Warlocks
Jerry Garcia
- electric guitar (lead), vocals
Bob Weir
- electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
Ron McKernan
- organ, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann
- drums, perc
Dana Morgan Jr.
- electric bass
Date approximate. Jesse Jarnow interviewed the guy who saw them at Menlo School in 1965, and he remembered the show firmly as happening during finals week, which would have been the third week of May. Also spoke with Connie Bonner, who is also pretty sure it happened sometime after the first Magoo's show.
The following unattributed story appears in the 30 Trips box set booklet. The two songs and updated venue info on this page are based on this account: "It was the spring of 1965 and I was a senior at Menlo School finishing term papers and getting ready for finals when a friend told me that Bob was in a
band called The Warlocks and they were playing that night at the
student union, which the school shared with Menlo College. Bob
had gone to Menlo School before transferring to Menlo Atherton.
We played “c” football together and other team members included
Matt Kelly and Tim Hovey. Bob had a bit of girth back then
and played the center line.
That night I walked over to the student union to see the band. There was no stage. They just set up right on the floor just inside and to the left of the doors. There were between 60 to 100 people there. I remember Big Boss Man
and Midnight Hour and not much else. This was their first show as
The Warlocks and just before they played at Magoo’s Pizza. I went to
the first show at Magoo’s but I got thrown out for yelling “when the
fuck are we gonna get served?” I had started having fun too
early. I went back again but they recognized me at the door. . . .and
then there was the time I proposed to my soul-mate at a show and she
said yes, but that’s another story among a gazillion. Somewhere
along the road I was asked what the secret of the Grateful Dead
was and I said it’s not a secret, it’s a heart connect. Time and the
river flowing."
