2000 Message-ID: <009901c2e5fc$8ed46a40$0400a8c0@goodbear1> To: "The DeadLists Project" Subject: 1965 Draft (long) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 00:27:20 -0500 Here is a DRAFT of the 1965 material I'm working on as caretaker. If you all can take a look at this, I would appreciate any input you have. Post your thoughts to the list or to me by email, but please not both. Thanks, Teddy :^) =================== BAND The Warlocks VENUE Menlo College CITY Menlo Park STATE CA DATE 04/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Date and show uncertain. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS BAND The Warlocks VENUE Magoo's Pizza Parlor CITY Menlo Park STATE CA DATE 05/05/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "Garcia also had things to say about his new group, and two weeks later Lesh went to see them at a Menlo Park pizza joint called Magoo's, his long Beatle-cut hair flying as he tripped and danced and got told to sit down by the management and got very high on Pigpen mashing his brain with "Little Red Rooster", So when Garcia took him aside to a booth after the show and said "Hey man, it looks like you're going to be the bass player for this band," it was the simplest truth in the world, even if he'd never touched a bass in his life." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, David Sorochty BAND The Warlocks VENUE Magoo's Pizza Parlor CITY Menlo Park STATE CA DATE 05/12?/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "Garcia also had things to say about his new group, and two weeks later Lesh went to see them at a Menlo Park pizza joint called Magoo's, his long Beatle-cut hair flying as he tripped and danced and got told to sit down by the management and got very high on Pigpen mashing his brain with "Little Red Rooster", So when Garcia took him aside to a booth after the show and said "Hey man, it looks like you're going to be the bass player for this band," it was the simplest truth in the world, even if he'd never touched a bass in his life." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, David Sorochty BAND The Warlocks VENUE Magoo's Pizza Parlor CITY Menlo Park STATE CA DATE 05/27/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "Garcia also had things to say about his new group, and two weeks later Lesh went to see them at a Menlo Park pizza joint called Magoo's, his long Beatle-cut hair flying as he tripped and danced and got told to sit down by the management and got very high on Pigpen mashing his brain with "Little Red Rooster", So when Garcia took him aside to a booth after the show and said "Hey man, it looks like you're going to be the bass player for this band," it was the simplest truth in the world, even if he'd never touched a bass in his life." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, David Sorochty BAND The Warlocks VENUE CITY STATE CA DATE ??/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS by Susan Green/Burlington Free Press 10/2000: In 1965 Phil Lesh decided to take a year off from his academic pursuits at Mills College. He'd been majoring in avant-garde composition after a childhood spent playing classical violin and trumpet. "I would have gone back and probably studied conducting, but then I met this guy named Garcia," he recalls. That fortuitous encounter with folk guitarist/vocalist Jerry Garcia brought the 25 year-old Lesh into a group that included keyboard player Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, and drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The Warlocks were born, initially cranking out amplified rock standards at a time when acoustic was all the rage. As they began to take more and more original approach with lyricist Robert Hunter collaborating on many songs, The Warlocks changed names. Good thing. Warlockheads doesn't roll off the tongue with quite the same ease as Deadheads. The Dead hooked up with author Ken Kesey and his legendary Merry Pranksters, an assortment of pleasure-seeking bohemians immortalized in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." This association represented a new chapter for the musicians who were smoking copious amounts of marijuana, taking LSD and performing at the outdoor Trips Festivals in the Bay Area. The Dead assumed a prominent place in the vanguard of the nascent hippie movement with San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district as ground zero. Although it was a time of unparalleled experimentation with drugs and lifestyles, the band never slacked off. "We worked hard, " Lesh says. "In those first five years, we played for hours at a time every day, rehearsing or just jamming." Lesh's sensibility helped convince the others that "we could go beyond the three-minute song by improvising in a way that looked to jazz." The Dead soon became known for long, winding meditations on its own tunes or those the band admired written by others. With what one critic described as "extraordinary bursts of imagination," the sound was electric and never repetitive. "We liked to play for dancers," Lesh says. "That's how we got the highest level of feedback from audiences. At one Trips Festival. I looked out at 5,000 people dancing in waves, forgetting themselves in our music." The excitement of live Dead did not translate to the group's albums. "We were never really good, frankly, at recording. That was always secondary to us." High Times 12/2000 by Paul Krassner: Garcia originally started smoking pot in his early teens. He loved to get stoned with his friends and go to a drive-in movie. In those days you could get a matchbox of marijuana, fifteen skinny joints' worth, for as little as $5. It was not surprising, years later, that one could find a kilo of Acapulco Gold in the kitchen of the Dead house in San Francisco. "Jerry taught me how to roll joints," recalls Steve Parish. "He was a great joint roller. He liked seeded weed best. He thought weed went downhill when everybody did sensimilla." Garcia used to tease Dead songwriter Robert Hunter by threatening to leave a big pile of joints in the middle of the dining-room table for Hunter's parents to find. Hunter later became a participant in the Veterans Administration program of experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and Jerry pumped him for information about LSD. And, in 1965, with David Nelson and Sara Rupenthal, who became his first wife, Jerry took his first acid trip...but certainly not his last. "We had enough acid to blow the world apart," he would tell Robert Greenfield, author of Dark Star, "We were just musicians in this house and we were guinea-pigging more or less continuously. Tripping frequently if not constantly. That got good and weird." It was while tripping on acid that Garcia listened to the Beatles and to Bob Dylan's first electric album, destroying in the process Garcia's prejudice against amplified music, and so, with his band, the Warlocks, forerunner to the Grateful Dead, Jerry gleefully turned his talent from bluegrass banjo-picking to rocking with an electric guitar. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Marc Blaker, Susan Green/Burlington Free Press 10/2000, High Times 12/2000 by Paul Krassner. BAND The Warlocks VENUE Frenchy's CITY Haywood S 2000 TATE CA DATE 06/18/65? SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Phil Lesh's 1st show. Date uncertain. David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "They got a three night gig Frenchy's in Hayward, came back for the second night, and discovered they'd been replaced by an accordian, clarinet, and bass trio." Alex Allan: This doesn't seem consistent with Phil's own comments to Michael Lydon in an article published in August 1969 when he said "I had never played bass, but I learned, sort of, and in July 1965 the five of us played our first gig - some club in Fremont." [In "Garcia- by the Editors of Rolling Stone"]. Marc Blaker: Having spent 6 years in exile in Hayward I can attest that they are close by and indeed share similarities including a border. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, Alex Allan, "Garcia- by the Editors of Rolling Stone", David Sorochty , Marc Blaker BAND The Warlocks VENUE Frenchy's CITY Haywood STATE CA DATE 06/19/65? SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Date uncertain. 2nd Show at Frenchy's cancelled. David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "They got a three night gig Frenchy's in Hayward, came back for the second night, and discovered they'd been replaced by an accordian, clarinet, and bass trio." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, David Sorochty BAND The Warlocks VENUE Frenchy's CITY Haywood STATE CA DATE 06/20/65? SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Date uncertain. 3rd Show at Frenchy's cancelled. David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "They got a three night gig Frenchy's in Hayward, came back for the second night, and discovered they'd been replaced by an accordian, clarinet, and bass trio." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Dennis McNally, David Sorochty BAND The Warlocks VENUE Fireside Club CITY San Mateo STATE CA DATE 08/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Possibly for three nights. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Deadbase. BAND The Warlocks VENUE Big Al's Gas House CITY Redwood City STATE CA DATE 08/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Deadbase. BAND The Warlocks VENUE Cinnamon A-Go-Go CITY Redwood City STATE CA DATE 08/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Deadbase. BAND The Warlocks VENUE In Room CITY Belmont STATE CA DATE 09/??/65 -- For Six Weeks SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS The Warlocks played five nights a week for six weeks according to Deadbase. David Sorochty: There is an article in the "1983/84 Concert Program" booklet written by Dennis McNally which tells the history of the band. In there he writes: "They landed a six week gig at the In-Room in Belmont, where Larry the bartenderwould enliven the procedeings by squirting lighter fluid into ashtrays and torching the bar when things got rolling - one night he went too far and the band had to run back in to rescue the equipment and they backed the Coasters one week and played six nights every week and began to cook their musical souls into a fine blend." RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , David Sorochty , Dennis McNally, Deadbase BAND The Warlocks VENUE Palo Alto High School CITY Palo Alto STATE CA DATE 09/19/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Jack Fisher: On September 19, 1965 Palo Alto High School was the site of one of the last official shows of The Warlocks. Unfortunately, there was already in existence a band by that name in Portland, OR thus bringing to a close the carreers of The Warlocks and opening the carreer of a new group called "San Francisco's Grateful Dead" whose 1st official show at The Fillmore Auditorium was billed as such. Good thing too. Otherwise, we'd all be old "warriors" rather than "deadheads". -- Jack (who was there both times)! RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Jack Fisher BAND The Warlocks VENUE Longshoreman's Hall CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 10/16/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS I don't know if this is accurate? -- Joel Selvin: The Family Dog put on their first dance, "A Tribute to Dr. Strange" at the Longshoreman's Hall. Bands that played were the Jefferson Airplane (first performance outside the Matrix), the Charlatans, the Marbles, and The Warlocks. The master of ceremonies was Russ (the Moose) Syracuse. -- Selvin, Joel. (Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 28). -- City of San Francisco Museum < http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rock.html >: Family Dog collective dance and concert, a tribute to Dr. Strange, at Longshoremen's Hall with The Jefferson Airplane andthe Charlatans, and the Great Society. Russ "The Moose" Syracuse of KYA was master of ceremonies. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , David Sorochty , Selvin, Joel. (Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 28), City of San Francisco Museum BAND The Warlocks VENUE Mother's CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 11/03/65 SET1 Can't Come Down, Mindbender ; The Only Time Is Now ; Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) ; I Know You Rider ; Early Morning Rain SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Warlocks - Autumn Records Demo, "The Emergency Crew". RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS BAND The Warlocks VENUE Pierre's CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 11/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Possibly three nights. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Deadbase. BAND The Warlocks VENUE CITY STATE CA DATE 11/06/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Bill Graham's first: benefit to raise money for Mime Troupe, busted for performing in park without a permit. Airplane, Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Ferlinghetti + more. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , David Sorochty BAND Merry Pranksters/Warlocks? VENUE CITY Soquel, Santa Cruz STATE CA DATE 11/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Soquel, near Santa Cruz (Warlocks?): 1st Acid Test? The Deadhead's Taping Compendium -- p.85: "The parties were outgrowing La Honda...first acid test was held in November 1965. RECORDINGS Master recordings of "Acid Tests" by Pranksters: "were several Ampex 601 two-track stereo reel-to-reel tape decks..." -- [Ref.: The Deadhead's Taping Compendium -- p.6 Ken Babbs & p.85]. CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , The Deadhead's Taping Compendium p.85, Owsley Stanley III. BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Big Nig's House CITY San Jose STATE CA DATE 12/04/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS "San Jose Acid Test". 1st appearance as "The Grateful Dead". Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear: Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, The Deadhead's Taping Compendium -- p.86 Jann Wenner (founder of "Rolling Stone" & quoted from various other books): "Here they were in the living room at someone's house playing, and..." To see the concert art: http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/12_04_65.html -- March 1972 Playboy Interview by Ed McClanahan (reprinted without permission): SCENE: The Dead's business office in San Rafael, where Bob Hunter, the Dead's lyricist, has just been telling everybody about a friend recently returned from a trip to Cuba. Enter Ramrod, one of the band's equipment handlers. RAMROD: Now the first time *I* ever saw Jerry Garcia was in midwinter 1965, in Ken Kesey's house up in La Honda. I'm lounging around Kesey's living room, see, and this extraordinarily curious looking party comes shuffling through. In point of fact, he's the very first true freak I've ever laid eyes on, this somewhat rotund young 2000 man with a hairdo like a dust mop dipped in coal tar, and after he's gone Kesey says that was Jerry Garcia, he's got a rock'n'roll band that's gonna play with us this Saturday night at the San Jose Acid Test, their name is the Warlocks but they're gonna change it to the Grateful Dead. At the time, to tell the truth, I wasn't exactly galvanized with excitement by this bit of news; after all, only a few Saturday nights before that I'd attended what I've since some to regard as the Olde *Original* Acid Test, a curiously disjointed but otherwise perfectly ordinary party at Kesey's house featuring nothing more startling than an abundance of dope and a drunken Berkeley poet who kept loudly reciting Dylan Thomas and, at midnight (hours after I'd gone home, adept as ever at missing the main event), the ritual sacrifice and subsequent immolation of a chicken. But what I didn't know then was that 400 people would turn up for the San Jose Acid Test, which begat the Palo Alto Acid Test, which begat the Fillmore Acid Test, which begat the Trips Festival, which begat Bill Graham, who (to hear *him* tell it, anyhow) begat Life As We Know It Today. Still, like I said, I couldn't possibly have known that at the time. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , The Grateful Dead Family Album p.30, The Deadhead's Taping Compendium p.86; Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone Founder). BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Fillmore Auditorium CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 12/10/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS "Mime Troupe Benefit - Appeal II, for Continued Artistic Freedom in the Arts". Other artist(s): Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society, John Handy Quintet, The Mystery Trend, The Gentlemen's Band, the VIP's and others. Bill Graham second benefit for Mime Troupe, at Fillmore (first time there) Fillmore & Geary - 3,500 people. Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear: ||||On The Town|||| Lesson for the S.F. in The Mime Benefit ||||by Ralph J. Gleason|||| The benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe Friday night at the Fillmore Auditorium (it was billed as "Appeal II, for Continued Artistic Freedom in the Arts") was a roaring success. Over 3500 people paid $1.50 apiece to be there. But it was a great deal more than a benefit. It was substantiation of the suspicion that the need to dance on the part of a great number of residents of this area is so great it simply must be permitted. The Friday night affair was basically a rock 'n roll dance such as the ones the Family Dog put on at the Longshore Hall. If this city was run for the citizens, such affairs would be commonplace and conducted say, once a month at the Civic Auditorium where there used to be numerous dances during the swing era. * * * At 9:30 there was a double line a block long outside the Fillmore Auditorium. At 1 a.m. it was still there, the individuals were new but the packed house still existed. Inside a most remarkable assembladge of humanity was leaping, jumping, dancing, frigging, fragging and frugging on the dance floor to the music of the half dozen rock bands--The Mystery Trend, The Great Society, The Jefferson Airplane, the VIP's, The Gentlemen's Band, The Warlocks and others. The costumes were freeform Goodwill-cum-Sherwood Forest. Slim young ladies with their faces painted a la Harper's Bazzar in cats-and-dogs lines, granny dresses topped with hugh feathers, white hats with decals of mystic design; bell-bottoms split up the side! The combinations were seemingly limitless. At each end of the huge hall was a three foot high sign saying LOVE. Over the bar was another saying "No Booze", while the volunteer bartenders served soft drinks. Alongside the regular bar was a series of tables selling apples! The only dance (outside of Halloween) I've ever been at where they sold apples, Craaaazy! In a corner past the apple table was a baby in a carriage, sound asleep with a bottle and a teddy bear clutched in his (her?) arms. This crowd was so far out that when Milton Hunt, the distinguished North Beach boulevardier, entered wearing a scrape and a black sombrero and escorting a girl dressed in a Vikki Duggins skirt (cut six inches below the hipline and supported by a thin net top and that's all!) no one turned a hair. It was that kind of a night. Although it was a benefit for the Mime Troupe in its fight against "the law's delay, the insolence of office" to which their handest refers in Shakesphearean terms, there were thousands there who never heard of the Mime Troupe or at least never had been in one of their shows, as Ronnie Davis pointed out. They were there for a multitude of reasons, and the reasons bear examination. Some were there because the Mime Troupe represents, along with Jerry Ets Hotkins, a battle for creativity in the arts. Others, and more I suspect, were there because the Mime Troupe's park use hassle dramatizes another aspect of the struggle of US against THEM. Still others were there as part of the rock revolution. They don't. need booze (as the swing era dancers did). All they need is the sound of the guitars. They get high on decibels alone. And they are hurting to dance. * * * SAN FRANCISCO has been hell on dances for years. The police obviously regard mass proximity of the sexes to the sound of music as a hazard equal to a time bomb. But I suspect this attitude will have to be tempered. The actual demand for dances is going to increase. The whole rock revolution points to dancing, the music ineluctably moves one to move. Another thing about the Friday night revel. There were no guards inside. There was an absence of uniforms and there was no trouble. It was the kind of crowd were over a dozen people stopped dancing, got down on thier hands and knees to help a girl find a contact lens that had popped out during a particularly dramatic movement. They scrambled on the dance floor for a few minutes and found it. She cleaned it in her mouth, popped it back in and the dancing continued. Don't knock the rock, as the British used to say.--Ralph J. Gleason (S.F. Chronicle, 12/13/65). http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/12_10_65.html David Sorochty: FWIW Rock Scully gives the following info in his book "Living With The Dead": 12-10-65: Little Red Rooster, I Know You Rider, Midnight Hour, Early Morning Rain Obviously that info comes from memory, not tapes. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Adrian M. Johnson , "The Art Of Rock" book [The "Last Days" Booklet],"The Art Of The Fillmore" book, David Sorochty , Ralph J. Gleason (S.F. Chronicle, 12/13/65). BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Muir Beach Lodge CITY Muir Beach STATE CA DATE 12/11/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS "Muir Beach Acid Test". To see the concert art: http://www.goodbear.com/concert_art/12_04_65.html Owsley "Bear" Stanley III: ...There were two "Acid Tests" which I didn't. go to after my "initiation" at the Dec 11 Muir Beach event... David Sorochty: FWIW Rock Scully gives the following info in his book "Living With The Dead" 12-11-65: Hog For You Baby -> Good Day Sunshine, Early Morning Rain Obviously that info comes from memory, not tapes. Joel Selvin: Third public Acid Test. Last minute it was moved to lodge near Muir Beach. Augustus Owsley Stanley III arrived and tripped out on LSD. Screeched chair across the floor, left log cabin screaming and crashed his car on the side of the road. -- (Selvin, Joel. Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 42-43.) In the "GD Family Album" per Mountain Girl: She talks about Owsley & his "screeching chair". She thought he was obnoxious. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , The Grateful Dead Family Album p.30, Owsley Stanley III, David Sorochty , Selvin, Joel (Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 42-43). BAND Grateful Dead VENUE The Big Beat Club CITY Palo Alto STATE CA DATE 12/18/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS "Big Beat Acid Test". Owsley "Bear" Stanley III: There were two "Acid Tests" which 1b1b 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. -- March 1972 Playboy Interview by Ed McClanahan (reprinted without permission): Anyhow, I didn't go to the San Jose Acid Test. But a few Saturday nights later I did make it over to a ratty old night club called Ben's Big Beat, in the mud flats beside the Bayshore Freeway for the Palo Alto Acid Test; and the what's- their-names, the Grateful Dead, they were there, too, Jerry Garcia plucking strange sonic atonalities out of his Magic Twanger, backed up by a pair of cherubic-looking boys named Phil Lesh, on bass guitar, and Bobby Weir, on rhythm guitar, and a drummer -- Bill Kreutzmann -- who looked so young and innocent and fresh-faced that one's first impulse was to wonder how he got his momma to let him stay out so late, and, mainly, this incredibly gross person who played electric organ and harmonica and sang occasional blues vocals. Pigpen, someone said his name was -- beyond a doubt the most marvelously ill-favored figure to grace a public platform since King Kong came down with stagefright and copped out on the Bruce Cabot show. He was bearded and burly and barrel chested, jowly and scowly and growly, and he had long, Medusalike hair so greasy it might have been groomed with Valvoline, and his angry countenance glowered out through it like a wolf at bay in a hummock of some strange, rank foliage. He wore, as I recall, a motorcyclist's cap, crimped and crumpled Hell's Angel style, and heavy iron-black boots, and the gap between the top of his oily Levis and the bottom of his tattletale-gray T-shirt exposed a half-moon of a distended beer belly as pale and befurred as a wedge of moldy jack cheese. Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord. But the ugly mother sure could *play*! To one as dull of ears as I, who'd always pretty much assumed that the only fit place for organ music outside of church was the roller rink, those ham-fisted whorehouse chords he was hammering out seemed in and of themselves to constitute the most satisfying sort of blasphemy. And sing! The way this coarse-voiced ogre snarled his unintelligible yet unfathomably indecent talkin'-blues phrases would curl the very Devil's codpiece; fathers of teenage daughters must have shuddered in their sleep as far away as Burlingame that night. Verily, he was wondrous gross, was this Pigpen; yet such was the subtle alchemy of his art that the more he profaned love and beauty, the more his grossness rendered him beautiful. "Far *out*!" the teeny-boppers and their boyfriends in Ben's Beat kept exclaiming while Pig worked. "Isn't he far f*ckin' *out*!" It was an expression I'd not run into before, but even at first hearing it seemed destined, if only for its sommodious inexactness, to be with us for a good long while. In any case, it accommodated Pigpen very nicely; he was indeed one far-out gentelman, no doubt about it, none at all. RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , The Grateful Dead Family Album p.30, Owsley Stanley III. BAND Grateful Dead VENUE The Matrix CITY San Francisco STATE CA DATE 12/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS 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 CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear, Owsley Stanley III Any questions, comments or concerns about this Web Site should be directed to Nathan Wolfson. The adaptation of this material to html was done by Teddy GoodBear and is © copyrighted by Deadlists. DeadLists is a communal, not-for-profit project. Grateful Dead performances are a matter of public, historical record. However, the additional material presented here may not be duplicated except for similar, non-commercial purposes, with this entire document preserved (including this notice) intact. All rights are reserved by the contributors and participants in the DeadLists Project. Inclusion of information regarding recordings does not denote that these recordings are available to the general public. Some information has been generously donoted from private collections. BAND Grateful Dead VENUE Beaver Hall CITY Portland STATE OR DATE 12/25/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Portland Acid Test - day uncertain. See 1/15/66 entry. -- 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. Joel Selvin: -- Dec. (around Christmas) - Acid Test in Portland, Oregon. Selvin, Joel. (Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 43). RECORDINGS CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear , Grateful Dead Family Album -- p.30, Owsley Stanley III, Selvin, Joel. (Summer of Love. New York: Penguin. 1994. p 43). BAND Neal Cassidy & The Warlocks VENUE CITY STATE DATE ??/??/65 SET1 SET2 SET3 ENCORE COMMENTS Listed as: "Neal Cassidy & The Warlocks 1965". RECORDINGS As of 2001, the recording that circulates: Grateful Dead & Merry Pranksters The Acid Test Reels 1965-1967 A chronological compilation of the Acid Test recordings listed in The Grateful Dead Tapers Compendium Volume One. Disc Four: Related Recordings Neal Cassidy & The Warlocks 1965 1. Speed Limit studio recording/Prankster production tape circa late 1965 CONTRIBUTORS Teddy GoodBear . 0