Revitupandgo sent us the following tale from the late 1960s…..

It wasn't one of the authorized acid tests, but it may as well call itself
one. At Winterland in 1969 or 70, with Bill G producing and yelling, the
Dead, QuickSilver and the Airplane. The cost then was $3, for those 3 bands
and electric KoolAid. Wheeled out from backstage in the refrigerated metal
trash can, Ramrod, or someone else ladleing out cups, telling the girl i was
with to slow down, "THIS IS REAL HONEY, NO NEED FOR GREED' it might well
have been the last night J Cippolina played with QS, i saw that too, seems like it
might have been the same evening, and when JC finished the ear crashing soul
searing battle with Gary Duncan and his horn section, I was sure that no one,
absolutely no one would or could try to follow that show,and this fear was
enormously prevelant until the first chords of drivin that train high on c
floated over the orobourlsly snakelike crowd, then the "dead began their own
long slow and sometimes tortured climb up the face of the abyss to a jumping
off point, never hesitating once. Carlos S showed up after his show
somewhere, and a few other locals and joined in Grace stood up there acidicly
beaming saying this is what you get when you get our boys wound up, or some
such silly shit, and the music stopped when the SFPD QUIETLY AND SLOWLY AND
CALMLY U    nplugged the ampss. Whereupon I FOUND Myself standing next to a
MERLIN looking guy in flowing robes and silver hair twirling a crystal ball
in one hand, ahhhhh there's nothing like a Grateful Dead show' REMEMBER??

ps; anyone at the new years show or xmas show, winterland 69 where the
beautiful hippy girls passed out the mandala BEL cards same ones as what was
used in Laguna, at the aborted and never true rock show in the canyon, signed
the brotherhood of eternal love? love ya