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. It was released as a digital download on July 5, 2005. This was the fifth show with new band member

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on keyboards. He was added as a member because of the failing health of

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. This release is an almost complete concert; it drops "Beat It On Down the Line" which was played after "Loser". The album was mastered in

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by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

Disc one :''First set'': #"Bertha" ( Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) - 7:38 #"

Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the s ...

" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir) - 6:41 #"

Sugaree "Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album '' Garcia'', which was released in January 1972. As with the songs on the re ...

" (Hunter, Garcia) - 8:09 #" Me and My Uncle" ( John Phillips) - 3:59 #"Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:55 #"

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" (Hunter, Weir) - 5:29 #"Big Railroad Blues" (

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) - 4:04 #"

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) - 6:16 #"Cumberland Blues" (Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh) - 6:12 #"Cold Rain And Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 5:59 #" Mexicali Blues" ( John Barlow, Weir) - 3:30 #"Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:45 Disc two #"

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) - 4:43 #"Comes A Time" (Hunter, Garcia) - 8:08 #" One More Saturday Night" (Weir) - 4:52 :''Second set:'' #

"Ramble On Rose" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:54 #" Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) - 6:34 #"

Truckin' "Truckin" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album '' American Beauty''. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure.''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip'' . Jake Wo ...

" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 10:34 #"Drums" > (

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

) - 6:54 #"The Other One" > (Kreutzmann, Weir) - 16:06 #" Johnny B. Goode" (

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) - 4:20

Personnel

Grateful Dead *Jerry Garcia –

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–

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*Bill Kreutzmann – drums *Phil Lesh –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, vocals *Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals Production *Rex Jackson – recording *Jeffrey Norman – mastering

References

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