Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings is a limited edition box set (10,000 copies), released in November 2005, featuring four complete concerts by the Grateful Dead on 10 CDs. These concerts, performed on four consecutive nights from February 27 through March 2, 1969, were the basis for Live/Dead (rock's first 16-track live album). Thus, unlike Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, and certain other of the band's archival series of live album releases, which are simply two-track stereo recordings made from the soundboard during the concert, the shows in the box set were all recorded on a 16-track multitrack recorder and were mixed down to stereo just prior to the box set's 2005 release.
Released separately was Fillmore West 1969, a three-disc distillation that included highlights of the four nights that did not appear on Live/Dead (with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on Live/Dead).
A bonus disc released with the set includes selections from two additional Fillmore West shows; June 8, 1969 and February 7, 1970. It also includes a blistering 30-minute version of "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" that was recorded on June 14, 1968 during the band's debut run of shows at Bill Graham's newly opened Fillmore East in New York, which had the Grateful Dead headlining over the Jeff Beck Group. Many of the band's recordings from 1968 have been lost and what remains is often incorrectly labeled.
- Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
- Tom Constanten - keyboards
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals, harmonica, percussion
- Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
- Bill Kreutzmann - drums
- Mickey Hart - drums
Disc 1
February 27, 1969 — First set:
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 11:47
"Doin' That Rag" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) - 7:53
"That's It for the Other One" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir) - 20:03
Disc 2
February 27, 1969 — Second set:
"Dupree's Diamond Blues" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 3:57
"Mountains of the Moon" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:57
"Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 21:44[a]
"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:22[a]
"The Eleven" > (Hunter, Lesh) - 13:03
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) - 19:21
February 27, 1969 — Encore:
"Cosmic Charlie" (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:52
Disc 3
February 28, 1969 — First set:
"(Walk Me Out In The) Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) - 11:04
"Good Morning Little School Girl" (Williamson) - 11:00
"Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:56
"I'm a King Bee" (Slim Harpo) - 7:09
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) - 19:09
Disc 4
February 28, 1969 — Second set:
"That's It for the Other One" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Weir) - 19:46
"Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 19:45
"St. Stephen" > (including William Tell Bridge)" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 7:51
"The Eleven" > (Hunter, Lesh) - 15:12
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) - 10:38
Disc 5
"Alligator" > (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh) - 4:08
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) - 4:02
"Jam" > (Grateful Dead) - 14:57
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (Grateful Dead) - 8:47
"Feedback" > (Grateful Dead) - 5:40
"And We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) - 1:08
Disc 6
March 1, 1969 — First set:
"That's It for the Other One" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Weir) - 21:22
"New Potato Caboose" > (Bobby Petersen, Lesh) - 11:43
"Doin' That Rag" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:58
"Cosmic Charlie" (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:51
Disc 7
March 1, 1969 — Second set:
"Dupree's Diamond Blues" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:48
"Mountains of the Moon" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:04
"Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 23:01
"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:06
"The Eleven" > (Hunter, Lesh) - 5:47
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) - 23:59
March 1, 1969 — Encore:
"Hey Jude" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 7:44
Disc 8
March 2, 1969 — First set:
"Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) - 21:09
"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 8:21
"The Eleven" > (Hunter, Lesh) - 12:43
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) - 15:25
Disc 9
March 2, 1969 — Second set:
"Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia) - 7:38
"That's It for the Other One" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Weir) - 22:44
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) - 11:21[a]
"Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) - 10:16
Disc 10
"Alligator" > (Hunter, Pigpen, Lesh) - 4:15
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) - 6:52
"Jam" > (Grateful Dead) - 25:31
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (Grateful Dead) - 9:13
"Feedback" > (Grateful Dead) - 7:54[a]
"And We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 2:01[b]
Bonus disc
June 14, 1968 Fillmore East New York, New York
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) - 30:07
June 8, 1969, Fillmore West:
"He Was a Friend of Mine" > (Traditional) - 12:14
"China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:15
"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Peterson) - 13:36
February 7, 1970, Fillmore West:
"China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:29
"I Know You Rider" > (Traditional) - 5:08
"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) - 7:04
