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Today in psychedelic history (12/18) 2
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- 1964: Time Magazine publishes the article Drugs: The Pros & Cons of LSD
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Drugs: The Pros & Cons of LSD Friday, Dec. 18, 1964
"The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important," says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen. The newest and most controversial way of carrying on that most important study is with the aid of drugs that produce hallucinations or illusions. But the responsible hopes raised by serious and cautious research have been matched by wildly visionary claims. Irresponsible misuse of the drugs has led to both scares and scandals.
For all that has been... [You have to have a subscription to read the rest of the article]
(http://content.time.com/)
- 1965: 4th Acid Test takes place
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The Acid Test Chronicles - Page 14 - The Warlocks / Grateful Dead - 4th Acid Test - Big Beat Palo Alto Dec. 18, 1965
The Big Beat Acid test was the fourth Acid Test and occurred on Dec. 18, 1965. Apparently, the band was still being promoted as the Warlocks at this time. This is likely the last event they were ever billed as the Warlocks. I found this kind of odd at first, but then I found a quote from a participant and they mention the band they saw as the Warlocks, not the Grateful Dead.
Neal also took Annette to her first Acid Test, at the Big Beat in Palo Alto. The entertainment that particular evening was a band Annette had heard about from David Nelson, but had never seen: the Warlocks. “I spent most of the time under a table,” Annette recalls in her office at the Dead’s headquarters, where she is now in charge of the band’s music publishing company, Ice Nine. Over her desk, in a charcoal sketch, Pigpen looks back at us over his shoulder. “The Warlocks frightened me. I sensed a tremendous amount of power up there, and I wasn’t sure if it was good or evil. I wasn’t immediately comfortable with it. “Like Deadheads’ll tell you today, I was in one of those situations where I was in the second row dancing, and all of a sudden I thought Jerry looked over and was angry or something – like I’d pissed somebody off – and I crawled all the way to the back and found a table and got under it and waited till Neal came and got me and we went home.” - Goin Down the Road - Blair Jackson - Page 100
Lee Quarnstrom: "Then there was another Acid Test in Mountain View. This one was bigger. It was held in a dance hall where the Grateful Dead could actually hook up electric intruments. I would guess that there were about 200 people at the one in Mountain View. I don't have any idea how they heard about it. Probably on the acid grapevine." -- On the Bus - Paul Perry Page 148
Denise Kaufmann: "Mountain View was an amazing event. The Grateful Dead were fully set up and playing great stuff. That was when Pigpen was singing R & B songs like "Turn on Your Lovelight." Pigpen's dad was the only white deejay on a black station and he was raised listening to R & B, so he sounded black. At one point, I was standing out in the parking lot talking to Jerry Garcia, and this police car drove up and the officer got out and started questioning us. It was the usual: "What's going on here?" Jerry did most of the talking. Whatever Jerry said satisfied him because he turned to leave. As he turned to walk away, Jerry kind of tipped his hat and said, "The tips, captain." The way he said it just knocked me out. I told Kesey about this interaction and out of that Jerry got his name Captain Trips." -- On the Bus - Paul Perry Page 148
"Another eventful Acid Test was the nightclub in Palo Alto called the Big Beat, a plushy club in an L-shape with a stage in the angle. The Grateful Dead had their equipment set up on the stage, and the Pranksters had their equipment set up on the other side of the room on tables -- a Day-Glo organ, tape recorders, microphones, and a strobe light. The strobe light, in between the two setups, would flash the whole room. Rock Skully, who had worked with the Family Dog, met the band at this gig. Skully remarked, "Ken Kesey was lecturing around the Bay area at that time and I went and saw him. Owsley had shown up at the lecture and he told me about this band, the Grateful Dead. I went to an Acid Test down on the Peninsula [Big Beat] and I heard them and thought they were great. Skully also recalled, "I was standing by the bar and [Pigpen] walked up to me wearing his biker jacket with all the medals on it and he says, 'Owsley told me to come over and talk to you. He says you're gonna manage us or something.' I said, 'Yeah, I'd like to. I don't know what were gonna do, though -- you guys are ugly as sin.' He said, 'Yeah, aren't we?' I said, 'Yeah, that's neat! The Rolling Stones are ugly, too! He said, 'Yeah, we do the same kind of music, except we do it better!' Stewart Brand was at the Big Beat Acid Test with his side show of taped music and slides of Indians, a multimedia presentation that was a total environment where you could see the sights and hear the sounds of Indian life. Brand has fallen in with the Pranksters around the time of the Big Beat Acid Test and before long was organizing an even larger version, which became known as the Trips Festival." -- Captain Trips - Sandy Troy - Page 76
"A week or so later, we all gathered at the Big Beat nightclub in Palo Alto for the first full-scale Acid Test. People from outside the local area had heard about the events, and a lot of folks had come down from the city. The highlight of the Big Beat Test was unquestionably the performance of a multimedia event called "America needs Indians", created by Stewart Brand, later to become famous for the Whole Earth Catalog. This audiovisual presentation of Native American myths and spiritual thinking revealed Native Americans to us as a people with a great depth of culture and a natural philosophy unsurpassed in the traditional world. To many of us -- white kids who had grown up watching Westerns in the fifties -- these revelations struck like lightning bolts. Also that evening, Ken Babbs showed us what may have been the world's first music "video" -- his smokin' little three minute film inspired by and illustrating a pop hit by Del Shannon called "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)." The later Tests and Trips Festival would see the evolution of these "compositional" audiovisual works into a fully improvisational art form: the rock 'n' roll light show." -- Searching for the Sound -- Phil Lesh - Page 67 -
(Note: Phil Lesh remembers Palo Alto coming before Muir Beach, however, the handbill below contradicts that. It could be Phil Lesh's memory of the events got jumbled since these two were the third and fourth tests. I have been able to track and find many conflicting accounts. Owsley remembers Palo Alto coming afterwards. Mountain Girl remembers it coming before Muir Beach. For now, until someone can actually PROVE otherwise, we can assume it happened after Muir Beach since the date below is filled in and the handbill did come from a very important collection of legitimate material. Then Phil goes on below and contradicts himself in certain ways, on Page 69, as shown below, where he never mentions Muir Beach, after Palo Alto)
"After Palo Alto, the Test was ready for the big time -- the Fillmore Auditorium." (Now that makes more sense, and shows how memories can often get confused. Dennis mcNally's book also brings up the tests in this same order, Palo Alto, then Muir beach, however, there is nothing in the book that indicates any proof that Palo Alto came first.) And phil continues, then relating events of the Fillmore. How can this be explained. Well, one thing, they were all on acid at the time! - I have spoken to numerous Pranksters now, including George Walker, who has an excellent memory, Lee Quarnstrom, also excellent memory, but many of the other folks cannot remember very much. Mountain Girl herself admits she remembers very little about the posters and handbills, and has often claimed the memory is kinda of foggy on details. Many people I have spoken to do not remember very well. I would assume being on lots of acid forty-five years ago....those kind of memory details are not so easy to cough up. However, Tom Wolf's account in Electric Kool Aid WAS written in 1968, and in his book, it is stated a couple times, Muir Beach came first, and right after San Jose, such as in the following statement on page 250 of Electric Kool-Aid - This followed the account of Muir Beach in the same book.
"The Pranksters went on to hold Tests in Palo Alto, Portland, Oregon, two in San Francisco, four in and around Los Angeles---and three in Mexico"
(http://www.postertrip.com)
- 1975: Frank Olson's family wins wrongful death settlement against the US government for Olson's supposed LSD-induced suicide
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The Advocate Newark Saturday, Dec 20. 1915
Victim's family to get settlement
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON —The family of a civilian biochemist who died in 1953 following his participation in a CIA drug experiment has agreed to drop all claims against the government in return for a payment of $1.25 million and the release of all CIA files concerning the case The attorney for the family of the late Dr Frank H Olson issued a statement Thursday (December 18, 1975) for Olson's widow and three grown children in which the family said it has been "assured by the administration that all of the agencies concerned, including the Department of Justice and the CIA, fully support (legislation to provide the money) as a fairly arrived at settlement of our claim..." Olson plunged to his death from a 10th floor New York Hotel window about a week after being given LSD as part of a CIA experiment without his knowledge His family was never told the cause of his death and was paid $150,000 in death benefits over the 22 years A spokesman for Sen. Charles McC Mathias Jr R-Md. said Thursday that Mathias. Sen J. Glen Beall Jr.. R•Md.. and Rep Goodloe Bryon. D-Md., plan to introduce a private bill after the Christmas recess to provide the compensation to the Olson family. The settlement calls for the money to be tided equally among Olson's widow, Alice, two sons. Eric and Nils and daughter. Lisa Attorney David Rudovsky refused to say how much he will be paid, other than to say that the bill will limit attorneys' compensation to 10 per cent of the settlement The family's minion of the money will be tax free Rudovsky said. In its statement the Olson family said it had originally sought to "institute legal pro endings aimed at obtaining: —Monetary damages for (Frank Olson's) wrongful death and for the following 22 years of governmental deceit and misrepresentation; —Full disclosure of the circumstances surrounding the death of Frank Olson. —Formal acknowledgement from the United States government that the drug experimentation practiced by the CIA was illegal "At the same time," the Olsons said in their statement. "We sought to find a way to express our outrage over the CIA's actions. The disclosure of the true facts concerning Frank Olson's death and the CIA cover-up was, to put it simply. staggering to us, and judging from the public response, to the American people as well. We intended. therefore, that the steps we took in this case would help us to focus public concern upon the political and moral issues surrounding the activities of the CIA " For 22 years the Olsons had no real idea why Frank Olson, a usually happy, outgoing and loving father, plunged through a closed 10th-story hotel window on Nov 28 1953. For 22 years the Olsons had refused to believe that Frank Olson had simply committed suicide, and had wondered what really caused his death. Last June 11 when Alice Olson read the Rockefeller report on CIA activities, she began to understand. In the report Mrs Olson read that "on one occasion during the early phases of this (drug experiment program) (in 1953), LSD was administered to an employee of the Department of the Army without his knowledge while he was attending a meeting with CIA personnel working on the drug project .. He developed serious side effects and was sent to New York with a CIA escort for psychiatric treatment. Several days later, he jumped from a 10th floor window of his room and died as a result " Mrs Olson knew her husband had acted moody and withdrawn during the last week of his life. And she knew that the last time his family saw him, Frank Olson was being driven away in a CIA-supplied car. When she then spoke to Olson's former boss, Col Vincent Ruwet (USA-Red.), Alice Olson learned that her husband was the man mentioned in the Rockefeller report. The Olson family had a press conference to tell the story of Frank Olson and the CIA's role in his death. After the revelations by the Olson's news articles reported that thousands of persons, both knowingly and unwittingly, had been participants in CIA and armed forces experiments with hallucinogenics and other drugs. The Olsons had originally said they were going to file a multi-million dollar suit against the government in the hopes of collecting damages for Olson's death and in the hope of revealing more about the CIA's drug experiments. Rudovsky said the family decided to settle the suit because they succeeded in eliciting an acknowledgement that the experiments were unconscionable" during a meeting with President Ford and then CIA director William Colby, because the family and the government reached an equitable settlement, became the government agreed to release the information and because litigation would be long, costly and might, ultimately, fail. In his office: Sen Mathias said "We cannot erase the years which (the Olsons) have endured under the cloud for which government agencies have a clear responsibility. We can, however, show that our government is capable of admitting its own injustices and taking steps to right the wrongs for which its own officials are to blame " Sen. Beall said that "the willingness of the Administration (to agree to the settlement) will do much to eradicate the slain of tragedy and to insure that no other :American family is ever again victimized by thoughtless acts and calculated duplicity on the part of its own government "
(The Newark Advocate (Newark, Ohio), 20 Dec 1975, Sat, Page 8)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/18) [Re: Learyfan] 2
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One of the principle events in the founding of the Grateful Dead was Ken Kesey's Acid Test at the Big Beat Club in Palo Alto on December 18, 1965. Tom Wolfe wrote about it in Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and among many other remarkable events it was where Owsley Stanley introduced manager Rock Scully to the Grateful Dead, and where Hugh Romney--known today as Wavy Gravy--first got on the bus, too. However, the location or even the nature of The Big Beat club remained shrouded in mystery. As a Palo Alto native, I found it odd that such a seminal location had gotten lost in the mists of time. A search of the regular sources (Dennis McNally, Rock Scully, etc) did not reveal the location, and indeed there were many contradictions. I have been in email contact with people who attended the event, and they themselves could not recall the exact location of The Big Beat.
Determined newspaper research finally revealed the location of The Big Beat (the article and ad above are from the June 24, 1966 edition of the San Mateo Times). I was even more startled to go to the actual site and discover that the building at 998 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, pictured above in my photo (from August 7, 2009), apparently remains intact. While the well-kept building is now vacant, it still looks very much like the 1960s pizza parlor and dance club where the Dead played an acid test. As a result of my research, the history of The Big Beat and its peculiar relation to the Grateful Dead can now be clarified.
The Big Beat was the San Francisco Peninsula's first "rock" club, modeled somewhat on the style of venues like the Peppermint Twist in New York City. Owner Yvonne Modica, quite an interesting figure in her own right, had been a succesful restaurant and night club entrepreneur in the Bay Area since the 1950s. California liquor laws allowed restaurants to serve beer and wine, so by serving pizza the club could offer beer, without having to have a full liqour license. Another California anomaly allowed 18 year old adults in such establishments, although the drinking age was 21 (essentially to allow College Juniors to bring Freshman dates), and in any case the 25-and-under audience for The Big Beat was mostly a beer-drinking crowd anyway.
San Antonio Road was in the far Southeast corner of Palo Alto, quite far from Stanford University and the bohemian downtown scene that had spawned Jerry Garcia, Joan Baez and others. In fact the location of the club, in a then deserted industrial district near Highway 101, insured that most of the customers probably came from Mountain View, Los Altos and Sunnyvale as much as Palo Alto. The groups featured were local combos who played dance music, probably with a mixture of British Invasion, Surf and R&B (i.e. Motown) covers. The focus would have been on dancing and meeting members of the opposite sex, with beer and music for lubrication.
According to Yvonne Modica's obituary, one of the innovations of The Big Beat was a "breakfast show" from 2 to 6 am on Saturday and Sunday mornings, where no liquor was served. Apparently musicians would finish their other gigs, and come to jam and hang out until the early hours. Breakfast shows were a regular feature of Jazz clubs in San Francisco and later there were a number of rock or soul breakfast shows around the Bay Area, including at Winchester Cathedral in Redwood City, Frenchy's in Hayward or Modica's other club, The Trip in San Mateo, which opened later in 1966.
Ironically enough, The Big Beat's lasting fame came the weekend before it opened, when Ken Kesey's crew rented the place for a party, and The Grateful Dead played at The Acid Test. Hard as it may seem to grasp today, LSD was perfectly legal, and people drank electrified kool-aid and raved the night away. The cops did not like Kesey's Pranksters, and when they found out about an event they hovered around, hoping to bust people for pot (then a serious felony), but LSD use was legal and open.
Interestingly, someone who attended recalls two stages on opposite sides of the building (a common arrangement, making it easy to switch over to a new band) and an all-girl band who alternated with the Dead. The identity of this girl group remains a mystery, and my eyewitness readily concedes that his memory may be faulty and he simply could have imagined the other group. Anyone with foggy memories or insights about the identities of this all-woman should contact me or post in the comments (and to answer the first question, the Ace Of Cups, the legendary all-female psychedelic band, had not formed yet).
Since December 18 was a Saturday, presumably The Big Beat opened on Monday (Dec 20) or Tuesday (Dec 21). I know the club was open at least until Spring 1968, as I have seen a poster (advertising Charlie Musselwhite on March 24, 1968). Until Tom Wolfe published Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, the Big Beat Acid Test was known only to those who were there and a few other friends. However, although The Big Beat continued to exist, it dropped completely off the psychedelic radar.
According to one of the members of the downtown proto-hippie crowd, a club like The Big Beat was not only far from downtown--meaning you had to have a car to get there--but the beer drinking, go-go dancing scene was for twenty-somethings who worked at Lockheed, not budding artists who wanted to drop out of society. As a result, while The Big Beat seems to have been a popular enough establishment in 1966-67, people who went to The Big Beat didn't go to the Fillmore, and people who went to The Fillmore didn' t want to see anyone who played at The Big Beat.
The Big Beat seems to have closed around mid-1968, and its sister club, The Trip, in San Mateo (at 4301 El Camino) was open for about a year from mid-1966 to mid-1967. As Fillmore groups became more popular in the suburbs, going to a faux psychedelic nightclub to buy drinks became less appealing. The Big Beat receded into history, but the building remarkably remains intact.
Googling "Palo Alto" "The Big Beat" and other relevant terms will turn up a variety of incorrect locations for the club. The building that used to house the Keystone Palo Alto (a former supermarket at 260 South California) has been identified as the Big Beat, and a now demolished building on Homer Lane has been identified as the Big Beat also. I have gotten to the bottom of the story of the latter building, and there are reasons to confuse the Homer Lane building with The Big Beat, but that is the subject of another project. The actual Big Beat club remains intact in Southeast Palo Alto, a peculiar beacon to a distant past.
Palo Alto geographical note: San Antonio Road is actually the frontage road off the larger San Antonio Avenue, and you have to access San Antonio Road off East Charleston.
(http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/18) [Re: Learyfan]
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Keith Richards approves...
to Keith. He's 70 years old...  . . .
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/18) [Re: vinsue]
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50th anniversary of that Time Magazine LSD article today.
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50th anniversary of the 4th Acid Test today.
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45th anniversary of Frank Olson's family winning a $1.25M wrongful death lawsuit against the government today.
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Primed by the San Jose success, the Pranksters decided to turn the Acid Test into a traveling magic show. Their next appearance was in Palo Alto, where they rented a plush little nightclub called the Big Beat that was owned by two sweet middle-aged ladies. It was a more polished replay of San Jose, except for the fact that the Pranksters sported quasi- official uniforms: Day-Glo harlequin jerseys of alternating green, orange, and white stripes.
A few of Kesey's old Palo Alto friends came to check out his latest incarnation. Most tended to agree with what a lot of the other psychedelic pioneers were saying: the Acid Test was too high powered for the uninitiated. "You can freak out in there," they were warning. 25 But according to the Pranksters, freaking out was good for the soul. And judging from the legion of postadolescents who frequented the Tests, a lot of kids agreed.
Who showed up at the Tests? "Thousands of people," remembers Garcia, "all helplessly stoned, all finding themselves in a roomful of other thousands of people, none of whom any of them were afraid of. It was magic, far out, beautiful magic." 26 One participant was a Berkeley undergraduate named Jann Wenner, who wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Daily Cal. Using the pen name Mr. Jones, Wenner pub-crawled through the hip underside of the Bay Area, a job that inevitably brought him into contact with the Pranksters. What attracted Wenner to the Acid Test wasn't the drugs or the higher purpose, but the music and the dancing: "Once the music stops it becomes very dull," he wrote. 27
As 1965 drew to a close the leading edge of the Baby Boom was turning twenty; at San Jose, at Palo Alto, you could feel their restlessness coming to a boil.
(Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream by Jay Stevens)
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“I spent most of the time under a table,” Annette recalls in her office at the Dead’s headquarters, where she is now in charge of the band’s music publishing company, Ice Nine. Over her desk, in a charcoal sketch, Pigpen looks back at us over his shoulder. “The Warlocks frightened me. I sensed a tremendous amount of power up there, and I wasn’t sure if it was good or evil. I wasn’t immediately comfortable with it. “Like Deadheads’ll tell you today, I was in one of those situations where I was in the second row dancing, and all of a sudden I thought Jerry looked over and was angry or something – like I’d pissed somebody off – and I crawled all the way to the back and found a table and got under it and waited till Neal came and got me and we went home.”

" Most tended to agree with what a lot of the other psychedelic pioneers were saying: the Acid Test was too high powered for the uninitiated. "You can freak out in there," they were warning. 25 But according to the Pranksters, freaking out was good for the soul. And judging from the legion of postadolescents who frequented the Tests, a lot of kids agreed. "

What a time that must have been.
Thanks again for keeping up on posting/updating these threads LF  
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You're welcome, OM! I'm glad you enjoy them. 
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