FD 69-0801
Catalog Number
FD 69-0801
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Family Dog on the Great Highway
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
August 3, 1969
Nickname
Grateful Dead / Albert Collins / Ballet Afro-Haiti
Performers
Grateful Dead
Albert Collins
Ballet Afro-Haiti
Albert Collins
Ballet Afro-Haiti
Grateful Dead / Albert Collins / Ballet Afro-Haiti
Sunday, August 3, 1969, is one of those nights the Grateful Dead's own archive keeps circling back to, and it earns August 3 as its own even though it was the second of a two-night weekend. The setting was the Family Dog on the Great Highway — Chet Helms's last venture, the reopened Edgewater Ballroom at 660 Great Highway, at the fog-bound western edge of the city where the surf is loud enough to hear between sets.…
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