Grateful Dead 1969-04-12 [Sat] Late

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SDS Ball

Student Union Ballroom, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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Musicians

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

Setlist

Show
Dark Star > Saint Stephen [1] > The Eleven > Turn On Your Lovelight > Feedback
[1] Includes William Tell Bridge
Tour
Grateful Dead April 1969
Also Appearing
Spirit of Creation
Lights
Five Fingers
Images
Notes
  • The circulating tape cuts in fairly early in the Dark Star so there may have been more songs lost beforehand.
  • According to the poster, there were two shows 8PM-10PM. After the concluding fragment of The Other One ends, Bobby says, "That’s all the time we have so we’re gonna knock off" and an MC says "The Grateful Dead, let’s hear it!" followed by applause. These make short sets (or shows) but at a student union in Salt Lake City they may have been under such a constraint.
  • Todd Wagner attended the show (not sure early or late), and says 300 people attended, including a dozen or so 4-5 year old girls, dressed all in white, who "wove their way through the crowd throwing flowers out of the baskets they carried".
  • JGMF: GD at University of Utah, April 12, 1969 "The Grateful Dead and Spirit of Creation, Lights by Five Fingers. Two shows, 8 and 10 p.m., $2 for students and $3 for non-students. … A little blurb "Grateful Dead at SDS Ball" says that the group had been scheduled to come earlier in the year but had to reschedule."
  • lostlivedead: Grateful Dead Tour Itinerary March-April 1969
  • deadsources: The Dead in the Daily Utah Chronicle, 1967-1970 — Harris Vincent (Daily Utah Chronicle, 12 April 1967); unknown (Daily Utah Chronicle, 11 August 1967); unknown (Daily Utah Chronicle, 11 April 1969); Richard Thomas (Daily Utah Chronicle, 18 April 1969); Steve Poulson (Daily Utah Chronicle, 29 September 1970); Rick Thomas (Daily Utah Chronicle, 29 October 1970)
  • deadessays: 1969 Show List

Recordings

SHNID Type Source
14914 SBD gd1969-04-12.014914.Salt Lake City,UT.sbd.cotsman.shn