Jerry Garcia
- electric guitar (lead), vocals
Bill Kreutzmann
- drums, perc
Bob Weir
- electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
Mickey Hart
- drums, perc
Phil Lesh
- electric bass, vocals
Ron McKernan
- organ, vocals Tom Constanten
- keyboards
timings by C. Callaghan based on shnid 109641
Notes [track length]:
1. / Dark Star > [14:07] starts (well into?) intro jam
2. St. Stephen > [05:22] some digi-noise
3. William Tell Bridge > [01:09]
4. The Eleven > [10:36] vocals very low; transition starts @ 09:02
5. Love Light > [06:43] vocals good then low again
6. Drums > [00:25]
7. Love Light [13:35] periods of low vocals; Jerry (off mic) "OK."; track fades @ 13:11
8. Dupree's Diamond Blues > [04:11] song starts @ 00:04
9. Doin' That Rag [05:36]
10. Cosmic Charlie [06:40]
11. Banter [00:49]
Jerry (off mic) "Yeah."
(sounds like some dialogue with the audience)
(laughter then Alligator riff played...crowd approves)
Crowd "Alligator!"
Bobby (off mic) "Alligator."
Jerry or Mickey or both? "Kick it off. (?). Kick it off."
12. Alligator > [03:39]
13. Drums > [02:17]
14. Alligator > [03:31] rap segment includes pig snorts; outro jam turns Caution-like @ 02:54
15. Caution > [06:07] remove 00:03 from this track and add to Feedback
16. Feedback > [04:08] 00:03 added from Caution
17. AWBYG \ [02:32] a loud low tone (unintentional bass feedback?) comes over the speakers 00:18 - 00:23; song fades out @02:30
Family Dog was out of the Avalon by this time. This was put on by Soundproof Productions, involving a partnership between folks from the Denver Dog and the Vulcan Gas Company (Austin). They were cooperating with the hall owner by promising to make renovations to the building and improvements to the sound, keeping neighbors at bay by limiting lines and cleaning up the street after shows, and making the rent-a-cops responsible to Mr. Hooley (the owner), who in turn would let them use his dance permit. All of that detail from Smokestack El Ropo, "Family Dog and Fleas Hop to It," Good Times, January 21, 1969, p. 2. The Soundproof guys were Bob Simmons and Gary Scanlon (Link 1969).
ad: San Francisco Express Times, January 21, 1969, p. 13
deadsources: January 24-26, 1969: Avalon Ballroom — unknown (San Francisco Examiner, 14 January 1969); unknown (San Francisco Examiner, 24 January 1969); unknown (Tom Campbell's "Pop Scene" column, "The Sound of Competition," San Francisco Examiner, 25 January 1969); Dick Alexander (San Francisco Examiner, 27 January 1969)