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Grateful Dead & Merry Pranksters   ??/??/1965

The Acid Test Reels 1965-1967 (Various Venues), Various, CA
Media SHN   4 discs
Notes 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 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. - 6. Jerry Garcia

one hour interview about music, drugs, politics and social changes circa 1967

compilation and package by Alan Bershaw

shn discs by TaW

Note 1: I split the 1h Jerry interview on disc 4 into 3 smaller pieces (a-c).

Note 2: The shn-tracks for audio disc 4 are split between shn-discs 2 and 3!
Tech Notes NOTES!
Trades Allowed Yes
Reference / Generation 0001526316
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