To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Grateful Dead, bassist Phil Lesh announced that he would be recreating setlists from each year in the band’s history at his self-owned venue, Terrapin Crossroads. The “1968” recreation went down last night, as the band played through the Dead’s February 14th, 1968 show at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco.
With a lineup that included Jeff Chimenti, Stu Allen, Ross James, Grahame Lesh, Ezra Lipp and Alex Koford, Phil Lesh started off the show by telling some stories about the band and their rich history. He also dedicated the second set to Neal Cassady, the beatnik-turned-Prankster who contributed to the rise of the Dead and the psychedelic movement in the mid-1960’s before tragically dying in 1968. Cassady is immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, and perhaps more relevantly with the lyric “There was Cowboy Neal, at the wheel, of the bus to never-never-land” in “That’s It For The Other One,” the tune that opened the second set.
You can listen to the concert in full below:
Setlist 1/29/15 (aka 2/14/68)
Set One: Morning Dew (SA), Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (RJ), Dark Star (SA) > China Cat Sunflower (SA) > The Eleven (GL/PL/SA) > Turn On Your Lovelight (RJ)
Set Two: That’s It for the Other One (GL) > New Potato Caboose > Born Cross-Eyed > Spanish Jam > Alligator > Caution (RJ on harmonica) > Feedback
Donor Rap
Encore: Midnight Hour (RJ)
[Setlist via Philzone.org]