Identifier5332080
Created AtTue May 03 2005 06:31:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
NoteGrateful Dead & Merry Pranksters The Acid Test Reels 1965-1967
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
17-16 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 SFSU, SF 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 SFSU, SF, 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!

Trades Allowed
Source
SHNIDDateVenueCityStateArchive Identifier
54061966-??-??The Complete Acid Test ReelsVariousVarious
Acid Test compilation; via Alan Bershaw, Thomas Wulf; includes 1/8/66, 1/29/66, 3/12/66, 10/2/66, 10/31/66, ??/??/65, 7/23/67, ??/??/67; supplements to this set also circulate
Performance
Grateful Dead 1966-??-?? Acid Tests, Various, CA
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
CommentThis is a placeholder entry for a circulating compilation of Acid Test and supplemental material from various dates. There are 3 discs' worth of '66 tests, reportedly: 1/8/66, 1/29/66, 3/12/66, 10/2/66, 10/31/66. There is an additional disc of Cassady and/or Jerry tracks from '65 and/or '67. Individual dates for the tests will also be listed in the db. The db structure precludes the use of date-range entries.