (7/3/66)” will be released on July 3rd, on the 60th anniversary of the concert, which took place seven months after the band changed their name from the Warlocks. The performance was part of legendary promoter Bill Graham’s Independence Ball, with the band at the time made up of Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir.
The concert features some of the earliest known recordings of songs like “Tastebud,” “You Don’t Have To Ask” and “Cardboard Cowboy,” which the band would stop playing by the end of that summer. It also includes “Cold Rain and Snow,” which would go on to be a Dead staple.
The performance of “Cold Rain and Snow” is available now . “One of the Grateful Dead’s longest-tenured songs in their repertoire, “Cold Rain & Snow” was around from 1965 to 1995, played every year of the Dead’s performing career aside from 1968 and 1975. This was played when it was still in its peppier arrangement.” – David Lemieux
“Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (7/3/66)”, which was previously available in 2015 as part of the 50th anniversary boxed set “30 Trips Around the Sun“, will be released digitally and as a two-CD set. It will also be released as a three-LP set, its first time ever on vinyl, limited to 6,600 copies. The vinyl release is available exclusively at Dead.net.
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