The Menlo School for Boys, at 50 Valparaiso Street in Atherton, had been
formed in 1924, taking over a Military Academy on the same site.
In
1927, the Menlo School for Boys also formed Menlo College, which was a
sort of junior college that prepared students to go straight into the
upper division. Menlo College was and still is located at 1000 El Camino
Real in Atherton.(1)
9/65 Warlocks
"My source had one other, peculiar, unique memory about the Warlocks
playing Menlo College. She and a friend had the duty of writing down the
lyrics to songs that the band wanted to learn, many of them Rolling
Stones songs. One thing she recalled about the Menlo gig was that the
band had learned the Rolling Stones song "Off The Hook" (released in
the US in February 1965 on the album The Rolling Stones Now). My
source had carefully explained to Jerry Garcia that when Mick Jagger
sang the lyrics "it's off the hook, " Jagger had mimed holding a
telephone to his ear. Whether she knew that from having seen the Stones,
or from some television appearance isn't quite clear.
Nonetheless, my source recalled Jerry not only singing "It's Off The
Hook," but miming the telephone bit. He even smiled at her when he did
it, to show he'd learned his part. How often the Warlocks played "Off
The Hook" after that remains unknown, and I doubt Jerry mimed the phone
much. But he did it once, at least."(1)
"It was in some sort of dining hall or "rec room," and that numerous
tables had to be pushed against a wall to allow everybody to dance. Her
memory was that the purpose of the show was probably to encourage Menlo
College students to recommend The Warlocks for paying gigs at school
dances."(2)
1.)^Arnold, Corry, Lost Live Dead, Menlo College, 2011-09-29, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-1965-dining-hall-menlo.html
2.)^Arnold, Corry, Lost Live Dead, Summer 1965, 2011-09-16, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-1965-top-of-tangent-117.html
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