The Dead proper only performed The Eleven between 1968-1970 (though the current incarnation, Dead & Co, play it occasionally). Fun fact: they initially played it out of China Cat in the early years - Dick's Picks 22 has good examples from 2/23/68 and 2/24/68. As far as the Stephen>Eleven pairing, my favorites in chronological order would be 9/2/68, 10/12/68, 1/26/69 (The Eleven from Live/Dead is from this date), 2/22/69 (no lyrics on this Eleven but the jam is there), 2/27/69, 2/28/69, 3/1/69, 3/2/69, 4/13/69, 4/27/69, 6/5/69, 11/8/69, 1/2/70.
The Dead proper only performed The Eleven between 1968-1970 (though the current incarnation, Dead & Co, play it occasionally). Fun fact: they initially played it out of China Cat in the early years - Dick's Picks 22 has good examples from 2/23/68 and 2/24/68. As far as the Stephen>Eleven pairing, my favorites in chronological order would be 9/2/68, 10/12/68, 1/26/69 (The Eleven from Live/Dead is from this date), 2/22/69 (no lyrics on this Eleven but the jam is there), 2/27/69, 2/28/69, 3/1/69, 3/2/69, 4/13/69, 4/27/69, 6/5/69, 11/8/69, 1/2/70.
Hell yeah thanks comrade!