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Garcia and Bob Weir (guitar/vocals) join in on the remaining "unplugged" tracks. He counterbalances ad-libbed lyrics with his own very sparse solo guitar picking, which is in perfect keeping with the lonesome nature of this blues. McKernan's playful cover of Lightnin' Hopkins' "Katie Mae" is a somewhat lightweight affair. While most assuredly not the finest example of the Dead's formidable acoustic sets, the platter opens with a quartet of cover tunes - many of which had been entries in Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) and McKernan's folky jug band repertoire prior to ultimately forming the electric, psychedelic Grateful Dead.
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GRATEFUL DEAD BEAR SERIES
The single disc includes performances from a highly touted series of shows held over two nights (February 13-14, 1970) at the Fillmore East in New York City. Alas, with the formation of the group's own label it was not to be. Band historians, however, claim that this release was optimistically titled because the label had hoped to issue a series of live recordings (à la Dick's Picks) containing highlights from a variety of vintage Dead performances. 1 (Bear's Choice) is somewhat misleading, as a follow-up never came to pass. However, this live disc was a sort of melancholy affair, as it centered on material featuring Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (guitar/vocals/mouth harp), who had left the band due to illness in June of the previous year. This 1973 release was the very last collection that the Grateful Dead authorized during their tenure with Warner Bros.