BAND  Grateful Dead
VENUE  Fillmore Auditorium
CITY  San Francisco
STATE  CA
DATE  11/08/69
SET1  [1:06:51 +]  Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [#12:43] ; [0:18] % Casey
Jones [4:14] ; [0:09] % Dire Wolf [7:44] ; [0:08] % Easy Wind [8:24] ;
[0:12] % [0:06] ; China Cat Sunflower [3:00] > jam [3:03] > I Know You Rider
[3:18] > High Time [7:16] ; [0:22] ; Mama Tried [2:39] ; [0:09] ; Good Lovin
[1:37] > drums [2:19] > Good Lovin [4:34] ; [0:12] % [0:06] ; Cumberland
Blues [4:08] ; [0:03] %
SET2  [1:36:32 +]  [0:30] ; Dark Star [14:08] > The Other One [12:05] > Dark
Star [1:08] > Uncle John's jam [2:25] > Dark Star [3:05] > St. Stephen
[6:32] > The Eleven [15:03] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [16:22#] > jam
with recitation [#0:52] > Main Ten jam [3:04] > Caution (Do Not Stop On
Tracks) [8:40] > space [8:10] > Feedback [4:16] > And We Bid You Good Night
[3:02] ; [0:56] % 
SET3  
ENCORE  
COMMENTS  Total time  [2:43:23 +].  It is impossible to tell from the tapes
in circulation whether this is two sets or one, but it seems long for one
(notice also the 1st-set-concluding Cumberland on 12/11/69).

The first bit of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl is clipped on the tape in
circulation.

According to DeadBase IX in Set 1 there is a King Bee before China Cat.
There is no sign of this on the vault SBD and probably this listing is
erroneous.  However, it sure would be nice to turn up a complete copy of the
AUD from which the China Cat > Rider derives, just to double-check.

The circulating soundboard tape of China Cat > jam > Rider cuts off 0:20
into the jam and resumes with only the last 0:58 of Rider (China Cat [3:00]
> jam [0:20#] % Rider [#0:58]).  The circulating audience tape runs from the
beginning of China Cat through the end of Rider, with 42 seconds missing
starting 1:39 into China Cat (China Cat [2:#18] > jam [3:03] > Rider
[3:18]).  This is a fairly crude AUD recording but it supplies the entire
5:03 passage of jam > Rider missing on the SBD.  The timings for China Cat >
Rider given above represent a composite of the two tapes.

There are no other signs of the rest of this AUD master in circulation.  The
tape of Dark Star through Uncle John's jam in circulation labeled "AUD" is
in fact a very degraded copy of the SBD.

The Eleven analyzes:  1st vocals [1:13] > transition jam [1:31] > Eleven jam
[5:02] > Eleven vocals [0:44] > Eleven jam [3:09] > Eleven 2nd theme jam
[2:53] > transition jam in 8s [0:32] > Caution ... 

On the circulating tape the second part of Caution breaks off at 16:22, as
Pigpen is winding it down.  This could be an hour-long reel running out.
There must be from 40 seconds to 2 minutes or more of transitional jamming
missing here.  When the recording resumes after this splice the band is
playing a jam in 4s.  After 12 seconds of this someone recites:

When ya goin truckin down the line,
just past that neighbor,
you're fine,
give him that bright eye,
a saaaaad smile, 
and know that we've all been walkin
this same long mile.

The voice is not a bandmember's.  Hunter and Kesey have been suggested but
it sounds like neither.  The recitation is mildly mannered, and slightly
suggestive of Dylan's phrasing in Clothesline Saga and other Basement Tapes.
 Following these verses the Dead almost immediately dissolve the jam and
transit into the Main Ten.  The jam in 4s shares thematic elements with the
Main Ten.  Perhaps these verses are a first attempt at finding words to go
with the Main Ten.  On the other hand, the recitation sounds improvised.
The identity of the speaker is a mystery still to solve.
RECORDING  155 SB reels  10 A?
CONTRIBUTORS  Jim Powell  Eric Doherty  Rich Plumb  Tim Anderson  Jim Wise