Dead of the Day: 01-08-1966

Fillmore Auditorium

San Francisco, California

Our Dead of the Day takes us to the earliest recording of the Grateful Dead that is out there, an acid test from January of 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium. Now you need to decide whether you are solely here for the music or are ready to take in the entire trip and pass the test yourself. If it is the former, you can skip right around to the musical tracks and groove to some positively antediluvian Dead. The King Bee and Hog For You Baby both contain some essential Pig blues fronting with the rest of the band in early – and completely spaced but weirdly focused – form. Caution contains a funky, rumbling jam that never really lifts off, but is always steaming along the surface. Then Death Don’t Have No Mercy rolls out, combining the two forms with some essential Pigpen vocals and really down and out playing. All told, the musical portion is a tremendously interesting and occasionally satisfying insight into the earliest of the Grateful Dead. And, if you are ready to take on the acid test itself, having come ready by reading Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test or simply by keeping the openest of minds, then dive right into the alternative consciousness experimentation that is the rest of this recording. There is not a lot that we can add to the experience but to tell you to just enjoy yourself, be ready to experience an alternative reality, add some strobe lights and fluorescent paint, and trust the Pranksters to steer you down the road.

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Identifier:
gd1966-01-08.sbd.lestatkatt.106505.flac16
Source:
SBD > MR> ?
Notes:
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!
Description:
Set 1 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
Lineage:
?>Hi-Fi Stereo VHS>WAV>Soundforge (Editing)>WAV>CDR>EAC>FLAC
Transferrer:
Michael Lestatkatt
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Ken Babbs Intro (Version One)
00:40
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Tune Up
00:38
3
No Power On The Stage
02:18
4
I’m A King Bee
06:46
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I’m A Hog For You Baby
02:17
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I’m A Hog For You Baby (W/ Ken Babbs)
00:53
7
Some High Powered Rocket Fuel
00:56
8
I’m Going To Put A Spell On You (PigPen Excerpt)
00:10
9
Littering Glowing, Ever Flowing, Neon flowing (Ken Kesey)
00:09
10
You People Out There, Listen To Me -This Is Zoltra Speaking – This Is A Trap – You Fools
01:23
11
Acid Music
03:39
12
People We’re Playing Games With Me
00:33
13
There It Is, Sneaky Little Rascal (Ken Kesey)
00:19
14
Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) >
07:55
15
Death Don’t Have No Mercy
09:06
16
Ken Babbs
00:06
17
Everybody Out – The Test Is Over (Police Announcement)
00:03
18
Ken Babbs
00:10
19
Everybody Out – The Test Is Over 2
00:03
20
Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
00:10
21
Yeah, Use Your Head – Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
00:24
22
On The Road Again to Get The People On The Road – Go Home To Your Families (Weir & Kesey)
00:55
23
Arrest Everybody But Don’t Hurt Any Of The Equipment / Star Spangled Banger (Weir & Co)
02:07
24
Ken Babbs Intro (Version 2 – Longer/Mono)
01:27
25
No Power / Ken Babbs / The Inner Space Race (Mono)
01:00
26
No Power On The Stage / Ken Babbs (Mono)
00:37
27
Gaze Upon It Friends,The Electric Wasteland / No Power On The Stage / Kenn Babbs (Mono)
01:46
28
I’m A King Bee (Mono)
06:52
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Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves? (Mono)
00:43
30
We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities…… (Mono)
00:14
31
Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey) (Mono)
00:24
32
We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia) (Mono)
01:19
33
If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead! (Mono)
00:12
34
The Star Spangled Banger (Mono)
01:57
35
Ken Babbs Intro (Version 3 Stereo)
00:51
36
Everybody Get In Tune > Ken Babbs
00:34
37
Ain’t No Fuckin’ Power No Place
00:07
38
Ken Babbs
00:44
39
No Power On The Stage, Fix It
02:34
40
I’m A King Bee
06:52
41
Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
00:16
42
I See The Electricial Is Running Down Now Trying To Get Everything Established (Ken Babbs)
00:05
43
Slim Kesey
00:04
44
We’re Into Emergency Power Now (Ken Babbs)
00:14
45
We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities……
00:14
46
Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
00:24
47
We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia)
01:19
48
If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead!
00:12
49
The Star Spangled Banger
00:25
50
Find A Harmonica / No One Seems To Find Out How To Turn Off This PA
01:32
51
Is My Microphone Still In Operation
00:35
52
TasteBud (Unknown Show 1965 or 1966) Possibly one of these early Acid Tests.
02:03
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3 responses to “01-08-1966”

  1. Sly Avatar
    Sly

    This is so Kool (~);}

  2. MaxPower540 Avatar
    MaxPower540

    Tom Wolfe

  3. P_P_K Avatar
    P_P_K

    “… and rust the Pranksters…” Have you forgotten, never trust a Prankster?

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