Monday, November 25, 2024

Stray "played with Jerry Garcias" (name but no date)

Here are people who are said to have played with Jerry who remain un-pinned down in Jerrybase because we don't have enough data specificity. Add more in comments!

Randy Bachman: "he played his fingers raw with Jerry Garcia, Leslie West and Delaney Bramlett" on the Festival Express (xxx citation)

Byron Berline: OAITW, ca. summer 1973 - likely backstage at Whipoorwill Festival in Warrenton, VA. I estimate that Berline and Garcia did not play together. Berline played with "Old And In The Way", which was Grisman, Rowan, Vassar to him. As far as I can recall, there's no evidence of Garcia picking around the grounds or backstage at this festival. I think he coptered up to DC for the Dead shows. Again, none of this is certain to me.

Frank Dardano of Jacob's Ladder (Portland, Oregon) - before March 1972: "We had a chance to jam with the Dead's Jerry Garcia. He's down to earth and not weird or anything. He even showed me how to work out some things on my guitar." -- Sunday Oregonian, 3/5/72

Luis Gasca. I imagine this was at the 9/22/72 United Farmworkers' Benefit.

Donny (or Danny?) Hanna: Orlando based rock guitarist and bassist, bands Power and New Days Ahead. "Hanna has played with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead" (McAleenan 1972).

Andy Narell: steel drum player, supposedly played with GD

Bernard Purdie: JGMS Bottom Line 1974, via Big Steve who recalled Kreutzmann drumming. That's not quite right. I actually know about this now and will write about it in Fate Music.

Ike Stubblefield: JGB 1970s

Ross Valory (phantom)

Linda Waterfall (Seattle folk soloist) "has shared a stage with ... Jerry Garcia"  -- Daily Astorian, 10/10/82 p 7

Carl Woideck - Eugene area saxophonist (Register-Guard, 3/29/84 p. 6D)


9 comments:

  1. Should David Mansfield be on this list too? See here: https://www.david-mansfield.com/about, but he isn't listed at Jerrybase

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  2. Brian Price, supposedly played fiddle with early OAITW. Moved to Oregon. https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/musician-silenced-by-hand-disorder-recalls-career-spanning-decades/article_c30920cb-182c-5601-85ad-a1b95a57d1e9.html

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  3. Tony Markellis.
    https://jambands.com/features/2021/05/01/twenty-years-later-tony-markellis-talks-tab/

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  4. Van Dyke Parks said he participated in some GD at studio sessions.

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  5. Linda Waterfall in not just a folk singer. She also played in country rock and funk bands. The Skyboys and Entrophy Service. Played many instruments not just guitar and keys. I have never listened to July 6 1979 Reconstruction. The date she opened. Any chance sat in unnoticed?

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  6. Would Andy Narells participation in the recording of the Apocalypse Now sessions be enough for him to say he "recorded with the Grateful Dead"?

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  7. Could Carl Woideck be the mystery Tenor Sax player on the August 3 1969 Family Dog tape? The Carl lived in the Bay area between 1968 and 1971.

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    1. Fascinating. His bio here says "In the 1960s-'70s he lived in Berkeley, performing with modern rock groups including members of the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead..."
      https://theshedd.org/divp/series.aspx?artist=4584&series=6321&event=6422

      *Members of* the Grateful Dead makes me think more like a jam session with Garcia, but maybe...? Woideck was born in 1947, so he was the same age as Weir. But unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have recorded much at all: I can only find a couple large ensemble performances with Anthony Braxton (!) from 1989.

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