Kevin The Questing Beast connection comes because of Owsley who had installed the "sound system" there. Rumours of the Dead practicing at the QB are probably urban myth - and I am told that by folks involved at the time who have no recollection of the Dead being there at all. Regardless if this it would all have ended when the Dead abruptly decamped to Los Angeles with their patron, Owsley. There may have been a Grateful Dead show scheduled at the Questing Beast for Friday (February 11) which was cancelled as well, but I have never found any advertising for this at all and the QB did do plenty of advertising. A Grateful Dead tape circulates as "Questing Beast Rehearsal February 11, 1966" but both the date and venue are spurious. The Saint James Five played the Beast on Thursday February 10 and again the following night (with The Disassociates). Supposedly, the Grateful Dead were using The Questing Beast as a rehearsal hall at this time.
My co-conspirator and I have a number of blogs - one of which deals with Berkeley odds and ends and one with lost live Dead shows. These may be of intereste: http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/ http://berkeleyfolk.blogspot.com/ Regards Ross ______________________________________ Ross Hannan Sigma Associates (Aerospace) Limited "Ringolevio"1A Westward Road Wokingham Berkshire RG41 3HU England Tel: +44-118-978-0826 Cellphone: +44-788-074-6650 E-mail: ross_han...@btinternet.com ______________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: kevin [mailto:ke...@shallwego.net] Sent: 01 October 2009 11:39 To: ross_han...@btinternet.com; deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: 2/10/66 Thanks - the date itself is provided only per deadbase and as a canceled show to boot, so we can't even verify where it was intended in the first place. Ie, why Questing Beast? It certainly wasn't the only venue at that time. -----Original Message----- From: owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu [mailto:owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Hannan Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:23 AM To: deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU; te...@goodbear.com Subject: 2/10/66 The Cabale had long closed by February 1966 - the venue at that time being The Questing Beast. The Cabale, at 2504 San Pablo Avenue (at Dwight), was a folk club founded in late 1962 by Rolf Cahn <[1]http://folk.uio.no/alfs/rolfcahn.html> and Debbie Green (two Cambridge, MA folkies) along with Howard Zeem and Red Dog <[2]http://www.reddogenterprises.com/> alum Chandler A. Laughlin III (later known as Travus T. Hipp). It opened on January 4, 1963 and ran until mid-1965, when the folk action moved to the Jabberwock <[3]http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Jabberwock%20History.htm> . Somewhere along the way Carroll Peery, manager of the Chambers Brothers and Big Mama Thornton, happened to acquire a majority interest in the Cabale. Jesse Cahn <[4]http://www.jessecahn.com/> , son of Cabale founder Rolf and folksinger Barbara Dane <[5]http://www.barbaradane.net/> , recalls "I was the one who cleaned the johns and swept up and practically lived there until 1965 ...". Jesse went on to play with Tongue & Groove (with Lynne Hughes and Michael Ferguson) and the Chambers Brothers. After some time on the East Coast he returned to manage the Jabberwock for Bill "Jolly Blue" Ehlert when he moved across to San Francisco to run the Matrix. The name of the venue was changed to the Cabale Creamery in August of 1964. As a side issue, the one time notoriety of the Cabale/Cabale Creamery coffee house led the local vice squad and FBI to ban the licensing of any business under the name "Cabale" in the future. However, Chan Laughlin (Travus T Hipp) still retains Cabale News Service as his business cover. His broadcasts can be found on kpig.com. The 2504 San Pablo location later became home to the Caverns West, The Good Buddyy, Questing Beast, Tito's and the Longbranch. Ross ______________________________________ Ross Hannan "Ringolevio" 1A Westward Road Wokingham Berkshire RG41 3HU England Tel: +44-118-978-0826 Cellphone +44-788-074-6650 E-mail: ross_han...@btinternet.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4473 (20091001) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4473 (20091001) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
