1969-06-11 [Wed]

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California Hall, San Francisco, CA

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Bobby Ace and the Cards from the Bottom of the Deck
Tom Constanten - keyboards
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia - guitar
Phil Lesh - bass
John Dawson - guitar, vocals
Peter Grant - pedal steel guitar
David Nelson - guitar, autoharp, vocals
Set 1:
Let It Be Me , Silver Threads And Golden Needles , Mama Tried , Cathy's Clown , Me And My Uncle , Slewfoot , Dire Wolf , Games People Play , The Race Is On , Green Green Grass Of Home

Set 2:
Tiger By The Tail , I've Just Seen A Face , All I Have To Do Is Dream , Wabash Cannonball , Railroading Across The Great Divide

Songs listed in italics are not sourced from a recording
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Scientology Benefit
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Notes
  • No tape is known to exist. Not sure where the list comes from, but it is widely reported. LIA has a good breakdown of the songs that appear.
  • LIA summarizes some possible weirdness "McNally notes that it was a Scientology benefit. (Constanten was part of that crowd, and had been trying to convert Weir, but Weir decided not to lean that way, and this show was his "goodbye to scientology".) "
  • comments by attendee Terry Nails to LIA "I remember the California Hall gig fairly well because I went there with Bobby and you are correct that they did mostly country covers. unfortunately however, I've never been much of a country music fan so I didn't really pay much attention to what they were playing. ... I remember Jerry being at the California hall gig because of an amusing incident that happened backstage. Neither Bob or I smoked pot, but we always rolled our own cigarettes. We both used to smoke target tobacco. I had just finished hand rolling a cigarette when Bobby came off the stage. I had just lit it when he asked me for a drag of it. (It was not uncommon to share a cigarette with somebody back in those days.) Anyway, Jerry stepped up and intercepted it before I could hand it to him and thinking it was a joint took a huge hit off of it. Needless to say he wasn't particularly happy when he found out it wasn't a joint. At the time I felt pretty bad about it, but in hindsight it was pretty funny. I do remember Jerry playing steel guitar during that period and the banjo playing that I remember may have been at the Matrix."
  • dead.net: California Hall - June 11, 1969
  • lostlivedead: Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Tour Itinerary June 1969
  • ref: McNally 2002, 321;
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