The Acid Test record

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Anyone else grab this RSD release?

i mean, it's undoubtedly has historical significance,

but it kind of.. you know...

sucks.

 

almost want my $22 back.

lol.

does it have cassady screetching the chair across the floor??

Yes, I do think I heard that.

i gotta say the humor of that era has not stood up over time.

Is this the recording that was included as a floppy 45 RPM in the original edition of The Dead Book?

I used to have that one but haven't seen it in years.

Consistently selling new for $25-$39 on ebay. I'm sure you can get your $22 back :)
Guess I'll kep my copy sealed, though. Thanks for the heads up on suck-factor.

I always thought it was Owsley scratching the chair.

There's some footage of them at the beginning of Sunshine Daydream fooling around that's pretty stupid, too.

On the inside back cover of the Harrison book it says that the record is 33 1/3 rpm. Also mentions that the acetate decays after some number of years.

Is that the one with the "Tarnished Galahad" story?

>>>>I always thought it was Owsley scratching the chair.

 

either way, its really shines through on the vinyl.....

 

 

 

and i think it was cassiday... lest i digress...

I thought it was Ray. Who cares? 

Maybe it was the doses!

According to Wolfe it was Bear. Lol.

The washing machine was Neal.

anyone got a digital copy?, bought the record for the art, don't have a player. Let's share this please

 

Worse than Seastones?

According to Bear it was Bear.

Just finished that 'Little And Times' biography on him a few weeks ago. He talks about it a bit.

I have this on CD somewhere. Someone made a copy of the 33 1/3 flexi disc (nice clean version) and there are FLACs in circulation.

My buddy had this and we made a copy on cassette back in the day so we wouldn't wear out the flexi disc.

I wonder if the RSD release sounds better? The sound quality was only so good to start with...

 

Bear was dragging a chair across the floor at the Muir Beach (12/11/65) acid test, I think this recording is from another night but I could be wrong.

Those pranksters were a conduit to god man...lol. 

JKlowan --

I have a few CD-R's of whichever Test recordings were up on GDLive site back when.  Haven't listened back in quite some time, as it's not my favorite Commuter music. No idea of how it compares to RSD vinyl, or the Cheezy Tim Leery recordings (you can be anything you want to, this time around.)

Anyway I'll dig those CD-R's out of their folders and see if they haven't dissolved from age. With any luck they were on Fuji Japan CD-R (Taiyo-Yuden) which have good life-span.

If still alive, I shall EAC them for you and get the strange, dissonant sonic Jibber-Jabber onto a thumb drive or the like.

Disco stu never saw the grateful dead. 

ize can hassez?

Pull the album cover apart and blow into the cavity. My friend did this and a ten strip fell out. Something like one in every one hundred packages, underground secret surprises and all that, he said.

 

He seemed happy telling me about it.

mine did!!!

Lucky bastid.

but i just tossed em out...

When I was a very young teen I got a copy of Big Bambu because I loved the Sister Mary Elephant routine. It had the big rolling paper in it but I didn't know what it was so I threw it away.

I've always regretted that.

In 1967 I was 16 and still a year away from breaking the law re. cannabis. I knew what it was but knew almost nothing about it. I was in Provincetown on summer vacation with the fam and wandered into a poster shop. They had a big bin filled with "roach clips" for sale - I didn't know what they were for.

>>>>>When I was a very young teen I got a copy of Big Bambu because I loved the Sister Mary Elephant routine. It had the big rolling paper in it 

 

some years back when Cheech & Chong performed on their reunion tour at Berkeley Community Theater a friend filled said paper and brought it to the show.. wink