10/22/67: marijuana defense benefit, winterland arena, san francisco, CA.

if you’re looking for a good example of 1967 grateful dead, you need not look any further than this performance. recorded a month prior to the first studio session for anthem of the sun, it reveals a band teetering on the edge of the cosmos.

this coming july, we’ll be gifted a remastered version of this concert in the form of a bonus disc that will accompany the 50th anniversary reissue of anthem of the sun. the 2-cd set will include the original 1968 mix in all it’s primal, experimental splendor. add to this the first extant live recording featuring mickey as a member of the grateful dead and you’ve got a really special and historically relevant vault release.
https://archive.org/details/gd1967-10-22.sbd.miller.116257.flac16