tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post3902634068247109596..comments2024-03-25T06:33:12.809-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: January-April 1967 Grateful Dead Itinerary OverviewCorry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-78443438838304819872016-11-23T06:57:57.024-08:002016-11-23T06:57:57.024-08:00Oh my - that VLB must have scalped 'em.
So we...Oh my - that VLB must have scalped 'em.<br /><br />So weird no newspaper ads or exposts that I could find, but, yeah, no doubt it happened.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-32275390300503571552016-11-22T20:54:16.482-08:002016-11-22T20:54:16.482-08:00Nonetheless, there's a little eyewitness memor...Nonetheless, there's a little eyewitness memory of the show on deadlists; so apparently attendees heard of it even without a newspaper listing.<br /><br />Another brief mention on dead.net says, "The Dead played a split set with the Doors sandwiched in between. Jim Morrison was out of control and obviously pretty fucked up." <br />The deadlists witness also says, "They played two sets that evening, with the Doors playing their set between the two." <br />He says the Doors left the audience stunned; but Garcia also remembered the show - and Garcia found Jim Morrison & the Doors offensive and annoying. <br />"We opened for them in Santa Barbara...when they were a little more powerful. Their sound had gotten better...[but] was still thin... When they were the headliners, it was sort of embarrassing for us to open for them, cause we sort of blew them off the stand just with sheer power... When they played, there was an anticlimax kind of feeling to it, even with their hits." [Conversations with the Dead, p.63] <br />Our witness continues, "After the Doors finished their set...the Dead came back out almost immediately, and either Weir or Garcia said, 'How about a little Viola Lee Blues.'" <br />And then presumably they blew the Doors off the stage.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-35650979510398041732016-11-22T18:43:47.042-08:002016-11-22T18:43:47.042-08:00I sniffed around in the Santa Barbara News-Press m...I sniffed around in the Santa Barbara News-Press microfilm and got bubkis on the Earl Warren show. I might have missed it, but I found nothing.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-87969321162406944962016-11-22T18:42:08.835-08:002016-11-22T18:42:08.835-08:00A link to my post showing a preview of January 6, ...A link to my post showing a preview of January 6, 1967.<br /><br /><a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/07/gd-19670106.html" rel="nofollow">GD 19670106</a>Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-1542441038318929642015-07-04T23:19:09.303-07:002015-07-04T23:19:09.303-07:00From an article in the 1/19/67 edition of the Stan...From an article in the 1/19/67 edition of the Stanford Daily – <br />"Students at UC Berkeley are planning a vigil today to coincide with a meeting on the Berkeley campus of the California Board of Regents. <br />The vigil is scheduled to begin at about 9:30 this morning across the street from University Hall, where the Regents are expected to discuss Governor Ronald Reagan’s proposals to cut the University’s budget and charge tuition. <br />Two rock and roll bands, the Grateful Dead and the Loading Zone, have volunteered to entertain the vigilers while the Regents are meeting. <br />The Berkeley Police Department has given unofficial notice that the bands and the vigilers will not be interfered with so long as order is maintained." <br />(“Cal Students Plan Vigil of Reagan-Board Meet," Stanford Daily 1/19/67) <br /><br />I have doubts that this happened (wouldn't someone remember a free Grateful Dead show on the Berkeley campus?), but even if it was cancelled or a false Dead rumor, it's still an interesting glimpse at a possible Dead appearance - or at least the kind of event they were expected to play at.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-79160072033528265022013-07-05T08:26:56.986-07:002013-07-05T08:26:56.986-07:00Waiting for a flight a couple of days ago I was po...Waiting for a flight a couple of days ago I was pondering the April 9, 1967 date. The reason for this is that I have a third performance listed on my dog-eared old GD list. However, it could well be a duplicate of the Panhandle show or maybe it didn't happen. Anyway, The Longshoremen's Hall and Panhandle performances are well documented - The Panhandle sometime in the afternoon (plenty of photographs exist) and Longshoremen's late in the evening. However, there was planned a 2PM Haight-Ashbury "Street Dance" show organised by The Diggers (for one hour). I have always separated this from the Panhandle event as it followed a street theatre event at Haight & Ashbury - and it was called "Street Dance" - which would be inappropriate for Speedway Meadows. I have sent you an email containing the handbill that advertises the show.The Yellow Sharkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001772238662274893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-23793286453734013442013-05-22T17:17:17.548-07:002013-05-22T17:17:17.548-07:00oh yes, whoops, I crossed up my LA clubs. Still, t...oh yes, whoops, I crossed up my LA clubs. Still, to your point, up until the Dead played The Shrine I don't think they had a good SoCal gig.<br />Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-63169590649691121112013-05-22T17:04:38.750-07:002013-05-22T17:04:38.750-07:00Wasn't Phil's bass stolen at the Hullabalo...Wasn't Phil's bass stolen at the Hullabaloo in Hollywood on 6/16/67? <br />But you're right, that's another LA club gig in that period that the band must have disliked. <br /><br />It still strikes me that Kofsky immediately calls the Santa Monica Cheetah "a drag," so that place must have had a bad reputation...Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-84762166156440215752013-05-22T15:31:11.265-07:002013-05-22T15:31:11.265-07:00A great find on the Cheetah quote. Remember that P...A great find on the Cheetah quote. Remember that Phil got his bass stolen, so it must have been a tiring gig with nothing to show for it.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-25589211378602310822013-05-22T15:29:47.783-07:002013-05-22T15:29:47.783-07:00I found a very fleeting reference by Garcia to wha...I found a very fleeting reference by Garcia to what I think is the 4/30/67 Cheetah show. In a September '67 interview, Frank Kofsky asked Garcia if he's played in LA. <br /><br />GARCIA: Yeah, but we've never *really* played LA. We've played in the Cheetah down there.<br />KOFSKY: Yeah, which is a drag. <br />GARCIA: We played at all the shit places. And we can never get it on because it always brought us down so much. I mean, the people and promoters down there are all horrible, graspy... The whole LA snap, the whole hype, you know: bread, dollars and cents, and that's it. We've never gotten it on in LA. We've played there but we've never *done* it.<br /> <br />Kofsky mentions the upcoming 9/15 Hollywood Bowl show & Garcia says, "We want to do that just for the flash of playing in the Hollywood Bowl...[but] nothing's gonna happen."<br /><br />This is remarkably negative on Garcia's part. The whole Feb-April '66 stay must have left a very bad impression (and it's true the Dead had a hard time finding places to play then). <br />Garcia does remember the Santa Monica Cheetah show, and Kofsky immediately says it's "a drag." <br />They also played the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in January '67 (with Tim Leary), presumably lumped in by Garcia with "all the shit places." These two shows are the only ones I recall in the LA area between April '66 and Sep '67, though maybe there were others.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-8664619109445685782013-05-18T09:28:17.833-07:002013-05-18T09:28:17.833-07:00JJK, that article is just great. For my rather sel...JJK, that article is just great. For my rather selfish purposes, it would be perfect if trained Graduate Students in every town took it upon themselves to recreate Grateful Dead shows using eyewitness accounts.<br /><br />Jim Felt promoted the Dead at places like Springer's Ballroom and I believe the Paramount Theater in Portland.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-40015048392687782702013-05-18T06:32:15.421-07:002013-05-18T06:32:15.421-07:00More info about the 7/18/67 show:
http://www.wwee...More info about the 7/18/67 show: <br />http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20622-bringing_out_the_dead.htmlJJKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00588182477386299613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-43286770190220717732011-03-01T16:14:13.294-08:002011-03-01T16:14:13.294-08:00Ralph Gleason had a series of television specials ...Ralph Gleason had a series of television specials in 1967 that are the source of some of the best (and in some cases only) surviving video of great San Francisco bands from 1967.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-32547997718448577162011-03-01T14:02:25.073-08:002011-03-01T14:02:25.073-08:00i have a recording of labeled 4/8/1967 from GD at ...i have a recording of labeled 4/8/1967 from GD at KPIX-tv studios,SF,CA setlist(and i'm listening to it right now !) is : 'Pleas Come Home' ,announcer intro, Ralf Gleason interviews Jerry/band, 'Cream Puff War', Pride of Man, Walkin' blues' enjoy life team!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14372140743026959593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-31136130594617279422010-01-29T18:56:06.613-08:002010-01-29T18:56:06.613-08:00Doh! I read that yes I did. Somehow I forgot all ...Doh! I read that yes I did. Somehow I forgot all about it by the time I got to the bottom of the page. I think it had to do with the fact that there was this band I used to follow around a lot...IMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770956092269600588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-7423236895871058622010-01-29T07:11:26.240-08:002010-01-29T07:11:26.240-08:00It's a mention by Garcia in the image posted a...It's a mention by Garcia in the image posted above, under the 4/28/67 listing.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-28996589493475523692010-01-29T06:42:24.118-08:002010-01-29T06:42:24.118-08:00This is such great info Corry! Re: the 4/9/67 gig...This is such great info Corry! Re: the 4/9/67 gig, you mentioned the GD were'nt on the poster. They were added to a couple posters at the last minute. At the link you provide you can see on the upper right of the poster is a notice that says 'plus the Grateful Dead' (It almost looks like a sticker). There are also a couple variants of the poster that indicate the GD will be playing. http://www.deadlists.com/posters/1960s/19670409b.html<br /><br />And following up on your last comment, what's the new evidence supporting the 4/28 date?IMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770956092269600588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-58704084658631774782010-01-16T15:54:10.211-08:002010-01-16T15:54:10.211-08:00I have found evidence supporting the April 28 Stoc...I have found evidence supporting the April 28 Stockton date, so I added it to the list. There may still be some vagueness as to the exact location and some other aspects (such as the promoter and the poster), but it seems clear that the band played in Stockton that night.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-78561546900090988182010-01-12T11:09:44.701-08:002010-01-12T11:09:44.701-08:00Ok, what an amazing detail. It still begs the ques...Ok, what an amazing detail. It still begs the question of why the Dead played a Monday night at the Ambassador after playing the whole weekend. The most likely explanation is that this was an album release party for Los Angeles Warner Bros staff, similar to the March 20 event at Fugazi Hall.<br /><br />Record company events tended to be on odd nights like Monday, because promo men, talent agents, etc were often committed on weekends seeing bands they were working with.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-67501191409528635732010-01-12T10:44:53.323-08:002010-01-12T10:44:53.323-08:00I am so grateful for this post, Corry. Thanks for ...I am so grateful for this post, Corry. Thanks for your hard work!<br /><br />I think this might shed some light on the 4/17/67 "Banana Grove" date. A piece on the opening of the Kaleidoscope in the LA Times (Digby Diehl, "Kaleidoscope Opens at Embassy Room," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, April 18, 1967, p. D10) includes this little nugget:<br /><br />"The Ambassador's new Banana Grove, as some dubbed the room, featured the electronic vibrations of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and the Canned Heat Blues Band. All three rock groups were happily received."<br /><br />This seemed to be a juxtaposition with the Coconut Grove, which I take to be a high-end club in the same hotel.<br /><br />As I can reconstruct from the article, it looks like the "International Kaleidoscope" was inside the Embassy Room, which was inside the Ambassador Hotel.<br /><br />One last tidbit from the article: this looks to have been a fallback location for the Kaleidoscope, following "an injunction against the club's intended residence at 1228 Vine Street by the building owner, National General Corp."Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-17391024205044287152010-01-11T22:03:39.174-08:002010-01-11T22:03:39.174-08:00There is reason to be dubious about the April 28 S...There is reason to be dubious about the April 28 Stockton date, as it is based on a poster whose provenance is doubtful. That doesn't rule out the gig, incidentally--just casts doubt on basing the date on the poster.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-24594307904160582822010-01-11T22:01:36.586-08:002010-01-11T22:01:36.586-08:00Hey, thanks for all the updates. I had a bunch of ...Hey, thanks for all the updates. I had a bunch of this stuff in my notes, and forgot to even look at Southern California (am I from NorCal or what?). <br /><br />I updated the post accordingly.<br /><br />I have been grinding through the Entertainment sections of the SF Chronicle in 1967, all of them, every single one, and that is the basis of this post. I will keep grinding, and we will see what it brings us.<br /><br />As a footnote, based on my research from early 1967, the war in Vietnam has been going really, really well.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-45621228211346960052010-01-11T21:27:51.452-08:002010-01-11T21:27:51.452-08:00This is better than deadlists! You're right, t...This is better than deadlists! You're right, they have a number of gaps - (they also omit the important Rock Garden run, as well as other dates you noted) - and lord knows when they'll ever bother updating. <br /><br />Though I'm hesitant to refer to the notoriously inaccurate setlists.net - it does provide a few more shows for April '67. (Which doesn't mean they existed, but might give us some hints. Notice that these are all shows outside San Francisco...) <br /><br />April 14, 15, 16 - Kaleidoscope, Hollywood <br />April 17 - Banana Grove Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles (?!)<br />And around the April 29 Santa Barbara show - <br />April 28 - Stockton Ballroom, Stockton <br />April 30 - Cheetah, Santa Monica <br /><br />I hope you can extend this list later into '67 - at least through May, and perhaps the June '67 NYC trip? <br /><br />Possibly Monterey was a bit of a turning-point in the Dead's popularity (in that more folks outside California at least saw their name) - starting in July, we see them playing a little Northwest tour, then some Canada/Michigan shows in August...September saw a return trip to Seattle, and even a trek to Denver...this suggests at least some attempt at an 'outreach'.... <br /><br />From someone who saw the 7/18/67 Portland OR show: <br />"All the 'heads' of Portland were there... This was back before the 'hifi' dead. Not so different from the debut album....frantic leads, meandering bass, single drummer, Fender amps turned up loud. Jerry playing his black Les Paul. Pigpen dinkin' away on the organ. Good stuff. A very intimate, but small event, in a very tasteful venue. No lightshow. A couple Portland bands trying hard to sound like Arthur Lee's Love."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com