Grateful Dead play "Mountains of the Moon" and "St. Stephen" on Playboy After Dark

[@shaunandrews5138]

Heard the coffee was out of this world at this show

[@reeceschrock396]

Yeah I herd this coffee had an extra vibrant electric touch

[@namaste91]

You watched Conan aswell I see ;)

[@StarDarkAshes]

Hefner was blitzed on acid. Those vaginas he was playing with must have looked like they were melting

[@RayNDeere]

@@StarDarkAshes Hef was straight (he only drank Pepsi and had it in a secured fridge because he feared being poisoned ... and people stealing his drinks) Bear Owsley dosed the cioffee pot because the crew wouldn't permit him to set up the sound equipment (Bear was running sound for the group at that time).You can tell Barbi is flying

[@Scott64a]

That's fucking hilarious hahaha

[@richieboy6825]

I think it’s weird how very few people mention how rare it was to have live performances on tv shows. It is SO MUCH BETTER this way...don’t ya think !?!

[@DennisCampbell777]

SNL has been doing it since 74.

[@oneofmany1087]

lets all have peace of mind

[@lilajagears8317]

@@DennisCampbell777 since 1975

[@carlos_herrera]

​@@DennisCampbell777this is from 1969 though

[@DennisCampbell777]

@@carlos_herrera Back when TC was in the band.

[@joeharris3878]

St Stephen was the first Grateful Dead song I heard,1970 (on the radio, not on a playboy show) I was hooked immediately.

[@mscommerce]

The counterculture meets Mad Men, only this is real, not fiction :). Priceless.

[@dougrobertson6616]

In his new autobiography Bill Kreutzman has a story about this show. Owsley Stanley was their sound man at the time. He had some of his highest quality LSD with him. There was a huge coffee pot for the crew, band, and partiers. As Deadheads know Owsley liked to dose people unexpectedly. He spiked the coffee so when the show started the whole place was just getting off. How the band and crew kept it together was crazy.

[@RayNDeere]

+Doug Robertson Only one who wasn't dosed was Hef, who drank only Pepsi and was fearful of being dosed and kept his Pepsi supply secure.

[@Leo1239150]

Doug Robertson that's actually the reason I'm here. :D He told the story on Conan

[@JeffWHigdon]

Rock Scully discusses it in his 1996 memoir too, I'm reading it right now. But he says Hef drank Coke, lol. Bear wasn't happy because union regs wouldn't let him do sound.

[@RayNDeere]

Hef was a Pepsi Drinker. Read a letter from Pepsi thanking him for putting in a half-dozen Pepsi Machines in the Playboy offices in Chicago and offered him a tour of the bottling plant and some free cases of bottles. Hef used to down a 12 pack plus a day of Pepsi

[@eminem13001]

I mean he lived along Time but you can tell all of the girls were on acid

[@ScarlettFire341]

50 years ago today, Grateful Dead appeared on Playboy After Dark and Owsley infamously spiked the coffee urn with LSD. 1-18-69

[@adderkay]

It was the icing on the cake..literally

[@tomlund4951]

Allegedly…😎

[@lospepinos9237]

What a sweet voice Jerry had..

[@lyndamarie7379]

Sweet and pure 💖

[@DanWagner77]

man i want Jerry's sweater/poncho thing

[@frateroiram]

garcia merch released a beanie with the same print not so long ago

[@cheapthrilll6323]

Its called a "drug rug"

[@aidantruner5527]

Cheap Thrilll Jerry’s is definitely some next level shit

[@yazoostreet]

Bill's shirt wins on attire.

[@judithgips2959]

hilariously weird but so sweet too. I love Jerry telling Hugh that "Haight Ashbury was only a place; it's not what it was all about." so sweet and scruffy in his serape doing a solo on Mountains of the Moon. and then these Dean martin-;ike guys in suits and girls in paper mini-dresses trying to rock=dance to St Stephen, and the guys in the band looking kind of nerdy in funky tie-dye...oh my gosh adorable blast from a past I barely remember,

[@krikeymate]

This is very cool, rare performance of Mountains of the Moon with Tom Constanten on keyboards. Not to mention the entire bizarre context. Legend has it they dosed the entire TV crew as well as audience members for this appearance.

[@MovieHound17]

krikeymate the band didnt one guy did who was associated with the band dosed the coffe that the crew drank LOL! Heff had some too lol.

[@krikeymate]

The Bear strikes again lol

[@34hedgehog]

MovieHound17 No, he didn't. If you knew anything about the history of the band, you'd know that Hefner was apparently terrified of getting dosed, so he had his assistant Shel Silverstein pass him bottles of Coke that Shel had opened, and that was all he drank.

[@ChoctawNawtic4]

Shel Silverstein, like the children's poet?? haha

[@RayNDeere]

Shel first became known for his works at Playboy. He had carte blanche to stay at both Playboy Mansions (Chicago and LA)

[@AnvilOfTheGods]

Hef: I wonder if we could get you to do a number for us. Jerry: Absolutely...not.

[@StarDarkAshes]

Only Google would be so stupid to put an ad in the middle of a song

[@dreamwell2020]

Words for our time: "The earth will see you through this time."

[@CornerOfTheUniverse]

Although I'm not this old, I am grateful that this video can make me feel like I was there.

[@direwolf8124]

I seen the dead in Birmingham, it was at the end. I was only 15 and it was amazing. I can't imagine how incredible it was then.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

My first show was Seattle, January 1968, with this lineup.

[@direwolf8124]

@@randyjimmiejamesbowles thats so awesome and I think everyone who got the experience of a show are blessed. I think the ones who seen them in the psychedelic days are the luckiest

[@williammcdonough2291]

That shot of Mickey Hart at 9:08-9:15 made me smile. The ultimate hippie. If you looked up the word "hippie" in the dictionary that picture would be a great definition.

[@PinkFloydrulez]

grateful dead on playboy... perfectly strange, strangely so perfect

[@ChynaRider]

The birth of MTV. And better. It is kind of a gas to watch Jerry deal with how to deal with celebrity - his own and the "thing" of "it". I've always seen a bit of a struggle of Jerry within himself - he wants to go for it, the imp is egging him on, and the yang is pulling the reins, 'get over yourself - it's not all about you". This whole thing is such a gem. thanks for posting this.

[@thomasrohr3130]

nice observation

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Ohh, this performance of "Mountains of the Moon" is just pure bliss. I can't think of anything more gentle, peaceful and full of wide-eyed wonder and beauty.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Totally agree,and spiritually about as far apart from the Playboy mansion as it is possible.An inspired choice Mr Garcia.

[@iconoclastic12007]

Yeah man, Mountains is about as definitive hippie as it gets, especially paired with….you know….

[@mortensenegbert6619]

@@iconoclastic12007 Give me a hint which one. Offhand I'd say "Ripple"? "Friend of the Devil"? "Uncle John"? So many timeless gems from this band.

[@mortensenegbert6619]

@@iconoclastic12007 Sorry, I just realized you probably meant "St. Stephens," right?

[@preist1214]

I love seeing Jerry up there bopping and dancing around. such youthfull energy not to mention looking good for all the bunnies.

[@knutbaardsen6437]

"So there we were, armed to the teeth with buck knives" hilarious jerry.

[@innocentoctave]

I thought I was the only one who heard that. 'So there I was at 30,000 feet on a bed of flak...' classic bullshit pickup line.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Right at the end, Hey there's Pigpen! Keep on trippin' bros.

[@racializedkanadian]

This is the most complete version of this that I've seen thank you !!

[@JumpStop1]

And to think, they were all dosed... what a lovely time.

[@aaronedwards1017]

Holy shit balls! Context is everything. I feel like Bear just dosed me!

[@remmymafia3889]

Garcia has his glasses off in the beginning during the bar scene-looking to get laid no doubt.

[@raxideezxxx8752]

I doubt Jerry had to try too hard!

[@kenderen3736]

The Grateful Dead always had really intricate beautiful music that you could close your eyes to,and drift away to mythical worlds of timless fantasy.

[@Jrodeadhead2002]

Perfect.

[@34hedgehog]

Love the beginning... Garcia leaning towards Hefner and saying 'so there we were... armed to the teeth with buck-knives'(!) before Hefner cuts him off.

[@InfamousMedia]

Andy Northall so glad someone else heard that hahaha

[@yazoostreet]

I think he's talking to the girls, not Heff

[@kevinr.3542]

It's safe to say the LSD kicked in by 11:30. That enthusiastic clapping says it all.

[@mhanson421]

So much soul... RIP brother.

[@ReedRosson1987]

Would love to have been there.

[@FinallyFlanders]

and once everyone's tripping balls they fuckin close with turn on your love light

[@yolutwin]

God I love the Grateful Dead

[@scottmatheson2390]

What a long strange trip that must have been with The Dead hanging out at the Playboy Mansion with HH and main squeeze Barbie B. It's hard to imagine a more indulgently liberal father figure than Hugh Hefner in the swingin sixties.Most of us growing up in that time and "tuned in" looked at grownups like him or even Timothy Leary as fantasy figures we either wanted to be like,or wanted out dads to be more like while the reality was much different in most cases.My own dad was pretty down on all that stuff and didn't mind letting you know about it in no uncertain terms,like the time he calmly grabbed the Dylan record playing on the stereo (skeraaaaatch!) and sailed it out our front door way down the street like a frisbee.My brother and I stood beside him watching Bob sail away into the distance.He and Mr Dylan were apparently unable to reach an understanding.

[@justinlalugski2083]

Scott Matheson this show wasnt shot at the playboy mansion...it was shot on a sound stage in LA...all those people are actors too

[@eminem13001]

But they did dose the actors

[@andrewmair7371]

Scott Matheson ~ Geez … & I thought MY Dad was bad. Not a very hip generation that lot❕☝️😆😂

[@brianhammer5107]

get a grip - I NEVER wanted to be like Leary or any of the other so-called 'leaders' of the culture - that's just rubbish - people like Frank Zappa and Pete Townshend knew the goons as early as '66 or '67 and it was clear in interviews they had their heads on relatively straight and put down these idiots (and with good reasons)

[@vladdrakul7851]

@@brianhammer5107 Both Frank and Pete are or were utter tools. Moral hypocrits who got nothing. Anti drug Frank the sexist moralist died from his WEED of choice called tobacco and Pete became an Alt Right figurehead and Tory who thought the hippie movement was just rolling around in the mud not protesting a brutal war, racism and environmental degradation and attempting ot find meaning in life and existentiality. No the genius was writing 'relevant' BS about 'Deaf, dumb and blind kids' ie his audience of mindless uneducated idiots who really thought Labor was the same as the Tories (post Blair they are again that having destroyed Corbyn for fighting wars and oligarchy). Rather like' Sir Mick Jagger'. While 'the US had a deep rich multicultural creative counterculture' as Robert Plant put it we have the cynical sellouts who put down others to look cool.- I am not a huge HH fan myself but Leary was NOT a goon. MSM meme regurgitating Idiot!

[@davestair1972]

What a GEM!! God i miss Jerry!

[@rednoise0]

I think I like Jerry's Gibson SG tone from those days best of all his various sounds over the years.

[@9lettere668]

believe it or not i bought it in 84... unfortunately got stolen

[@kevinr.3542]

Then you hear him on a strat on Europe 72 and think damn, that's incredible. He can make it sound like a pedal steel. Then he had wolf, tiger, etc...they all had something different and special about them. The SG was awesome though. So sharp and biting.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

@@kevinr.3542 I'm a fan of the Travis Bean era (among others)...... I think he owned atleast 3 of them.

[@kevinr.3542]

I wish I could pinpoint the TB sound. Im sure it has some specific characteristics. Do you know a show he played them on? I heard he had trouble keeping them in tune but I bet they sounded great. His tone is so special.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

@@kevinr.3542 He played the TBs almost exclusively from 76 through spring and summer 77 and every show on that spring 77 tour is top notch. Google grateful dead archive. org because they have pretty much every show soundboard. Look for any Charlie Miller copy. I'm partial to this second set from the Fox Theatre kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHSvXnegfJJpmKs

[@CaptainBobby74]

God you can see Garcia is on to greatness here! Out talking Heff under the radar, he is so witty and highly intelligent! Heff has no clue musically what he is talking about when it comes to percussion he laughs off Jerry’s seriousness about his rhythm section like he’s crazy... Jerry is like ‘okay bro watch this!’

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

Im always waching this video,jerry with that beautiful sg.Two of the glorious tunes on the dopest record.

[@kimdelong3429]

When the boys were at their peak. Their song wtiting(Garc and company) where phenomenal! Not trying to be old school but when all the 60s groups pass on, the quality of music they left behind will pass with the.!

[@filmmakerslegal3115]

Absolutely awesome - the sheer incongruity of it all! Great version of St Stephen ... aren't they all?

[@samblackwood4690]

These guys played it live where everyone else played on PAD played to a backing track. Thanks for keeping it real, Jerry & Co.!

[@marcusteblano6376]

Jerry was so funny and didn't buy into the solemnity. I liked his comment about the two drummers doing mutual annihilation and being like 2 snakes chasing each others' tails. St. Stephen is one of my all time favorite songs. Great to see a clean performance with good video footage. Too bad they cut it off.

[@Terrapin9614]

TC was playing keys at this time because the music was much more complicated, and they were moving away from the blues numbers which were Pig's bread and butter. so he played congas mostly to have something to do onstage when they weren't playing Schoolgirl or Lovelight or Good Lovin'

[@annabanana5186]

I think the man in white in the soul train at the end was the person dancing in those flashes during parts of St. Stephen. So cool!

[@jmcc199]

just wow - what song selection fellas

[@donjerue]

The last minutes of this clip, while the credits roll, lend credence to the story in Bill Kruetzmann's book "Deal" about Owsley spiking the Coffee Urn,,,guess this could be considered the "Electric Starbucks Acid Test" LOL

[@StarDarkAshes]

Is Pigpen playing bongos? Awesome

[@nickjuergens8343]

Epic does not get much better

[@martinbench3657]

So glad this came up in my suggestions , just fantastic

[@calmistheway]

for some reason this reminds me a of a star trek episode.

[@innocentoctave]

Amazing document of the time. Thank you.

[@custer2449]

Thank you for posting. Ah, dreams, dreams.

[@laprofe63CANAL]

OMG!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!

[@snuffleupagus1617]

I want Bill Kreutzman's shirt!! With that shirt my life would rule!

[@ChoctawNawtic4]

Haha that shirt is fkng rad!!

[@tinamcsween]

Hugh was definitely ahead of his time, on many fronts!

[@BMocean]

I just love this! 1969!!!!

[@zrod9511]

Thank you for this incredible footage of a meeting of minds that were way ahead of their time. Great interview by Hef, he let Jerry speak instead of jumping in. 50th anniversary this year . Further...

[@floepiejane]

And "Turn On Your Lovelight"!!

[@bradfordelliott9942]

Reading Kreutzmann's book "Deal" now. I guess the soundman at the time, Owsley, aka Alice D Millionaire, "electrified" the coffee on the set. Everyone from The camera men, to the bunnies, to the band, to Hef, were all high as hell on LSD during this episode. O_o

[@mopar340dave]

Brad Elliott Nope, The Bear did it but Hef did not drink.

[@bradfordelliott9942]

Hef didn't have any coffee that night... hard to believe. :)

[@PsychRock97]

mopar340dave watch the video with bill on conan he explains everything

[@mopar340dave]

PsychRock97 I heard it from Mickey Hart...but I'll watch

[@poppinandrea]

i love how they do more than one scream in this song :)

[@guilleermojimenez5460]

I miss Jerry,

[@hydraIX]

Jerry's playing a Gibson SG !!! Preferred by the Legends !!!

[@rgiblin6]

That harpsichord is so awesome

[@jimmyfighera1495]

we were so young and full of life...

[@toscodav]

We?? were you there? NOT!

[@painterphilippe]

BTW I wondered and was able to ascertain the acoustic Jerry plays for the first number is a '36 Martin 000-18S (evidently).

[@MundaSquire]

Two of my favorite Dead songs in a row. Heavenly.

[@sunshinenblues]

o.k, I'm a girl who at the delicious age of impressionable development slept with Bob Weir. and I will grow to love this video if only because this is the Grateful Dead as I will always remember them!

[@thegratefulbrad3072]

sunshinenblues Are you from Stinson Beach? He liked boys, too. :)

[@sunshinenblues]

I'm a chick who got her "25+ minutes of fame" with the GD. Not anywhere near Stinson Beach??

[@thegratefulbrad3072]

I was with them for years, I used to baby sit and did Camp Winnarainbow. I stayed at home and took care of the ladies. :) Tough job but someone had to do it.

[@bobanderson3881]

sunshinenblues I slept with Barbi Benton.

[@sunshinenblues]

sorry, who?

[@KorgKapperi]

I cant believe I bought that sg in sf in 88 and got stolen in 95.. but i will find it.. think about it everyday

[@CubensisRecords]

Let it go man...

[@saintphallephotography6146]

I have owned two Gibson SGs thirty years apart, and BOTH got stolen...

[@judithgips2959]

sorry for yur loss!

[@JoeyhasMojo]

Great record of 'back in the day'...

[@esplonky6502]

Thanks to Phil Lesh, I now understand that Everybody goes through an Awkward phase......

[@parttime9070]

Let it shine. let it shine. let it shine.......

[@jackrowe9695]

This live version is better than the studio version 😊

[@leogiovanoni6234]

Hugh payed someone to be in charge of "Dance Supervision" ( check the closing credits). I think they may have 2nd guessed their decision to book the boys when Garcia talked about the serpent eating it's own tail & turning on it's side doing figure 8's. Classic! Hugh Hefner & his stupid "Playboy Lifestyle" philosophy. The Acid, naked women after the cameras were off, Barbie Benton..The stories are now legendary.. They sure don't make TV shows like they used to. Had this on VHS years ago. Fun to see it again. Thanks!

[@sharonlee4773]

Wow what a bizarre tv show! We had nothing like this here in England

[@jgfunk]

Nice to see TC there!

[@jpeasye33]

mickey and billy...figure eights in my head...spinnin round the wheel with my boys. nfa

[@filbertrocko]

BEST. SHOW EVER

[@onemanmatt]

Fantastic THANK YOU :-) Hugh with his Pipe and Barbie Who knew LOL

[@raxideezxxx8752]

7:10 The hits kick in!

[@gardensofthegods]

Are you trying to be funny with the 710.... hahaha or is that just a coincidence

[@raxideezxxx8752]

@@gardensofthegods WOW: I hadn't noticed! Entirely unintentional. Good catch! Cracked me up!

[@Frustratedartist2]

I'm seeing Tom for the first time! he's quite good. got this nice Anthem-Aoxomoxoa psychadelic and classical mood, very unique actually. Also, too bad we didn't got the full Lovelight. more Pigpen is always better. PIGPEN LIVES

[@nicolasalmada7747]

awesome! I never saw this, is one of my favourites of AOXOMOXOA récord with Dupree's Diamond Blues that is fabolous too.

[@johnfrank1774]

Awwww, Poor Dead Sea Scroll Spirits trapped in AOXOMOXOA :-(

[@nicolasalmada7747]

them, were people involved with your time. they had reason to make music and art. Sayonara cocodrile

[@valdecinascimento5259]

NICOLAS ALMADA

[@anthonyromero2965]

Ron McKernan on percussion with Mickey Hart and Bill Karutzman drums. Wow, brings back memories

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

and Tom (TC) Constanten on harpsichord and organ. Even as TC took over most of the keyboard work from Pigpen at this time, they became friends because neither were in to acid or the heavy stuff. TC and Pig were the only two band members not to get busted down on Bourbon Street (which inspired the line in "Truckin'")

[@jimmylorang995]

WERE HUGH AND THE PLAYBOY PLAYMATES TRIPPING? IF SO...WHAT A HEAVENLY PARTY...

[@djaminc]

As i walked home today i saw a group of black crows near home and knew i had to listen to this song- TCs harpsichord is sublime and Jerrys got such a soothing singing tone.

[@jjayflash]

Man you can tell these people are lit.

[@kromedome0101]

According to a book about Playboy, the Dead had dosed the crowd with acid.

[@PaulSutherlandnow]

History of music. 1969. Players.

[@flamindigo]

And a good, if too short, St. Stephen

[@oneofmany1087]

Many Moons ago when TV was cool. Sid

[@robotubetwob]

Surprisingly magical.

[@ericjurgens6976]

Great for the rare TC sighting!

[@bobfinn4909]

Poor Pigpen relegated to playing conga drums off in the corner ...

[@yazoostreet]

Nah, he's up front for lovelight

[@jimmymurphy7789]

There was nothin' like Pigpen's Keyboard playing & for me although TK was just great, his Style in comparison just didn't Do it for me & didn't Blend in well.

[@cyclesmoking]

He was front and center for Lovelight as the show was closing. But you’re right that his “all Blues” playing didn’t sit well with Jerry & Phil as they explored more psychedelic music. Pig didn’t grow in that direction and also drank way to much, so they brought in Tom C. and eventually Keith. In the very early days Pig was the front man and most accomplished player in the band, but he didn’t grow and eventually regressed into alcohol.

[@johncarden8985]

@@cyclesmoking I think pigpen doing hard to handle and lovelight was some of the best GD music. It had the rocking pace but included the magic of the players. He did drink himself to death. January 69 here was the start of one of their best period, thru to 1972 (in my opinion!).

[@kevinthaynes]

@@jimmymurphy7789 ah yes...who could forget Tom Konstanten.

[@CarlDiedrich]

Hell of an evening. Wish Id have been there

[@tomlund4951]

You are here now! What a trip!

[@blachubear]

Were they doing a Soul Train line at the end? Hahahahahaha!!!

[@3243_]

blachubear It does resemble an early version of it.

[@9lettere668]

turn on your lovelight

[@kylehackman4406]

Looks like the party really got going when the credits started rolling

[@brianlevine1479]

Can't imagine this really happening!

[@RayNDeere]

When Hef was closing the show, it looked like Noel Harrison was right near by,

[@JuarezsantossousaSousa]

Super.maravilha.;..

[@andrewmast60]

This is gold

[@trinocular]

lol chick @ 10:30 definitely drank the coffee...