The Grateful Dead Mindbender 1966
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2021
- The earliest footage which survives of Bill Graham's legendary Fillmore, taken on June 3, 1966 for the BBC with The Grateful Dead performing their early song "Mindbender" (aka "Confusion Prince").
Early Dead at their garage-psych/punk best; Pigpen looks so cool!
The grateful garage band. love this era of dead
There's an almost punk attitude to them in the earliest days. Really cool for people who imagine that all they ever did was 40-minute guitar noodling.
Yeah, this is true gold here, instantly recognizable from the sounds and amplifiers and tones,
Love this era of so many bands that were part of the 60s West Coast psychedelic scene
As good as anything by the 13th Floor Elevators
I wish I had a time machine.
In a way you do. These videos. Just a few years ago we did not have these.
I'm watching this in 2024, nearly 60 years after it was filmed. 60 years before this was filmed, it was 1906 -- how about that for a Mindbender??
So young! This is San Fran style psychedelia , at it's infancy and arguably , its finest.
Opinions vary .....
This tune was written when they were The Warlocks.
studio version was recorded in november of 65. pretty crazy.
You can tell they're tripping balls...they got that goat vibrato in their voices. Psychedelic Dead giveaway😵
Great tune...reminds me of The Byrds.
or the 13th Floor Elevators
@@sderoski1 I can definitely see that...good call
Kreutzman still looks 43 even in 1966.
😂 he lives on Kauai where I live. North Shore, he’s looking good for a man in his 70’s❤️
He'll be 43 forever.
Right you noticed that too!
I remember being at my first liquid light show with strobe lights and music and LSD! It was a great experience and so different from the standard stuff of the 50's and 60's that it did bend the minds of the people to be the changes that they wanted to see.
Yea look at san francisco now 🤣
@@liamsdad33 I was just there. Everything seemed great. Ever been to Portland?
It would be nice to bring the Trips Fest back and keep the vibration going.
@@petercolpack573 let's do!!
@@dickhedd8490 I need your help.
1966...I'm glad I was old enough then to have heard the incredibly fast evolution from Muddy Waters, Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc., PP&M, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Byrds, etc. It was glorious and wonderful.
Far out!
Sounds a lot like 8 Miles High from the Byrds which was also from 1966.
I was thinking of that
Mindbender was a Warlocks song recorded on their demo in November 65, so it possibly pre-dates 8 miles high.
Aw man, this is so breathtakingly beautiful I can't even find the words...🌹🇺🇸💖✌🏼
It’s terrible 😂
@@errandwolfe7686 how?
@@DavidRivera-hf9ln its perfect
Wow. Great sound for 1966. I chuckle trying to imagine Jerry singing this tune in 1986 when I started seeing shows.
Lol you ain't never lied 🤣! I love this so much! But on a more somber note about your post, the "Ive fought my wars and now their won" lyric is a rough one. Poor Jer didn't realize he was yet to embark on his most brutal war of his lifetime. Sorry to be a downer. I love that this exists! 👍✌
They almost sound like The Byrds. Awesome.
Very cool ! 😎 like the velvet underground.
So great. Can truly hear how much the bay area bands influenced each other. If you put Grace in there you might think it the Airplane. Time flies...
If I could go back in time and see any group in concert, it would have been these guys, three years from the period of this video (with two hits of Owsley sugar cube to go with it, of course).
I'll bet seeing them at this '66 show was pretty cool, too. Yes, they were still developing their sound but "Mindbender" is a great track and the sheer *newness* of the scene is really exciting to behold. Although yes if you fast-forward just a year or two to, say, the Feb '68 Carousel show you get into some amazing stuff.
Why the need for drugs .? Been there done that bought the T Shirt . Thousands dies , overdosed and went insane on drugs following the LSD Lemmings into the Sea of permanent insanity. Grow Up Or Die. I am one of the Grateful Living . Peace Out !
@@Ndefinitely each their own
This audio is from 5-19-66 Avalon Ballroom 🥳
Oh, really? Interesting...I had assumed the audio was off the show being filmed (6/3/66) but it's possible the footage was silent and so had audio from a show around the same time overdubbed onto it later to make the experience more full. That's done a lot with old silent concert footage these days. If this is true, it does explain why the music is ever-so-slightly out of synch with the band on some shots.
@@spiritof6663 Yep, def 5-19-66 Avalon Audio. That is one of my favorite shows from 66 ua-cam.com/video/5LC6CEemEEY/v-deo.html
I believe the video is from a promo which was on 06/03/1966 and the audio is a live concert performance from 5/19/1966. I can provide the link for the audio from 06/03/1966 but there are times where they talk over the band’s performance during a few different educational segments.
That's incredible footage
yep
Psychedelic garage rock phase
Gotta darker heavier feel. Love it. Almost punk like.
They were punkish in 65/66 Cream Puff War and You don't have to ask are
good examples.
And good songs that mean a lot now, hope not Morning Dew.....
That bouncing bass and drum is pretty cool.
My mind lives here every day
This is probably what the garage bands sounded like in that time and place, very interesting share
Bob weir is 18 years old 3months shy of 19 at this time.
18 years, 4 months & 13 days but who's counting?
Have seen this labeled as "Confusion's Prince" & "I Fling Myself Off Into Space" on bootlegs for this Song, either way, it's a Mindbender
Thank You for sharing
Jerry & the boys are still bending my mind, daily to this day, in 2021
"i fling myself off into space" is called standing on the corner, good song. another song written in 65. and also yeah i find something new every time i listen.
@@chunga372 same....✌💘🎶💃🕺
Yeah I noticed it was labeled as Confusions Prince alot on old bootlegs. I like that name better. How epic would it have been if they dusted this one off for them late 80s Warlock shows lmao!!! Peoples brains would have been melting on to the floor!!!🤣✌
This and Can't Come Down are just too much, in a good way. Cant Come Down is so obviously inspired by Dylan its almost hard to believe thats Jerry singing. So classic. The Dead really are a one of one band in the history of rock and roll. Talk about chasing the music. Even when they got some fame they never really compromised who they were. Well at least while Jerry was around.✌
Had no idea video footage of this performance existed!!!!! (Some of the same shots are being re-used to extend the footage thru the length of the song, but Jerry's clearly singing this song.) Priceless.
It turns out that this version of the video was edited from a longer BBC news segment, and live audio from another performance about a month earlier was dubbed over the actual live audio used in the original segment; the original narrative voiceover was also taken out, in order to just focus on the song itself. Someone else was actually able to find the original news segment with the original live audio and recently posted it--here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/HLh_60s_WOA/v-deo.html
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Grateful garage crust.
WoW
very good..........................................................................
Awesome! Thanks for posting. The good ole Grateful Dead 🙏
I have this bootleg on lp awesome masons children version,best version
Mason's Children wasn't written until late 1969; it & New Speedway Boogie were written in the two weeks after (and in response to) Altamont.
@Burr Anderson Ohhh, I see. Boots sometimes combine songs from different show. Or are mislabeled... etc. Thx
Embryonic!! Is the only word that comes to mind right now!!!!
Wow this is vintage Captain Trips. Thanks!
I think they passed the test. 👀👁👀
The Warlocks. Trippy.
really dope
Incredible...Thank you.✌🔥
I think this is an outtake from the Wickers World BBC program, it can be seen on You Tube, if so this was filmed in 1967!
It's BBC but it's *not* the Whicker's World Haight documentary that was filmed in March/April 1967. The Dead are in that one, too, but they're singing "Golden Road". This is footage from June 3, 1966 at the Fillmore taken by the BBC for another news item.
@@spiritof6663 Ok thanks, I wasn’t sure, appreciate you explaining👍
Heavy shit
Thanks for sharing this. Really fun.
Amazing. Does anyone know if there’s more of this BBC footage?
I wish!! You'd think if they had a camera crew there that they would have filmed more than one song--but this is all that has surfaced, and it was hard to even find this. The same goes for the famous footage of the Airplane doing "It's No Secret" at the Fillmore around this same time--you know there's gotta be more footage somewhere, but only these lone bits of the broadcast exist.
Psychedelic light and oil pan shows...in Black and white. talk about the contact point of colliding cultures!.one of my fav GD Warlocks era songs
Thank God for Robert Hunter!!
Ha, you mean... thank god for a lyricist who's actually a lyricist? Vs. whomever wrote the lyrics for Mindbender, which we can presume is... Jerry? FWIW I think this is decent, and Can't Come Down even better... & Cream Puff War is no slouch, But yeah, the GD became what it is largely due to the lyric efforts of Hunter (& Barlow (& a few others))...
Aw, it's not such a bad song: it's the "singing" that kills it.
Garcia is nearly in sync it could be the same sound track
A year or two ago someone on UA-cam did finally find and post this footage with the original live audio and BBC spoken narration--check it out! Although I still keep this one up because it's worthwhile without the narration as well.
played back at 1.25 speed is more accurate.
LSD was legal back then.
This is one I've never seen. Filmed 6 days before my 6th birthday. As someone who got on board with the Dead in the mid-seventies, I really love seeing the mid-sixties stuff. There is so much video of the band in the second half of their career. Not so much, the first half. Good sixties stuff seems to be extremely rare. Did the BBC film more of this show or is this it? Thanks for posting.
I wish I knew if more footage from this show was available--what I posted is all that is known for this date. There are other bits and pieces of Dead footage from 1966-69 but the floodgates don't really begin to open until 1970 and then suddenly there's all kinds of full-length concert shows on video. But for this early period, you have to take what you can get and even if it's just a song or two, it's precious footage. You can also check out their Human Be-In appearance in Jan '67 ("Viola Lee Blues"), their Panhandle show from April '67 ("Dancing In The Street"), their Monterey Pop appearance in Jun '67 ("Viola Lee Blues" again), their appearances in various early 1967 Haight/hippie documentaries (The Maze, Whicker's World, The Hippie Temptation etc.--mostly just interviews, although they do mime to "The Golden Road" on Whicker), and Columbia University 1968 ("The Other One"). There's also a lot of one-minute snippets of concerts at various points but the ones I just mentioned are probably their most substantial performances that survive from their earliest days--which isn't much, considering.
@@spiritof6663 Thanks for the detailed response. Not so surprising when you consider that they were not overly famous in those days. Also, the video doesn't always sync-up with the audio. My hope is that someone comes across some dusty old film reels while cleaning out some old hippie's attic in Marin some day. Or maybe some news outlet has some video rotting away in their archives. Honestly, there is more Dead footage from their early days than a lot of other bands. Google Duane Allman. There's about two hours of video from his entire career. Jerry, on the other hand is one of the most recorded artists in history.
There's also a video of Jefferson Airplane playing the Fillmore in 66 from before Signe left. That places it some time before October 66.
ua-cam.com/video/Mr_KnscgBZc/v-deo.htmlsi=qU3JPD7E6lNr022K
That is correct, the Fillmore video of the Airplane is from either August or September of '66. Unfortunately, the studio version of the song is dubbed over the live footage.
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Ive fought my wars and now their won! Lmfao this is epic, best version I ever heard of this song. 🤣👍🤯
Edit- is that a young wavy gravy at about the 30second mark lol?
Im guessing this is footage from one of the acid tests? Unfortunately I was born too late for most of this ride.
No, it's from the Fillmore in June 1966.
@spiritof6663 Gotchya. Never made a Fillmore show unfortunately.
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Wellcome to psychedelism time!!
After the Who and before Hendrix was a tough spot for sure, but I like the G. Dead's set better than the Who's at this particular show, and I experience the Dead as being way more down to earth and cooler than either of the other two bands.