| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Panhandle, Golden Gate Park | ||
| Location | San Francisco, CA | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | Yonders Song ; I'm A King Bee | ||
| Comments | As Per "Taping Compendium" book. | ||
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| Contributors | Teddy GoodBear |
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| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Studio Rehearsal | ||
| Location | Unknown, Unknown | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | Smokestack Lightnin' | ||
| Comments | This rehearsal is often on mislabelled 2/12/67 recordings. See 11/19/66 and 2/12/67. Jim Powell: the Smokestack Lightning > King Bee is Studio 67. | ||
| Recordings | (?) SB, Unknown generation source. | ||
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| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Unknown Venue | ||
| Location | Unknown, Unknown | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | Instrumental | ||
| Comments | This 7 minute instrumental is from the soundtrack of Robert Nelson's 1967 film about the Dead. | ||
| Recordings | 7 SB | ||
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| Contributors | David Sorochty |
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| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Whicker's World Video | ||
| Location | Unknown, Unknown | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion | ||
| Comments | David Dieterich: the Golden Road complete and uncut. 5 minutes in length, color, picture quality is fair, sound quality is good (say B+). The video portion is intense to watch. Strob lights are flashing and the camera zooms in and out very fast on the band members. It appears that Mickey was not there. There is a lot of footage of people dancing (and the guy doing the oil-based light show). Looks like a great party! Matt Schofield: there was a tV program called Whicker's World over here [UK] - starting sometime in the late 60s I should think. Maybe also aired in the US. Can't remember it too well but I think it was the sort of program that could have had a 'look back at the SF 60s music scene in a patronising way' edition, but maybe I'm thinking of something else. Seems a simple enough way though for the words 'Whicker's World' to get attached to the video, rather than trying to discover a venue of that name. Tim Anderson: it was the studio version of GR overdubbed to the performance film. David Sorochty: Whicker's World Announcer #1: "...ow night. The retrospective exhibition of her work opens at the Opera Grovener Galleries in London next week." Announcer #2: "An assault on the senses, an LSD trip without drugs. Flashing strobe lights, spermatazoic color." the Golden Road which follows is just the version off the first album. I don't have the video, just the audio. Someone can give it another look and see if it is apparent they are lip synching. I cued up my CD of the 1st album and the Whicker's World tape and they sound the same to me, though the Whicker's tape is much more grungy of course. BTW both of the announcer's voices sound British. | ||
| Recordings | (5) Video. | ||
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| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Panhandle, Golden Gate Park | ||
| Location | San Francisco, CA | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | Yonder's Wall ; I'm A King Bee | ||
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| Recordings | Video (?). | ||
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| Band | Grateful Dead | ||
| Venue | Rehearsal Session | ||
| Location | Unknown, Unknown | ||
| Date | ??/??/67 - Sunday | posters | tickets, passes & laminates |
| One | Turn On Your Lovelight [0:17] ; [0:02] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:44] ; [0:42] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:47] ; [1:29] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:33] ; [1:31] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:57] ; [0:08] ; Turn On Your Lovelight (1)[10:52] ; [10:15] ; Turn On Your Lovelight (2)[0:45] ; [0:13] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:32] ; [0:02] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:38] ; [0:17] ; Turn On Your Lovelight (3)[0:43] ; [0:43] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [2:13] ; [0:33] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [0:48] ; [0:56] ; Turn On Your Lovelight (4)[1:41] ; [0:44] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [2:06] ; [0:32] ; Turn On Your Lovelight [2:47#] | ||
| Comments | This was commonly traded on cassette, dated as "11/19/67". The 45 minute segment has never circulated in digital format till 2013, with the exception of the 6th take (the longest one) which is part of two compilations of miscellaneous studio and live material from 1967 (shn/flac sets 81259 and 85631). This practice session is now labelled as ??/??/67. There are several reasons to conclude it was made before November 19, 1967 - in fact before August 5, 1967 (currently the
earliest known live Lovelight). Most importantly, from the talking between takes it is clear they are working out the arrangement. Maybe this the first time they are playing it? There is definitely only one drummer. Pigpen sings it a bit differently; in fact he only sings the first verse, over and over. The band doesn't have any backing vocals except the "let it shine" bit, which was dropped & never appears live. The guitar parts are much simpler; on 8/5/67 they're a lot more complex & bouncy. They don't have a transition after the first verse. By 8/5/67 they have a smoother drum transition. Garcia doesn't have his soloing down for this song at all, and doesn't seem to have worked out any part other than the chords. (1) dead air for about seven minutes, followed by about three minutes of "let it shine" vocal rehearsals. (2) Jerry: "It should be loud because that's the melody you know. It should be out over the others." (3) Jerry: "Let's go over it a time or two and get the arrangement. Hey Pig, do you want to do two verses and then into that uh drum business? Well let's, let's decide that because that, that's uh..." Phil: "Bring some more grub man." Jerry: "Ok that would be the stomp because..." (4) How many verses do you want to go through on Lovelight? I think two, two and then a drum thing. And then after, after the bridge come on back and start get back into Lovelight. Play it man. And you'll have to play organ too. Give us a signal then, at the end. At the end, go back into the regular bar solo. Go back into the regular again. Go back into a regular verse at the end and go 'shine, shine, shine, let it shine'. |
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| Recordings | (45) SB. From A unknown generation source. | ||
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