Dick's Picks, Vol. 16: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 11/8/69 [Live, Original recording remastered]

Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Live, Original recording remastered
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B00005V8PP
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,377 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Good Morning Little School Girl

2. Casey Jones

3. Dire Wolf

4. Easy Wind

5. China Cat Sunflower

6. I Know You Rider

See all 10 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Dark Star

2. The Other One

3. Dark Star

4. Uncle John's Band Jam

5. Dark Star

6. St. Stephen

See all 7 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Caution

2. The Main Ten

3. Caution

4. Feedback

5. We Bid You Goodnight

6. Turn On Your Lovelight

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This will shake your foundations, February 5, 2002

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Pharoah S. Wail (Inner Space) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 16: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 11/8/69 (Audio CD)

11/8/69. Quite simply, this is my favorite installment of the Dick's Picks series. I've had this since Grateful Dead Merchandising originally released it (in 2000) and it just keeps getting better with age.

First off, skip disc one. It is of no consequence whatsoever. It was included solely for the purpose of appeasing those people who will not buy a release unless it's a complete show. Disc One has annoying sonic problems all over it and the music goes nowhere.

Now here is where this release becomes great. In my opinion, Disc 2 and Disc 3 of #16 are the two best discs in the entire Dick's Picks series (which goes up to #24 now). Also the sonic problems of disc one disappear.

From slightly after the first verse of Dark Star all the way through to the end of Disc 3 this is phenomenal Grateful Dead. The Dead at their best.

Phil and Jerry are all over this release. It's a rare occurence when one of the Grateful Dead's best shows of all time actually becomes an official release. Dicks Picks 16 is one of those occurences.

I will say this though..... no, this release isn't for everyone. If you aren't much of a fan of 1968, 1969, and 1970 Grateful Dead then this cd will probably not convert you, as it will still be too heavy. If you prefer the sing-along AIko-AIko Grateful Dead of the middle and later years then this isn't the release for you.

The music on this Pick gets wild and wooly, beautifully thunderous and melodically caucophonous. In other words, if you tend to gravitate more towards tame, polished releases such as Without A Net then you may not like this cd. The band just really goes for it on this Pick, there is no holding back and obviously they blew alot of minds that night. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people who were actually at this show still consider it to be the best Grateful Dead performance they ever attended.

Oh one more thing, the Lovelight at the end of Disc Three is from the previous night, 11/7/69. This Pick is an epic Grateful Dead release.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely one of my favorite of the DP series, February 9, 2002

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Glenn Fink (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 16: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 11/8/69 (Audio CD)

I have 17 of the Dick's Picks sets, and this one ranks first or second for me. I am a fan of the 1960's version of the Dead, and their sound began turning a corner only months after this show, when they became more acoustic and Bob Weir started in more with the "cowboy" songs.

Forget what the last reviewer said about Disc 1 - the beginning of the show has many great things going for it. Pigpen is in top form on Good Morning Little Schoolgirl. Casey Jones CRANKS in this version that came before the studio release of Workingman's Dead. The other songs from that upcoming album are a little sluggish, but China Cat / Rider is very interesting in that it includes Tom Constanten's keys. Good Lovin and Cumberland Blues end the disc on a high note.

The last two discs don't need a breakdown; it's all the Dead in top form.

All in all, this is peak Grateful Dead in its 1969 incarnation, and if you like that era, you can't go wrong. I also highly recommend Dick's Picks 22, Kings Beach Bowl in February 1968, as the earliest and possibly most energetic form of the Dead ever captured on tape (though that one really does have some technical anomalies, but I don't care).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here you go!!, February 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 16: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 11/8/69 (Audio CD)

Here my friends is what we have been waiting for. Between the late sixties and early seventies the Grateful Dead could be as good in concert as any rock band. Dick's Picks Vol.16 is an example. CD 1 is a stumbling run through of mostly new songs that clearly were a work in progress. CDs 2 and 3 are non-stop high voltage crackling dangerous rock and roll that veers very close to Varese and Stockhausen at points and Coltrane like open ended jazz at points but is always good old Grateful Dead and that ain't bad. This one is killer.