Grateful Dead

Jerry Garcia & Co. at 710 Ashbury in Spring 1967 (Interview) + Richard Starlight's Radio Effluvia Both the interview and the filler came to me through FM radio broadcasts in the early-to mid-nineties. The audio quality reflects that, but for this project off-the-beaten path, I hope you will bear with it. I've never seen a complete tape of this justly famous interview on any torrent site. The tape does not fit on one disc, but takes up a mere 3.5 minutes on disc two. That leaves a huge amount of space for some fascinating filler I wanted to offer to you, the avid trader, some examples of the unconventional details of our homegrown subculture. Consider The filler the sonic equivalent of old, hand-drawn & photocopied J-cards, or much-loved, do-it-yourself concert tie-dyes. PART ONE The Taper's Compendium Vol. 1 lists this interview as 80 min. This copy is just over 83 minutes (or somewhere in there~~perhaps the author of that piece was estimating, too). For this tape db.etree lists only the what's available on the Acid Test Compliation set. That source is either different from this one or has been cleaned up considerably. It is woefully incomplete, however. Here is the complete interview for cleaning up. Lance Neal broadcast this source in the mid-ninties on the WBAI program "Morning Dew," and I taped it to cassette. Happily, the ATC soure patches tape flips from both Lance's source and my cassette made during the broadcast. Lance's source even sounds like a compliation to me. The quality is markedly different between noisy beginning and cleaner end. I dropped in many track breaks as I was transferring both sources to disc. This gives a chance to locate specific quotes or topics that may interest the researcher. I hope the abundance of them does not put anyone off too badly. This is a highly-entertaining historical document of life at 710. Pigpen, Mountain Girl, Weir (speaking, playing acoustic), and a child named Jason all appear at some point. Weir and someone who sounds like it might be Jon McIntire tell of the exploits of Bear and Laird Grant out on the streets in the Haight. (I thought I also heard Reddy Kilowatt asking a brief sarcastic question in passing early on.) Most entries on this interview are reluctant to date any more specifically than its year (1967), though internal markers set it in the spring. The February Newsweek article referenced in the conversation ("Drop-Outs with a Mission") was recent, the Dead were vaguely planning their June trip to NYC, and interviews were underway on the Look Magazine article featuring the Airplane at the end of May (though for some reason, jeffersonairplane.com lists this as appearing in March.) The film Blowup, released late in 1966, was apparently also still in the theaters. No one knows the identity of the interviewer, though on the tape he refers to his friend operating the tape recorder by name ("Kramer"). He also indicates that he himself was Garcia's former banjo student, is acquainted with the local bluegrass scene, and was in a band with Bay area guitarist and mandolinist Bert Johnson. He knows the ins and outs of the changes in personnel of Rick Shubb's band (before the Shubb capo days). Apparently this interviewer had also seen The Warlocks play at Magoo's Pizza Parlor in 1965! Perhaps his identity can still be discovered. Let the sound quality issues of this post serve as a call to locate the better master! (See Disc Two info below for a run-down of the special filler rounding out the disc.) FM Radio broadcast > cassette > CD with SHN to CD patches > EAC > FLAC JG@710 disc One (Interview) d1t01 - I Never Thought Garcia Would Go Electric! d1t02 - The Whereabouts of Bill Keith, Dave Grisman, Shubb's Band d1t03 - Garcia's Guitar Gear d1t04 - Hey, Pig d1t05 - Our Music d1t06 - Some Rock'n'Roll d1t07 - Surrealistic Pillow Sessions d1t08 - 'Someone to Love' d1t09 - Here's Your Pistol d1t10 - SF Sound d1t11 - v. English Groups d1t12 - SF Scene d1t13 - Forward Motion d1t14 - The Term 'Psychedelic' d1t15 - Control Over Your Product d1t16 - Artistic Pride d1t17 - Commercial Sound d1t18 - The Airplane and Great Ideas d1t19 - Would You Answer That Phone? d1t20 - Phonies at the Fillmore? d1t21 - 'Really People' d1t22 - Obvious Music & Reciprocal Excitement d1t23 - NYC Soon d1t24 - SF - Good Place to Live d1t25 - 'Drop-Outs with a Mission' d1t26 - Social Drop-Out d1t27 - Play, Not Teach d1t28 - Hold-Outs d1t29 - Gradual Changeover d1t30 - At Magoo's d1t31 - English Groups d1t32 - Long Hair d1t33 - Success d1t34 - Viet Nam and Anti-Life d1t35 - The Stupidity of Killing d1t36 - Illusory Power d1t37 - Get Along d1t38 - An Act of Love, An Act of Joy d1t39 - NY d1t40 - 'In' Things d1t41 - Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane d1t42 - Jorma d1t43 - Matt Cates d1t44 - The Radio Stations Are Our Friends d1t45 - Program Directors and Monkees d1t46 - Top 10 Singles d1t47 - Our Album d1t48 - Future of SF Sound d1t49 - Stolen Gear - Spiritual Dues d1t50 - SF v. GV d1t51 - Do It Ourselves d1t53 - Light Shows d1t54 - Surviving d1t55 - Hell's Angels d1t56 - Pounded into the Ground d1t57 - They Found It! d1t58 - Do You Want Some Dope? d1t59 - Left Alone d1t60 - Danger d1t61 - What Are You Rejecting? d1t62 - Crunchy-Style Epiphone d1t63 - You Win the Oreo! d1t64 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow d1t65 - Only Certain Ideas d1t66 - Cops = OK d1t67 - Do You Play Better on Dope? d1t68 - Legalize It d1t69 - Cigarette d1t70 - Sped-Up Rolls - Tell Her Jerry Sent You d1t71 - Bluegrass, Rock d1t72 - No Dime, No Nickel d1t73 - CaYooo, CaYoooo! d1t74 - Existentialism d1t75 - Flicks - Blowup - Coburn Offer d1t76 - Look Magazine d1t77 - Grace, the Airiplane, and Jazz JG@710 disc Two (Conclusion of Interview, first three tracks only) d2t01 - We Got Everything Back! d2t02 - Owsley's Rap, Big Medicine d2t03 - That's Your Gun PART TWO * * * Richard Starlight's Radio Effluvia "Radio Effluvia" is a lo-fi labor of love, a tribute to the days when for me tapes were a bit harder to come by, and local GD radio Shows were my main source. Here are some of the finest moments of several of those listener- sponsored broadcasts, mixed in with some homegrown treasures found as anonymous filler on the ends of tapes I copied from who knows who at some point who knows when. Here's to those Great Days when all this was still new and one still had to find a way in! FM broadcasts > cassettes > CD > EAC > FLAC d2t04 - Charles Atlas d2t05 - Thursday Lunch d2t06 - New Year's Lunch d2t07 - Jerry on TBWWP d2t08 - The Barbed-Wire Whipping Party d2t09 - Hello, There! d2t10 - Acid Test Overture d2t11 - Here Comes Healy d2t12 - Jerry Station IDs d2t13 - Phil for Morning Dew d2t14 - Tax- d2t15 - Deductible d2t16 - Charity d2t17 - Organizations d2t18 - LSD Window Pane d2t19 - %Music Is Love%% d2t20 - %Sunshine Daydrream%% d2t21 - %Dark Star%% d2t22 - Psychedelic Coke d2t23 - Michael from Mountains d2t24 - Sally Go Round Roses d2t25 - Chud d2t26 - Wake Up! d2t27 - Morning Dew Special d2t28 - GD Hour Titles d2t29 - Aoxo Ad (Dupree's) d2t30 - Ancient Past d2t31 - Lance for RAN d2t32 - Jerry Tribute Announcement d2t33 - Star Spangled Banger, Closing Remarks DISC TWO NOTES: t04) Bill Graham intro t05) Bob Young's "Thursday Lunch" program announcement from 1990 or 1991 on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles t06) Bob Young announces "New Year's Lunch" on KPFK t07) Taped form "Thursday LUnch," with program's theme cart playing behind Source tape has Jerry being interviewed by another DJ at an unknown earlier time t08) TBWWP comes up as "Thursday Lunch" theme cart fades down t09) From Lance Neal's "Morning Dew" program on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City taped some time between 1993 and 1996 t10) I think that what I am here calling "Acid Test Overture" was originally broadcast by David Gans on "Dead to the WOrld" or the "Grateful Dead Hour." I taped it in the early- to mid-nineties on Lance Neal's "Morning Dew" program. Ken Kesey, Weir, Pig and the "More Power" rap from the Fillmore Acid Test, 01.08.66. Timothy Leary montage, including excerpts of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl." Much else. Terrence McKenna excerpt. "I Did All My Acid. . ." : artist unknown. t11) WBAI program announcement, early- to mid-nineties t13) See note to track 11 t18) The story behind what I call "LSD Window Pane" is similar to track 10. t19) Excerpt: "Music Is Love" on David Crosby's If I Could Only Rember My Name t20) Tracks 19 & 20 sequenced like this on a tape I once copied from someone t21) Gorgeous Dark Star filler from who knows where on some tape I once had t22) Joni Mitchell from 1968 (perhaps) in Philadelphia (for sure) taped from Bob Young's show in LA during the wee hours of New Year's Day, 1991, which was the evening of a blue moon. t23) See note for track 22 t24) The Great Society (featuring Grace Slick), recorded at the Matrix in San Fransisco, 09-xx-1966. Same broadcast information as tracks 22 & 23. Fades up at the tail end of a Firesign Theater track from the Dear Friends album. t25) Home grown t26) Same broadcast information as track 11 t27) "Morning Dew" special produced by Randy Jackson and Lance Neal for WBAI, 99.5 FM NYC. Broadcast in the early- to mid-nineties. Includes interviews with Bonnie Dobson and the dubious Fred Rose. t28) Grateful Dead Hour intro from not to long ago t29) Better quality copy now available on Aoxomoxoa remaster (Golden Road box), along with other ads like this one t30, 31, 32) Same broadcast information as track 11 t33) From disc one of the Acid Test set from LAMA. Fillmore Acid Test. "Good Night. We've Enjoyed Having You Here." e pluribus effluvium May 2007 This will be as shown above, on 2 cdr`s WAV format . This is a really cool interview I hope you all enjoy this ! Stu .

Best of 79: The Godchauxs' Final Tour Here is the first installment of my Best of 79 project, presented both in SHN/FLAC and WAV. As discussed in the metatopic, I will convert ONE of the shows to WAV and I ask the first 3 people who sign up for this vine to convert and burn one show each, resulting in all 4 shows being in WAV format by the time the vine arrives to the 4th person. As per the title, I selected what I think are the 4 best shows from the tour. Suprisingly perhaps, I thought the early shows from the tour were the best (and not the more famous 1/20 and 2/3, although both second sets from those nights are very good). 1/7 and 1/8 are from MSG and are B+ AUDs. 1/10 and 1/11 are from Nassau Coliseum and are A AUDs. I tried not to let any NY bias influence my selections but whether it did is up for debate. The sources are: 1-07.aud.vernon.16467 1-08.gatto.glyde.10283 1-10.gatto.kempka.307 1-11.gatto.kempka.308

Here is the first installment of my Best of 79 project, presented both in SHN/FLAC and WAV. As discussed in the metatopic, I will convert ONE of the shows to WAV and I ask the first 3 people who sign up for this vine to will burn one show each, which will result in all 4 shows being in WAV format by the time the vine arrives to the 4th person. As per the title, I selected what I think are the 4 best shows from the tour. Suprisingly perhaps, I thought the early shows from the tour were the best (and not the more famous 1/20 and 2/3, although both second sets from those nights are very good). 1/7 and 1/8 are from MSG and are B+ AUDs. 1/10 and 1/11 are from Nassau Coliseum and are A AUDs. I tried not to let any NY bias influence my selections but whether it did is up for debate. The sources are: 1-07.aud.vernon.16467 1-08.gatto.glyde.10283 1-10.gatto.kempka.307 1-11.gatto.kempka.308

I was wondering when someone would post the new furthur shows. I tried to download them but my internet is just so dang slow. "You know the one thing we need is a left handed monkey wrench....."

Hi vine-loving friends! These shows need to be circulated for sure! They are flac on a DVD but if someone can convert them to wav for those who need that format it would be really cool and I am sure they would appreciate it. I just don't have the time to make all those CD's, perhaps I'm a bit lazy too :-) Furthur Fox Theatre Oakland, CA September 18, 2009 I: Phil & Bob Jam->The Other One->The Wheel->Jack Straw, The Music Never Stopped-> Birdsong->Born Cross-Eyed->Let It Grow II: Lost Sailor->Saint of Circumstance, Althea, Scarlet Begonias-> Fire on the Mountain, Saint Stephen->The Eleven->Terrapin Station-> Not Fade Away E: Touch of Grey One cd packing is: disc 1 up to & including s1t7 (born cross-eyed), disc 2 starting w/ s1t8(let it grow) up to & including s2t5 (fire), disc 3 start w/ s2t6 (saint stephen) September 19, 2009 I Jam->Bertha->Good Lovin', Estimated Prophet, Friend of the Devil, Feel Like a Stranger, Brown Eyed Women, Hell A Bucket II Jam->Shakedown Street->New Speedway Boogie->China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band->Eyes of the World-> Unbroken Chain, Help on the Way->Slipknot!->Franklin's Tower E One More Saturday Night 1st set fits on a cd, 2nd cd up to and including s2t5(eyes), etc. September 20, 2009 Set 1: Samson & Delilah Casey Jones Mississippi ½ Step Sugaree Pride of Cucamonga Jam Throwing Stones Passenger Set 2: Viola Lee Blues Cumberland Blues Viola Lee Blues King Solomon’s Marbles Cassidy Jam Dark Star Welcome to the Dance * Dark Star Uncle John’s Band Sugar Magnolia donor Cosmic Charlie * new Phil song "I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel. Can't win for tryin. Dust off those rusty strings just one more time. Gonna make em shine."

There are a lot of good Nirvana shows out there, audience and sound boards. I picked these two because of their set list and the sound quality. NIRVANA August 27, 1991 Aladin (Überschall 91) Bremen, Germany DISC #1/1 (43:59) ----------------- 01) Something In The Way (cut) 02) Negative Creep 03) Been A Son 04) Blew 05) Polly 06) Rape Me 07) Pennyroyal Tea 08) School 09) Smells Like Teen Spirit 10) In Bloom 11) Come As You Are 12) Floyd The Barber 13) Endless, Nameless (cut) NIRVANA October 12, 1991 Cabaret Metro Chicago, IL DISC #1/1 (64:19) ----------------- 01) Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam 02) Aneurysm 03) School 04) Floyd The Barber 05) Drain You 06) Smells Like Teen Spirit 07) About A Girl 08) Breed 09) Polly 10) Sliver 11) Pennyroyal Tea 12) Love Buzz 13) Lithium 14) Been A Son 15) On A Plain 16) Negative Creep 17) Blew 18) Endless, Nameless This will have three audio cd's and a dvd with shn/flac files. Some of the songs on this vine are acoustic. They sound great and in my opinion are better than their commercial releases. This vine was a request by UncleJon so its already on its way to him. Enjoy! 1. UncleJon 2. 3.

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As some of you may have seen, I posted in the metatopic an offer to seed a 4 show vine from 1979, with the first person to respond naming the shows and having the vine named after him. Beggar's Tomb responded and selected the following shows, which will be vined in BOTH SHN/FLAC and WAV: 79-02-09.aud-nak.glyde.13848 79-02-10.aud.glyde.13849 79-02-11.naks.vernon.16468 79-02-17.sbd.kempka There are the last 4 Donna & Keith shows. Three of them are AUDs. I have not listened to these shows yet. I have listened to all of the January shows and the first set of 2/3 so far (starting tomorrow off with what is supposed to be one of THE Scarlet > Fires!). Most of the shows I have listened to from this tour are good, some very good. The sound quality has been acceptable though not stellar (I graded most as B+ or A- for sound quality). It isn't until the fall tour that SBDs readily circulate and I may be wrong (ain't often right...), so don't quote me, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the master reels for much of the year are missing from the vault. Oh, and I can't take credit for the vine name. Pomo1 suggested it. Thanks all!

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I recently was given a great eclectic mix of live jazz and blues material and I wanted to share it. I haven't even listened to it yet, so I can't vouch for the quality. However, when you look at the titles, I know you will be impressed. Ten cds: 1. Miles Davis 11-7-73 (FM Broadcast); 2. Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter & Tony Williams, Tokyo Japan, 7-26-81 (SB); 3. Carlos Santana and Various Artists (including Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir)Blues For Salvador, Kaiser Auditorium, 1-23-88; 4. McCoy Tyner, Stanley Clarke & Billy Cobham, Blue Note NYC, 12-10-04 (early show); 5. Marvin Gaye, The Palladium, London, England, 10-31-76 (SB); 6. Alan Holdsworth, Jack Bruce, Billy Cobham, Didier Lockwood, Montreaux Jazz Festival, 7-23-82 (FM Broadcast); and 7. Dr. John, Montreaux Jazz Festival, 6-30-73. Enjoy! "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein