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Well of lest first start this off with the history of this show. it was the fair well concert that the dead put together in less than two hours illegally blocking off haight street for a fare well to the neighborhood they lived in. what a fucking band getting two flat beds together and setting up all of their equipment and finding enough power in two hours but yes it was done. there is no soundboard but only one known tape recorded by the dead head that couldn’t miss the occasion. steve brown stuck up a cheap mike over the crowd toward the end his batteries died out and couldn't finnish what is said to be a great finale. the viola is ripping at first and then turns into one of the most intense 20 minute jam sessions (feb to sept 68’) the dead have expanded too. it is in 68 when the live dead era began and this viola is a great example of what latter came to be the insane jams that were produced during the later 60’s such as the live dead album. phils base is so disticnt it could be even called magical every note hit breath taking. the jams become more and more far out you could only inagine were the dead were creatively lost in self consiousness, alca pulco gold, and lsd for the most part. certainly not their best viola ever but up there along with the one from the oddles of noodles under ground cd’s that contains what i would consider the greatest viola ever short at only 13 minutes but the dead have never put so much effort in those 13 minutes on any other viola. though there are allot that are amazing (just about every single one).They begin show off their stuff by pig harmonious voice chanting “ooh smoke stack lightning” and you know that it gunna be a good one. the band breaks off from pig and then once again decend into the trance that is the “jam” complete improvisation that is from the soul and so perfect. the tape cuts of in the middle for a min but comes in with an insane jam that i would consider one of the bet is Smoke stacks from 1968.some of the pictures form an epic hour an a half -the love-light is shut out by the noise at first but then you can hear how great it becomes trully amazing and epic. the hurts me to is soulful but then it just stops and we miss the rest of great moment in history.