SOVIET AMERICAN PEACE WALK CONCERT / JERRY GARCIA and FRIENDS

Such a great and special show. Steve Kimock in particular, killed that day, as did everyone else, including Mickey Hart. Grace Slick and Paul Kantner were a welcome surprise as well.

This seems to be a different angle copy than the ones on YT. Nice find.

Garcia, what a commie. 

Komissar Trips

After this show we headed to the Greek for a Rex Benefit Dead show. Alexandr Gradsky, a Russian rock musician, played acoustic guitar and sang between Dead's sets.

These hippie bandshell shows were the shit. Not very common, but not uncommon either at that time -- mostly Dinosaurs / Zero / KBC variety. Very low key. Not heavily advertised. Mostly locals and thee homeless digging on the free entertainment. Sometimes on the chilly, foggy side.

Always funny seeing the unsuspecting civilian tourists react to all the freaks (the bandshell is between Art museum and Science museum in GG Park).

>Grace Slick and Paul Kantner were a welcome surprise as well.<

Greg Gaar 

Jerry was a Russian asset!!!

J/k too easy to resist

That was indeed a great day!

Lower right, you can see Kimock in the cap, sitting/kneeling. I remember John Barlow was there as well.

He was definitely some sort of double agent.

"Just look at his name, maaaaaaaan.....GarCIA."

   I was sorry to have missed these bandshell shows. They looked like a blast.

Fun fact: The Grateful Dead played the band shell (i.e, Music Concourse) at least twice in 1966 and twice in 67. It took Jerry a while to come back there.

The text of the newspaper clip says

Once again tomorrow, from 1 to 3 p.m., another in The Examiner’s summer-long free jazz-rock concerts will be held in the band concourse at Golden Gate Park.

Featured band will be the famous Warner Brothers’ recording stars the Grateful Dead, acclaimed as one of the foremost groups in the hard blues-rock tradition known around the world as the “San Francisco Sound.”

Joining with the Dead will be the Mt. Rushmore group, among the strongest of the newcomers on the local rock-concert scene and recent participants on another peak, Mount Tamalpais.
Be our guests: bring the kids, a picnic lunch, and enjoy your park, and your music.

Joining The Examiner as sponsors are the San Francisco Youth Association and the Recreation and Park Department.”
(from the S.F. Examiner, July 5, 1967)

unknown spectator: "Mid-day, midweek gig with Dead at Band Shell in Golden Gate Park Just Grateful Dead and Mount Rushmore. Virtually no audience. I was blown away by their set. I walked up to Bill afterwards and said something like, “That was amazing!”. He replied, “Yeah. Not too bad for jackin’ off.”

^ 54 years ago today, I reckon

I'm pretty sure I was the Greek show with the Russian gent playing between sets. Man, I enjoyed those times. (I wasn't at the music in the Park.)

LOL Localmonk!

Thanks for posting this topic, it brings back a lot of great memories. I was fortunate enough to catch the Peace Show and it was fun afternoon and it was really a bonus to what would become my first real immersion in the California GD.  Having previously traveled as far as CO to see the Dead. I had a good buddy doing a summer program at Berkeley and he offered up his dorm room for the summer.  

I flew into SF a couple of days after the Oxford Maine shows and headed to Berkley and I was like a kid in a candy store.   I was able to catch JG Acoustic at Frost which was really special and a few days later catch JGB at the Greek with solo Brent and Bobby, followed by the GD at the Greek and then Laguna Seca.  For an East Coast kid, this was the summer of a lifetime.  

I went back East after Laguna Seca then went to Europe to study missing my first Fall Dead shows in 7 years.  So my California trip had to hold me till  Spring.   Of course, I missed the Ripple at Landover.  

I was there with a bunch of freaks ,baught an auctioned signed t shirt, J garcia, you can hear my "chordle"

very distinctfully on th you tube "think" video, just as they're kickin in! fun times indeed, got a flat tire on the bay bridge on the way to the greeks, fuckin rental car, spare was flat too, hertz gave me a free upgrade and got us to the shoe in time

sounds a bit distorted on the vimio clip, here's the youtube version https://youtu.be/UU5kk9dS1cI

Bill Sommers?