I just received this message on the Acid Test Reels from Alan Bershaw and
I'll be offering up the suppliment as soon as I get it. :) Stu
Hi Stu & Dee, Neil, Steve, Bruce, Rob and Gerry,
The 5th "Acid Test Reels" supplement discs are on their way to you. Here
is my complete notation up to this point for your reference. First, is my
notation for the 5th suppliment disc (and I've noted a few mistakes I noticed
in previous documentation on Deadlists), followed by complete notation for
the finished set (Discs 1-5). Feel free to repost where needed. Thanks for
helping to spread these around! Alan
The Acid Test Reels Compilation
The supplement disc containing:
Watts Acid Test: 2/12/66
Expanded Pico Acid Test: 3/12/66
The Watts Acid Test
Youth Opportunities Center, Compton, CA
February 12, 1966
1. Who Cares Rap (Pigpen, Weir, etc.) [6:20}
The Pico Acid Test
Danish Center, Los Angeles, CA
March 12, 1966
2. Viola Lee Blues [11:01]
3. One Kind Favor [3:27]
4. I Know You Rider [2:25]
5. You See A Broken Heart [3:12]
6. It's A Sin [3:20]
7. Beat It On Down The Line [2:50]
8. Heads Up [3:55]
9. Next Time You See Me [2:49]
10. unknown blues instrumental[7:06]
11. Death Don't Have No Mercy [5:50]
12. Midnight Hour [10:45]
Notes:
The 8th song, previously notated as "unknown instrumental" on Deadlists, is a
cover of Freddy King's "Heads Up." The 9th tune, previously listed as "The
Same Thing (instrumental)," is definitely NOT that song. Although it is a
standard blues and sounds similar at the beginning, closer listening makes it
pretty obvious that it is an entirely different song, title unknown. The
Viola Lee Blues on this expanded version is a different version than on the
previous three song version of Pico Acid Test. This is an ongoing mystery,
although it should be said that both versions are worth having.
This 5th "supplement disc" now completes this project. Thank you to Jeff
Lester (who supplied the missing 6 minute Watts sequence) and Bill Kristy
(who tracked down the expanded Pico material).
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My original intentions for compiling "The Acid Test Reels" material was to
chronologically include every single Acid Test related recording known to
exist, as it is notated in Volume One of The Compendium. I intentionally left
some time at the end of disc #1, so that the Watts Acid Test "Who Cares Rap"
(approx 6:00) would fit there and then Volume 1 through 4 would indeed
contain every last Acid Test related recording in The Compendium (plus more)
in chronological order.
Here is the complete notation for this project. Note that I have now included
the Watts sequence where it was originally intended at the end of disc #1.
Folks who already have the original 4 discs compiled in March 2001 should get
the supplement disc that includes both Watts and the expanded Pico
recordings. I hope everyone enjoys these efforts but for God's sake, listen
to it in small doses and not all at once! ;-) Alan
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 Kesey’s dialogue
Ken Kesey’s 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
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