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Cosmic Charlie
Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Cosmic Charlie was first performed by the Grateful Dead in October 1968. It appeared about 20 times in both 1969 and 1970 but was dropped from the repertoire at the start of 1971. Cosmic Charlie made a brief comeback in 1976 when it was performed about half a dozen times.

The short-lived appearances in the repertoire are explained by comments made by Garcia in Conversations With The Dead (Gans 1991)

Those were the first songs me and Hunter did together, and we didn't have the craft of songwriting down .... Songs like ‘Cosmic Charlie,' there's technically too much happening there for me to be able to come up with a comfortable version of it that I can sing and play on stage. I never would have thought about that when I started writing songs. I didn't realize that you had to think about that stuff.


Grateful Dead

info Aoxomoxoa, 1969
info Single (Dupree's Diamond Blues / Cosmic Charlie), 1969
info What A Long Strange Trip It's Been, 1977
info Dick's Picks, Vol. 8, 1997
info Fillmore East 2.11.69, 1997
info Dick's Picks, Vol. 20, 2001
info The Golden Road (1965-1973), 2001
info Aoxomoxoa, 2003 expanded CD has an extra version
info Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, 2005
info Fillmore West 1969: Compilation, 2005
info Road Trips: Vol 3, Number 3: Fillmore East, 5/15/70, 2010
info Complete Studio Albums Collection, 2013
info Complete Live Rarities Collection, 2013
info Dave's Picks 2014 Bonus CD, 2014
info On The Road: Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2016, 2016
info Smiling On A Cloudy Day, 2017
info February 27th 1969: Fillmore West, 2018
info Dave's Picks Vol 30: Fillmore East, 2/1/70, 2019
info Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2019
info Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniv. Edition), 2019
info June 1976, 2020
info Fillmore West 1969: March 1st, 2022

Phil Lesh & Friends

info Live at the Warfield, 2006
info June 22, 2006, Boca Raton, FL, 2006
info Instant Live: June 27, 2006, Asheville, NC, 2006
info Instant Live: July 16, 2006, Chicago, IL, 2006
info April 5, 2014, Port Chester, NY, 2014
info April 9, 2014, Port Chester, NY, 2014
info March 16, 2015, Port Chester, NY, 2015
info February 26, 2016, Las Vegas, NV, 2016
info March 17, 2016, Port Chester, NY, 2016
info May 28, 2016, Port Chester, NY, 2016
info March 16, 2017, Port Chester, NY, 2017

Other recordings

info Gathering On The Mountain: Live Part 1, Various Artists, 2000

 
The Dead

info Columbia, MD, June 18, 2003
info Somerset,WI, August 3, 2003
info Morrison, CO, June 18, 2004
info Sacramento, CA, June 27, 2004
info Boston, MA, July 31, 2004
info Camden, NJ, August 7, 2004
info Dead '09: Greensboro, NC, April 12, 2009
info Dead '09: New York, NY, April 25, 2009
info Dead '09: Los Angeles, CA, May 9, 2009

Furthur

info Dec 8, 2009, New York, NY
info Dec 30, 2009, San Francisco, CA
info Feb 10, 2010, Charlotte, NC
info Feb 22, 2010, Newark, DE
info May 30, 2010, Angels Camp, CA
info June 25, 2010, Rochester, NY
info July 8, 2010, Lewiston, NY
info September 24, 2010, Morrison, CO
info November 17, 2010, Baltimore, MD
info March 10, 2011, New York, NY
info March 29, 2011, Binghamton, NY
info April 5, 2011, Orlando, FL
info July 19, 2011, Saratoga Springs, NY
info Sept 28, 2011, West Valley City, UT
info Oct 4, 2011, Las Vegas, NV
info Nov 4, 2011, Portland, ME
info Nov 15, 2011, Albany, NY
info Dec 31, 2011, San Francisco, CA
info April 5, 2012, Boston, MA
info April 18, 2012, New York, NY
info July 8, 2012, Columbia, MD
info September 25, 2012, Seattle, WA
info September 30, 2012, Mountain View, CA
info January 19, 2013, Mill Valley, CA
info February 21, 2013, Denver, CO
info April 17, 2013, Port Chester, NY
info April 27, 2013, Atlantic CIty, NJ
info July 13, 2013, Philadelphia, PA
info Sept 24, 2013, Redmond, WA
info Sept 29, 2013, Berkeley, CA

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