This mix isolates astounding material from a jam session featuring Garcia, Weir, Kaukonen, Casady, Kreutzman, and Hart. The music circulates as an audience recording along with the rest of the Dead’s show that night.
(Late-breaking scholarly adjustment! Casady is not present. All bass is Phill Lesh.)
Thanks to Jesse Jarnow for passing on his massive enthusiasm for this performance, which was unknown to me. I'm crazy about "Jam 3," which is very 1968-1969 Mothers of Invention at the start and gets very 1968-1969 Velvet Underground at later points.
33-minute mp3 mix zipped up here
- Cartoon Music (1:12)
- Bluegrass Jam (1:26)
- Jam 1 > (11:36)
- Darling Corey > (5:04)
- Jam 2 (2:56)
- Jam 3 (11:08)
Editing notes:
- I cleaned up starting and ending points where you don’t see “>.” Some tracks just cut/faded, in or out, on the source tape.
- I combined two segments titled “Tuning” into “Cartoon Music.” The Dead spent a lot of rehearsal time in September, 1969 exploring cartoon themes and scheming to unleash them on live audiences. Save Your Face mix here. This show is the first place I’ve noticed them actually playing them on stage. Can you point me at others?