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Reviewer: amy davis grand-i-o - - March 9, 2017

Subject: Awesome jamming I'm so glad I stumbled onto this. I was actually trying to see if there was a show on my actual birthday. But my second birthday will do. It sounds like this is the beginning of some future stuff that will be brought out in later Grateful Dead music-- something new being born. It's cool to hear the flow of ideas through Jerry's guitar. I'd love to have a CD copy of this. The sound is quite good. amy davis grand-i-o -- March 9, 2017Awesome jamming

Reviewer: njpg - favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 14, 2015

Subject: - Great to hear Jerry & Jack; I guess I like songs WITH jams better than just jams. - April 14, 2015

Reviewer: doug_the_dude - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 7, 2013

Subject: - Some pretty groovy music here, kids - good to blast while you cook dinner or some such thing. The first half of the 2nd track - all that Master Plan Jam stuff - is quite impressive. - December 7, 2013

Reviewer: smokingcratersofthemind - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 12, 2011

Subject: this brings out the infinite ways of an ethereal truth Impossible to fathom the infinities this show procures.... 1969 is well on the way. Not the Grateful Dead, but the pieces of it, that assemble into the magic of 69 quite quickly with a strength they amass from these shows- all psychedelic muscles moving together in fluid movements of a living sound. Phil has quite strong playing, Jerry progressing in some dizzying way not easily definable but most clearly evident from the way he maneuevers the ever-formed shape (leader or not!). With Jack Cassady the jams are very well solidifed, a strength beyond the Dead... this brings out the infinite way of an ethereal truth- music, the thread of an ever-woven tapestry beyond the musicians who possess that thread. Always is it woven, always is it extended from their instruments... they are brought beyond together in mastery of a most-untamable way of 'art', the extracation of fluid truths of a soul onward into the layers of music building a skyward monument of music. Outerly, within - July 12, 2011this brings out the infinite ways of an ethereal truth

Reviewer: Bus70 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 1, 2009

Subject: absolutely amazing show, Garcia is ON...but this is not the Dead this is Mickey and the Hartbeats, which, on this night, consisted of Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, and Mickey, with Spencer Dryden in the first set and David Getz in the second. no Phil, Billy, or Pigpen. what a hot show though!!!! superfine.



also: Happy Birthday, Jerry. your soul rocks on forever. - August 1, 2009absolutely amazing show, Garcia is ON...but this is not the Dead

Reviewer: daves_not_here - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 20, 2007

Subject: incredible... I've been trying to find some thing from '68, the year I was born, preferably the latter half.

I can't tell you what reading all of your comments means to me, never having been to a dead show...i hate to say. Words but fail to describe the great loss i've endured, never having been to a show.

(I love Sun Ra, btw. )



other than that the sound on this is decent, for the time anyway. - October 20, 2007incredible...

Reviewer: familiarfan - favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 6, 2006

Subject: Nice touch The ending of this material gives a hint towards

We Bid You Goodnight, but in a light jam. - January 6, 2006Nice touch

Reviewer: macfawlty - favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 18, 2005

Subject: Anyone have the first jam with Creator? Am I to read that the jam with Creator is not part of this? I listened to both carefully and don't hear a hint of Creator... Both of these jams are great, preferring the second, but liking the first jam blues for sure. I know Creator has a Master Plan well, and have seen Pharoah a couple times. He was certainly based on the West Coast after high school. I'd like to hear this version of Creator. On a side note, the last time I saw Pharoah at Blues Alley in DC, he did a version of My Favorite Things for over an hour. It was like he channeled Coltrane and an experience that gives me chills just thinking about it. Another 8 minute song and that was the set. Dead fans would do well to pick up the Alice Coltrane CD, Journey in Satchidananda with Pharoah and Ptah El Daoud. And while you're at it, pick up some Sun Ra. - August 18, 2005Anyone have the first jam with Creator?

Reviewer: Grateful Guy - favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 12, 2005

Subject: Gabor Szabo Jerry's playing at the beginning of the 2nd Jam seems to be influenced by the Jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo who was very popular during the late sixties. Anyway, great music!! - June 12, 2005Gabor Szabo

Reviewer: phleshy - favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 16, 2005

Subject: If this clears it up at all, The "Creator has a master plan" is the title of a 30-minute long jam from free jazz saxophonist Pharoh Sanders's 1969 album Karma. Haven't heard it but if the jam listed here is the same as on Karma, how could these guys know of the tune before the album was released? Maybe they saw Pharoh live and picked it up there? - March 16, 2005If this clears it up at all,

Reviewer: Jim F - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 16, 2004

Subject: Harvey Mandel Man I love the second jam. Am I the only one who had this jam on the second disc of the "Can you pass the acid test" bootleg cd who liked it slowed down? I downloaded the version here, but just like the slower version from the bootleg better. I've always been unsure of what the "creator has a master plan" theme is from. Anyone know?



There is a show out there, which i don't have, that is not yet on the archive, that is listed as a jam with Harvey Mandel from 12/24/68. Deadlists has this to say...



VENUE The Matrix

CITY San Francisco

STATE CA

DATE 12/16/68

SET1 Jam (1) [41:54]

SET2 Jam (2) [39:23]

SET3

ENCORE

COMMENTS The tapes circulating with this date are from a "Heartbeats" show, without Bobby and Pigpen. (1) with Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden. (2) with Jack Casady and David Getz. This contains a lengthy "The Creator Has a MasterPlan"

theme and has references to Dark Star,Clementine, and China Cat Sunflower.



Bill Gadsden said he copied from Peter Abram "two reels with 45 minutes apiece of Garcia, Spencer Dryden, Cassady, Getz, etc from 12/16/68". A third jam has previously circulated as "Set 3" of this date, but Bill says that it's "with

Harvey Mandel from 12/24/68". See comments for 12/24/68.



On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of Dupree's Diamond News, Dick Latvala stated in an interview "There are tapes of 12/16/68 marked Hartbeats at the Matrix, but I don't know if that's really accurate. You know [David] Crosby was playing with them quite a lot that month." Strangely there is a Garcia and Crosby "Hartbeats" show at the Matrix on 12/16/70.



BAND Grateful Dead

VENUE The Matrix

CITY San Francisco

STATE CA

DATE 12/24/68

SET1 Jam (1)[30:56]

SET2

SET3

ENCORE

COMMENTS The tapes circulating with this date are from a "Heartbeats" show,

without Bobby and Pigpen. (1) with Harvey Mandel (and George Chambers?). This

jam has previously circulated as "Set 3" of 12/16/68, but Bill Gadsden says that

it's "with Harvey Mandel from 12/24/68". - December 16, 2004Harvey Mandel