Today I discovered, that a studio demo collection of The Grateful Dead from 1965 contained a cover of “In The Early Morning Rain”. This one is certainly rather modeled on the version by Ian and Sylvia rather then on Gordon’s own version and is in the typical Southern Folk Rock style of early Grateful Dead.
Since I don’t think that this ever was officially published I feel ok with making it available as an MP3 file. It is at the moment at my home page, and – since the bandwidth is limited and the server is in Australia - I request that this initially only gets accessed by people who intend to host this file at a more viable web location and announce the mirror location here as soon as they got it up and running. If there is a big rush on it straight away, nobody might get it.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/gunterw/G..._Rain_Demo.mp3

Does anybody know anything more about this version ?

Here is the text of the info file that came with this small collection :

Grateful Dead
Golden Gate Studios
San Francisco, California
1965-11-03

Autumn Records Demo, The Warlocks

Disk 1 [18:05]
01. [03:05] Can't Come Down
02. [02:42] Mindbender
03. [02:52] The Only Time Is Now
04. [03:21] Caution//
05. [02:42] I Know You Rider
06. [03:21] Early Morning Rain

It has been officially released both on the Birth Of The Dead release, as well as the Golden Road boxed set.

Jeff

ok, Jeff, thank you !
if this is officially available, I'll take this full version down for now, maybe replacing it with a one minute sample, to give everybody an idea.
Gunter

actually, I just replaced the full version with the sample, so that the above link still works.

so interesting when these artists release these box sets and you get all these suprises.you hardly hear any GD prior to 1070 on the radio and they didn't even release there 1st album till 1967.

Wow! Still getting over it...
Kimberly