Truckin' With The Dead

By the time the fall of 1966 rolled around, the Dead were a household name in the San Francisco music scene. Although they had not yet s...

Handbill from the Whatever It Is Festival, 1966 The next stop on my Grateful Dead audio trip isn't very much of a Grateful Dead sh...

09/16/66 Avalon Ballroom - San Francisco, CA Set 1: I Know You Rider It Hurts Me Too It's All Over Now Baby Blue Dancin' ...

Jerry & Pig, Summer 1966. Photo by Herb Greene The next show in line available on archive is a small selection from an unknown date,...

Sometime in June of July of 1966, the Dead took to the studio for the second time to get some material down in San Francisco's Sco...

At the end of July in 1966, the Dead headed out of California to perform for the first time in their collective venture. Except they di...

I wonder if anybody else reads this blog? I stopped following this path after I lost hearing in one ear and was hesitant to listen via hea...

Grateful Dead Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco, CA 7/16/66 Tracklist: 1. Big Boss Man// 2. Cold Rain & Snow 3. It's All Ove...

Grateful Dead Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco, CA 7/16/66 Set One: 1. I Know You Rider 2. Big Boss Man 3. Standing On The Co...

Grateful Dead at Olompali, 6/1/66 Grateful Dead Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco, CA 7/3/66 Tracklist: 1. Dancin' In The S...

Show poster from early July 1966. Grateful Dead 7/01/66 ??? Venue unknown; possibly the Fillmore Auditorium Tracklist: 1. Cold Ra...

Grateful Dead, 1966 by Herb Greene Grateful Dead ??/??/66 venue unknown Track List: 1. She's On The Road Again 2. Next Time You See Me 3...

Concert Poster from 5/19/66 Grateful Dead Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, CA 5/19/66 Set 1: 1. Beat It On Down The Line 2. Standing On The ...

Grateful Dead performing at Trouper's Hall 3/25/66 Troupers Hall Los Angeles, CA 03/25/66 1. Stealin' [#1:37] 2. Jam [7:41] 3. Hey L...

Pico Acid Test Carthay Studios, Los Angeles CA 3/19/66 Track List: 1. Viola Lee Blues 2. One Kind Favor 3. I Know You Rider 4. You See A...

Poster from 2-25-66 The recording I have as 2-25-66 is the first actual live Dead show I've listened to. That is, it was put on without ...

In early February of 1966, the Dead followed the Merry Pranksters down to the Los Angeles area to continue and expand the Acid Tests. The Pr...

After a week, I'm finally able to update on my progress. I finished listening to a recording of 1/8/66. It's the first live show tha...

Next on my list is the Viola Lee rehearsals, conducted sometime in January or February of 1966. The exact date and location of the rehearsal...

Before today Pigpen has only been featured on two of the tracks I've listened to. One of the many reasons I started this project of list...

At the end of 1965 there was excitement in the budding San Francisco music scene. The Jefferson Airplane signed a record deal in November, B...

Now I've finally reached the electrified version of my favorite band, the Grateful Dead. Well, not quite. If the date of this recording ...

My next stop has been the Beatles' 1964 film "It's Been a Hard Day's Night." I chose to give it a screening, because i...

The latest show in my listening shmorgishborg is a Mother McCree's show from sometime in July of 1964 at the Top of the Tangent in Palo ...

I'm almost ready to finally be jumping in to the newly formed Grateful Dead of late 1965. The last two shows I listened to were the fina...

For Jerry Garcia, playing in a series of Bluegrass bands like the Hogstompers, Wildwood Boys, and Black Mountain Boys was not particularly v...

This morning I was able to listen to a couple of Black Mountain Boys shows from March of 1964. The tapes are from back to back days, March 6...