Buried in today's NYT online - Earliest Fan Taped GD Concert

The Grateful Dead performed at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco in 1967.

The Acid Tests — as the LSD-fueled parties were called — had only begun a few months earlier. So few knew what to expect on Jan. 8, 1966, when the Grateful Dead took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The band had only recently changed its name from the Warlocks and had nowhere near the notoriety it soon would achieve.

The show is now the earliest fan-recording of the band, which relied largely on such recordings and word of mouth to gain popularity. The recording includes nearly as much banter as it does music and gives a glimpse into the wild-eyed commotion of the day. In the words of Jerry Garcia: “In the end, it’s nothing but mindless chaos.”

(Oddly - that's all this article says - no link to sources, or exactly what product the editors refer to???)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/california-today-gustavo-arellano....


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