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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 Cassady & 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 Cassady 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!




Disc Six: [41:56]
Supplementary CD#2 - San Francisco State Acid Test (alternate version)
"Whatever It Is" Festival October 2, 1966
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Stereo Control Room Master (rec. 4:00AM - 6:00AM)
Source(s) unknown, this has different lineage, and some different edits to the "intact" version. Specifically some contemorary (Tomorrow show '81?) interviews are spliced in, and the sound collages towards the end are presented in a different sequence.

01. Jerry Garcia intro 0:20
02. A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies 3:41
03. Get It Off The Ground Rap 9:32
04. It's Good To Be God Rap 2:40
05. Nirvana Army Rap 0:52
06. The Butcher Is Back 3:14
07. Acid Test Graduation Announcement 1:29
08. Send Me To The Moon 1:22
09. Jerry Garcia interview 0:40
10. Sound Collage 3:43
11. Ken Kesey Interview 0:22
12. Sound Collage #2 9:58
13. Jerry Garcia Interview 0:19
14. Music / Sound Collage #1 2:14
15. Ken Kesey Interview 0:15
16. Sound Collage 1:15




1966-10-02 San Francisco State University, S.F., CA.
Acid Test [At Whatever It Is] (4am-6am)

Voices: Ken Kesey, Hugh Romney
Violin: Dale Kesey
Organ: Jerry Garcia
Engineering: Steve Newman, Mountain Girl, Ken Kesey

Divided into 14 segements. I recieved this in a snail-mail trade from 
Ed Perlstein (in one large wav file) who recovered the Master Reel. 
MR>Remastered DAT>CDR>CDR1>EAC>FLAC

01  The Head has become Fat  4:48
02  The Stars tell a Story  2:44
03  A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies (Out in the Jungle)  3:05
04  Tarnished Gallahad 3:55
05  Large Soft Woman/Get It Off The Ground  6:30
06  Go Head On Up 1  2:17
07  Owned By The Devil 1:25
08  The Butcher Is Back  4:24
09  Announcement  1:30
10  Acid Test Graduation Announcement / Meat To The Moon 4:43
11  Musical Interlude  20:54
12  Go Head On Up (isolated remix) 2:40
13  The Butcher is Back (isolated remix) 12:07
14  Announcement (isolated remix)  2:23

This source is what Ed supplied to Zane Kesey. Zane & Simon took each channel,
converted them to mono, and re-edited the entire recording. Their version runs a few minutes shorter
than this copy. This is a CD Clone of the stereo master reel found in the Bay Area Music Archives.  
I comparred the way they released their version, and divided this into tracks at the same spots. 

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**This is the info copied from the Key-Z website with more info on this source.**

One week before the law that made LSD illegal in California was to take effect; Ken Kesey snuck back from his hideout in Mexico to attend 
the San Francisco State College Acid Test.  Word on the street was that Kesey had made a deal.  He didn’t!  The set-up was with Kesey, Jerry, 
Mt. Girl etc. off in a different hidden room secretly microphoned and wired so people could hear him and he could hear them and interact with 
the crowd in the auditorium.  This didn’t happen until around 4am.  All of this was being broadcast by the local radio station that also recorded
 it with a professional reel-to-reel tape recorder.  Ed Perlstein recently found this gem preserved in the Bay Area Music Archives, and sent a 
digitally re-mastered (but unaltered) DAT. Next generation Prankster Simon Babbs has enhanced, the sound, divided it into tracks, and created 
CD through Intrepid Trips, he burns these CDs individually for you. Versions of this Acid Test have emerged through the years from amateur 
recordings of the broadcast, but this CD with its pristine recording from the location are a window into time!  With Ken Kesey on guitar and vocals, 
Dale Kesey on violin, Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) and Mountain Girl (Carolyn Garcia) backup and side-pranks, Jerry Garcia on Organ, and 
Steve Newman was engineering.   Total length     68:20 


SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
5413	1966-10-02	San Francisco State University	San Francisco	CA
part of Acid Test compilation; via Alan Bershaw, Thomas Wulf; md5s and txt shown are for whole set and for this date
9517	1966-10-02	San Francisco State University	San Francisco	CA
part of supplement Acid Test compilation; md5s and txt shown are for "disc 6"
106656	1966-10-02	San Francisco State University	San Francisco	CA
recieved in a snail-mail trade from Ed Perlstein (in one large wav file) who recovered the Master Reel. MR>Remastered DAT>CDR>CDR1>EAC>FLAC

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