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Setlist

1. Jam
2. It's A Sin
3. Next Time You See Me Jam
4. The Rub Jam
5. Look On Yonder Wall
6. Jam >
7. Turn On Your Lovelight Jam >
8. Drums >
9. Jam >
10. Death Don't Have No Mercy
11. Dark Star Jam >
12. The Eleven Jam >
13. The Seven

This is not a Dead show -- the Dead were on a break. They had just finished an awesome tour and were now in town recording Aoxomoxoa and regrouping. There were Dead shows the following week, but in town.

At the end of track 1 (miller) Garcia says apologetically “We just playing here. We’re just goofing… Nobody’s up to anything serious.” And it’s true. They’re just jamming for fun, and a lot of the jams aren’t all that interesting or inspired.

This changes Death Don’t Have No Mercy. Jerry starts to get serious, and delivers a good perfornamce. The next track, track 11 (Miller) is a Dark-Star-ish jam, and is much better than the blues jams of earlier in the evening. So is the Eleven Jam, track 12, which is quite good. Jerry and Phil get into a groove that they just weren’t in earlier. It’s interesting to hear the transformation.

But, with track 13 (the Seven) deteriorates into repetitive chords – they’re back to rehearsing again, trying to get into a 7/4 beat. It gets better after three minutes or so.

It’s a Sin is an oldie – they hadn’t played it since May 1966, according to Deadbase.