Grateful Dead 
6/14/68 
(late show)
Fillmore East, New York City, NY 

This is a must-have set from the early era. This was the first 
GD appearance at the legendary Fillmore East, and recently this
fairly listenable audience tape has come into circulation. 
(There is no board tape of this show, which is a pity.) The 
entire set is played with an intensity and energy which makes 
most tapes from this year pale in comparison. They took the NYC
audience by storm that night, just look at that setlist. 
Feedback to open and Feedback to close. In between, the only 
Eleven > St Stephen ever played in this configuration (
instead of the other way round), which works amazingly well. 
All songs seamlessly segue into each other, it's really a 
single piece of truly psychedelic and very wild music, with 
Garcia being *very loud* and right in your face. Pigpen is 
also at his very best here, delivering unique versions of 
"Lovelight", "Alligator" and "Caution". Wow! (By the way, 
just five days later they would blow the roof off the Carousel 
Ballroom in S.F. with a totally different, more west-coasty, 
but equally wild and intense set. Be sure to check out that 
one as well, it works great as a "companion tape" to this one.) 

1 CD. 
Audience recording: Master Cassette > 2 Reels > PCM > CDR. 

Tracks: 
Feedback > 
The Eleven > 
Saint Stephen, 
Alligator > 
Lovelight > 
Caution > 
Drums > 
Caution > 
Feedback.