BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/07/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS According to DeadBase X the following were played:
Mindbender, On The Road Again, She Belongs To Me, I'll Go Crazy, Can't Come Down, Death Don't Have No Mercy, Parchman Farm, Midnight Hour, The Only Time Is Now, Early Morning Rain, It's All Over Now Baby Blue. No confirmation of the above on any recordings can be found.
David Sorochty:
The It's A Sin [2:52] and Sick and Tired [3:34] which circulate dated as "1/7/66" are just a partial copy of the "11/29/66 Set 1" (AKA 2/23/66) tape. The actual date of the full tape is unknown. These may really be "5/19/66". See the explanation of this on the "2/23/66"setlist.
The fact that DeadBase has a list for 1/7/66 which includes those two songs (in that order) is probably the reason for all the confusion in the first place. The 1/7/66 list has been in there since the first edition or two, but I don't know where they got it from.
Teddy GoodBear:
(See 1/15/66 - "Portland Acid Test" for more of Bear's comments). His comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
There were only two Matrix shows, one in Dec '65, and the one before the Fillmore AT. The Matrix was a crummy little closet of a venue with barely enough room for 50 to 60 people to stand in, the big name bands didn't play there after they got up and known. The hall couldn't pay more than $100 for the act. They seldom had two acts/night and so far as I know never three. The Dead played there twice when they were unknown.
RECORDINGS 7 SB. The two songs listed circulate in SBD.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Thayer Jennings
<htj@geocities.com>, Teddy
GoodBear<DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, DeadBase
X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Fillmore Auditorium
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/08/66
SET1 Stage Banter ; More Power Rap ; I'm A King Bee ; Hog For You Baby ; Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > ; Death Don't Have No Mercy ; Final Remarks ; Star-Spangled Banner ; More Final Remarks
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Fillmore Acid Test. This is a tape of the audio off of Ken Keasy's Acid Test video. It could be from a different date and several shows.
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear:
Up at the Fillmore Auditorium, Ken Kesey's Acid Test event was in action when I got there around the middle of the evening. The people were like the backstage crowd at the California Hall dance (that the Airplane played the same night). The costumes were, wow! A strobe light was flickering at a very high frequency in one corner of the hall and a group of people were bouncing a golden balloon up and down in it. It was a most perturbing frequency.
In one corner there was a piece of metal, tubular sculpture by Ron Boise, a thumping machine. If you hit it, you got different sounds if you hit it in different places. There was a lot of electronic equipment which sent out a low reverberation that resonated throughout the hall. And the whole place was filled with streamers and balloons. There were TV cameras and a TV screen, and you could see yourself in it. Onstage there was a rock group; anybody could play with them. It was a kind of social jam session.
A guy in a white mechanic's suit with a black cross on the front, and on the back a sign saying 'Please Don't Believe in Magic', ran up and down all night. Oh wow! Periodically the lights went out and everybody cheered. Giant Frisbees, balloons like basketballs, acrobats, girls in felt eyelashes four inches long, people with eyes painted on their foreheads, glasses low on the nose with eyes painted on them, men with foxes on their shoulders! Wow! -- Michael Rossman (S.F. Chronicle, 1/66)
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_08_66.html
To see a Ralph J. Gleason SF Chronicle newspaper article:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_07_66.html
RECORDINGS 35 SB. "Apparently on four twelve-inch reels." Some recordings circulate with Keasy and Garcia interview after 'King Bee', which is 'The Tomorrow Show' with Tom Snyder 5/7/81. This also circulates as "10/??/66".
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David
Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album (page 28), Michael Rossman (S.F. Chronicle, 1/66), The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; pp.91-94 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Prankster Archives, Ralph J. Gleason.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/13/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Afternoon show - actual date of list unknown.
Setlist as per DeadBase X: All Of My Love ; Hog For You Baby.Teddy GoodBear:
According to Bear this show at The Marix did not exist, (see 1/15/66 - "Portland Acid Test" for more of Bear's comments). His comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
There were only two Matrix shows, one in Dec '65, and the one before the Fillmore AT. The Matrix was a crummy little closet of a venue with barely enough room for 50 to 60 people to stand in, the big name bands didn't play there after they got up and known. The hall couldn't pay more than $100 for the act. They seldom had two acts/night and so far as I know never three. The Dead played there twice when they were unknown.
RECORDINGS No recordings of this are in circulation (mid 1998) to confirm this information.
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, Teddy
GoodBear<DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Fillmore Auditorium
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/14/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Appeal III-benefit For S.F. Mime Troupe. Dead billed as: "The Grateful Dead, Formerly The Warlocks". Other artist(s): Great Society, Mystery Trend, Sam Thomas & The Gentlemen's Band.
To see the concert art:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_14_66.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet], "The Art Of The Fillmore" book p.24, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Beaver Hall
CITY Portland
STATE OR
DATE 01/15/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Portland Acid Test - day uncertain.
Teddy GoodBear:
Bear's comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
Portland acid test was either on Dec 18 '65, or Jan 15 '66. There were two which I didn't go to after my "initiation" at the Dec 11 Muir Beach event, one was in Palo Alto and the other one was in Portland. There were two before that also. Only one other one did I miss, the first one in LA in late Feb in Northridge. So I missed a total of five of the AT's. The Dead were always the centerpiece of the Acid Tests, the real reason for its existence, and it could not have taken place without them. The band at the time rated their participation above any other activity in importance.
Owsley later goes on to say:
I met the Dead formally at the Fillmore show on 11 Feb '66. The Northridge Acid Test was 19 Feb, the Sunset Blvd. test was 25 Feb. I was not at the Northridge Test. Watts was in March.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/15/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Teddy GoodBear:
According to Bear this show at The Marix did not exist. His comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
There were only two Matrix shows, one in Dec '65, and the one before the Fillmore AT. The Matrix was a crummy little closet of a venue with barely enough room for 50 to 60 people to stand in, the big name bands didn't play there after they got up and known. The hall couldn't pay more than $100 for the act. They seldom had two acts/night and so far as I know never three. The Dead played there twice when they were unknown.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, Teddy GoodBear<DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/16/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Teddy GoodBear:
According to Bear this show at The Marix did not exist. His comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
There were only two Matrix shows, one in Dec '65, and the one before the Fillmore AT. The Matrix was a crummy little closet of a venue with barely enough room for 50 to 60 people to stand in, the big name bands didn't play there after they got up and known. The hall couldn't pay more than $100 for the act. They seldom had two acts/night and so far as I know never three. The Dead played there twice when they were unknown.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, Teddy GoodBear<DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Longshoreman's Hall
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/22/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Trips Festival, As part of "The Acid Trip" - Other artist(s): Big Brother & The Holding Company.
Teddy GoodBear: By following what Jeff Tiedrich said (from
??/??/66):
"A mutual friend asked Dick Latvala if he could shed any
additional light on the above material". (SEE ??/??/66 - circulates from GDH #388), "and Dick answered that this was from a (7") reel that came out of a box that was only labeled "Longshoreman's." No date or any other information."
I ask, could this "??/??/66" possibly be the same as this 1/22/66 show?
Ken Babbs (From 'Taping Compendium'):
We had this guy build us a soundboard; Buchla. He lived in San Francisco and he built us this thing called the Buchla Box. I think he worked on the Moog synthesizer. This guy was unbelievable. At the Trips Festival at Longshoreman's Hall [a venue with seats on all four sides of the floor], the weekend of January 22, 1966, he had ten speakers set up around there in the balcony.
He had this board in which he could run the sound around in circles. He would isolate one, and have sound wheeling around the room. He had this thing like a piano that was just flat and you ran your fingers across it and it would play the notes. Made it himself, absoulutely fantastic. He made up this box for us that was essentially a mixer and a mike amp and a speaker box and an earphone box.
Teddy GoodBear:
Bear's comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
To see SF Chronicle newspaper ad(s):
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_21_66.html
To see Ralph J. Gleason SF Chronicle newspaper article(s):
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_24_66.html
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_30_66.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet],"The Art Of The Fillmore" book pp.25-27, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; p.9 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Ken Babbs, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, Ralph J. Gleason.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Longshoreman's Hall
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE
01/23/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Trips Festival, As part of "The Acid Trip" - Other artist(s): Big Brother & The Holding Company.
Teddy GoodBear - By following what Jeff Tiedrich said (from
??/??/66):
"A mutual friend asked Dick Latvala if he could shed any
additional light on the above material". (SEE ??/??/66 - circulates from GDH #388), "and Dick answered that this was from a (7") reel that came out of a box that was only labeled "Longshoreman's." No date or any other information.
I ask, could this "??/??/66" possibly be the same as this 1/23/66 show?
Ken Babbs (From 'Taping Compendium'):
We had this guy build us a soundboard; Buchla. He lived in San Francisco and he built us this thing called the Buchla Box. I think he worked on the Moog synthesizer. This guy was unbelievable. At the Trips Festival at Longshoreman's Hall [a venue with seats on all four sides of the floor], the weekend of January 22, 1966, he had ten speakers set up around there in the balcony.
He had this board in which he could run the sound around in circles. He would isolate one, and have sound wheeling around the room. He had this thing like a piano that was just flat and you ran your fingers across it and it would play the notes. Made it himself, absoulutely fantastic. He made up this box for us that was essentially a mixer and a mike amp and a speaker box and an earphone box.
Teddy GoodBear:
Bear's comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet], "The Art Of The Fillmore" book pp.25-27, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; p.9 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Ken Babbs, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/28/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other Artist(s): Big
Brother & The Holding Company, The Loading Zone.
David Sorochty:
The 10 minute soundboard that circulates as 1/26/66 and as 1/28/66 is a bogus compilation tape of I Know You Rider from 12/01/66 and Merry-Go-Round Broke Down tuning and Early Morning Rain from 11/29/66 sets 3 and 2 respectively. This was listed in early editions of DeadBase under 1/28/66, but has long since been removed. They must have figured that one out too."
Teddy GoodBear:
According to Bear this show at The Marix did not exist. His comments were made off the top of his head & therefore may not be accurate.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
There were only two Matrix shows, one in Dec '65, and the one before the Fillmore AT. The Matrix was a crummy little closet of a venue with barely enough room for 50 to 60 people to stand in, the big name bands didn't play there after they got up and known. The hall couldn't pay more than $100 for the act. They seldom had two acts/night and so far as I know never three. The Dead played there twice when they were unknown.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, DeadBase X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Matrix/Straight Theater (?)
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/29/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Ken Babbs (From 'Taping Compendium') refering to Sound City Studios:
Kesey and I and [fellow Merry Prankster] George [Foster] went in there and started laying this stuff down. The Grateful Dead had been playing the Haight down at the Straight Theater. They came down and showed up.
To see the SF Chronicle newspaper ad:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/01_29_66.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; p.9 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Ken Babbs, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>.
BAND
Merry Pranksters
VENUE Sound City Recording Studios
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 01/29/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Acid Test LP. The Merry Pranksters with Jerry and Pigpen in attendance.
Ken Babbs (From 'Taping Compendium'):
This was not an Acid Test. Those were much bigger gatherings. This was done as a record to play at your house. With earphones on. It was done with that in mind. It was not an Acid Test. It was just us in the studio, doing our thing.
Kesey and I and [fellow Merry Prankster] George [Foster] went in there and started laying this stuff down. The Grateful Dead had been playing the Haight down at the Straight Theater. They came down and showed up.
The real tragedy of all this is we must have been in there all night long, like six or eight hours. Jim the Host was responsible for editing down and mixing the session. But he took all the master tape and he made the tape that went into the record. Then those tapes got lost, destroyed, they're gone. And that guy's dead.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, The Deadhead's Taping Compendium; pp.9,87,94 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork; Ken Babbs and Ken Kesey.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rehearsals
CITY Watts (?)
STATE CA
DATE 02/??/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Owsley Stanley (AKA - "Bear"): "...the house in Watts when I actually saw sound coming out of the speakers." This is on his "biographical notes" home page at:
http://www.thebear.org/musicintro.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Questing Beast
CITY
Berkeley
STATE CA
DATE 02/05/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS David Sorochty:
"Supposedly a rehearsal, with multiple takes of various songs However, this is actually an edited copy of the Scorpio Studio outtakes tape (see
6/??/66).
Steve McHenry provided a listing of the contents of his Questing Beast tape. It is:
Side A -
Stealin' jam (very short, just a couple of
bars)
Stealin' jam (longer)
Stealin (vocals)
I Know You Rider
(vocals)
Don't Ease Jam (13 times)
Don't Ease (vocals)
You Don't Have To Ask Jam (very brief)
You Don't Have To Ask Jam (longer jam)
You Don't Have To Ask (vocals)
Tastebud
Tastebud# (vocals, cut by tape flip)
Side B -
Tastebud (vocals; started over from beginning)
Cardboard Cowboy (vocals)
I Know You Rider Jam
I Know You Rider (vocals)
Cold Rain Jam (I counted 10 of these, but was doing other things so may have miscounted by one; my jcard says 9)
Cold Rain (vocals)
Steve McHenry: I don't hear any talking between tunes on any of these; that is, nobody's counting off the various takes. The only speaking that is real obvious is at the end of the final Cold Rain where Jerry very plainly yells, after a few seconds, 'shit!'.
See the 45's produced under the "Scorpio" labels:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/stealin.jpg
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/dontez.jpg
RECORDINGS 100 SB. 'The Questing Beast' tape is an edited copy of the Scorpio Studio outtakes, (See 6/??/66).
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com> , David Sorochty
<scarletfire@erols.com>, Steve McHenry <mchenrys@pacbell.net>,
Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; pp. 9&10 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Gene Estribou.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE The Cabale
CITY Berkeley
STATE CA
DATE 02/10/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Cancelled
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Fillmore Auditorium
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 02/11/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Cancelled according to Deadbase.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
I met the Dead formally at the Fillmore show on 11 Feb '66.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Youth Opportunities Center
CITY Compton
STATE CA
DATE 02/11/66
SET1 Pigpen Rap (AKA - Nobody Cares Rap)
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Known as 'Watts Acid Test'. Circulates as 02/12/66, but is unknown. Also see 03/??/66. What is most famous about the Watts test, is the "Who Cares" woman.
Jeff Tiedrich:
David Gans edited 'Pigpen's Rap' and
'Schoolgirl>You Don't Love Me>Schoolgirl' together on GDH #388 (thus no
splice) for the purposes of his broadcast. It should be noted that the date and location of the 'Pigpen Rap' is pure speculation. Dick Latvala informs us that the box and 7" reel from which this was taken is completely unlabelled.
Transcription:
The 'rap' starts with chattering and screaming in the background and Jerry (?) saying into the mike "Nobody Cares". You can hear Bobby and then Pigpen tells his 'story'. When Pig is done Bobby says "Someday Ron will take acid."
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The "Pigpen rap" that Gans took from an unlabeled box, with an intro from Jer "Nobody Cares" would have been an excerpt of a tape from the Watts Acid Test, or a show immediately after that gig. It is most likely, especially if there is a bunch of static on one channel (left I think), that it came from that Test. The Test, the third in LA, was in early March 1966.
Owsley later goes on to say:
This is absolutely the Watts Acid Test. There was a woman who Babbs was putting the mic onto who kept screaming "Who cares?" over and over at least a hundred times. I also think I recall the comment by Bobby on Pig's non acid-taking. There was a great Pig rap at that test, I would guess the tape was from the Prankster's tape machine.
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear from 'The Taping Compendium':
According to Vault archivist Dick Latvala, the material here comes from two different seven-inch reel boxes, the Pigpen rap in an unlabeled one, the other marked "Longshoreman's #1," with no other information. The intriguing thing is that both tapes have identical ambiences, and Bobby's comment has the same ambience and feel as the segment with Pigpen's rap.
RECORDINGS (?) FM. This segment was aired on David Gans's 'Grateful Dead Hour' #388 and circulates in FM-SBD.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Dick Latvala (consult vault sources), Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David Gans <david@trufun.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; pp.98-100 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, Hugh Romney (AKA "Wavy Gravy")
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE
CITY
STATE
DATE 02/12/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS See 03/??/66 & 02/11/66.
RECORDINGS Several mislabeled tapes appear with this date.
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; pp.98-100 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Northridge Unitarian Church
CITY Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 02/19/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Deadbase list this as 2/6/66.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The Northridge Acid Test was 19 Feb.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Unknown
STATE
DATE 02/23/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS See 5/19/66 for setlist.
David Sorochty:
The full tape is kind of a loop, with the same exact version of 'Sick And Tired' on it twice. The second time it fades out. I believe that 'It's A Sin' and 'Sick And Tired' which also circulate separately are incorrectly identified as "1/7/66".
The fact that DeadBase has a list for "1/7/66" which includes It's A Sin and Sick And Tired (in that order) is probably the reason for all the confusion in the first place. The "1/7/66" list has been in there since the first edition or two, but I don't know where they got it from.
Teddy GoodBear & David Sorochty:
SET1 Standing On The Corner [3:32] ; Mindbender [2:51] ; It Hurts Me Too [3:44] ; Viola Lee Blues [7:24] ; I Know You Rider [2:41] ; It's A Sin [2:55] ; Sick And Tired Sick and Tired [3:29]
We suspect due to the set list similarity that this might really be from the show that DeadBase X calls "5/19/66", a show that was not listed in any of their previous editions. See "5/19/66" for further explanation. DeadBase X also has "2/23/66" with this setlist as well as, (previous editions prior to DeadBase X), list it under "11/29/66".
Early Morning Rain and Cold Rain that circulate (as listed in DeadBase X) for this date are filler that do go with "11/29/66". See "11/29/66" for further explanation. Furthermore, DeadBase X footnotes -- "Previously listed under"11/29/66"."
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Thayer
Jennings <htj@geocities.com>,
DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Sunset Acid Test
CITY
Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 02/25/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
...the Sunset Blvd. test was 25 Feb.
RECORDINGS No known recordings circulate mid 1998.
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Ivar Theater
CITY Los
Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 02/25/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Studio Rehearsal
CITY
Unknown
STATE
DATE ??/??/66
SET1 Who Do You Love
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS This is often listed as 3/6/66 or March '66. The actual date is unknown.
RECORDINGS 10 SB.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Watts Acid Test
CITY
Watts
STATE CA
DATE 03/??/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Known as 'Watts Acid Test'. See 02/11/66.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The "Pigpen rap" that Gans took from an unlabeled box, with an intro from Jer "Nobody Cares" would have been an excerpt form a tape from the Watts Acid Test, or a show immediately after that gig. It is most likely, especially if there is a bunch of static on one channel (left I think), that it came from that Test. The Test, the third in LA, was in early March 1966.
I met the Dead formally at the Fillmore show on 11 Feb '66. The Northridge Acid Test was 19 Feb, the Sunset Blvd. test was 25 Feb. I was not at the Northridge Test. Watts was in March.
Owsley later goes on to say:
This is absolutely the Watts Acid Test. There was a woman who Babbs was putting the mic onto who kept screaming "Who cares?" over and over at least a hundred times. I also think I recall the comment by Bobby on Pig's non acid-taking. There was a great Pig rap at that test, I would guess the tape was from the Prankster's tape machine.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
Another tape has been in circulation for years dated 3/12/66 or 3/19/66 which contains Viola Lee Blues# (14.56), You See A Broken Heart (3.10), and Midnight Hour# (10.44). However this is not exactly a partial copy of 3/12/66. The versions of You See A Broken Heart and Midnight Hour# are the same as on the complete 3/12/66, but the Viola Lee Blues is definitely a different version. So hold onto those older tapes. The full 3/12/66 tape does not have that voice that cuts in after You See A Broken Heart that says "RAW". I can't tell who that is or how it got there.
Tape #1 - Side A Tape #2 - Side A This also included the following on side A of the second tape: Based on the list provided by Steve McHenry we can see that the differences are that the Questing Beast tape does not include:
a) takes 7 and 8# of Don't Ease Me In (both are instrumental
versions)
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE A.I.A.A. Hall
CITY Los
Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 03/03/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS With the film, "Psychedelic Experience".
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Danish Center
CITY Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 03/12/66
SET1 Viola Lee Blues [11:01] ; One Kind Favor [#3:27] ; I Know You Rider [2:25] ; You See A Broken Heart [3:12] ; It's A Sin [3:20] ; Beat It On Down The Line [2:50] ; Unknown Jam [3:55] ; Next Time You See Me [2:49]
SET2 The Same Thing (instrumental version) [7:06] ; Death Don't Have No Mercy [#5:50] ; Midnight Hour [10:45#]
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Pico Acid Test.
David Sorochty:
The unknown jam in the 1st set sounds similar at times to You Don't Love Me, Hog For You Baby, Big Boy Pete, or even like Deep Elem Blues (the old way like on 12/1/66). This tape has apparently only recently (mid 1998) come into circulation.
David Dieterich:
Bobby talks about the funky P.A. which is making popping noises after It's A Sin and BIODTL. Lots of talk about the ice cream man outside after the 1st set ends (after Next Time).
RECORDINGS SB. Midnight Hour cuts off with a significant portion missing. This tape also circulates (incorrectly) as 3/19/66.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Thayer Jennings <htj@geocities.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David
Dieterich <ddieteri@us.oracle.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Carthay Studios
CITY Los
Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 03/19/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Acid Test, moved from U.C.L.A. at the
last minute.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Troupers Hall
CITY Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 03/25/66
SET1 Stealin' [#1:37] ; Jam [7:41] ; Hey Little One [4:46] ; Hog For You Baby [2:49] ; You Don't Have To Ask [5:56]
SET2 Cold Rain And Snow [3:24] ; Next Time You See Me [2:30#]
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Thayer Jennings:
After You Don't Have To Ask, Garcia says: "Okay, we'll be back in just a few scant minutes." & Lesh: "We're gonna take a little break now. Don't forget: on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th..."(cut).
DeadBase X:
After Hey Little One -- Bob: "Hey Little One".
After Cold Rain And Snow -- Bobby: "That was Cold Rain And Snow".
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear:
Troupers Hall was the meeting room for a retired actor's club in Hollywood. The rent for the gig could'nt. have been much. We did everything ourselves, all in two days. We plastered handbills all over Hollywood. Stage decor was a few lengths of paisley cloth purchased that afternoon at a fabric store. For a box office, we had a card table and a cigar box.
Our not-quite-full house must have had over a hundred people; and when the night was over, our net take was $75. At 2 o'clock in the morning, we went to Cantor's Deli on Fairfax and spent it all on dinner for everybody -- with desert. -- Grateful Dead Family Album (page 43).
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/03_25_66-1.html
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/03_25_66-2.html
To listen to the show using "Real Audio":
http://www.deadlegs.com/tunes/1960/1966/32566/32566.ram
RECORDINGS 30 SB. The complete list circulates in SBD. The beginning of Stealin' is clipped with a significant portion missing. The end of Next Time You See Me cuts with a significant portion missing. Sometimes this recording incorrectly circulates as 01/??/66 or 01/22/66.
To see a recording box label, (as per Michael Wanger letter, see 07/??/66), from Golden State Recorders: http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/03_25_66-3.html
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Thayer Jennings <htj@geocities.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David
Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Michael Wanger <vidkid@well.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album--p.43, DeadLegs <www.deadlegs.com>, SugarMegs: Mike Maloney <www.SugarMegs.org>.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Pico Acid Test
CITY
Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 04/05/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS See 3/12/66.
RECORDINGS No known recordings circulate mid 1998.
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Los Angeles
STATE CA
DATE 04/06/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Our reasoning for listing this one, according to 3/25/66 tape:
* After You Don't Have To Ask, Garcia says: "Okay, we'll be back in just a few scant minutes." & Lesh: "We're gonna take a little break now. Don't forget: on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th..."(cut).
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Phil Lesh, Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Los Angeles
STATE
CA
DATE 04/07/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Our reasoning for listing this one, according to 3/25/66 tape:
* After You Don't Have To Ask, Garcia says: "Okay, we'll be back in just a few scant minutes." & Lesh: "We're gonna take a little break now. Don't forget: on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th..."(cut).
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Phil Lesh, Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Los Angeles
STATE
CA
DATE 04/08/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Our reasoning for listing this one, according to 3/25/66 tape:
* After You Don't Have To Ask, Garcia says: "Okay, we'll be back in just a few scant minutes." & Lesh: "We're gonna take a little break now. Don't forget: on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th..."(cut).
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Phil Lesh, Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Los Angeles
STATE
CA
DATE 04/09/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Our reasoning for listing this one, according to 3/25/66 tape:
* After You Don't Have To Ask, Garcia says: "Okay, we'll be back in just a few scant minutes." & Lesh: "We're gonna take a little break now. Don't forget: on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th..."(cut).
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Phil Lesh, Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Longshoreman's Hall
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/22/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Trips 196? Festival - Dress the Way You Are. Other artist(s): The Loading Zone, Celebrity Drop In's and Trips
Regulars.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet], Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30.
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/04_22-24_66.html
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Longshoreman's Hall
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/23/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Trips 196? Festival - Dress the Way You
Are. Other artist(s): The Loading Zone, Celebrity Drop In's and Trips
Regulars.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet], Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30.
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/04_22-24_66.html
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Longshoreman's Hall
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/24/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Trips 196? Festival - Dress the Way You
Are. Other artist(s): The Loading Zone, Celebrity Drop In's and Trips
Regulars.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet], Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30.
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/04_22-24_66.html
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rock Garden
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/28/6?
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): Charles Lloyd Quartet and Mystery Trend.
Adrian M. Johnson:
The caption lists this as "circa 1967"; the two other posters in "The Art Of Rock" from this venue are labelled as 1966.
Teddy GoodBear:
It's got to be '66, since we know for sure that on 4/29/67 the Dead were at "Earl Warren."
David Sorochty:
Well there are four most likely possibilities:
#1 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1967. This would conflict with other known shows.
#2 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1966. This is possible - there is a gap in the known shows for that time period. It would mean the run was from Thursday to Monday.
#3. Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1967. This is possible - and this is what DeadBase has aparently assumed is the case. Maybe they have some other reason to believe that? That would mean that the run was from Tuesday to Sunday though.
#4 Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1966. This is another possiblity. They were supposedly living in Los Angeles at the time, but it wouldn't conflict with the Los Angeles shows on the 6th through 9th announced from the stage by Phil at 3-25-66 or any others for that matter. It would mean more back and forth traveling is all and it would explain the gap between the 3-25-66 show and the ones Phil was reminding people about - as though he was reminding them they are going to be back in LA in two weeks. This would be a Monday thru Saturday and would match the scheduling pattern of Monday thru Satuday of the other acts at this venue. This would in fact fit right in between the other two runs at the Rock Garden shown on the other two posters.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book p.196; [The "Last Days" Booklet], David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rock Garden
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/29/6?
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): Charles Lloyd Quartet and Mystery Trend.
Adrian M. Johnson:
The caption lists this as "circa 1967"; the two other posters in "The Art Of Rock" from this venue are labelled as 1966.
Teddy GoodBear:
It's got to be '66, since we know for sure that on 4/29/67 the Dead were at "Earl Warren."
David Sorochty:
Well there are four most likely possibilities:
#1 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1967. This would conflict with other known shows.
#2 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1966. This is possible - there is a gap in the known shows for that time period. It would mean the run was from Thursday to Monday.
#3. Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1967. This is possible - and this is what DeadBase has aparently assumed is the case. Maybe they have some other reason to believe that? That would mean that the run was from Tuesday to Sunday though.
#4 Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1966. This is another possiblity. They were supposedly living in Los Angeles at the time, but it wouldn't conflict with the Los Angeles shows on the 6th through 9th announced from the stage by Phil at 3-25-66 or any others for that matter. It would mean more back and forth traveling is all and it would explain the gap between the 3-25-66 show and the ones Phil was reminding people about - as though he was reminding them they are going to be back in LA in two weeks. This would be a Monday thru Saturday and would match the scheduling pattern of Monday thru Satuday of the other acts at this venue. This would in fact fit right in between the other two runs at the Rock Garden shown on the other two posters.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book p.196; [The "Last Days" Booklet], David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rock Garden
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 04/30/6?
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): Charles Lloyd Quartet and Mystery Trend.
Adrian M. Johnson:
The caption lists this as "circa 1967"; the two other posters in "The Art Of Rock" from this venue are labelled as 1966.
Teddy GoodBear:
It's got to be '66, since we know for sure that on 4/29/67 the Dead were at "Earl Warren."
David Sorochty:
Well there are four most likely possibilities:
#1 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1967. This would conflict with other known shows.
#2 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1966. This is possible - there is a gap in the known shows for that time period. It would mean the run was from Thursday to Monday.
#3. Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1967. This is possible - and this is what DeadBase has aparently assumed is the case. Maybe they have some other reason to believe that? That would mean that the run was from Tuesday to Sunday though.
#4 Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1966. This is another possiblity. They were supposedly living in Los Angeles at the time, but it wouldn't conflict with the Los Angeles shows on the 6th through 9th announced from the stage by Phil at 3-25-66 or any others for that matter. It would mean more back and forth traveling is all and it would explain the gap between the 3-25-66 show and the ones Phil was reminding people about - as though he was reminding them they are going to be back in LA in two weeks. This would be a Monday thru Saturday and would match the scheduling pattern of Monday thru Satuday of the other acts at this venue. This would in fact fit right in between the other two runs at the Rock Garden shown on the other two posters.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book p.196; [The "Last Days" Booklet], David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rock Garden
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 05/01/6?
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): Charles Lloyd Quartet and Mystery Trend.
Adrian M. Johnson:
The caption lists this as "circa 1967"; the two other posters in "The Art Of Rock" from this venue are labelled as 1966.
Teddy GoodBear:
It's got to be '66, since we know for sure that on 4/29/67 the Dead were at "Earl Warren."
David Sorochty:
Well there are four most likely possibilities:
#1 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1967. This would conflict with other known shows.
#2 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1966. This is possible - there is a gap in the known shows for that time period. It would mean the run was from Thursday to Monday.
#3. Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1967. This is possible - and this is what DeadBase has aparently assumed is the case. Maybe they have some other reason to believe that? That would mean that the run was from Tuesday to Sunday though.
#4 Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1966. This is another possiblity. They were supposedly living in Los Angeles at the time, but it wouldn't conflict with the Los Angeles shows on the 6th through 9th announced from the stage by Phil at 3-25-66 or any others for that matter. It would mean more back and forth traveling is all and it would explain the gap between the 3-25-66 show and the ones Phil was reminding people about - as though he was reminding them they are going to be back in LA in two weeks. This would be a Monday thru Saturday and would match the scheduling pattern of Monday thru Satuday of the other acts at this venue. This would in fact fit right in between the other two runs at the Rock Garden shown on the other two posters.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book p.196; [The "Last Days" Booklet], David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rock Garden
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 05/02/6?
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): Charles Lloyd Quartet and Mystery Trend.
Adrian M. Johnson:
The caption lists this as "circa 1967"; the two other posters in "The Art Of Rock" from this venue are labelled as 1966.
Teddy GoodBear:
It's got to be '66, since we know for sure that on 4/29/67 the Dead were at "Earl Warren."
David Sorochty:
Well there are four most likely possibilities:
#1 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1967. This would conflict with other known shows.
#2 Should say April 28 - May 2 and its 1966. This is possible - there is a gap in the known shows for that time period. It would mean the run was from Thursday to Monday.
#3. Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1967. This is possible - and this is what DeadBase has aparently assumed is the case. Maybe they have some other reason to believe that? That would mean that the run was from Tuesday to Sunday though.
#4 Should say March 28 -April 2 and its 1966. This is another possiblity. They were supposedly living in Los Angeles at the time, but it wouldn't conflict with the Los Angeles shows on the 6th through 9th announced from the stage by Phil at 3-25-66 or any others for that matter. It would mean more back and forth traveling is all and it would explain the gap between the 3-25-66 show and the ones Phil was reminding people about - as though he was reminding them they are going to be back in LA in two weeks. This would be a Monday thru Saturday and would match the scheduling pattern of Monday thru Satuday of the other acts at this venue. This would in fact fit right in between the other two runs at the Rock Garden shown on the other two posters.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book p.196; [The "Last Days" Booklet], David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY Unknown
STATE
DATE ??/??/66
SET1 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [8:02] > You Don't Love Me [5:54] > Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [6:46#]
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Circulates as 02/12/66, but is unknown.
Jeff Tiedrich:
A mutual friend asked Dick Latvala if he could shed any additional light on the above material and Dick answered that this was from a 7" reel that came out of a box that was only labeled "Longshoreman's." No date or any other information.
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear from 'The Taping Compendium':
According to Vault archivist Dick Latvala, the material here comes from two different seven-inch reel boxes, the Pigpen rap in an unlabeled one, the other marked "Longshoreman's #1," with no other information. The intriguing thing is that both tapes have identical ambiences, and Bobby's comment has the same ambience and feel as the segment with Pigpen's rap.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
The box labeled "Longshoreman's" would have been the shows we did with Loading Zone in late April 66, after the return to SF from LA.
RECORDINGS 21 FM. This segment was aired on David Gans's 'Grateful Dead Hour' #388 and circulates in FM-SBD. The very end of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl cuts off with a (minor?) portion missing.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Thayer Jennings <htj@geocities.com>, Dick Latvala (consult vault sources), Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David Gans <david@trufun.com>, David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium; pp.98-100 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Harmon Gym, U. of California
CITY
Berkeley
STATE CA
DATE 05/07/66
SET1 In the Midnight Hour
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Bill Kreutzmann's 20th birthday -
"Peace Rock 3". Other Artist(s): The Great Society, The Charlatans and Billy Moses Blues Band. Maybe from another spring '66 Berkeley show.
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear from 'The Taping Compendium' about Midnight Hour:
Jann Wenner, in his pre-Roling Stones days, described it in the spring of '66 as the highlight of a gig at Berkeley, calling it "one of their best numbers, and the best version of that song I've heard any group do."
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>; mr. jones [Jann Wenner] -- "The Return of Nowhere Man," Daily Californian May 12, 1966, p. 12; The DeadHead's Taping Compendium [Nick Meriwether] p.143 -- Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, DeadBase X.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Veterans Memorial Hall
CITY
Berkeley
STATE CA
DATE 05/14/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Avalon Ballroom
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 05/19/66
SET1 Beat It On Down The Line ;
Standing On The Corner [3:32] ; Mindbender [2:51] ; It Hurts Me Too [3:44] ;
Viola Lee Blues [7:24] ; I Know You Rider [2:41] ; It's A Sin [2:55] ; Sick And Tired Sick and Tired [3:29] ; Cream Puff War [2:15#]
SET2 Sittin' On Top Of The World ; Minglewood Blues ; Cold Rain And Snow ; Come Back Baby ; Silver Threads And Golden Needles ; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ; Good Lovin' ; You Don't. Have To Ask
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Straight Theater benefit, "A Reading and Dance Concert" - Other artist(s): The Wildflower, Michael McClure and The Outfit.
To see what appears to be a concert poster:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/05_19_66.html
Teddy GoodBear:
The above setlists matches DeadBase X. Timings are from what DeadLists previously called "Set 1, 11/29/66" including Cream Puff War. Furthermore, DeadBase earlier editions prior to DeadBase X, also called "Set 1, 11/29/66".
David Sorochty & Teddy GoodBear as per
"2/23/66":
Standing On The Corner, Mindbender, Hurts Me Too, Viola Lee Blues, I Know You Rider, It's A Sin and Sick And Tired - same order as "2/23/66" as listed in DeadBase X? If so, then we speculate that the right date is "5/19/66".
RECORDINGS 30 SB, assuming this is what DeadLists previously called 11/29/66; *otherwise* this does not circulate mid 1998. Cream Puff War cuts off with a significant portion missing. No recordings of "Set 2" are in circulation (mid 1998) to confirm DeadBase's list or to verify if it is the source tape for "2/23/66" or "11/29/66".
CONTRIBUTORS
Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>,
David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Teddy
GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, Thayer
Jennings <htj@geocities.com>,
DeadBase X, Adrian M. Johnson <jelly@thebigj.demon.co.uk>,
"The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days"
Booklet]
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Rancho Olompali
CITY
Novato
STATE CA
DATE 05/22/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear:
A rock & roll oasis just off Highway 101 in Navato, Rancho Olompali was where the Grateful Dead, the Diggers, the Angels, the Black Panthers and the San Francisco music scene went to dance after a head-banging week in the city. The Grateful Dead were each paid twenty-five dollars a week in those days and gigged wherever they could, often five days a week. An incredible freedom cruised through each day like a tide. The Jefferson Airplane, It's A Beautiful Day, Country Joe & The Fish, The Sons of Champlin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company...
Weekend free-form celebrations of whatever anyone wished to celebrate, beginning in party clothes at the main house, ending naked in the sunshine by the pool. In addition to the Harley-scaled acreage, a huge outdoor oven cranked non-stop. It was the Diggers baking their daily bread to give away later in the park. As each participant got coated with flour, ghostly apparitions would leap from the oven to the pool, long hair flying in the wind. It was an easy scene for music and lovers, bands interwove and produced moments that were as high as they get. -- Grateful Dead Family Album (page 33).
Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear:
The Dead used to have some pretty good parties out at their place in the country, in Olompali. Two or three hundred people would come, and of course, most of them probably took LSD. This was around the time that a lot of new ground was being broken socially, and it seemed like a third to half the people at these parties would be naked, hanging around the pool. It was a great place. It was sort of a ranch estate that had a nice big house that looked kind of like Tara in 'Gone With The Wind'. Then there was a lot of land around it -- hills, a creek in the back, a big lawn and the pool. It was maybe 1000 feet off the highway, so it was fairly secluded.
In between the house and the pool the Dead would set up their equipment and play from time to time during the day. Usually there'd be members of other bands there too, like the Airplane and Quicksilver, and there'd be little jams with people who wanted to play. I remember that the Dead would be playing and Neal Cassady would be doing this strange little dance -- it was almost like breakdancing; very fluid. Out on the lawn there was this very far-out configuration of plumbing that was once part of a sprinkler system or something. It stuck out of the ground and stood maybe five feet high. I could'nt. figure out what the hell it was for. It was just a mess of pipes with faucets coming out of it that had been modified over the years. Very strange. So the Dead would be playing, and Neal would be dancing on the lawn with this bizarre metal partner. He'd dance around it, with it really. He had some pretty good moves, too. Neal was always in the thick of things.
Those parties -- I'm not sure how many of them there were -- were always on a nice afternoon. Everyone would play all day in the sunshine -- just doing everything -- and then when the sun would start to go down and it got cold, people would pack it in. By the time it was dark most people were gone, but there were always enough people who were either around to begin with or who wanted to stay, so that the party would continue inside. In fact, with the number of people hanging out there all the time, it was pretty much a party all the time anyway. I don't. know if it was 24 hours a day, but every time I was there it was going. -- George Hunter (The Golden Road). Grateful Dead Faimly Album (page 33).
RECORDINGS
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Unknown
CITY
Unknown
STATE
DATE 05/25/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Other artist(s): The Charlatans.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Avalon Ballroom
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE
05/27/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS "HayFever Dance" - The First Family Dog production with Dead. Others Artist(s): The Leaves and Grass Roots. Not listed in DeadBase, but appears to be the same billing as 5/28/66.
To see what appears to be a handbill or concert poster:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/05_27-28_66.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Avalon Ballroom
CITY San
Francisco
STATE CA
DATE
05/28/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS "HayFever Dance" - The First Family Dog production with Dead. Others Artist(s): The Leaves and Grass Roots.
To see what appears to be a handbill or concert poster:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/05_27-28_66.html
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, DeadBase X
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE California Hall
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 05/29/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS LEMAR Benefit Ball - "Aid the end of marijuana prohibition". Other artist(s): The Charlatans.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Grateful Dead Family Album (pre-index "Deadication" flipside p.8).
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/05_29_66.html
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Studio Sessions
CITY
Unknown
STATE
DATE 06/??/66
SET1 Stealin' ; I Know You Rider ; Don't Ease Me In ; You Don't Have To Ask ; Tastebud ; Cardboard Cowboy ; Stealin' ; I Know You Rider ; Cold Rain And Snow
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Scorpio studio outtakes. Multiple takes of listed songs. Material from these sessions was used to make the Scorpio 45 RPM record. See 07/??/66.
To see what appears to be art from the scorpio period:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/scorpio66.html
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/scorpio1.html
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/scorpio2.html
David Sorochty: This circulates as 2/5/66, 6/??/66, as well as
7/??/66. The list in DeadBase X is incomplete. This tape consists of numerous renditions of most of the songs and they usually are without vocals. This is definitely from recording studio sessions since there is a take number spoken quietly before most of them. This is what is on my copy of the Scorpio Studios outtakes tape which came dated as 2/??/66:
Stealin' takes 4 and 5
Stealin' take 6
(vocals)
I Know You Rider take 1 (vocals)
Don't Ease Me In takes 1 through 8
Don't Ease Me In takes 1 through 5
Don't Ease Me In take 6
(vocals)
Don't Ease Me In takes 7 and 8# (cut)
You Don't Have To Ask take 13
You Don't Have To Ask take 14 (vocals)
Tastebud take 1
Side B -
Tastebud take 2 (vocals)
Cardboard Cowboy takes 1 through 4
Cardboard Cowboy take 5 (vocals)
Stealin' take 1
I Know You Rider take 1
I Know You Rider take 2 (vocals)
Cold Rain And Snow (8 times with no take numbers announced)
Cold Rain And Snow (no take number announced)
Cold Rain And Snow (vocals, no take number announced)
Cold Rain And Snow# (cut, no take number announced)
1966 Studio (identified as possibly from the Scorpio sessions also) -
Lindy (vocals)
Alice D. Millionaire (vocals) (see the ??/??/66 listing for more information on those) as well as these obvious filler songs;
1969 studio - I'm A Lovin Man (Pigpen and Weir vocals, Garcia pedal steel & John Tenney on fiddle)
Instrumental (Bucky's Tune)
An edited version of this circulates as "2/5/66 Questing Beast Rehearsal".
b) Cardboard Cowboy (takes 1 through 4 without vocals)
c)
Stealin' take 1 (instrumental)
d) Cold Rain And Snow# (the very last
one)
e) the additional material that was identified as possibly being from the Scorpio recording sessions (Lindy, and Alice D. Millionaire)
f) the obvious filler material which was identified as being from 1969 -
(I'm A Lovin Man and the instrumental referred to as Bucky's Tune)
Steve's notes indicate that his Questing Beast tape has a brief You Don't Have To Ask which I have not noted on my full Scorpio tape. It is probably on the Scorpio tape and I just missed it. Steve has also reported that his tape does not have the take number spoken before each rendition as on the Scorpio tape. With the take numbers edited out and the filler removed in order to squeeze this all onto one tape, it might give the impression that this is a practice session.
See the 45's produced under the "Scorpio" labels:
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/stealin.jpg
http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/dontez.jpg
RECORDINGS 135 SB. See 02/05/66, 'The Questing Beast'. See also
??/??/66 for additional songs often found as filler(?) on this tape, which may also be from these sessions. Consult vault sources for details.
CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Steve McHenry <mchenrys@pacbell.net>, Jeff
Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>,
DeadBase X, Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, The DeadHead's Taping Compendium -- pp. 9&10; Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, Gene Estribou, SugarMegs <www.SugarMegs.org>.
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Studio Rehearsal
CITY Unknown
STATE
DATE ??/??/66
SET1 Viola Lee Blues ; Cardboard Cowboy
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Multiple versions of Viola Lee Blues with Pigpen and Weir trying lead vocals. Also Cardboard Cowboy. Probably from January or February '66.
Dick Latvala - According to DeadLists Digests #534, when reading comments of 07/03/66:
Dick Latvala has crossed out "it's a good thing" and written "MESS UP A GOOD THING CARDBOARD COWBOY". Is this the real name of the song we call "Cardboard Cowboy"? Or did Dick forget to put a comma after 'Mess Up A Good Thing' and the next song would be 'Carboard Cowboy'? SEE (7/3/66).
Owsley "Bear" Stanley:
I do not recall there ever being any song called "Cardboard Cowboy". I cannot imagine what song the reference is to.
RECORDINGS 60 SB.
CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Tiedrich <jeff@tiedrich.com>, Dick Latvala (consult vault sources), Teddy GoodBear <DeadLists@GoodBear.com>, David
Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Owsley Stanley <bear@thebear.org>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Scorpio studio outtakes(?)
CITY
Unknown
STATE
DATE ??/??/66
SET1 Lindy ; Alice D. Millionaire
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS
RECORDINGS 10 SB. (See 2/5/66 and 6/??/66).
CONTRIBUTORS David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>
BAND
Grateful Dead
VENUE Speedway Meadows - Golden Gate
Park
CITY San Francisco
STATE CA
DATE 06/??/66
SET1
SET2
SET3
ENCORE
COMMENTS Numerous unscheduled Performances June, July and August; days uncertain.
RECORDINGS
CONTRIBUTORS Previous DeadBase editions.
