Grateful Dead - Dawn Of The Dead & The Rise Of The San Francisco Underground Part 1

This extraordinary documentry traces the movements, events and sounds of the days of San Francisco hippie revolt, and traces the story of the definitive band of the psychedelic age, The Grateful Dead. Covering too the involvement of Frisco's other lead players such as Big Brother & The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service, the program explores what it was that, temporarily, set San Francisco aside as a 1960s Shangri-La.
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[@NolalanD]

It's amazing how well these musicians knew the etymology of the strains of music they were playing.

[@groberts3967]

Yes, and without references such as the Internet or KZbin, you had to really do your research and homework

[@Omm3693]

Cool! I never knew most of that history. Wish the video was longer.

[@robertshorthill6836]

I got outta the war June of '69. A buddy's girl friend took me to a Dead concert the night I hit the Bay area. I was hooked as a Dead Head.

[@keithschilhab7759]

Thanks for posting this man!

[@tomlehr861]

1971 hitchhiked to san fran stood on corner of haight ashbury,50 yrs ago

[@crashoverride4881]

Grew up in the Bay Area in the 60's California was a great place to live back then. Pretty much seen it all.

[@milos.8131]

Born in SF in the 50s. Lived there untill 1987. After that the city turned into a hot mess.

[@thecandyman9308]

@@milos.8131 Yup. Leftism will always lead to ruin wherever it creeps into.

[@larrym2434]

@@milos.8131 It pretty much went to heck after Milo left.

[@energyideas]

Unique footage. Thanks.

[@Sleepy_Alligator]

Very cool documentary, though part 3 seems to be missing. Sure do miss Garcia, and the Grateful Dead.

[@stephanevincent7773]

Merci de mettre tout cela un jour en français.

[@carlodelysid]

Tx for the turn on.... I just ordered this on UK Amazon for $12 including shipping. Had no idea it was out there.

[@adamfeldman8713]

Stagger Lee, Aiko Aiko’ and many other tracks ⚡️👌😎✅💯%and songs like “Mind~bender” that were breakthrough tracks and concepts yet still trying to find their sounds on a full scale level ☝️🤨👍

[@fintanoclery2698]

David Gans and David Lemieux have great gigs.

[@sunshinenblues]

I love the words..."the absolute heart of that"..referencing the part the Grateful Dead played in our cultural revolution.

[@Thresholdmoment]

Cultural revolution?? Why can't it be just about the music for you leftist ass fuxx?? oh, so if we could have just turned the whole country into a drugged-out grateful Dead parking lot selling drugs and heroin overdoses and people wigging out on psychedelic drugs.. screw you sjw snowflake.

[@manfromanotherplace2918]

Steven Tracy hahaha .... wow ! We’re all like entitled to our own way of seeing the world around us man ...No need to be such a douche about it . It’s cool to state your opinion ...but name calling ? Sorta cheapens what you have to say .

[@MichaelTurnersfs]

@@Thresholdmoment It’s interesting how Trump lovers emulate their hero by adopting is barely pubescent emotional maturity, literacy and vocabulary. Long live the Grateful Dead!

[@petersonlafollette3521]

To me it will always be the Dead, and not the Hippies, that were enlightened- through their art/music life was lived vicariously- but like pure artists they didn't care...

[@SusanKrisFan1]

Pretty awesome.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

really enjoying this documentary so far, but where are the principle players? Why not interview Phil Lesh, or Bob Weir or the surviving members of The Charlatans? Not really a criticism, more of an observation. Thanks....

[@dondressel452]

Damn where did the time gooooo.......

[@michaelnunes5129]

Maybe you should start with a half tab.

[@tonygaray3233]

frisco is a town in the state of Texas

[@hatfieldsmama]

woah trippy

[@manfromanotherplace2918]

hatfieldsmama haha far out man

[@LucyLennon20]

I'm here July 2024 🙋‍♀️⚡️

[@raphaelnoz8321]

Any connection to the Lennon Sisters?

[@LucyLennon20]

@raphaelnoz8321 not really isn't 5 Lennon Sisters enough? Any connection to Raphael the painter and Renaissance architect?

[@raphaelnoz8321]

@@LucyLennon20 haha- yes, actually!

[@raphaelnoz8321]

@@LucyLennon20 I wasn’t asking if you were one of them, just if you were connected. I grew up near them.

[@LucyLennon20]

@raphaelnoz8321 ... oh, okay. Would that be Venice, California?

[@khatarootube]

Walter Cronkite loved the Grateful Dead.

[@sunshinenblues]

+Khataroo I loved the Grateful Dead. my close encounters included being with the band for an entire weekend's concerts and in-betweens times. I smooched with Bobby. Ate breakfast with the band and entourage and smoked weed+ in the hotel rooms. (woke with Bobby at my side) so I loved all of it.!!

[@khatarootube]

sunshinenblues How very cool to have the experiences you did. I'd love to hear more stories. Shake the hand that shook the hand.

[@sunshinenblues]

+Khataroo i'd share it all right away.! the truth is i'm 65 yrs old and i struggle with my 'memory' on almost everything except the Grateful Dead, being a hippy, living in California, and what my life used to be like!

[@khatarootube]

sunshinenblues I am eagerly ready to listen. Do tell.

[@LordofChaos70]

Khataroo Yup, saw him at a MSG show back in the '80s. Or was it '90s? Either or, all the years combined, they melt into a dream.

[@augustusbetucius2931]

Where is Part III of this? Bummer.

[@DecriminalizeMarijuana]

Quicksilver Messenger Service blows them all away along with the Airplane & Janis

[@JubeProductions]

None of this would be possible without the amazing effects of LSD.

[@The_Klystron7]

Sure it would have. Just made it more interesting.

[@OscarRuiz-gj3mp]

...and WEED. Number 1, Acid 2, Alcohol&Ciggs 3.

[@georgestevens1502]

Not really. Hoffman discovered acid over a decade before 1967. Government entities were dosing people all through the 50s. If acid was such a game changer, then it would have happened long before the mid 60s. And the change would have been broader across the whole population. Acid wasn't illegal for over a decade. One of the results of large use of it by the "counter-culture" was to have laws passed making it illegal by the "establishment." Acid wasn't the cause, it was an effect. Thinking the effects of a drug are universal regardless of environment and personality is specious. It could be either enlightening or terrifying, sometimes for the same person depending upon time, place and manner. Think Woodstock I vs Altamont. It was people and circumstance, not chemicals that made for disparate experiences.=; some great, some tragic.

[@roygoad2870]

@@georgestevens1502 Albert Hoffman discovered LSD by accident on April 19th 1943, it didn’t do him much harm as he lived to 102 years old and died in April 2008! Incidentally the famous actor Cary Grant took LSD quite a few times in the 1950’s, he kept it quiet for awhile! Also the writer Aldous Huxley and many other people, also the military, well before the 1960’s! Even the term Psychedelic was used for some folk artists in the early sixties in New York, like John Fahey, Sandy Bull and the Holly Model Rounders! It’s amazing how in the U.K. Skiffle became popular in the late 50’s with Lonnie Donegon its main proponent, great minds think alike!

[@georgestevens1502]

@@roygoad2870 Ya, I've got a lengthy interview he did in the 70s, for Penthouse I think, squirrelled away in storage. My point wasn't about exactly when it was discovered by Albert, nor a judgment call on use, I simply resist attributing a cultural revolution solely to it. That implies that without it the changes in the Sixties wouldn't have happened, which I don't believe is true. I was at the Grateful Dead concert in Veneta, OR, and was treated to a blotter of Owsley product. But that was not the sole reason that was a great concert. It definitely enhanced the experience, but it wasn't the sine qua non of the day. The Dead and the New Riders music was the raison d'etre of that day.

[@stevebez2767]

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[@bobmalack481]

Ya...cheesey organs 'n mindless guitar is what I'm about...LOL!! Bob at 65

[@SeattleSpursFan1882]

It's as if this guy is reporting on the discovery that aliens are living among us in San Francisco where he's telling "us" what "they" have to offer.

[@imjustthemessenger1225]

SPARE CHANGE?

[@patricias5122]

That tired, snobbish, and ultimately elitist, voice of David Gans... Explaining it all to you.

[@mjula1027]

Sorry, do not like David Gans. :(

[@smartluck100]

Agreed. I don’t know what it is about him, but I am not crazy about him either

[@tlmqp1426]

I also agree. Otherwise, a great piece.