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 Cassady & 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 Cassady 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


compilation and package by Alan Bershaw
shn discs by TaW
Note 1: I split the 1h Jerry interview on disc 4 into 3 smaller pieces (a-c).
Note 2: The shn-tracks for audio disc 4 are split between shn-discs 2 and 3!


