The Two Towers (Documentary) 

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.

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.

Me too!

Indeed. Lesh's book was criminally light on the 70s as well.

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.

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.

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

Agree

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.

1974 is in production!

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! 🕊😇🎸

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.

1974 will be an interesting experience...

​@@deadcoronerWhen is it going to be posted? Greetings from Washington DC! 💜😇💜

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…

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.

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~~~>

1974 is underway...but how about a trilogy...?

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.

1974 underway...possibly a trilogy...

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!

1974 is underway...

@@deadcoronerfrom late Feb thru Oct ‘74 seemed the only off nights were nights off 🌹

The heroin allegation comes from Billy's book. Personally, I'm inclined to see both playing a role.

Dead Hands Unite! Who are you? Where are you? How are you?

Just like like Mojo Head...

@@williamwoodall1293I’m gonna call you Billy Sunday.

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.

1966

​@@jvaish 6-6-66

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

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”…

The footage of them from Watkins Glen was the first I'd come across. 🎳

You are so cool

°•°•°•°•°••° dancing 🐻 °•°•°•°•°

You sound like cocaine in a nutshell.