Jerry Garcia
- electric guitar
Jerry Slick
- drums
Bill Kreutzmann
- drums
Darby Slick
- electric guitar
Peter Albin
(?)
- electric bass
Notes
We used to hold this as 12/10/65, but Ross Hannan helpfully suggests this event instead. Ross: the description from Darby Slick better suits the first Mime Troupe Benefit (Appeal 1) which was held on 19651106 (a Saturday) when the Calliope Warehouse Loft at 924 Howard Street, San Francisco hosted Jefferson Airplane, Fugs, Sandy Bull, John Handy Quintet, The Committee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeanne Brechan, Jim Smith, Ullett & Hendra, The Family Dog, Sam Hanks, Mystery Trend, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg. The performers listed on the handbill concludes with '& Others Who Care'. Perhaps the local folk-rock crowd cared? The Mystery Trend played without prior announcement. The loft was rented by the SF Mime Troupe at the time. The price of admission was what you could afford to pay. In an interview in the SF Examiner (19820207) Paul Kantner notes of this show: 'Benefits arose out of natural needs in the area … if one of your friends got busted, for instance. One of the first benefits the Airplane did was for the SF Mime Troupe, down around Mission or Howard in a loft actually Calliope Warehouse which got so crowded, the people spilled out in to the streets.'"