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Steve Minard's Collection

Acid Tests   01/08/1966

Multiple, Many, CA
Media CD   5 discs
Notes Merry Pransketers/Grateful Dead Acid Test shows (see J-Card Comment for details)
J-Card Comment Merry Pranksters & The Grateful Dead:
THE ACID TEST REELS (Discs 1-5)
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DISC ONE:
Fillmore Acid Test/Sound City Acid Test/Watts 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 (LP)*
*Tape sourced. Not sourced from vinyl, no surface noise.

The Watts Acid Test
Youth Opportunities Center, Compton, CA
February 12, 1966
17. Who Cares Rap (Pigpen, Weir, etc.)
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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. Its 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:
Voices: Ken Kesey and Hugh Romney
Guitar: Ken Kesey
Violin: Dale Kesey
Organ: Jerry Garcia (also guitar on #5)
Engineering: Steve Newman, Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl
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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 Keseys dialogue
Ken Keseys Isolated Dialogue Recording

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

End of Whatever It Is Festival
October 2, 1966 (5:45AM - 6:00AM)
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
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Disc Four:
Related Recordings

Neal Cassidy & 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 Cassidy 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. Jerry Garcia
one hour Interview about music, drugs, politics and social changes circa 1967
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Disc Five:
(Expanded Pico)

The Pico Acid Test
Danish Center, Los Angeles, CA
March 12, 1966
1. Viola Lee Blues
2. One Kind Favor
3. I Know You Rider
4. You See A Broken Heart
5. It's A Sin
6. Beat It On Down The Line
7. Heads Up
8. Next Time You See Me
9. (unknown blues) Instrumental
10. Death Don't Have No Mercy
11. Midnight Hour
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: Brian Travnicek (db.etree.org/bigburn99)
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