Category: LSD

  • UCLA Acid Test (CXL)

    ! ad: Daily Bruin, March 16, 1966, p. 2. Preface Suggested audio accompaniment for this post: http://tinyurl.com/hthnmgb, especially 30 minutes in when Ken Babbs is just raving, and things are just WILD. The UCLA Daily Bruin has been digitized, and is accessible via the Daily Bruin Print Archive at http://samhoff.github.io/archive/. The access is rather cumbersome,…

  • Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)

    The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of the January 17, 1969 gig. The gig was absent from Deadbase, is listed as Unknown Venue chez Deadlists, and circulates from Vault -> Latvala -> world tape as “Civic Auditorium, Santa…

  • Green Green Grass Of Home

    This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…