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Acid Test Reels - 1965-1967, Acid Test, CA
Set I
Grateful Dead & Merry Pranksters
The Acid Test Reels - 1965-1967
A chronological compilation of the Acid Test recordings listed in The Grateful Dead Tapers Compendium Volume One.

DISC ONE: Fillmore Acid Test/Sound City Acid Test
The Fillmore Acid Test
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA - January 8, 1966
1. Stage Chaos/More Power Rap
2. King Bee
3. I'm A Hog For You Baby
4. Caution: Do Not Step On Tracks >
5. Death Don't Have No Mercy
6. Star Spangled Banner / closing remarks

The Sound City Acid Test
363 6th Street, San Francisco, CA - January 29, 1966
7. Ken Kesey interviewed by Frank Fey
8. Ken Babbs and harmonica
9. Take Two: Ken Kesey
10. Bull
11. Peggy The Pistol
12. One-way Ticket
13. Bells And Fairies
14. Levitation
15. Trip X
16. The End

7-16 The Acid Test: A Sound City Production

DISC TWO: Pico Acid Test /S.F. State U Acid Test (pt.1)
The Pico Acid Test
Danish Center, Los Angeles, CA - March 12, 1966
1. Viola Lee Blues
2. You See A Broken Heart
3. In The Midnight Hour

The San Francisco State Acid Test
Whatever It Is Festival
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Stereo Control Room Master (rec. 4:00AM - 6:00AM)- October 2, 1966
4. The Head Has Become Fat Rap
5. A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies
6. A Tarnished Galahad
7. Get It Off The Ground Rap >
8. It's Good To Be God Rap >
9. Nirvana Army Rap >
10. The Butcher Is Back
11. Acid Test Graduation Announcement
12. Send Me To The Moon >Closing Rap

Credits on 10/2/66:
Voices: Ken Kesey and Hugh Romney
Guitar: Ken Kesey
Violin: Dale Kesey
Organ: Jerry Garcia
Engineering: Steve Newman, Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl

DISC THREE: S.F. State U Acid Test (pt. 2)/Graduation Jam
The San Francisco State Acid Test
Whatever It Is Festival
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA - October 2, 1966
1. Ken Kesey's dialogue (isolated remix)

Merry Prankster Sound Collage Sequences - October 2, 1966
2. Prankster Music/Sound Collage #1(sequence 1)
3. Kesey Rap > Prankster Music/Sound Collage #2 (sequence 2)
4. Prankster Sound Collage #3 > Prankster Raga(sequence 3)

Prankster Recordings broadcast over the P.A.
End of Whatever It Is Festival - October 2, 1966
5. Closing Jam
6. Prankster Electronics

Acid Test Graduation Jam
Winterland, San Francisco, CA - October 31, 1966
7. Jam Session (musicians unknown)
from The World Of Acid film soundtrack

Disc Four: Related Recordings
Neal Cassidy & The Warlocks 1965
1. Speed Limit
studio recording/Prankster production tape circa late 1965
Straight Theater, Haight Street, San Francisco, CA - July 23, 1967
2. Neal Cassidy Raps (backed by The Dead)
recording released as a flexi-disc in the 1st printing of The Dead Book

Acid Tests Production Reel
3. Jerry Garcia commentary with Acid Test audio
710 Haight Street House, San Francisco, CA - summer 1967

4. - 6. Jerry Garcia one hour interview about music, drugs, politics and social changes circa 1967

The 1h Jerry interview on disc 4 is split into 3 smaller pieces (a-c).
Set II
 
Set III
 
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A chronological compilation of the Acid Test recordings listed in The Grateful Dead Tapers Compendium Volume One.
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SBD; 1st Gen FM GDH 557; FM>CD transfer: STB Systems, Inc. PCI DesktopTV Tuner Card, Model number DTV3F > Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI Sound Card > WAV > CD; note this material is tentatively labeled 2/25/66 in a separate shn set
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January 1966 (?) - Viola Lee rehearsals; 47 minutes from unknown generation cassette played back on Nak CR7E; via Uli Teute and Hanno Bunjes
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SBD:MR> ?> CD; via Jools; venue unknown
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