FIRST LAGIN

Ned Lagin was a friend of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. During some of the tours of 1974, his synthesizer performances were featured in a separate set between the Grateful Dead's first and second sets. Drummer Bill Kreutzman and bassist Phil Lesh often jammed with Ned Lagin during these synthesizer space interludes, at sometimes Jerry Garcia played along; with his guitar heavily processed through effects processors. Lagin also appears on the song "Candyman" from the 1970 album American Beauty.This set reflects the first time Ned joined the band with his Seastones electronic music.
Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers in real-time stage and studio performance. This included running analogue to digital converters and doing digital signal processing to generate music in the era before digital synthesizers appeared on the market. Lagin has attended Berklee School of Music and also holds degrees in the humanities and molecular biology at MIT.

Sunday, June 23, 1974
Jai-Alai Fronton - Miami, FL
Audience Recording

DISC ONE [79:37]
set one-a:
01 [03:11] "this is a test"
02 [07:47] Ramble On Rose
03 [09:11] Black Throated Wind
04 [03:57] technical difficulties
05 [00:46] "Tico Tico" tuning
06 [08:08] Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo
07 [04:11] Beat It On Down The Line
08 [09:49] Row Jimmy
09 [05:50] Jack Straw
10 [04:55] Let It Rock*
11 [07:53] Cumberland Blues
12 [05:56] El Paso
13 [08:03] To Lay Me Down

*only time played

DISC TWO [71:09]
set one-end:
01 [01:14] tuning & crowd
02 [01:20] Weather Report Suite Prelude >
03 [04:16] Weather Report Suite Part One >
04 [10:52] Let It Grow >
05 [05:26] China Doll
set 1.5:
06 [12:42] //Seastones*
set two-a:
07 [02:17] tuning & crowd
08 [04:11] Jam >
09 [06:14] Ship Of Fools
10 [05:46] Big River
11 [10:47] Black Peter
12 [06:04] Around And Around

*debut (master tape begins with cut)

DISC THREE [56:45]
set two-end:
01 [17:58] Dark Star >
02 [04:08] Spanish Jam >
03 [10:26] US Blues
04 [07:56] Uncle John's Band
05 [09:26] One More Saturday Night
encore:
06 [06:51] Casey Jones