first Grateful dead show 52 years ago today

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phishie on Monday, December 4, 2017 – 11:42 pm

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Those were the days I hear. Wasn't born yet, but wow, 52 years ago now...

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Painted Mandolin
Treblemaker on Monday, December 4, 2017 – 11:56 pm

Yep - Big Nigs - San Jose Acid  Test!

My 1st Bday!

Today I turned 53!

Happy Bday to me!

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pumpkin lurker
phishie on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:00 am

Happy Birthday!

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Randy
Salvador Vagrante on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:11 am

Happy Birthday Treble!

53 sounds like a good one. 

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treat island
judit on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:17 am

Happy Birthday!

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Druba
Noodler on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:18 am

What a long strange trip it's been (and Happy Birthday!) 

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Painted Mandolin
Treblemaker on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:27 am

Thanks peeps.... Appreciate it!

 

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Alan R
StoneSculptor on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 09:19 am

Happy Birthday Treble. Thank for all the vids. Makes it much easier to be a Bay area refugee. (Please also send us some fog and real Mexican food.)

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Alan R
StoneSculptor on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 09:30 am

 "About this time [Jan. 20-30, 1966], everyone in the band, except for Pigpen, had been taking acid at least once a week for more than six months. It's safe to say that in the ninety days or so that the Acid Tests existed, our band took more and longer strides into another realm of musical consciousness, not to mention pure awareness, than ever before or since. At the beginning, we were a band playing a gig. At the end, we had become shamans helping to channel the transcendent into our mundane lives and those of our listeners. We felt, all of us -- band, Pranksters, participants -- privileged to be at the arrow's point in human evolution; and from that standpoint, everything was possible." -- Searching for the Sound -- Phil Lesh - Page 76

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Alan R
StoneSculptor on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 10:01 am

  "I went to their Tuesday night audition at the Fillmore. The other bands that were auditioning that same night were the Great Society and the Loading Zone. I remember I took acid that night. I walked in real early and nobody was even there. Bill Graham used to put as barrel of apples out. I saw apples. I thought, "Hmmm! Probably for somebody private or something." I said, "I'm hungry. I'll steal one anyway." So I took an apple and I was just biting into it when Bill Graham walked in. I didn't know who he was. I thought, "I hope he's a janitor." I just started cooling it and he walked by and I looked at him and he nodded. He looked and nodded and then he did one of those Bill things. He stopped, did a slow double take, and went, "Uh, who are you? Who are you with?" I said, "Warlocks." I knew this would make him know I was really with them. Because this was the first night they were auditioning as the Grateful Dead." -- David Nelson - Dark Star Oral Biography - Robert Greenfield - Page 68-69

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Def. High
Surfdead on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 10:05 am

I never knew you had to audition to play the Fillmore.