Mickey and the Hartbeats 1968-10-30 [Wed]
Musicians
Jerry Garcia
- electric guitar, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Elvin Bishop - electric guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart - drums, perc
Phil Lesh - electric bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Elvin Bishop - electric guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart - drums, perc
Phil Lesh - electric bass
Setlist
Show
Dark Star [1] > Death Letter Blues [2] , The Other One [1] > Turn On Your Lovelight [1] , Clementine [1] > The Seven > The Eleven [1] > Death Don't Have No Mercy , unidentified-19681030-01 (instrumental) > unidentified-19681030-02 (blues) , Prisoner Of Love [2]
Dark Star [1] > Death Letter Blues [2] , The Other One [1] > Turn On Your Lovelight [1] , Clementine [1] > The Seven > The Eleven [1] > Death Don't Have No Mercy , unidentified-19681030-01 (instrumental) > unidentified-19681030-02 (blues) , Prisoner Of Love [2]
[1] Theme only
[2] Only known performance
[2] Only known performance
Also Appearing
Crome Syrcus
Notes
- Circulating tapes include a Clementime Jam and a Dark Star Jam after the setlist we supply, but LIA speculates, and Nick agrees, that they are from another night, possibly the night before (dangling on the end of re-used tape). After that Clementine fragment, per Nickm "they tune up and Garcia again deflects the applause. 'That's not necessary ... we're primarily just screwing around. And, uh, so don't expect anything that isn't screwing around. 'Cuz everything we're doing is just screwing around unless otherwise stated in advance. Some more lengthy tuning and dead air. 'Ok, let's play!' Lesh hints Dark Star and cheekily suggests, 'a little bossa nova?'"
- Budley Nelson, on dead.net The Matrix - October 30, 1968: "This was a very intimate show, with everyone just "goofin'" like Jerry said. I was the clean-up guy during and after the show, and Elvin Bishop was so drunk, the boss asked me to give him a ride home. He lived somewhere up on Sacramento or California St. and we just kept driving around the block, until he spotted his place ... he was semi-comatoast [sic]."
- review: Elwood 19681031: raves about the experimental approach. Text at deadsources
- deadessays: 1968 Show List | Deadbase Corrections
- deadthinking: Oct 68: Hartbeats run-down; see also Oct 68: Hartbeats run-down LIA's comment to that post
- JGMF: Hartbeats as Tempo Études
- ad: Daily Gator, October 25, 1968, p. 9, billing Grateful Dead
- mention: Ralph J. Gleason, "On the Town," San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 1968, p. 45, billing Jerry Garcia and Friends
- listing: San Francisco Examiner, October 29, 1968, p. 27, billing Jerry Garcia (late of the Grateful Dead)
Recordings
YouTube Audio