Grateful Dead
Unknown Location (possibly Owsleyís house in Watts)
Los Angeles, CA
03/09/1966
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Practice Session
Source: sbd > 7 inch Master Reel @ 7.5ips 1/2 track > dat(48k)
01 unknown song – Pigpen vocal
02 Who Do You Love – several instrumental takes
03 Who Do You Love *
04 jam with short burst of vocal improvisation
05 jam
Notes:
– This version has been provided by an anonymous source.
– The reel is labelled “L.A. Practice”
– The same track is also the subject of shnid 125516 and a video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-T5EJM73w *
– All files are tagged.
NB: If you know the name of the song in track 1 or recognise the jams, please let us know. There won’t be any prizes but you will
gain great kudos for your breadth of knowledge.
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Do You Love Me
Lyrics: Ron McKernan (Pigpen)?
Music: Ron McKernan (Pigpen)?
A tape recently (2016) surfaced of a Grateful Dead practice session, dated as being on 9 March 1966. It was at an unknown location (possibly Owsley’s house in Watts). It contains several takes of Who You You Love, plus one previously unknown song sung by Pigpen. I can’t find any other references to the song, and I assume it’s a Pigpen original. The title is just a guess – and it might be the song referred to as The Creeper in Crawdaddy magazine.
Here are the lyrics as best as i can make them out:
Well your good reputation is no consolation ’cause you get what you pay for, girl
Well I got some doubt in my mind, and it’s really taught me, I’ll be honest with, except my girl
Well I used to say, when my friend asked me, that your love was tried and true
Well now I’m a-wondering now in my sleep is that girl I see really you
Why don’t you do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Do you love me, I want to know
Well your good reputation is no consolation ’cause you get what you pay for, girl
Well I got some doubt in my mind, and it’s really taught me, I’ll be honest with, except my girl
Well I used to say, when my friend asked me, that your love was tried and true
But now I’m a-wondering in my mind is that [room] I see really you
Track one sounds like a precursor of “Cream Puff War” and of Country Joe & The Fish’s “Superbird”, instrumentally.