The Two Towers (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
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Alternate title: "Fear & Loathing in Marin County Babylon '73"
Content warning: drug abuse, poor image quality, dubious impression of Bob Weir (unintended)
This is now the fifth version I've tried to upload and the first to clear copyright block. Let's see what happens.
Please note: while every effort has been made to maintain accuracy, information on this period of the Dead's history is murky, scattered and frequently contradicting. Please feel free to post corrections or disputes in the comments below.
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0:00 Book 1: The Taming of Sméagol
11:50 Book 2: A Helluva Drug
26:50 Book 3: On the Road
#gratefuldead #videoessay #documentary 
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CORRECTIONS:
20:06 "Stella Blue" is erroneously listed among the batch of songs Hunter and Garcia wrote in January 1973. Missing from this list is "Wave That Flag," later retooled to "U.S. Blues."
46:47 Additional acknowledgements: Lost Live Dead, Jerry's Middle Finger and everyone who has shared their experiences and insights in the chats during the show premiers and in the comments!
Clarifications
6:22 STP/DOM (2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine) = CNS stimulant with hallucinogenic properties = precursor _of sorts_ to "ecstasy"/MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) = CNS stimulant with hallucinogenic properties = 🖕
6:35 Please refer to text on the screen elaborating on Bob Thomas' involvement
You're right and wrong about STP. From a chemistry perspective: correct.
From a deadhead perspective: STP was used a lot as a standalone psychedelic in the early 70s to late 80s.
Source: Angry Samoans had a song called "STP not LSD" from 1988 extolliing the joy and virtue found in taking STP. While they were "only" a punk band, Mike (vocalist) has a LOT of verfiable ties to the 60s surf/psych scene.
Brother Stella is an anthem of the travelr. Weather suite is a master piece of balance
@wizardmoto BACK FROM SAMOA !!!! Great Album.
It’s stunning to think of what a loss it was that some of the band’s 73 shows were cancelled for low ticket sales. What a loss. That was probably my favorite year that they played.
It's so nice to watch a biography about the Grateful Dead that actually delves into the 1970s which was totally glossed over by the recent official documentary on Amazon. You've done a ton of research and this is great! Well done.
Indeed. Lesh's book was criminally light on the 70s as well.
Wow! Just wow. 1973 has had so little documentation previously (not a single show on video). It is wonderful to see this year mapped out so completely. Thank you.
It was my best touring year. The Nassau run. Rochester/Buffalo, and then Springfield. A weekend in June down in DC. And then finished up the year celebrating Jerry's 30th birthday.
I saw the wall of sound + it was enormous but u could hear everything ! I had a grateful time !
Me too!
This was incredible. I have read a lot about the dead and I’m rarely surprised by new information. Theres definitely a couple bits I’ve never heard before in this. Thanks for making this. It was a really fun watch.
Thanks! I had been fascinated about this period of their career for a while and was surprised at how overlooked it has been. I put together everything I was able to dig up but maybe this will light a fire to unearth more. (video/film from the late '73 tours? 🤞)
@@deadcoroner I just think that’s so cool that you focused in on the fall of 73. I am a little biased being the months of October-December 1973 is my favorite Grateful Dead period. I never realized there was a cocaine uptick following the Tampa 73 shows. Not that they weren’t doing it before but your story sure fills in some blanks in the timeline for sure. I’ve always considered 12/18/73 and 12/19/73 one of the best if not the best 2 night run they ever did. Keep it going man! I’d love to see more docs on zoomed in periods of this band. They evolved so fast, and so often. Constantly killing themselves off to birth a new version of the Grateful Dead.
I very much agree. Thank you. Nice to be surprised… this is going out to my friends who ❤️the GD. Nice work.
Dude thanks for making this! I love when i see new footage of the Dead!
Really excellent work, Cat!!! Thanks so much!!!
Grateful for the Documentary, Dead Hand!!!! Most in-depth GD thing I have seen! Thank you
This is a great Doc, Thank you for the work
This is the best documentary I’ve watched on the dead and the best music video essay I’ve ever seen.
I love the focus on the gear and guitars. And how you go beyond and into the substances and the crew.
😮
Phenomenal work. Great, more accurate take and tone to this piece than a lot of books and docs out there. This rides closer to the curves and undulations of the truth
A good idea is to follow the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast.
@@hashburystumble8808great pod but vanilla coverage of sensitive topics because it’s supported by official access. You don’t get the whole truth - family friendly. This gets to some nuts and bolts
Well put together, thoroughly enjoyed watching thanks man!
Thank you for making this. Every documentary and book BARELY covers 1973, my favorite year. And you covered it in detail and even included some footage I've never seen before!
Not to mention the detail on the summer of 73 wall. My dad was at 6/10/73 and always described the sound as otherworldly but I always wanted know the difference between that wall and 74.
Killer Vid... the editing is top notch... and I learned a few things too... I'm ready for more⚡
Man these two docs you made are so great 👍
Five minutes in and I already know this is a perfect video. Thank you.
This was really great. I've seen all of the produced material and this was a cut well above the pack. Respect. You did a great job. A 150 show head from the 80s. Thank you.
Absolute great documentary. Thanks so much man
Excellent. Learned some stuff or different angles that I've not been aware of before. Some bits of music and stage "banter" that I don't remember hearing before either. I did have several shows or sets on tape that I never heard in entirety or at all and this Doc. made me remember the days of tape trading.
Fun watch ….thank you! The story’s a bit scattered, but it comes off kinda reminiscent of how things must’ve felt to band in late ‘73. Would love to see some more vids as they moved into the late ‘70s on into the ‘80s. Good work!
Thank you so much for this!
This is fuckin awesome, all the footage of shows and interviews, all the little secrets, what was goin on behind the scenes. Sooooo cool man. And very well put together. Definitely gonna be on the look out for the next chapter.
this was fantastic, thank you. I hope you make more
Agree
Lsd didn’t hurt me , I loved it + did it for at least 5 years , I had a wonderful time ! ❤️🐇🌹☮️🐰😅😂👽🪐🛸🕳️🚀🥳👻☠️💀🕊️🪽🩵🧚♀️🧚🏿♂️🧚🏼😍🥰😘still here at the age of 74 until my b day on the 3 Ed !
I've enjoyed it somewhat regularly for 35 years and hopefully I can continue until I slide through the door. No problems here.🌌
It hurt A LOT of people. Don't be stupid.
and there were A LOT tht it did not hurt. what is your point? person you are calling stupid didn't say that it was all good for everyone or anything like tht, they just relayed their own personal experiences.
I believe someone said "Everyone in The World should take LSD", in the video, early on..?!
I "kind of" believe that. Unless you have any psychiatric or mental illness problems, which can be made severley worse. We knew someone this happened to. Just one dose.
We were teenagers, and learned quickly that some can "lose it", and will never come back. Not like they're living in a "flashback" (another myth..?! IDK anyone who's suddenly had a "Flashback"..?!), but it seemed to take whatever mental illness someone had, to another level. I only knew one person this happened to, but have heard similar stories.
Whatever you're going to do, take it with mitigation, and always, be safe!👍💯✌️
@@tomcarl8021Cars hurt a lot of people. But they are mostly helpful to people.
This is excellent work. Thank you DC.👍😎🕺
Thanks brother ! ❤ Awesome documentary!!
Great documentary! 1973 was such a fantastic year with incredible jams (many Dark Stars). Wish I could have heard that sound system!
I know some will disagree but that's why I'm looking forward to The Sphere. From what I've heard they've taken concert sound to the next level in that venue.
Great film - bunch of footage I've never seen before. Albert v. Owsley
This was wonderful - thank you
This is excellent. Thank you very much!
Grate Job, Cat
putting this together🐾
Fun fact: over the last month of putting this together, Jerry came by several times to offer some guidance. Didn't ask for it and wouldn't have expected it, but still humbled that he went out of his way to make time for a small-time content creator 👻❤
@@deadcoroner
Super! 🕊😇🎸
WOW! Outstanding man! Thanks 🙂
Great work!
Really Enjoyed Watching and Leaning 🌹⚡️
great work!
This is all kinds of excellent.
A very kind tip of the hat, DC Cat. Thank you. NFA
Great video!! Really enjoyedthw ride.😊
Great documentary man ✌️
Fantastic video, love to see you cover other years!
1974 will be an interesting experience...
@@deadcoronerWhen is it going to be posted? Greetings from Washington DC! 💜😇💜
Great job!
Very nice work
Awesome documentary dude thanks so much I saw them 4 x in 73 3/19 6-9-10 and 9/8 was huge impact on my life! Fav band lifelong dead head well done a fresh take w new info I never heard about the 2 Towers but knew it was early Wall Of Sound prototype! Keep on trucking do one on 77 that was fruitful year!
Bro I just found your channel. Right up my alley. Cheers. NFA...
Nice doc man
Holy crap batman. Such a joy to learn about this doc. This gives more insight into the GD that Long Strange Trip does by a mile.
Amazing mate, brilliant job 🇬🇧🇺🇲
Well done quite entertaining
Very cool, thanks a lot:)
Thanks. Most of what I knew about the Dead in 1973 was from listening to cassette bootlegs in the late 1980s. I know a lot of new songs came out then. Some of my favorite bootlegs from that period were Kezar shows and the Wisconsin show...
Thank you ☺️ done well , I really enjoyed this great to see the 70’s era
I clicked on this not knowing what it was about and loved it
This is the only decent doc on the Dead that I've seen. It actually discusses what I am interested in regarding the music. Jerry never did write his story. That would of been an amazing piece.
Well done. ❤
Love this stuff
This was so great! Have to admit, though, that I was disappointed that it skipped right over one of my favorite shows- 10/27/73 in Indianapolis. I guess that date was relatively uneventful compared to all the other craziness!
Also…OMG! Awesome footage of Jerry playing a Tele with NRPS at 45:12!! 🎸💥
Aw...I even had a piece on Indianapolis in the script (mostly touching on the organ appearing again) but cut it out in the interest of streamlining. Madison 10/25 was another show that was too good to have anything to comment on. Thanks for watching!
>>>NO STREAMLINING
@@spritelysprite Lesson learned indeed. A spot decision while cutting the voiceover
@@deadcoroner 🥳I was teasing… Excellent work. Keep rolling them out;
Fear not thine long video~~~>
Thanks for sharing. Felt like we were just getting started then it was over..
Small correction: Bear didn't create the Steal Your Face logo or Dancing (Marching) Bears, that was his friend and Dead roadie Bob Thomas. That is described by Owsley on his website.
Owlsley wanted a way to identify the bands Gear, as it kept getting stolen , Owlsley tinkered gear was the best
So he made the circle with the red/blue flash and you can see it on the older videos
Bob put the Skull around it and it became the Stealie and the Typical Dead layered meaning was always evident
The icon that was created to stop stealing, was called the Stealie and was steal your face :)
Woah ho ! what I want to know is are you KIND? (what kind ? Same or being altruistic ? or both at the exact same time ?)
And yes the Bears made thier appearance with the Album Bears Choice on the cover, by Bob
Actually, in 1955 when I was 3 years old, I had a 78 record of The Teddy Bears' Picnic that had the dancing bears on the label. At that speed, they were animated and lots of fun to look at. Like so much of the art of the time, it was repurposed.
I thought it was Space your Face lol!
@@BongDonky no ya dixie chuckwagon that's the one with the earth and the cosmos inside the skull not the bolt c'mon mang.
Awesome more please
1974 is underway...but how about a trilogy...?
This is so well put together. I feel like this period gets practically skipped over in every official documentary. You create such a smooth narrative throughout that fall tour, really painting a story out of all these shows I'm so familiar with on individual levels. Can't wait to see more of these from ya
1974 is in production!
I was at Watkins Glenn + it was so good so big plus we tented out side of the people but I had a great time ! Took a shower in the warm rain , it felt so good ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹😘🥰😍👻👽🪐🛸🕳️🚀💥⚡️☠️💀🕊️🪽🩵🧚♀️🧚🏿♂️🧚🏼😂🤣😅🥳
Someone I know claims to have been Owsley's number one guinea pig because she was able to stay alert and did not ever hallucinate. This is an excellent documentary. I lived through it and I learned a lot of new things watching it. Wow.
I had a similar experience as she said the first time I dropped. It was orange sunshine in little barrel tabs, supposed to be 4-way. I always heard orange sunshine came from Owsley, but I guess I don't know if that's true. I was instructed to take 1/4 (supposedly a heavy dose of 300 micrograms). Nothing seemed to happen for an hour or so. I took another 1/4, and still nothing. Then I took it all. Still no visuals, after another 45 minutes. I did some things, like getting on the dresser to get a closer look at the ceiling, but no moving walls/floors or trails as I expected. So I took a walk on campus and ran into my weed connection guy. He had the best herb available then (Michoacán), and rolled fatties. I told him what was going on, and he said this will help-- he fired one up.
Then the trip exploded. That's when it all began. It rainbow spiraled round and round, It trembled and explodes. It left a smoking crater of my mind, I like to blow away. Yes it did. I went out past ego dissolution, and I became one with everything I could see, and sensed connecting with all the rest.
But nothing on supposedly 1,200 mics for hours, until the herb. Then the bus showed up, and I got on.
I believe that scene from the 23 minute mark is from Festival Express. If so, it's between June 27th and July 5th, 1970.
We're the Don Quixote's of rock and roll. Cheers, great doco
Thank you so much for this. Are you going to make more?
1974 underway...possibly a trilogy...
It’s funny that ‘68, ‘71 and ‘72 are fave years of mine for a see-through sonic quality (mainly 68 & 71 for that) and a type of flow playing….AND that those are the years Owsley was away in jail. Less drama and less infighting with him not around. Big Steve has talked about the crew and the help fighting and arguing coming back when Bear came back.
I wonder why that would cause turmoil in the crew.
@@danshramo2648supposedly he came back from jail and started trying to have things his way, and the crew who had been doing ok without him while he was away resisted this. He went to the band and delivered an ultimatum that he should be in control of the sound team, and the band told him no.
I wouldn’t wonder y they had a few bad nights they were tired ! They toured all the time more than any other band ever !
Going through every show of this run in the making of this, I couldn't find one that didn't have a highlight somewhere in it. ✨
And that is an important ingredient of the Grateful Dead, every single show had even at lest one small and/or short transcending moments, even the ‘off’ nights…
7/28/73 was my 13th birthday, whished I could have attended that Concert. Born & Raised in Cuse...
I felt like I was tripping while I was watching this. Thanks for taking me away from real life for a few minutes 😁
I met the Bear in Copenhagen, Denmark during the European tour of 1990. Rode in the same compartment from Copenhagen to Amersfoort,Holland. Very interesting man
In the 1976 interview you could have put in Jerry's answer after the lonngggggg "leader" question.
That's fair. In the moment, I didn't feel Jerry's non-response added much to the narrative. But looking back, I was probably transfixed by Father Riley's flamboyance. Thank you for watching!
6:20 that bit about stp being related to ecstasy is incorrect right?
"Jerry is gone in one form, but like the magician that he is, he has explosively been transformed into a million Jerrys-one improvising in each of our hearts." - Ram Dass
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." Walter Savage Landor -- Keep on jammin' to what moves your soul !
(~);}
"Today I am made of particles, but the wave is ever present as well" - Me
Didn’t Mickey leave due to his father’s robbery of GD earnings, not because he had a heroin addiction?
The heroin allegation comes from Billy's book. Personally, I'm inclined to see both playing a role.
The narrators VOCAL FRY just kills it for me. God what a depressing voice over tone. Great research and presentation though.
I wonder what effect bear wouldve had on the silent, bluetoothed headphone concerts.
Didn't know I was a "Dead Hand"? 🙃
Dead Hands Unite! Who are you? Where are you? How are you?
Just like like Mojo Head...
@@williamwoodall1293I’m gonna call you Billy Sunday.
First I thought cool get to dive into the nuances of the Wall of Sound… 45min later bummed out with new knowledge of the Dead I really never needed to hear. Oh well give 02/15/73 a listen 🎧 to sort that out
1974 is underway...
@@deadcoronerfrom late Feb thru Oct ‘74 seemed the only off nights were nights off 🌹
I came up during the sixties. Took tons of LSD, including actual Orange Sunshine, Purple Haze, and tons of Owsley’s acid. I never saw any of the horrible effects that the science guy on Dragnet was telling about.
The iconography: Yes on the “marching”/dancing bears but it was someone else who originally drew the Steal Your Face, right? A Gary or Greg person originally, right?
Excellent example of murky and contradicting information out there. My (rough) understanding was Owsley came up with the concept and Bob Thomas drew it up, but I could be misinformed
@@deadcoroner Ah, of course! Bob Thomas, not Greg or Gary -lol! I believe it was designed after the similar-shaped skull/bolt depiction that said “Grateful Dead” instead, where the eyes/nose/teeth section is for a ‘stealie’, that was used on their road cases in earlier years. Which Owsley did design, IF I remember correctly :)
@@mkwilson38 ok lol so as it happens, if I was right, it was for the wrong reasons, because I didn't even know about that distinction. What a rabbit hole, but all the more reason to straighten some of this out for the record I think.
I thought it was Stanley Mouse
Owsley was looking through a rainy car window at a big gas station sign at a time he was trying to come up with a design to mark their equipment, to minimize confusion among multiple bands sharing space “behind the curtain”. The blurry image in the rain inspired the first iteration of the white bolt edged by red and blue sections.
That circular design was likely then further developed into the skull motif by another artist into what would be known as the Steal Your Face, “Stealie”, SYF, etc.
*Garcia would affectionately call it the ‘Smiling Jap”…
Always heard Mickey left due to his dad stealing cash from the band. He was very embarrassed. Hence the song Hes Gone was focused on Mickeys dad.
Jerry got turned onto the Persion Heroin thru Pete Townsend. Pete supposedly turned Jerry onto his connect.
There was no lab in Orinda. It was a tabletting facility. I think it was manufactured by Skully in Denver. Or maybe Richmond. Orinda was never a lab though.
Looking forward to more, I've watched this 3 times now just for the Owsley footage alone
Dragnet lying & completely misrepresenting LSD, as expected.
❤❤❤
Colors of sounds and love you. Perfect l25
Huh. Today I learned there's another way to spell "jailed"
Hilarious did they make a song about the the doorman we're out there. Are you here have you gone home.😊
Anyone know what show that PITB jam in the intro credits is from
First to correctly ID wins +1000 internets
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess fall of '73
So a tv show talking like that is insane😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Verry Interesting. But ... .
I was friends with Owsley. The last time I saw him was right before he moved to Australia. We were at a friend's wedding and Bear was up in a redwood tree tripping. BTW, he predicted climate change back in the early '80s and that's why he moved to Austrailia.
Going to be a part two?
1974 is underway.
Mickey left because his dad ripped the band off and he felt awful about it.
"You put the right chemicals in a person, and they can be different people." -Billy K
Yeah cocaine is a horrible drug to get strung out on. I was on IV opiates between 99-01, 2013-2016, and 2017-2019. That third time around I started also doing cocaine all day every day for nigh on two years. Those were the worst days of my life, and though we had many instruments, I had almost zero interest in playing music. Now I have one acoustic guitar and play every day. I get it that people want to do a little bit of blow once in a while, and that is mostly fine, but having done enough for several lifetimes, I avoid the shit.
2000-2005 here, never did IV but went through more than my share of opiates and coke (and meth...). Still have the tapes and they suck. Went through gear left and right back then. Today I have one semihollow that I intend to be cremated with. Glad you lived to tell the tale! Best regards!
@@deadcoroner You too my brother! Billy’s testimony is extremely poignant, and I’m glad to see it in this great video. Dude I never knew there was precursor to The Wall Of Sound called The Two Towers. Had no idea what this video was going to be about.
20:19 damn paul feelin gassed
no!!!
Whenever these docs talk about deadheads, they show people selling beads and wearing the uniform and saying hey myan. That's not what being a deadhead encompasses
In fairness I chose the clip because I thought he rather poignantly summed up the through-line of the audience-community experience.
@@deadcoronerfair enough man. Sincerely it’s a fantastic work you’ve done and quite unique
Wow.. where'd this come from???
The ether.
What show is the jam at the end of video from? That is peak material
I'm searching for it. Leaving this comment in case someone answers the question. Cheers
ho, ho, ho..he,he,he and a couple of tra la las...that's how we pass the daze away..in the merry ol land of oz;