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		     The Prehistory Of The Grateful Dead
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			Tapes In Circulation, 1959-1965

04/05/59   San Mateo College Jazz Band - Phil Lesh, arranger and trumpet
	   San Mateo College, San Mateo, CA. Approximately 25 minutes.
	   Audience recording. Differences from song-to-song in recording
	   quality and tone leads one to believe that this material spans
	   more than one date.I'll Remember April, Whale Trail, Finnegan's
	   Awake (composed by Lesh),unknown, unknown

07/??/61   Jerry Garcia playing banjo in an unknown bluegrass band.
	   Boar's Head Coffee House, San Carlos, CA. Approximately 25
	   minutes.  Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)
	   <banjo instrumental solo>, Poor Ellen Smith, Brown's Ferry Blues,
	   JesseJames, No One To Stand By Me, All The Good Times Are Past 
	   And Gone, Darlin'Corey, Bolshevik In Hell (this last song is 
	   sung acapella by Robert Hunter[?] and may not be from the same 
	   date.)

01/??/62   Jerry Garcia playing banjo in an unknown bluegrass band
	   <venue unknown> Burlingame, CA. Approximately 25 minutes.           
           Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)Rose Connally, 
           Long Lomesome Road, Railroad Bill, Wagoners West, Fiddle La Di Oh Day, 
           Pay Me My Money Down, Greenback Dollar, Wealthy Old Maid

06/11/62   Sleepy Hollow Log Stompers            
           Jewish Community Center, San Carlos, CA. Approximately 90 minutes.
           Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)
           Catch A Little, Hillbilly Crimes, Cannonball Blues, Devilish Mary, Buck
           Dancer's Choice, Little Birdie Jam, Hold The Woodpile Down, Grow Black
           Chickens, Hop Up Pretty Girls, Shady Grove, Uncle Joe, Sweet Sunny South,
           All Hash House, Man Of Constant Sorrow, Yonder He Goes, Three Men Went
           A-Hunting, In The Aves, Chicago Blues, Blue Goose

11/10/62   Jerry Garcia, solo banjo
           San Mateo Folk Festival, San Mateo, CA. Approximately 10 minutes.
	   Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)Little Birdie,
	   Walkin' Boss

11/10/62   Hart Valley Drifters 
	   San Mateo Folk Festival, San Mateo, CA. Approximately 30 minutes.
	   Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)Handsome Molly,
	   Pig In A Pen, Banks Of The Ohio, Gamlin' Man, So LongBuddy, Salty
	   Dog

11/10/62   Jerry Garcia and David Nelson San Mateo Folk Festival, 
	   San Mateo, CA. Approximately 30 minutes. Audience recording 
	   (or from mics placed on stage) Miller's Song, Deep Elem Blues, 
	   Will The Circle Be Unbroken, I Truly Understand, "Uncle Elmer",
	   Solid Gone, Cuckoo, Man Of Constant Sorrow(Garcia acapella)

02/23/63   The Wildwood Boys 
	   Top Of The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA. Approximately 30 minutes.
	   Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jerry's Breakdown, Standing In 
	   The Need OfPrayer, Muleskinner's Blues, Norm's Solo, Pike County
	   Breakdown, Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens, We Shall Not Be 
	   Moved

05/??/63   Jerry and Sarah Garcia 
	   (various instruments) Top Of The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA. 
	   Approximately 25 minutes. Audience recording (or from mics placed
	   on stage)Deep Elem Blues, Your Heart Shall No Longer Be Mine, 
	   All The Good Times Are Past And Gone, The Man Who Wrote Home 
	   Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man, Keno, Foggy Mountain Top
	   
NOTE: The above two tapes often circulate as one show with the 
      erroneous label, "Jerry and Sarah and the Wildwood Boys, May 1963.

"??/??/63   Pigpen (with The Second Story Men)           
	   <venue unknown> San Mateo, CA. Approximately 10 minutes.           
           Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage)Katie Mae, Rocky Mountain Blues. 
           This tape also circulates labeled "Pigpen1970 studio" but the presence of audience 
           applause leaves the "studio"claim in doubt.

03/06/64   Black Mountain Boys            
           unknown venue. Approximately 30 minutes.
           I Wonder How The Old Folks Are Tonight, Barefoot Nellie, She's More To Be
           Pitied Than Scolded, <instrumental>, It Must Be The Hand Of The Lord,
           Who'll Sing For Me?, Darlin' Aller-Lee, John Hardy

03/07/64   Black Mountain Boys            
           unknown venue. Approximately 35 minutes.
           If I Lose, Homestead On The Farm, Pig In A Pen, Once More, Stone Creek, Two
           Little Boys, Salty Dog Blues, Rosalee McFall, Teardrops In My Eyes, New
           River Train, Please Come Home, Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor,

05/21/64   Tom Constanten, solo piano.           
           location unknown, San Francisco, CA. Approximately 10 minutes.
           "Piano Piece #3"

05/??/64   Phil Lesh and Tom Constanten, various intruments.           
           location unknown, San Francisco, CA. Approximately 10 minutes."
           6-7/8 for Bernardo Marino" composed by Lesh, performed for San Francisco
           New Music Survey

??/??/64   Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions            
           The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA. Approximately 10 minutes.           
           Audience recording (or from mics placed on stage).
           I'm Satisfied, The Rub. Circulating tapes of these two songs are from an FM
           broadcast of an audio documentary on the Grateful Dead produced by Michael
           Wanger and Vance Frost for Golden State Recorders sometime in late 1968 or
           early 1969. This 120-minute program also includes some early Grateful Dead
           live recordings, but as far as I can tell, no live Warlocks material.

11/03/65   The Warlocks  
           Golden Gate Studios, San Francisco. Approximately 35 minutes. Studio recording
           session for Autumn Records' "The Emergency Crew."Can't Come Down, Mindbender 
           (also known as Confusion Prince), The Only Time Is Now, Caution, I Know You Rider, 
           Early Morning Rain 


Other Warlocks Material: none that I can determine are legitimate. Tapes labeled 
"Muir Beach Acid Test 12/18/65" (techincally a Grateful Dead appearance) have turned 
out to be the material we call 5/5/67. The "More Power Rap" tape that is generally dated 
10/?/66 has also been given various 1965 misdates. Same for the soundtrack to the Kesey 
Acid Test Video soundtrack (though -some- of that might just be from 1965). There is a tape 
of "Can't Come Down" from a mid-sixties KSAN-FM broadcast called "The Bill Graham Weekend" 
which to my ears sounds like version from the 11/3/65 studio session with "crowd noise" 
mixed in.
