AUGUST-WEST420 | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | 2:43 pm

Hey now gmgw, You know how picky heads are about show info,but you shouldn't be so huffy about it,especially when you are wrong also.The first trip outside the US was a three night run not two.Check Deadbase.I'm mean no disrespect,just keeping you on your toes.May peace & love be upon you,brother,and thanx to the vault for al this wonderful music even if the facts aren't exactly facts.LOL! :) :) :)

texaco | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 5:24 pm

HI Since you seem good handle on that time frame, could you help me remember a concert I attended on New Years Eve at the Avalon Ballroom. Yea, I know, if you can remember the 60's you weren't there, but I'd like to know when this was. Moby Grape was there, and I think Janis and Big Brother and the Airplane, maybe the Dead too. Great light show. The Hell's Angles ran the baby sitting service. Could it have been 65 66 or 67? Thanks Duane Carling ctm913@hotmail.com 801 725 7664 cell

B. Childs | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 12:14 pm

You know, I have nothing but accolades for you for keeping everything historically correct! That's awesome! In addition, I want to praise Wolfgang's Vault for making this available to my musically and historically astute ears! Thanks to everyone who KNOWS this is FANTASTIC to LISTEN TO!!!!!!!! B.Childs

tommytoo | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 7:41 am

Great sunday morning surprise in my e-mail. Thanks for this little tidbit.

halfaday | Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 8:07 am

hey now,, thank you for the info,, wish i seen them back in the day,, before thy got so big,,i got on the bus, in 1979, an been on ever since,, big hug for the info,,

Upstreamprovider | Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 3:57 am

Hehe, GMGW, you tell 'em! It's such affection from afficionados that makes life worth living!

gmgw | Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 2:04 am

Sorry, Unknown Annotator, but someone hasn't done his/her homework. As a couple of minutes' research online would have told you, the Dead's O'Keefe gig was *not* their first outside the US of A. That took place in Vancouver BC, where the Dead played their for-real first out-of-the-country gig, a two-nighter in July of 1966, at that city's semi-legendary Trips Festival. Big Brother, Quicksilver, and Michael McClure were also on the bill, and the Pranksters were in attendance. A poster for that gig is viewable in the Dead archives on Dead.net. Tapes of the gig have long been in circulation and in fact Dead.net has a "Viola Lee" from the gig currently posted in their "Tapers Section". The Dead played again in Vancouver a year later, in July of '67; they played two nights at a club called Dante's Inferno (soon to become the much-better-known Retinal Circus), preceded by an all-ages concert in a small indoor stadium with terrible acoustics, the Agrodome, in the city's east end. Your Humble Correspondent, being too young to get into the 18-and-over Dante's, was in attendance and can report that an absolutely shattering "Viola Lee" ended the festivities that night, preceded by much else. If anyone has a tape of that gig, please get it out there; I've been looking for one for years. The "Viola Lee" from the other O'Keefe gig posted here, having been recorded only a month after that second Vancouver gig, is as close to that performance as any I've heard. In case you haven't guessed, the search for the perfect "Viola Lee" has become a sort of Grailish quest for me... The Dead were also scheduled to play a free outdoor gig in a Vancouver park on that visit; they were there and so was their equipment, but the cops shut it down. I was one of the terribly disappointed throng. Incidentally, the gorgeous poster for the 1967 club/concert gig, done by Vancouver artist Bob Masse, has become extremely collectable and can be viewed on Masse's website at bmasse.com. Oh, and just in case you were including the Airplane in that first-time-out-of-the-country equation, be advised that JA played Vancouver at least three times prior to the O'Keefe gig; in (I think) January and (for sure) November of 1966, and again in May of "67 (when I finally saw them). Details available upon request. Love what you do, folks, and many thanks, but please don't skimp on the fact-checking next time, OK?