Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Golden State Studios on 1965-11-03 (November 3, 1965)

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Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: November 3, 1965 (check for other copies)
Venue: Golden State Studios
Location: San Francisco, CA

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > MR > ?? > DAT > CDR
Transferred by: Raoul Duke and Matt Vernon
Keywords: Live concert

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Can't Come Down, Mindbender, The Only Time Is Now, Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks), I Know You Rider, Early Morning Rain

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Reviewer: figin - - June 22, 2008
Subject: WTF!?!?!

THIS ISN'T THE GREATFUL DEAD YOU LIARS! IT'S THE WARLOCKS!! lol kidding. awesome music!

Reviewer: that's otis - - March 30, 2008
Subject: 665 Harrison

Folks, this is a demo tape, not a show. It was recorded at a studio - do you hear an audience?
By the way, the great Mindbender is the only tune in the entire liturgy featuring a Garcia/Lesh lyrics credit, and only one of two with a Garcia/Lesh music credit - the other being Cumberland Blues.
Their first appearance as the Grateful Dead would occur just one month later at Big Nig's House, for the San Jose Acid Test, 12-4-65. Does anyone know whether the original label for this demo tape was GD, or Warlocks?

Reviewer: Drumheadz - - March 21, 2008
Subject: My 1st show!

Not really - but very cool just the same!

Reviewer: bowen - - February 27, 2008
Subject: Other vocalist.

Nope, it's all Dead! It's Phil Lesh singing lead vocals on several tracks. Could you imagine a better set of songs to begin the embryonic journey that would become the Grateful Dead?

Reviewer: JustinMusic - - February 10, 2008
Subject: Early Stuff

This is very early stuff. I give this short little show a A+ because of its rare tracks. I do notice that there is someone else other then the dead singing. I wonder if it was PigPen. Anyway thank you for sharing this with us.

Reviewer: AndrewMcM - - January 15, 2008
Subject: Good Stuff

What's great about this set is that it is almost pre-Dead Grateful Dead. The sound they developed in the 1970s and 1980s isn't there. Instead were hear some stuff that's derivative of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in "Can't Come Down," and a definite mid-1960s San Francisco psychedelic sound in "Mindbender."

So, this set/show is a great history lesson for Dead lovers.

Reviewer: SplendicaIndica - - January 12, 2008
Subject: Newly Converted Head NEEDS this show!!!

This show is unbelievable - so fresh and lively. I just started diving into dick's picks, and I'm telling you I LOVE the live performances. Anyone who has this show PLEASE email me - afterall we need to keep performances like these alive for generations to come!
Write me at SplendicaIndica@hotmail.com

Reviewer: pulverazation - - December 26, 2007
Subject: Starting from the beginning

I think this recording is very interesting.First off the sound is amazing and i like how it was mixed.This is to short but what is there is historical.

Reviewer: ShannonsGun - - December 17, 2007
Subject: TIMELESS...

Take this recording, bury it in a time capsule for a thousand years, dig it up, push play, and it still sounds fresh and great.....enjoy internet archive all you unborn generations, we were happy to enjoy the Grateful Dead (sometimes in person) and pass the genius and beauty on to you.

5 stars for an obvious reason...
PEACE
SG

Reviewer: Direwolfman - - December 14, 2007
Subject: Fantastic stuff

This recordng is a precious piece of history of the Dead. Long live the archive!

Reviewer: N_Carolina-HEAD - - December 12, 2007
Subject: Help!!!!

Help...please help me find out how I can download this. I listen to this about every week at work and have loved this recording for some time. boo_uncw_2001@msn.com
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewer: BawstonStrangler - - November 27, 2007
Subject: So Many Roads

This find was a real treat. In addition to the Dead playin' Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, Jazz, & Psychedelics...add 60s San Fran Pop, and it's top notch. My only save from 65.
Can't Come Down & this spc Mindbender are amazing. I would've loved to have heard this break out in a show.

Reviewer: Dead Rich - - November 26, 2007
Subject: Emergency Crew?

The Warlocks were pre-Lesh. This recording must have been done while performing as the Emergency Crew or one of the first appearences of the Grateful Dead. It's great to have this to listen to while reading Lesh's autobiography. I've been reading if for a few days and wanted to hear some music from the early days. Thanks ARCHIVE!

Reviewer: snobtaper - - November 16, 2007
Subject: Nice

Had it on cassette and than DAT, now I have it on harddrive
Gotta love technology
As for getting a copy just use a streaming recording program, replay music or audacity
No reason not to have this or any of those sweet sweet digi boards, plus it's easier than pulling out the DATs and decks
I miss my bus

Reviewer: DEADHEADekoostikhippie - - October 28, 2007
Subject: History

This is a real classic piece. The guys are so young and enrgetic in their music...not that they never were...this is just amazing piece of musical art.
and a question...this would be a great list to listen to anywhere...downloads?...HOW??

Reviewer: dDaze - - October 28, 2007
Subject: Yummy!

Cute and fun, kinda safe, but very progressive for the time.

Any student of American music history would enjoy this.

Reviewer: ripcurldead - - October 3, 2007
Subject: AMAZING

This I'm sure is the Emergency Crew recordings..
I just read about this in the book "Garcia" by Blair Jackson... I had a low gen, weak tape of this eyars ago, how can I download this?? How Can I gett his for the road!!
UJBPLAYIN@yahoo.com

Reviewer: FlyinEddie - - September 28, 2007
Subject: Feel Like I've Been Here Before......

I was following a link from Phil's Philbase and landed here. It is listed there as The First Warlocks Show...and noted as the Studio recording session for Autumn Records' "The Emergency Crew." Never commercially released. The sound as noted by another review is split with the voice on one side and the music on the other. Reminds me of the Beatles albums from that time. Billy Kreutzmann sounds great. Check him out again on I Can't Come Down. I love this sound. The tape is not fast. Listen to the He Was a Friend on 7-3-66. Just a new fresh sounds from San Francisco

Reviewer: reddreads - - September 25, 2007
Subject: there is no such this as pre acid dead

Read Phil Lesh's book, they had done acid before the warlocks were formed. Back then they didnt take it very often they were still experimenting and couldnt get it all the time. cuz nobody but the government were making it at the time.

cant come down rules.

Reviewer: grateful247 - - September 10, 2007
Subject: greetings from a kaza

verrrrrry nice

Reviewer: wwwwwwww - - September 1, 2007
Subject: pure deadhead stuff

this stuff is very very rare download immediatley or inleast give it a listen i mean hear how high their voices are this is them probaly when they were The Warlocks stuff that will never see the public eye(except for download on this site) and already 50,000 people have downloaded this or streamed it still worth your while

Reviewer: jDeutchman - - August 8, 2007
Subject: this is so funky

i've heard worse quality from a 90's recording. seriously the audio quality of this is unbelievable. the twang is unbelievable. the young dead voices are unbelievable. this is sweet stuff

Reviewer: Mr. Charlie - Lambertville - - August 4, 2007
Subject: LSD was definitely on the scene at this point.

For god sakes people. For those wondering if LSD had hit the scene need only look at the first 2 tracks in this set list!!!

In September 1965, Owsley became the primary LSD supplier to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and thereby the Dead. Owsley made the purest form of the drug ever made.

Reviewer: lemon lime partridge - - July 3, 2007
Subject: too much!

this is beeeyyyyyond belief! i can't remember how i found the archive, though i'm certain that god led me here. i was always sort of a brit-psychedelia fan before i started getting into the SF bands, so this is just a peppermint-candy french horn blowing dark star rainbows down my very spine!!! dig everything! dig it!

Reviewer: fred'sapple - - April 20, 2007
Subject: Genius

Beatiful, the roots of the dead

Reviewer: Sollipsist - - March 29, 2007
Subject: mind-bending

Maybe not the band you know & love but definitely the pizza-parlor-playin' Warlocks of Palo Alto that started it all rollin'...I've heard all the criticisms but this is easily as good as most of the early 60's Brit Invasion & US electric blues/folk stuff (in song quality and recording quality!). I think it's an essential listen for even a casual fan, even if it's not the stuff to start someone on the Golden Road.

Reviewer: Travelah - - March 28, 2007
Subject: excellent time capsule of the birth of a 30 year run

The sound is seriously periodic but this is an excellent historical record. I had completely forgotten they did Gordon Lightfoot covers.

Reviewer: NoyoWharfRat - - November 30, 2006
Subject: Pre-acid?

OK. Since I'm sure you were there...

Reviewer: kronickdead - - October 3, 2006
Subject: kick ass show

this show kicks ass if there is any other suggetions on any other grateful shows that are of particular intrest to ya'll let me know sweetness is here

Reviewer: mafeoc - - September 23, 2006
Subject: What A Difference 30 Years Makes!!

It sound like typical mid 60's pop, but you can the evolution our their sound.

Reviewer: luvvdubz - - September 8, 2006
Subject: TY LMA!

What a grate companion to Phil's book!

Reviewer: Mindbender420 - - September 5, 2006
Subject: interesting piece of history

this is one of my favorite recordings because it presents some really good vintage dead (so vintage it was before they were the dead) in great quality (it is a studio recording) ... it is unfortunate that this is non D/L but it can be found quite easily for example on the Birth of the Dead CD or from someone else in an exchange... and of course if need be... you can scrounge these songs up on limewire with a little hard looking (there all on there whether you find em the first try or not!!)

Reviewer: asabijin - - August 28, 2006
Subject: early Byrds

I agree that this is an interesting artifact of the pre-acid Dead. As such I give it five stars. To me it sounds like they had just been to a Byrds concert and were attempting to do their own version of that sound. Would love similar early accounts of other SF bands in their embryonic stage, esp. Airplane with Skip Spence, QMS, and Big Brother before Janis joined them. Its ok to dream isn't it?

Reviewer: another one - - July 31, 2006
Subject: for history

im sorry, i guess i just dont hear it, but musically this recording isnt 5 stars. its barely up to par with other albums from 1965. compared to dead from just next year i would say this is 3 stars at best. 5 stars for history, though. gotta know your roots i guess. average out to 4 stars.

Reviewer: dead freak - - July 31, 2006
Subject: yup!!!

classic dead pigpen sounds killer killer sound killer dead!!

Reviewer: tree-ap - - July 21, 2006
Subject: Phil as the lead singer

Anyone else notice how prevalent Phil's voice is on every song except Caution? Each track is great, especially Early Morning Rain. It would've been great if they'd played this song in say '73 or '74---or ANY of the many songs played in the 60's that went out of rotation.

Reviewer: Four Winds - - June 27, 2006
Subject: What a blast

This should be a reminder to all those seeking the ultimate Dead performance that would made this band great was the constant evolution of the music.

Here they are close to their roots with an edgy folksy sound that already has an emblematic 60's thing going. Did they know then they would be the ultimate jam band? Doesn't sound like it from these cuts. And thats what makes it such a long, strange, and wondrful trip!

Reviewer: Kstyle - - June 8, 2006
Subject: The bus came by and they got on...

Actually, this was pre-bus!
Amazing energy already...what a trip to hear their original musical intention and see how it played out as the years flowed past.
This is the kind of thing you'd get a crappy tape of back in the day and kind of blow off...to hear it here so clean and crisp is just amazing, it's so Dead yet so weirdly normal early psychedelia...Mindbender is their Incense and Peppermints, and a pretty trippy effort...man, why didn't they keep that farfisa?!
What a LST it was from here...

Reviewer: DEADBUCK - - May 25, 2006
Subject: please please please me........

someone please hook me up...Im at hcushman49 at hotmail dot com. I am looking to sure up my collection and am missing this one.....and I cant take it anymore!.....in the immortal words of many
"I NEED A MIRACLE!"
and a review....it sounds great!
update...thanks to the kind one who got me...I appreciate it!

Reviewer: -=dp=- - - April 8, 2006
Subject: GRATEFULDEAD

If you like rock music LISTEN TO THIS!!!!!!
Its cool how they split the vocals into one side, allows you to balance it so vocals are quiet. Awsome fades.

Reviewer: cheesymofo - - March 25, 2006
Subject: stoney hippie shit

can anyone sing incense and peppermints? Really shows how much gd stay with the times. Got's some good pig pen rips, a very interesting listen.

Reviewer: jfk62 - - March 21, 2006
Subject: Thankful for gdlive

Excellent stereo sound quality. SBD at gdlive.com. Great mix - studio recording. Some interesting rare songs - Groovy San Francisco pop. 5 stars for the sound and rarity of the material.

Reviewer: andywa - - January 23, 2006
Subject: i've been

waiting to come across this. i've had it on a shitty xlIIs for a while now. i appreciate the upgrade!

Reviewer: TheDooDahMan11 - - December 26, 2005
Subject: Good Ol days

Great show.. has better sound quality then some of there other 70's or 80's shows cant believe its 65

Reviewer: AmshMisfit - - December 22, 2005
Subject: WOW

What a gem. Great quality, I can't believe it's 1965. Check it out.

Reviewer: truckshead - - December 17, 2005
Subject: great show, great piece of history

this is an awesome bit of early Dead! my fav is mindbender. pretty decent sound and playing, hell i'll give it 5 stars. it's pretty exciting to hear a recording this early... god, they'd barely just renamed themselves to the Grateful Dead.

Reviewer: cardgamermanguy - - December 14, 2005
Subject: Just revising

Well this is a gem and a half. The first recording of any dead material. Caution is my favorite. All throughout the song he dominates the whole band. Its hard to believe its been 40 years.

Reviewer: Agricola - - November 4, 2005
Subject: History

Listened to this again yesterday, in keeping with the suggestion to listen to each GD show on the 40th anniversary of its performance. I'd forgotten how good is was. Only 18+ minutes, but well worth the download. Very 60's-ish folk rock, well performed, with surprisingly good sound quality. Loved Mindbender. Very pleasant Caution.

Reviewer: johnny_so_hum - - November 3, 2005
Subject: Wow, forty year flashback.

I was ten in 1965 and not yet turned on to Unberground FM radio so I missed out on knowing these guys that far back. The sound of the era though brings back lots of memories.
I'm looking forward to listening in on Jan 1 1966 on new years day 2006.
I recomend saving this recording and sharing it with your friends. Five stars at least.
Thanks to this archive I can whitness the evolution of the Greatful Dead.

Reviewer: ShugM - - November 3, 2005
Subject: Todays the Day

Not the Dead I'm used to. A couple of the songs (mindbender) dont work. What a trip to hear the first I Know You Rider!

5 stars for history.

Reviewer: JerryInaPouch - - August 24, 2005
Subject: FIVE STARS!!

People will put this down because of its age, and even sound quality. I say: remember!! This is 1965, *not* 1995. This is one of the greatest five song sets the dead ever put out. Five stars, and Jerry, we will miss you!!!!

Reviewer: peyotecoyotes - - July 14, 2005
Subject: Golden State Recorders, San Francisco, CA

This tape is truely a unique piece of San Francisco history. There should in fact be two different versions of this session that have survived and still exist on tape. This version is from the final edited mixdown master on 1/4" tape that would have been taken away by the band for demonstration purposes. The other version would be a straight copy of the archived session tape made at some later date without any reguard to the original mixes. This would contain slates and extra takes and unused songs that would not have been needed for the original demos.

I was fortunate enough to have worked at this studio 25 years ago. The studio was actually called, Golden State Recorders (GSR). Located at 665 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA. It was built in 1964 by Leo Kulka. This was the first recording studio in town and was large enough for an orchestra. Many local bands under various names, such as the Grateful Dead, Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, It's A Beautiful Day and many others, made some of their earliest recordings at GSR.

It was also the home of an Audiophile record label called Sonic Arts Corporation (SAC) and it had a disc cutting room known as the Mastering Room. By the late 1970's the "Red Octopus" mixing console from Wally Heider's had ended up in the control room. Eventually the complex also became the College for the Recording Arts (CRA) and local artists continued to be recorded there. Including the last known recording session with Flamin' Groovies Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson in August 1981.

Sometime between December 1980 and February 1981, the warehouse up the street was being cleaned up and reorganized. Many rare vintage items such as film for original album artwork from numberous local artists of the 1960's were rediscovered. The fact that this band had recorded under a different name might have added to the reasons why the original session tape had been misplaced.

Reviewer: yippierb - - July 10, 2005
Subject: essential

I also had this on vinyl. You know I've always found the old sound sort of endearing also. It just amazes me how cutting edge these guys were back in the day; not quite everything, but many songs were far ahead of the popular music of those days. You don't hear much of it here but the band was already blazing trails into improvisation that almost no other ensembles were even attempting. It's just a shame that we had no radio outlets for this music back then. Would'nt you loved to have heard it when it was new.What a blast!

Reviewer: ekny - - June 4, 2005
Subject: additional info

The soundboard is as clean as it can be, & wonderful material--but definitely incomplete; I have at least a dozen songs on my tape from this session. 'Mindbender' was called 'Confusion Prince'; we're missing stuff like Cold Rain & Snow & several other versions of songs that wound up on the debut album. I hope to eventually transfer it to my computer (somehow) & clean it up; eventually they'll open the archive again & perhaps then I can upload it for everyone, or someone with a better copy can do the same. Note to the person who asked about the Wrecking Crew info: for those of us ancient enough to have started collecting Dead on vinyl, this was also the name of an early boot. And yes, the sound is weird, but then... early dead have always sounded a bit like they're on helium to me. It's kinda charming, really.

Reviewer: lilrichwhiteboy - - May 19, 2005
Subject: This SBD Has Always Seemed Way Too Fast To Me?

............................................................................................. I've listened to this board for twenty-five years, and for twenty five years it has always sounded like Alvin & The Chipmunks at their ultimate coolest. One of these days I'm going to learn Sound Forge and see if reducing the pitch can wright this wacky waskel.

Come on guys. Am I the only one out of two dozen reviewers who has noticed this? Am I, Moo Ahh (ancient Mongolian herbalist in my past life), the wacky waskel?

BTW, interesting factoid GrayDawg. Where'd you come by it?

Reviewer: jbphburg - - May 15, 2005
Subject: Historic American Music Rarity

This recording goes beyond interest to only GD fans, but would be of great interest to students of American music, and sixties music in particular. I believe this recording beautifully exemplifies mid-sixties music, imo they're really well ahead of anyone else making music in the U.S. at the time. A must have for GD fans and sixties enthusiasts too. Classic.

Reviewer: gratefulgrl420 - - May 8, 2005
Subject: short and sweet

I really enjoyed this one. wasn't long and i could listen to it over and over again

Reviewer: gemsing777 - - May 5, 2005
Subject: Prophetic Rap, Thank You So much For This

The Only Time Is now, Etc. Prophetical I'm Too Zenned out to make big words. Ommmmm

Reviewer: capn doubledose - - April 27, 2005
Subject: Bust out the poppers, snap your fingers

Dust off the old beret and dark glasses - This is awesome and whats great about it is that I am not sure acid was that widespread and this seemed to be the direction they were going but then that magic little liquid hit the scene and they took a hard left and never looked back...

Reviewer: funkymtn - - March 10, 2005
Subject: vintage Dead!

YOU need this recording.
Early Morning Rain, Can't Come Down and Mindbender are reason enough.

Reviewer: PatKane - - March 4, 2005
Subject: AMAZING !!!

This is an amazing Dead tape! This is probably my favorite dead show I own. I love the old tunes. Highly recomended!

Reviewer: Duanebase - - March 4, 2005
Subject: The Warlocks

before the grateful dead , there was the warlocks, great piece of musical history

Reviewer: buttercup73 - - March 1, 2005
Subject: Unheard?

This is History, preserved! Sound quality isn't an issue for me, we are blessed to have this piece of tribal commune. Relishing in it's existense is my pleasure. Had this recording not been available here, then where? Thank you to the Archive, I will use this music to educate my ears, my soul, my being! Listen to the band, they're "experimenting boys". FRESH! : )~

Reviewer: bholo - - January 6, 2005
Subject: Important historically, but also fun.

Not only is this a great tape, but this is the kind of thing that makes the Internet important. This is living human history that will now go forward undiminished in quality - available to all who are interested. These are the roots of the ETree. Sound quality is decent and the sound of the band at this point in time is just flat-out fun. This is 'drivin music. This music epitomizes the final days of innocence of the pre Acid-test era. If all history lessons were this fun, we would have to beg our kids to stop studying and go play video games.

Reviewer: HarryWoodcock - - December 13, 2004
Subject: Sugar Sugar

Wow, love the bouncy beats in minor keys, like the Archies on MDT. Pigpen's farfisa sounds so groovy. My teeth hurt, and it is good. Find Peppermint Patty and do the twist!

Reviewer: AlligatorWine - - December 11, 2004
Subject: What?!

Wow - I'm shocked by this recording! Who is this psychedelic folk-pop band?! Can't believe they ever sounded like this, and I'm so grateful for the listen. Five stars for sheer archival value.

Reviewer: deadtothecore - - December 2, 2004
Subject: Who Knew???????

Wow. This is everything and more in a nice little package. Excellent recording that has stood the test of time.

I love the Early Morning Rain.

Reviewer: oceantree - - November 22, 2004
Subject: gorgeous window

what a wonderful, wistful, windy passage back to sun dappled eucalyptus scented days- please check this out w/ the acid tests... if enough of us listen maybe we can build a ship and go back there...maybe we're there now... glorious, essential stuff- the root of our great tree...

Reviewer: tomo - - November 20, 2004
Subject: A MUST HAVE!

Got to love the information super highway BABY!

Reviewer: WiTS - - November 15, 2004
Subject: Amazing bootleg !!!

This message is from Qingdao(Tsingtao), China. I am deeply shocked by this live record. There is no excuse to miss it!!!

Reviewer: AJB79 - - November 4, 2004
Subject: A true gem

I absolutely love this demo. The IKUR is just about the catchiest thing I have ever heard. And Phil's voice is so sweet, and strong.

Reviewer: dankdead - - October 17, 2004
Subject: great recording

what a treat!! its nice to hear this sound coming from the dead.. love the 60's dead so different from all the later years a must have!!

Reviewer: Deadhook1 - - September 6, 2004
Subject: Must have for any avid collector...

This show is a must have for any avid collector. Sound is remarkably good, the "Caution," is hot and the "I Know You Rider," screams of the early days. My, how far they have come in almost 40 years.

Reviewer: mellymel - - August 31, 2004
Subject: this is amazing

So interesting to hear where they've gone in the past 40 years. Sound quality is great for that time (and what this recording has probably been through). Makes me want to go on a rampage of stuff from pre-'69. I'd agree with those who say that this is a must have for any collector or fan.

Reviewer: hargreavesjohn - - August 26, 2004
Subject: Classic...

This show is a peice of history, a must have for all deadheads. This is where it all began. The sound quality is surprisingly good for it being almost 40 years ago.

Reviewer: hippieman556 - - August 10, 2004
Subject: this show is ok

i did not really like the sound of this one as much as some of the others

Reviewer: packratt - - August 3, 2004
Subject: Memories

I had this recording on cassette when I was a teen and for years after but, alas, I lost it at a get-together on Mt. Shasta about 12 years ago. A mighty heartbreak indeed; I've not heard it since. I was floored when I saw it here! I've always loved this recording, makes me feel like I'm 16 again! A must have for any serious collector. Happy listening and peace to all.

Reviewer: GrayDawg - - July 27, 2004
Subject: The Emergency Crew

On this demo they named the band "The Emergency Crew" because The Warlocks was taken by another band.

Reviewer: seneca - - June 30, 2004
Subject: Whoa!

Whoa! A blast from the past! Just listening to it, you know that it's from 65. An awesome show though, I like that old kind of low quality sound to it - it's kind of trippy. lol.

Reviewer: marS - - June 8, 2004
Subject: Fantastic!!!!

As I wrote in title: fantastic!!!!!!1965 production /I had 2 years ;-)))))/ Sounds out of time, like eternity!

Notes

Autumn Records Demo, The Warlocks; SBD> MR> ??> DAT> CDR; via Raoul Duke; Seeded to etree by Matt Vernon

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