So if the Dead released an album in late 65/early 66 this is what it would have sounded like. It compares favorably with any band from that period 💀☠️👻👺👹🙀
I was too young to see them in this era- my first show was Munich 81. My folks who were pretty hip( my dad was a huge aDylan fan/ mom loved the Beatles) had the first dead album. I loved American Beauty and Workingmans and ended up seeing them about 30 times total til like 93 when it started to seem impossible to get tickets and the scene got too weird… Recently I starred listening to GD after finding a box of my bootleg tapes at my folks house- I had a friend who was a big trader so I had some sweet boots. But Finding all these shows from 66 and 67 has been so great and I think this early stuff is fantastic. Im blown away by the quality of the recordings considering it was in the infancy of electronic equipment. This video is terrific- great visuals to go along with great music. Im grateful to all involved-thanks!
1.Can't Come Down 0:002.Mindbender!! (Confusions Prince) 3:053.The Only Time Is Now 5:474.Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 8:405.I Know You Rider 12:016.In The Early Morning Rain 14:447.Tastebud 18:06Damn I love the early stuff!! Cant get enough Pig-Pen......
Can't Come Down 0:00 Mindbender (Confusion Prince) 3:05 The Only Time Is Now 5:47 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 8:40 I Know You Rider 12:01 In The Early Morning Rain 14:44 Tastebud 18:06
REALLY EARLY PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC. LOVE IT. 13th Floor Elevators were just starting at about the same time (late '65) doing shows in little ol' Austin Texas, then later in mid '66 they realeased their first record, with those songs "THE PSYCHELIC SOUNDS OF THE 13 FLOOR ELEVATORS". Who was first THE GRATEFUL DEAD OR ELEBATORS? ? Who knows. DOESN'T REALLY MATTER DOES IT? I think it was kind of simultaneous.
1. I just love these old Warlocks studio recordings. Great Collage/Light Show - TY. 2. I wonder why Ed Sullivan never picked these guys up on his Show - would have been a great answer to the Beatles & the Stones. 3. Bouncer at the "Divorcée" Club in Palo Alto to the Warlocks as they were packing up after their last night there : "You guys will never Make It - you're Too Weird." Haw 🤠 !
Thanks for the great comment! In my mind, I was thinking of Ed Sullivan standing there really stiff and saying " and now, right here on our stage.......all the way from San Francisco......the weird druggie hippie band..... the Grateful Dead ! "
The ed Sullivan show was not for them. I think after the airplane were on the big shew the dead said not for us. I was not aware that they were asked, but the dead got burned again and again. Altamont, Woodstock, and other festival shows that did not go so well. Montery 67? So no Ed Sullivan for them. The Doors fought it. The dead got busted in NoLa so write another song.
This is almost as good as Tobacco Road, The Nashville Teens and She’s Not There by The Zombies, the other great records a year or so before these recordings, apart from the Beatles, Stones, Who, Yardbirds and Kinks of course!
I have heard this several times over the years and it never ceases to amaze how this does not sound anything like the Dead.. even like a year later or less they sound totally different..this sounds like early 60s surf/gogo music with a touch of mid 60s pop psychedelic..and it's tight too..the only tune thats sounds anything like them is caution cause of pigs rap..and i guess i know you rider but even that sounds like a pop 60s version...lol..so weird how quik they changed..and who wrote these songs like can't come down and confusion prince? 🤓🤠
I don't know if it's boring or not. With that said I'll move to the next part. The Dave Clark Five was the bottom of the barrel of that whole English invasion thing. And people bought their crappy music including my own sister. He couldn't sing and they couldn't play Just a lot of noise Thx for posting Lanier
@@dalegamburg8995 Well Dale, I got to tell you, I don't know where my head was at four years. Either the medicine wasn't working too well at the time, or it was really great. I can't remember. Let me recapitulate that, four years later. A lot of people liked the D.C.5 at the time. They had big hits "Because" and "Catch us if you can". My friend at the time had a cherry red 54' Lincoln Coupe with Catch us if you can, painted on the back bumper. He got lots of attention with that. I thought they were pretty mundane and lousy, that's not what I called Rn'R. However, different stokes for different folks and wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same.
Pigpen's harp work stands out. So underrated as a blues musician
Agreed
So if the Dead released an album in late 65/early 66 this is what it would have sounded like. It compares favorably with any band from that period 💀☠️👻👺👹🙀
Only better.
They are a bar band at this point. This is right when Owsley and Kesey were getting involved
I was too young to see them in this era- my first show was Munich 81. My folks who were pretty hip( my dad was a huge aDylan fan/ mom loved the Beatles) had the first dead album. I loved American Beauty and Workingmans and ended up seeing them about 30 times total til like 93 when it started to seem impossible to get tickets and the scene got too weird… Recently I starred listening to GD after finding a box of my bootleg tapes at my folks house- I had a friend who was a big trader so I had some sweet boots. But Finding all these shows from 66 and 67 has been so great and I think this early stuff is fantastic. Im blown away by the quality of the recordings considering it was in the infancy of electronic equipment. This video is terrific- great visuals to go along with great music. Im grateful to all involved-thanks!
It is so grand to get a tape I never did yet hear.😊
Just scratching the surface, but great songs!
Totally unique early teenage rock n roll from the 60s. My favorite time in music and the best...the Warlocks !
1.Can't Come Down 0:002.Mindbender!! (Confusions Prince) 3:053.The Only Time Is Now 5:474.Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 8:405.I Know You Rider 12:016.In The Early Morning Rain 14:447.Tastebud 18:06Damn I love the early stuff!! Cant get enough Pig-Pen......
art warrior thanks for doing this :)))
Love you (:
It's ALL about the recordings made with Pig for me.
Love love love love ❤❤❤❤
Can't Come Down 0:00
Mindbender (Confusion Prince) 3:05
The Only Time Is Now 5:47
Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 8:40
I Know You Rider 12:01
In The Early Morning Rain 14:44
Tastebud 18:06
Totally, unbelievably groovy!!
F'ING AMAZING that the dead did gordon lightfoots great song - in the early morning rain !
In the beginning...the early fresh unadulturated wonder of it all. The frontier :)
a grateful dad for the grateful dead - happy dad's day !!!
REALLY EARLY PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC. LOVE IT. 13th Floor Elevators were just starting at about the same time (late '65) doing shows in little ol' Austin Texas, then later in mid '66 they realeased their first record, with those songs "THE PSYCHELIC SOUNDS OF THE 13 FLOOR ELEVATORS". Who was first THE GRATEFUL DEAD OR ELEBATORS? ? Who knows. DOESN'T REALLY MATTER DOES IT? I think it was kind of simultaneous.
Love that "Rider" & probably my fave version of "Early Morning Rain". I can hear the way to '72 from here.
Pure and Powerful Sorcery of the young Dead Boys... Beautiful WARLoCks ✌️🌹 Ol' Pigpen was already a badass on the Harp
Both great and sad to hear Pigpen singing in 1965 " I won't get drunk no more " .
Such beauty and 'magic', thank you.
I won a radio contest for an excellent early complete collection up until Europe 72 loved them ever since
Can hear a lot of Jefferson Airplane in these cuts.
Thanks..I really like the Warlocks. I only heard of them until i listened to this great collection. Love the Pig.
1. I just love these old Warlocks studio recordings. Great Collage/Light Show - TY.
2. I wonder why Ed Sullivan never picked these guys up on his Show - would have been a great answer to the Beatles & the Stones.
3. Bouncer at the "Divorcée" Club in Palo Alto to the Warlocks as they were packing up after their last night there : "You guys will never Make It - you're Too Weird." Haw 🤠 !
Thanks for the great comment! In my mind, I was thinking of Ed Sullivan standing there really stiff and saying " and now, right here on our stage.......all the way from San Francisco......the weird druggie hippie band.....
the Grateful Dead ! "
And on your point #3, wasn't it Magoo's Pizza Parlor ?
The ed Sullivan show was not for them. I think after the airplane were on the big shew the dead said not for us.
I was not aware that they were asked, but the dead got burned again and again. Altamont, Woodstock, and other festival shows that did not go so well. Montery 67?
So no Ed Sullivan for them. The Doors fought it. The dead got busted in NoLa so write another song.
Midwender wow.. bending through fog banks, inspiration.
So pure and clean
WTF????? This is incredible. The Dead's version of the Beatles Decca Sessions.
Muchofthis is on the album “complete studio rarities collection.”
Groovy!
Absolutely Beautiful !!!
This is before Phil Lesh learned to play like Phil Lesh! Basic "boom, ba-boom". I love this.
Well, no wonder I like this comment. It's my own comment.
@@stevenhk8856Pre Phil Zone 💣💣💣carpet bombs
Jerry's voice changed DRAMATICALLY! 😲😲😲😲😲😲
All this mind bending
The begginings R the Best
Lovin the slideshow and visuals
Frank Coppola it's Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot, a Canandian folk singer. He is really good, esp. his early stuff
Jeanne Koopman except here they got Phil Lesh on the mic
Amazing concert. Thanks for posting it.
Some super rare photos! Thanks!
The Pig was a rocker, rock on.
This is almost as good as Tobacco Road, The Nashville Teens and She’s Not There by The Zombies, the other great records a year or so before these recordings, apart from the Beatles, Stones, Who, Yardbirds and Kinks of course!
Peachy Keen Groovy Cool !!!
The Days !!!
Better than anything the dead put out in later years when they went full blues rock
I have heard this several times over the years and it never ceases to amaze how this does not sound anything like the Dead.. even like a year later or less they sound totally different..this sounds like early 60s surf/gogo music with a touch of mid 60s pop psychedelic..and it's tight too..the only tune thats sounds anything like them is caution cause of pigs rap..and i guess i know you rider but even that sounds like a pop 60s version...lol..so weird how quik they changed..and who wrote these songs like can't come down and confusion prince? 🤓🤠
Im not sure about mindbender but jerry wrote cant come down on his own☮️✌️
These guys were pretty good.
It's so happy ❤🍄🌞💐
Note to Vincent Villalpando.. Check out Mindbender at 3:05 for idea for "Separate My Soul" in Fabric Dos
I'm the 420th Like! ***Puff puff pass ***
Bar band grateful dead
course that's Jer on vocals... his voice sounds a bit younger- cuz he's only 23 yrs old there....
Nice nice nice perfect perfect he sounds perfect.
Took me a while to readjust to Jerry's younger voice! Couldn't quite recognize it at first.
When the dead came to SoCal to make it big but failed they did learn some new tricks, like nicking the Seeds, Doors and Rascals sounds.
That is not true.
Great song @ 14:48,not sure of the name but i dig IT.
+Frank Coppola Early Morning Rain---Gordon Lightfoot
Can somebody put a track list here?
They did it lol
Are most of these covers?
Pre primordial dead is lit
'caution' is advised ...
despised
Is that Bobby singing lead vocals on The Only Time Is Now?
Is that Pigpen on piano on "Taste us"? Because if it is, I don't know why they got all those piano players and relegated Pig to congas.
this is great music, but it just cannot be the dead.
it’s The Warlocks
Heavy bob dylan influence at this time
Not really. Closer to Yardbirds.
Who's singing on he first song?
+MePJtheDJ
pig pen.
+MePJtheDJ I've always heard it as Jerry.
jerry guys not pigpen
+MePJtheDJ that's Jerry
it's way too nerdy to be Pig, C'mon man.
Boring, like many songs of that exact moment and style. About as bad as the Dave Clark 5.
I don't know if it's boring or not. With that said I'll move to the next part. The Dave Clark Five was the bottom of the barrel of that whole English invasion thing. And people bought their crappy music including my own sister. He couldn't sing and they couldn't play Just a lot of noise Thx for posting Lanier
@@sandsoftime1954 that's why I was surprised there's a good song on their 1968 album ...totally different sound, first x I dug them
My apologies album suks...it's their 1968 single Maze of Love....sounds nothing like em heard it on a compilation..good rock fuzz reverb,psychedelic!0
@@dalegamburg8995 Well Dale, I got to tell you, I don't know where my head was at four years. Either the medicine wasn't working too well at the time, or it was really great. I can't remember. Let me recapitulate that, four years later. A lot of people liked the D.C.5 at the time. They had big hits "Because" and "Catch us if you can". My friend at the time had a cherry red 54' Lincoln Coupe with Catch us if you can, painted on the back bumper. He got lots of attention with that. I thought they were pretty mundane and lousy, that's not what I called Rn'R. However, different stokes for different folks and wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same.
@@sandsoftime1954 like I said it's their only song I can listen too.and I respect your opinion on the Dave clark5