Recent searches
Search options
50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & #MerlSaunders at the lion’s share in san anselmo, warming up for their live album sessions, plus a mystery trumpet player. released in its entirety as “garcialive, vol. 6”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEhcg0tDjI&list=PLIJmYQvaDU3Fdwn95vwNVB2nEPxk5ExRT
@FateMusic details the show & attempts to identify the trumpet player: http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/06/ln-jg1973-07-05jgmsallsbd.html [1/3]
7/5/73 lion’s share: 1st circulating versions of 3 more songs that will be recorded for live LP later in week: lightnin’ hopkins’s SOMEDAY BABY (in rotation until ’90), saunders & kahn’s FINDERS KEEPERS (knocked off from the meters for those recording royalties?), & rodgers/hart’s MY FUNNY VALENTINE (garcia heading further into the jazz book), the last 2 both big additions. last THE SYSTEM (& only known one where saunders sings). deep SHE’S GOT CHARISMA, long free disassembly. [2/3]
michael (no known last name) joins on trumpet for whole 2nd set. little shaky in places, but vaguely electric miles-ish when band is vibed enough. 26-minute MERL’S TUNE wanders down to nothingness & (as trumpet noodles) clicks back to somethingness, band kicking into groove. tape runs out as band still seems to be jamming, so it might actually be a proper segue into the night-closing HOW SWEET IT IS. #garciafreaksunite #jg070573 [3/3]
@bourgwick At some point years ago @FateMusic and I (and others) went around and around on various suspects for the trumpet player, rejected them all