Tag: acid tests

Grateful Dead – San Francisco, CA (01/08/66)

Grateful Dead
Acid Test
1966-01-08 Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA.

Acid Test

Upgrade. Source(s) MR>?>Hi-Fi Stereo VHS>WAV>Soundforge (Editing)>WAV>CDR>EAC>FLAC

This is a tagged version of shnid: 106505

There were at least Three different audio edits of this material used over three different
audio/video edits of the Acid Test Video. Each one had audio not available on the other
versions. I spent a couple weeks carefully tracking all the seperate edits and tracking them.
I used the first release as the main audio. It sounded the best quality to me. Source two was
mono (for unknown reasons), but you will notice audio not available on the other two versions.
Version three had the most overdubs of segments played on top of others, but still had a few
snippets worth adding to this collection. Removing all the duplicate music tracks, here’s everything
that was worth saving from each version. Everything fits on one CDR, but it would be great of someone
could try to edit them together with better audio editing software than I have to work with.

Someone should try to use upgrade the audio to the film Sunshine Daydream with this Stereo version of I’m A King Bee!

Compiled by Michael Lestatkatt 2010
Uploaded to Lossless Legs on 3-13-10

Tracks:
Versions One – Best Quality Stereo Audio
101 – 01 Ken Babbs Intro (Version One)
102 – 02 Tune Up
103 – 03 No Power On The Stage
104 – 04 I’m A King Bee
105 – 05 I’m A Hog For You Baby
106 – 06 I’m A Hog For You Baby (W/ Ken Babbs)
107 – 07 Some High Powered Rocket Fuel
108 – 08 I’m Going To Put A Spell On You (PigPen Excerpt)
109 – 09 Littering Glowing, Ever Flowing, Neon flowing (Ken Kesey)
110 – 10 You People Out There, Listen To Me -This Is Zoltra Speaking – This Is A Trap – You Fools
111 – 11 Acid Music
112 – 12 People We’re Playing Games With Me
113 – 13 There It Is, Sneaky Little Rascal (Ken Kesey)
114 – 14 // Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) >
115 – 15 Death Don’t Have No Mercy
116 – 16 Ken Babbs
117 – 17 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over (Police Announcement)
118 – 18 Ken Babbs
119 – 19 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over 2
120 – 20 Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
121 – 21 Yeah, Use Your Head – Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
122 – 22 On The Road Again to Get The People On The Road – Go Home To Your Families (Weir & Kesey)
123 – 23 Arrest Everybody But Don’t Hurt Any Of The Equipment / Star Spangled Banger (Weir & Co)

Source Two – Different Mono Edit
201 – 24 Ken Babbs Intro (Version 2 – Longer/Mono)
202 – 25 No Power / Ken Babbs / The Inner Space Race (Mono)
203 – 26 No Power On The Stage / Ken Babbs (Mono)
204 – 27 Gaze Upon It Friends,The Electric Wasteland / No Power On The Stage / Kenn Babbs (Mono)
205 – 28 I’m A King Bee (Mono)
206 – 29 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves? (Mono)
207 – 30 We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities…… (Mono)
208 – 31 Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey) (Mono)
209 – 32 We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia) (Mono)
210 – 33 If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead! (Mono)
211 – 34 The Star Spangled Banger (Mono)

Source Three – Different Stereo Edit
301 – 35 Ken Babbs Intro (Version 3 Stereo)
302 – 36 Everybody Get In Tune > Ken Babbs
303 – 37 Ain’t No Fuckin’ Power No Place
304 – 38 Ken Babbs
305 – 39 No Power On The Stage, Fix It
306 – 40 I’m A King Bee
307 – 41 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
308 – 42 I See The Electricial Is Running Down Now Trying To Get Everything Established (Ken Babbs)
309 – 43 Slim Kesey
310 – 44 We’re Into Emergency Power Now (Ken Babbs)
311 – 45 We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities……
312 – 46 Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
313 – 47 We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia)
314 – 48 If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead!
315 – 49 The Star Spangled Banger
316 – 50 Find A Harmonica / No One Seems To Find Out How To Turn Off This PA
317 – 51 Is My Microphone Still In Operation
318 – 52 //TasteBud (Unknown Show 1965 or 1966) Possibly one of these early Acid Tests.

Grateful Dead – Unknown Location (xx/xx/66) “1966 Acid Test #3”

grateful dead - acid test 3

Grateful Dead
Unknown Venue *
xx/xx/1966

Source: sbd > 10 inch Master Reels @ 15 ips 1/2 track > Dat (48k)

01 Indecipherable talking over pa//
02 jam, nothing recognizable as a tune. Mostly Phil and Billy (1)
03 possibly part of a soundcheck (2)
04 jam, similar to track 2
05 jam, similar to track 2
06 Phil bass jam > talking

Notes:

– This version has been provided by an anonymous source.
– The reel is labelled “1966 Acid Test #3” *
The 3rd Acid Test of 1966 took place 21ñ23 January, Trips Festival at Longshoreman’s Hall, San Francisco, CA
– Lots of talking going on over pa but you can’t really hear what’s being said (1)
– The speaking is much clearer. Garcia says “I’m really tired of playing in a warehouse though” and “As long as
they jump up and down, what the fuck” (2)
– All files are tagged.

Grateful Dead – Los Angeles, CA (03/12/66)

Grateful Dead
Pico Acid Test
Danish Center
Los Angeles, CA
03/12/66

1. Viola Lee Blues
2. One Kind Favor
3. I Know You Rider
4. You See A Broken Broken Heart
5. It’s A Sin
6. PA Complaints
7. Beat It On Down The Line
8. PA, Etc.
9. Heads Up (Instrumental)
10. PA, Etc.
11. Next Time You See Me
12. Ice Cream Break
13. Stormy Monday Jam
14. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
15. In The Midnite Hour

Grateful Dead – The Acid Test Reels

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 ONE: Fillmore Acid Test/Sound City Acid Test

The Fillmore Acid Test
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
January 8, 1966
1. Stage Chaos/More Power Rap
2. King Bee
3. I’m A Hog For You Baby
4. Caution: Do Not Step On Tracks >
5. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
6. Star Spangled Banner / closing remarks

The Sound City Acid Test
363 6th Street, San Francisco, CA
January 29, 1966
7. Ken Kesey interviewed by Frank Fey
8. Ken Babbs and harmonica
9. Take Two: Ken Kesey
10. Bull
11. Peggy The Pistol
12. One-way Ticket
13. Bells And Fairies
14. Levitation
15. Trip X
16. The End

7-16 The Acid Test: A Sound City Production

DISC TWO: Pico Acid Test /S.F. State U Acid Test (pt.1)

The Pico Acid Test
Danish Center, Los Angeles, CA
March 12, 1966
1. Viola Lee Blues
2. You See A Broken Heart
3. In The Midnight Hour

The San Francisco State Acid Test
Whatever It Is Festival
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Stereo Control Room Master (rec. 4:00AM – 6:00AM)
October 2, 1966
4. The Head Has Become Fat Rap
5. A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies
6. A Tarnished Galahad
7. Get It Off The Ground Rap >
8. It’s Good To Be God Rap >
9. Nirvana Army Rap >
10. The Butcher Is Back
11. Acid Test Graduation Announcement
12. Send Me To The Moon >Closing Rap

Credits on 10/2/66:
Voices: Ken Kesey and Hugh Romney
Guitar: Ken Kesey
Violin: Dale Kesey
Organ: Jerry Garcia
Engineering: Steve Newman, Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl

DISC THREE: S.F. State U Acid Test (pt. 2)/Graduation Jam

The San Francisco State Acid Test
Whatever It Is Festival
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
October 2, 1966
1. Ken Kesey’s dialogue (isolated remix)

Merry Prankster Sound Collage Sequences
October 2, 1966
2. Prankster Music/Sound Collage #1(sequence 1)
3. Kesey Rap > Prankster Music/Sound Collage #2 (sequence 2)
4. Prankster Sound Collage #3 > Prankster Raga(sequence 3)
Prankster Recordings broadcast over the P.A.

End of Whatever It Is Festival
October 2, 1966
5. Closing Jam
6. Prankster Electronics

Acid Test Graduation Jam
Winterland, San Francisco, CA
October 31, 1966
7. Jam Session (musicians unknown)
from The World Of Acid film soundtrack

Disc Four: Related Recordings

Neal Cassady & The Warlocks 1965
1. Speed Limit
studio recording/Prankster production tape circa late 1965
Straight Theater, Haight Street, San Francisco, CA July 23, 1967
2. Neal Cassady Raps (backed by The Dead)
recording released as a flexi-disc in the 1st printing of The Dead Book

Acid Tests Production Reel
3. Jerry Garcia commentary with Acid Test audio
710 Haight Street House, San Francisco, CA summer 1967
4. – 6. Jerry Garcia
one hour interview about music, drugs, politics and social changes circa
1967

Disc Five

  1. Who Cares Rap (Pigpen, Weir, etc.) [6:08}The Pico Acid Test March 12, 1966 (EXPANDED VERSION)
    Danish Center, Los Angeles, CA
  2. Viola Lee Blues [11:54]
  3. One Kind Favor [4:19]
  4. I Know You Rider [2:41]
  5. You See A Broken Heart [3:18]
  6. It’s A Sin [4:47]
  7. Beat It On Down The Line [4:06]
  8. Heads Up [6:17]
  9. Next Time You See Me [5:04]
  10. unknown blues instrumental[8:15] – might be Death Don¥t also (Tony Middleton)???
  11. Death Don’t Have No Mercy [6:03]
  12. Midnight Hour [11:06]Notes: The 8th song, previously notated as “unknown instrumental” on Deadlists, is a cover of Freddy King’s “Heads Up.” The 9th tune, previously listed as “The Same Thing (instrumental),” is definitely NOT that song. Although it is a standard blues and sounds similar at the beginning, closer listening makes it pretty obvious that it is an entirely different song, title unknown.

    The Viola Lee Blues on this expanded version is a different version than on the previous three song version of Pico Acid Test. This is an ongoing mystery, although it should be said that both versions are worth having.

    Disc Six: [41:56]
    Supplementary  CD#2 – San Francisco State Acid Test (alternate version)
    “Whatever It Is” Festival
    October 2, 1966 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

    Stereo Control Room Master (rec. 4:00AM – 6:00AM) Source(s) unknown, this has different lineage, and some different edits to the “intact” version. Specifically some contemorary (Tomorrow show ’81?) interviews are spliced in, and the sound collages towards the end are presented in a different sequence. Jerry Garcia

    01. intro 0:20
    02. A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies 3:41
    03. Get It Off The Ground Rap 9:32
    04. It’s Good To Be God Rap 2:40
    05. Nirvana Army Rap 0:52
    06. The Butcher Is Back 3:14
    07. Acid Test Graduation Announcement 1:29
    08. Send Me To The Moon 1:22
    09. Jerry Garcia interview 0:40
    10. Sound Collage 3:43
    11. Ken Kesey Interview 0:22
    12. Sound Collage #2 9:58
    13. Jerry Garcia Interview 0:19
    14. Music / Sound Collage #1 2:14
    15. Ken Kesey Interview 0:15
    16. Sound Collage 1:15