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60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead on the final night of the knockoff non-prankster trips festival, an owsley recording, with the 1st of the dead jamming with other musicians, jorma kaukonen & jack casady of the jefferson airplane. tracks 10-14: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-

Ukrainian hackers disrupted a closed-door meeting at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and made a recording.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/74379

Hackers Breach Russian Ministry Call, Reveal China Supplies ‘90%’ of Drone Electronics
A recording of the meeting, published by Ukrainian prankster Yevgen Volnov, captures officials discussing supply chains for unmanned aerial vehicles.

60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at a non-prankster trips festival knockoff at san francisco’s longshoreman’s hall, their 1st gig since returning from LA. 23 minutes worth from a nice-sounding owsley tape, tracks 4 & 5: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-XX.sbd.GEMS.81…

The Worst Car Hire Service
When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck
as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up
shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California.
He put on a cap and looked forward to watching people's faces as he
conducted them round the choice of bumperless, dented junkmobiles.
To his lasting surprise there was an insatiable demand for them and
he now has 26 thriving bra…

Well that was a fun day yesterday, what with all the April fools pranks and all.
Welp - everything's back to normal now and everything on the internet is true again.
#AprilFools

60 years ago yesterday, the watts acid test, one of the more unhinged events of the dead’s era with the merry pranksters & the night the electric kool-aid got its name, a story well-told elsewhere. weird vibes & one of the most acid test-y of the acid test tapes, 15 hard-tripping minutes & not much music, tracks 6-9: https://

60 years ago today in #LosAngeles, the little-documented northridge acid test at the cool onion-dome valley unitarian universalist church with the merry pranksters & the grateful dead. a tape fragment in the dead’s vault is labeled “2/6/66,” but REALLY doesn’t sound like an acid test:

60 years ago tonight (maybe), 14 minutes of early grateful dead at the matrix from a badly dated owsley reel, their last show before the band follow the merry pranksters to LA, during which they have the plug pulled on them by management. tracks 15-18: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-