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A rather historical night as the dead premiered DW and Janis sat in for a bit on lovelight! Here's the Jim Wise Board:

https://archive.org/details/gd1969-06-07.132685.sbd.reels.wise.flac16

and the set:

One - 1:34:30 Dire Wolf [2:39] > Dupree's Diamond Blues [4:06] > Mountains Of The Moon [3:52] > Jam [1:54] > Dark Star [20:59] > Saint Stephen [6:45] > The Eleven [15:21] > Sittin On Top Of The World [3:28] > Cold Rain & Snow [2:51] > Doin' That Rag [7:41];[0:29] ; Me And My Uncle [3:15];[0:06]%[0:03] ; Turn On Your Love Light [20:37]

Comments

Dire Wolf through Mountains are acoustic. Besides a cassette SBD master, as Rob Bertrando writes: "There is a reel master from early in The Eleven to the end of the show. Like the partial reel master of 6/5/69, though, there is terrible "scrape flutter" from the end of Doin That Rag through the end of Turn On Your Love Light." A composite of these two masters was assembled on PCM and put into circulation in '91.

The Eleven analyzes St. Stephen > 1st vocals 1:05 > transition Jam 2:00 > Eleven Jam 4:17 > Eleven vocals 0:40 > Eleven Jam 4:57 > Eleven 2nd theme Jam 1:58 > transition 0:24 > Sittin On Top Of The World.

Janis Joplin's vocals during Turn On Your Love Light are first heard at 4:20.

Most copies in circulation have a curious glitch, with Dark Star restarting after 12 seconds ; this derives from a Beta Hi-Fi copy of 1st gen reels circulating in the early 90s.

And here's what Rolling Stone had to say about the Janis sit-in:

On this historic night, the Dead premiered “Dire Wolf,” a peek at the acoustic country-folk left turn they’d take the following year on Workingman’s Dead. But then it was back to dem ol’ kosmic blues, peaking with a fierce guest turn by Janis Joplin, who pops into a fully-lit 20-minute version of Bobby Bland’s “Turn on Your Lovelight” and takes it home in a sweaty tag-team with pal Pigpen, sounding like Otis Redding and Carla Thomas after a few rounds of Thunderbird and Spanish fly. “Got to get some!” shouts Pigpen. “I want to see . . . everything you got,” challenges Janis, with a wicked chuckle. And on it goes to a screaming finale, Garcia and Co. rocking the musical equivalent of grins that basically say, “Get those two a room already!” (Honorable mention: the “Lovelight” reprise at the Euphoria Ballroom in San Rafael on July 16th, 1970, in which the lovebirds make up what the song lacks in flow with boozy outbursts and risqué Patti Smith–ish ad-libs.)

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