7/11/69: flushing meadow park, queens, NY.

this dick latvala soundboard transfer is one of my favorite recordings from this era. jerry's pedal steel guitar in the first set is a joy, and charles lloyd adds some fine reeds to the mix. in her review of the performance, village voice columnist annie fisher spent a good deal of copy railing on the venue: “…you can walk up to the bandstand close enough to touch a leg of whoever it is you want to touch on the leg on stage. no goddamn revolving stage, no goddamn lightshow, and no seats anywhere...you can plant your ass on the mosaic new york state on the floor, if you must, but it's just about impossible when the grateful dead are playing."

the dead, as usual, take half of a marathon set to warm up, but once they do they're unstoppable. this is very much evident in the jam> other one> death don't have no mercy sequence. queue it up and see for yourself.

https://archive.org/details/gd1969-07-11.123417.sbd.latvala.lee.smith.flac24