Early Film Of The Grateful Dead 1967 San Francisco Summer Of Love

[@RAEckart22]

Just so everyone knows, there is earlier footage of the Dead performing at the Acid Tests in 1966 & other concert footage from fall 1966, but this is still VERY early footage, You have to remember that this is the most recorded band of all time & they had people all around them preserving what they did from the beginning.

[@muffinman9462]

theres earlier footage on bbc on wickers world

[@gregdahlen4375]

why did they have people from the beginning?

[@4Naturalgreen]

So many people around them recording from the very beginning, so why is there so little film of them throughout their career? Especially the early days? It makes no sense. Everyone acknowledged the importance of capturing and recording as much of this band as possible. Yet, for some odd reason, so few had access to a video camera. Isn’t it kinda weird? I’d love to know why important, milestone shows weren’t filmed. Or were they? I personally believe there is a lot more that has never been seen before. For example, I’ve never seen the footage of Country Joe & The Fish shown here. There must be more where that came from, wherever it came from. Again, kinda weird that nobody ever bothered to show that footage before.

[@rossthomas159]

@@4Naturalgreen perhaps because there were no video cameras among the masses, and even super 8 film could put you out a bit. Once an Airplane or Dead became more successful, there were more resources and motivation. There was the occasional television lip sync but many of these groups were eschewing that path. Otherwise you just have precious snippets of the less successful bands.

[@4Naturalgreen]

@@rossthomas159 You’re telling me that Bill Graham couldn’t afford to film the Fillmore shows in 1966 or ‘67? None? Ok, so where is any footage from ‘69-‘71 that hasn’t already been seen? Which isn’t very much anyway. The band, the record companies, friends, whoever else. Nobody could afford to film them but audio equipment was no problem.

[@joseflemire4284]

I grew out in the middle of nowhere...land of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota, Assiniboine Sioux and Crow...and even then in 1967 we felt the vibrations of the Explosions of Love coming out of San Francisco

[@zstarsurfer]

Nice !!! 🪶 ☮️ ❤️ The power of that time. 😊🌸

[@drewpall2598]

Thanks for a psychedelic trip back to the summer of 1967 and the love generation. I was 8 at the time and unaware of the major events that took place at the time. As for me the 1960's were loud and colorful from music, fashion, art, television shows and movies. 😊✌💛🌸💮🏵🌺

[@StephanieJeanne]

And the rest is history... definitely a monumental shift in music! Thanks, David.😊✌️🩵

[@glennbrymer4065]

These were the days right before I went into the US Army in 1969. Things changed. I discovered lsd & the Dead in 1971, the year I was retired out of the Service.

[@TallulahBelle3276]

Thank you for your service. ❤ 🫡

[@angelalapiene-kurz2855]

My dad's a deadhead. He's the reason I never did any drugs, just smoke weed. He just turned 72 and still works construction. Those machines are toys to him, still has a very sound mind and is genuinely kind. He def looks like he's leftover from that time haha. Those drugs were pure, now they really kill the brain and it's sad to watch!

[@lilnarcolepsy]

Weed fries your brain too.

[@firstnamelastname-im5iz]

@@lilnarcolepsy Baked not fried...I love it.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

We had some great drugs in those days!

[@wyleetolson9182]

If you want to explore the world drugs can help you do that, if you want to shut off from it they can help u do that too. It’s all about the intent you go into it with. The drugs in the streets these days are dangerous thats for sure but that’s thanks to the war on drugs, dosent stop drugs just makes them more risky

[@matthewatwood8641]

You're confused about the drugs. They had the same drugs then as we have now. They had dope and Coke and speed, alcohol and tobacco, & they had weed and psychedelics. I mean we'd really is a psychedelic, albeit a mild one. The psychedelics were, are, and always will be the good ones.

[@shadowwolf9503]

Another great video Dave- Thank you !

[@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog]

Even by KZbin standards, Dave Hoffman lays down yet another a milestone piece of footage. 🇺🇲

[@RAEckart22]

There's earlier footage of the Dead from 1966, but this is still early

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

This is from The Hippie Temptation by CBS...hardly rare nor a great feat to unearth. And nowhere near the earliest footage ​@@RAEckart22

[@bongobeatbox4020]

This video includes so many inaccuracies it's ridiculous.

[@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog]

@ClevelandLiveMusic Still better than people in a Giant Eagle in North Olmstead.

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

@@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog glad I live 40 miles east! Aldi man here.

[@ziggiezaggie]

I'm a Deadhead, my first show was front row at the Boston garden,we even named our daughter "Althea" after one of their songs ⚡🐻💀🐢🌹

[@djchaiwallah]

Have you seen Dead and Co. at The Sphere? Mindbending venue

[@ziggiezaggie]

@@djchaiwallah I'd love to, we caught them a few years back at Gillette stadium for an amazing night of music 🎶

[@djchaiwallah]

@@ziggiezaggie If you are able to make a trip out there they're playing on Jerry's Birthday (my birthday too lol)

[@ScarlettFire341]

Me too 5/7/77 Front Row Boston Garden - never looked back !

[@apatheticallylethargic4639]

Nice! My daughter's middle name is Althea for the same reason. Dead and co. are horrible live and I am a huge dead head but last years tour was just sad.

[@Psychedelic-Peter]

Great footage. Nice to hear Moby Grape's name mentioned. As a much younger fan of this historic period in culture.

[@1blastman]

I'm amazed at the talent that came out of that era. There were great musicians, artists, philosophers and chemists! Those days changed me for the better and I'm hale, heathy and 76! Still loving life!

[@JWF99]

"Flower Power!" 💪💐😂💛Love this historic footage David! 🎸🎶TYVM☮✌

[@sogggyyy]

Born in the 1970’s but recently became fascinated with this era thanks to KZbin.

[@Raviolli]

Come to haight street in san francisco

[@cleolateeple1997]

@@RaviolliYes, go to San Fran now and see the putrid flowering of the hippie/dope movement. The cost in human life, lost souls and money is incalculable.

[@stephendenney7349]

I was just in high school at the time and did not use any drugs (running was my drug) but did live only twenty miles south of San Francisco, so had the opportunity to see these great bands.

[@cheri238]

The good "ole" days are here once again with the one and only David Hoffman films( lol) 1967 was a good year here in America. ❤

[@steveconn]

Mom lived in the Panhandle right then, met Grace Slick. Great exhibit of those kind of posters at the De Young in 2017.

[@beankeys8812]

Thanks David! Love your work👏👍

[@davidellis5141]

What a long , strange trip it's been.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

Indeed.

[@williambarry8015]

That song is always on my playlist.✌️👍🙏

[@bec4337]

I lived in California during those years, age 9-12, we listened to Wolfman Jack on the radio! What a time to be a kid!

[@williambarry8015]

When i was in 3rd or 4th grade my older brothers had the Dead record that came with a T-shirt. I wore that T- Shirt to school. It went all the way down to my knees. All the girls and guys beat me up for it. I still wore it with pride.

[@BrianBurkeProd]

Glad you posted this, David. Been listening to a lot of 1968-9 era Dead recently. Love this rare footage.

[@sitindogmas]

wish we could do it all again ✌️💚

[@billjackson1317]

My first time I saw the Greatful Dead was in 1968 at the Santa Clara folk rock festival. Dead did alligator for 45 minutes , Pigpen did the singing then ✌️👍👍

[@D-Fens_1632]

Technically Alligator>Drums>Alligator>Caution>Feedback, and just under 40 minutes, but that's a fun tape from that sad part of 1968 where we have so few tapes. I've always liked Weir's mock interview on the end of the tape, "Do you have a message for the people?" Weir: "F the people, F the proletariat" lol.

[@RavenNl403]

Wow! I have heard the name of the band but never any footage Thank you David ❤️

[@7177YT]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

13 in 1973 my first hit of acid coincided with my first listening of a new record called darkside of the moon, I called the guy the very next day and bought a 100 hits, timing is everything.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

I believe it was Jefferson Airplane from SF that achieved serious breakthrough success on the national charts. They opened the gates for the hippie bands and the flood of sales began

[@MicahScottPnD]

That's interesting.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@MicahScottPnD Surrealistic Pillow, their second album. reached #3 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1967. And Somebody To Love and White Rabbit singles were also huge hits.

[@MicahScottPnD]

@@willieluncheonette5843 Billboard charts get more fascinating to me as time goes on. I hadn't known of a moment when the dam broke, so to say, for hippie music to hit the pop charts. I wonder if it had anything to do with the news that the Beatles could be winding down at that time.

[@cynthiafrank5638]

They were on the cover of Life Magazine.

[@MicahScottPnD]

@@cynthiafrank5638 Neat looking cover, June 28 1968, is what I found.

[@jeffwier696]

Magnificent film! That time was so special! It brought me back.

[@deadmetal8692]

The good ol' Grateful Dead.

[@streetlevel4996]

Love your video and grew up during the whole hippy scene and still am one years later 😊 and may God Richly Bless you and may Jesus Christ show you His GREAT love that He has for each of YOU ❤️ Just ask Him to show you personally His Love as He did to me years ago 😊

[@telescopebuilder]

"The mind blowing batch of bay area bands" 😊

[@MicahScottPnD]

Bay area 90s, too, tons of amazing stuff, wide array of sounds!❤

[@superultramega77]

Jellyfish

[@strangersname]

What a moment in time. Sunshine daydreams.

[@sneakerfacevids441]

This isn’t the earliest film. There is a color film of the Dead from January 1966 Acid Test. Released by Ken Kesey on vhs called Acid Test

[@nathanielvargas3863]

Deadhead’s unite!

[@hypnocracy6102]

Who are you? Where are you?

[@stevierayripple]

We are everywhere

[@BOBBOTO]

3rd generation going strong. Lol

[@nuggetsdad444]

David, did you film this doc?? Deadhead since birth here - this is a HUGE piece of history, absolutely amazing if you were there.

[@RAEckart22]

There's earlier footage from 1966 of the Dead but this is still early

[@tylerjones2695]

​@@RAEckart22yeah that's what I thought

[@MicahScottPnD]

Im just loaded with thoughts on this video, don't know where to begin ❤

[@sitindogmas]

where do you get this stuff, its awesome

[@coonplatoon]

Wow not very often you get to see Pig Pin let alone a video of him

[@sderoski1]

My brother loved the Dead and he always said they were best with Pig Pen

[@venetia6296]

Awesome ✌️

[@airtow6766]

The first two albums I owned, as a jr high school kid, was The Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish. Stole them both from a Woolworths store.

[@dpall38]

“Hippies and hangers on…..”. Those are my people!

[@tommeredith7462]

Like wow man this was really heavy time’s. It’s far out to see this video Man.

[@elijahwilson1422]

Turn on your love light! Let it shiiiiine onnnnnnn meeeee! Let it shine! Let it shine!

[@karensalaun1422]

Wow! Learn something new every time!!

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

Best Band in History!!! ❤❤❤

[@Mark-v7y8t]

Uhh, no. No way, no how.

[@craighutchinson5045]

millennial here- this time period is the furthest back I'd want to go if I could time travel..... I always consider this the time when 'America broke free' ... everything before seemed too formal, polished and stiff for me. I feel like I could relate to these ppl more

[@markwatson-vk2lh]

The prevalent theme of that particular era was that we were/are all in this together; one for all, all for one, world peace, love your brother as you would love yourself,we can change the world.As a country and as a society we need to get back to those lofty ideals. For they are achievable.

[@w.l.graves7228]

lest we forget ..ALL HAIL BILL GRAHAM !

[@Monkey-ut7ke]

I was there as a grade school kid

[@LizinLouie]

"Kaleidoscopic Cacophony" - Literally an alliteration. You passed the Acid Test.

[@firstofficerspock311]

Is there a version of this without the guy talking over everything?

[@RUNNOFT71]

Man I love ALL your stuff! I wish so bad you would have been around Duane Allman in 1970 or especially 1971. Footage of Duane is so scarce. But you've got the best of the best!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

It’s so wild to think the Dead used to play “Cowboys and Indians” with QMS band shooting at each other with their rifles, for stealing weed from each others band houses Ha! That’s the psychedelic 60s San Francisco. My favorite part besides ALL of the GREAT music - is the fantastic poster ART announcing concerts. SO Groovy…☮️ LOVE and FLOWER🌸🌸POWER🌸

[@Hklbrries]

This is your footage, David?! You were at The Summer of Love?! I am gobsmacked! 💕

[@Fender73472]

Most of these people are dead now and looking back in time only shows the Moral decay of this country….

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

Loved Country Joe’s F*** cheer!

[@HansHoller-oc2gj]

Wonderful Time, I was a Little Child before i came to school. 😎😀👍

[@sderoski1]

Something I've noticed, hippies and punks made songs about politics and war and social realities, and when I listen to popular music since, I would say, 1999, I only hear songs about getting rich, getting high, or getting a romantic partner, what happened?

[@normanleach5427]

Here's to San Francisco's Monday Night Class. ...in and out of the garden he goes... The Caravan, The Farm : Stephen + Ida, family and friends 😊 "This man Zen Master" -- Seung Sahn

[@darrinmcgann]

Far out man! Groovy 🤟

[@geraldking4080]

Got to over 100 shows. Living in Utah & New Mexico made it a challenge.

[@paulmarshall9189]

And... they all grew up to support the establishment.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

They chased me through supermarkets for 2 straight years because I wasn't wearing a dust mask on my face.

[@francoamerican4632]

Being chased by the band members must have been a harrowing experience.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@francoamerican4632 Not the band. I'm talking about the fear ridden baby boomers that came from that generation.

[@1blastman]

@@slow-mo_moonbuggy Not all boomers were like that. I'm mid's 70's, never vaxxed, never bought into it and only had a mid case before March 13, 2000. Had anti-bodies and wouldn't bow down to big Government Pharma. Screw them!

[@danielwilliams1921]

Not all of us…

[@danstumreiter8117]

❤my first born to me is my son,Cassidy. Named after Cowboy Neal at the wheel to the bus to never ever land! NFA ⚡️

[@johannesdegarlandia]

Jimi Hendrix was still living in England in 1967.. He was not discovered in America until the next year.

[@LisaG-fv7mw]

No - He played the Monterey Pop festival in June 1967

[@madeleinevandevelde5011]

In 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, London was the place to go. A british explosion of music fashion, grafic, and everything started with the Beatles. You could meet the Rolling Stones or the Kinks in little places or in the street. That was the Swing London and I was there in 65 and 66.

[@ST-xg3gy]

Did they keep the same setlist for decades?

[@4-dman464]

0:08 I'm just out of frame on the lower left corner writing a review at the time.

[@CtDawG77]

Stanley Moose is my favorite bay area poster artist

[@markarchambault4783]

Great footage. Wasn't the Fillmore East in NYC though?

[@soulvigilante]

Fact check: there is well-known footage of them from 1966. Case in point - The Pico Acid Test. March 1966

[@Splat55099]

Did you film most of this stuff David??

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I was one of the cameramen. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@Splat55099]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker What haven't you filmed!?! =]

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Someone recently asked me and I said that I was never given the opportunity to film punks, for example, and also very little sports. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@Splat55099]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakerCheck out the singer GG Allin. His story is fascinating and disturbing.

[@scottprather5645]

Who are the people being interviewed?

[@anthonygerace332]

Interesting photo. Visually, the early Grateful Dead looked more like bikers than hippies! Maybe not much of a difference back then.

[@nurknanker6105]

Good God. Is there anyone or anything that you DIDN'T film back then??🤯

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

There was plenty plenty plenty that I wish I had filmed but never got the chance. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@MicahScottPnD]

​@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakerWhat a cool comment, David, I love that semi-torturous feeling ☺️❤👍

[@billjackson1317]

Never drink or eat anything at a Greatful Dead concert ‼️✌️

[@grouchosays]

I was 17 and was working a real job.

[@francoamerican4632]

You should've quit your job or taken some time off to experience the Summer of Love.

[@jimkeogh8552]

Theaters in SF…like Fillmore East??!! Some great footage however. Thanks.

[@LendallPittsII]

Weren't they called originally The Warlocks and played bar gigs down on the peninsula? I was in SF from '66 onwards and the bands we all went to see were the early groups from the Haight. The Charlatans, The Sopwith Camel. Plus also the Great Society. Groups that played the Matrix. Just a perspective from a 76 year old

[@D-Fens_1632]

Technically there is earlier footage, like the Fillmore Acid test footage from January 1966, right after they'd just changed their name to the Dead.

[@ScarlettFire341]

The G Dead played Frat Parties ? Mews to me ...

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

And there is a color version that I ha e on a 40 year old VHS

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

🚬🤠 cool stuff

[@sledzeppelin]

Awesome footage, but not the first. There is footage of the Acid Tests from '65 and '66.

[@benhinds2971]

1967 is not the earliest footage of the GD.

[@effdonahue6595]

Earliest footage of God? 🤓🔥😇

[@scottdelomba9350]

This footage has been around for decades.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

yes. It was shot in 1967. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@dooley8746]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker No it wasn't shot in 67. This was shot in the early 80s, using younger relatives of the band members pretending to be them. Pigpen had 2 sons, one was visually a dead ringer for him and the other was just like him in personality. The son that was just like him in personality is in this video, likewise Jerry looked very similar but not exactly like the guy in this video without his beard. Impersonation was a common issue with the band's family members, everyone wanted to be them and would pretend to be them. Some even went as far as doing bootleg concerts. Ironically, the real band was not very far off camera from this footage, hiding from all the deadheads.

[@cancelme4200]

That thumbnail looks like it was taken in 1993 at a grunge show somewhere.

[@endlessnameless6494]

Never drink and drive, guys. Over 11,000 die each year...don't be the next ! Thanks.

[@francoamerican4632]

And don't text and drive or drive while tired. Doing either is just as dangerous as driving while intoxicated.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

The year I graduated from high school

[@lisaduffy821]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@paulhart3812]

Look for Charlie Manson in the crowd. But he didn’t have long hair or a beard in 1967.

[@dragisaantic6568]

❤

[@Honey-Sanchez]

My mind is bent.

[@11BlackLamb]

Abbott Hoffman Thanks you🌹💀🌹

[@ShortbusMooner]

Kinda before my time, I was born '66..

[@jensandersen7011]

Too bad you worship Brett Keane.

[@ShortbusMooner]

@@jensandersen7011

[@SoulDaddy33]

Raucous and turbulent? Odd, I certainly don't recall it as being such. It wasn't the summer of turbulence, you know.

[@joebarr725]

The real "Summer of Love" was 1966, before LSD had been made illegal.

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Stilll so strange to see so many people in a crowd with long unkempt hair in 1967, since it was a brand new thing then......

[@cleolateeple1997]

I remember seeing that cover photo of the Grateful Dead when it was published in the 60's originally. I remember thinking that the look of them was kind of disgusting and gross, and I turned my head away like when you come across roadkill. That experience kept me away from dope and psychedelica for quite a while.

[@edwardl.demarco7594]

Far Out BROTHER !

[@djchaiwallah]

❤️💀💙

[@tubbers20]

We were so naive.

[@Alligator6002]

Stanley Moose 😂. Yeah earliest Dead footage is at the Acid test.

[@edwardl.demarco7594]

Btw Jerry Gracia is MY FATHER ! Look it up.

[@williambarry8015]

If that's true id definitely be proud. He was a cool human being.👍👍✌️✌️🙏

[@edwardl.demarco7594]

@williambarry8015 and Brent's my uncle. Lifes wild ain't it

[@dooley8746]

Mac?