![]() ![]() I wonder what recording commitment kept the Dead from a scheduled show - they'd presumably just had a couple weeks of uninterrupted recording time, and Hassinger must have been close to quitting at that point.įor context, an excerpt from the article, "Cheetah Expands: Group Image Evicted". (Hugh Romney, "Hog Calling," East Village Other 8/19/67, p.10) Delete Then Grogan took the bowl and gave the money away to anybody who wanted some.Įmmett you didn't raise much money but you raised a lot of eyebrows. I made a money mantra pitch and somebody passed a bowl. The money formed covey and giggled nervously. When everybody got loaded there was some talk of tossing the millionaire off the roof. Now this is Grogan's fantasy.give tax deductible bread to the glide foundation to fly or float 200 groovy heads to europe - the trip without a ticket and like all fantasies backed up with raw hustle it may happen. See live diggers simon and garfunkle jonas mekas, the group image and a couple millioneers. The Grateful Dead came early played as good as the electricity could bear pulled up some chairs and hung out. Everybody was there and everybody was everybody and the roof belonged to Shirley Clarke. The East Village Other ran an article by Hugh Romney describing this event:īosom buddie on the Breast Board Paul Krassner slips me into a yellow metered balloon uptown to the Hotel Chelsea where Emmett Grogan's raising money on the roof. It was kind of cool, playing on a rooftop in New York, but whatever energy we could muster fell flat on the floor, oozing over to Warhol's feet where it disappeared into the singularity. Lesh called Warhol an "ambulatory black hole" in his book: "We played a few tunes, and even did a little vocal rap. ![]() He was like “an ambulatory black hole,” is what they called him!" They say “Sorry, this isn’t working, we can’t play in this atmosphere.” And they blame Andy Warhol they say he was sucking all the energy out of the experience. The song falters, it slows down, and finally the musicians just put their instruments down. He was standing there watching from behind his sunglasses - at night - watching this lovely Californian music. But all of a sudden, Andy Warhol wandered up with his entourage. "They started a few songs and everything was great, it was a beautiful summer night. Unlike those, alas, it was not filmed or stopped by the police, but it was inadvertently stopped by Andy Warhol's presence: I believe it was open-air, and yes, it was the precursor to the Airplane's & Beatles' rooftop gigs in '68/69. (Big Brother was supposedly filmed on May 31, and the Jefferson Airplane were scheduled for filming from May 30-June 2 but decided not to appear.) Delete The Dead were probably filmed near the end of May. many projectors and overheads going on simultaneously." Apparently, it was used by a bakery at some point. #THE YOUNGBLOODS 1967 RAR MOVIE#Where the Electric Kool-Aid Test and the Petulia movie was shot was called the Pie Factory. It was a basement of an empty hotel that was waiting to be torn down. It was the home of the Calliope Company, a production outfit that produced the first dance/light show concerts prior to Bill Graham and the Avalon. It was leased by Bill Tara and myself, Paul Hawken. "The actual address was 69 Harriet Street. Garcia showed up and jammed with Lester, who played a convincing piano." I was kicked out of my studio to make room for a hundred crew and extras. No one ever went in the front which was boarded up. side of the building which was on Sixth St. At the time the Reno supported an acting troupe, two filmmakers' studios, and a sculptor. The fan-club newsletter reported that the Dead were filmed "playing live at a warehouse," and it turns out it was the basement of the old Reno Hotel, which had closed down and was being occupied as a studio space by various artists:Ĭommenters say: "The nightclub was the Reno Hotel, called "The Warehouse" in Wolfe's "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". The ferryboat could have been Julie Christie's own - Rosie McGee wrote in Dancing with the Dead about visiting Christie in Sausalito during filming: "Julie had rented the famous Yellow Ferry in Sausalito, a small, decommissioned ferryboat that had been turned into a lovely houseboat."īig Brother's scene in "Petulia" was filmed at the Fairmont Hotel, but not the Dead's. ![]() It would be nice to find the original Herb Caen article and pin down a date, or more details. ![]()
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