tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post7857831688082182565..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: Cat in the Limelight: RN Grosswald and Blavat 1978Fate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-77485925925974420202010-11-08T13:20:13.114-07:002010-11-08T13:20:13.114-07:00Three post rule, but anyway: I think the maracas (...Three post rule, but anyway: I think the maracas (and occasional cowbell in Favela and Boogie on Reggae Woman) are played by Martin Fierro when he is not blowing. Occam's Razor and all that.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-5397182549162788702010-11-08T10:37:43.768-07:002010-11-08T10:37:43.768-07:00By the way, you seem to like these reading notes. ...By the way, you seem to like these reading notes. I should post more of these, huh?Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-88251198898318516322010-11-08T10:22:55.578-07:002010-11-08T10:22:55.578-07:00I haven't listened to it all the way through y...I haven't listened to it all the way through yet, but into Tough Mama no congas, just a maraca or one of those twisty little grinder thingies during "Valdez In The Country", not for very long.<br /><br />Yeah, I have seen a <a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2009/11/jgms-bo-jangles-sf-february-11-1972.html" rel="nofollow">reference to Peraza from early '72</a>, and I <a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2009/12/garcias-unidentified-guests.html" rel="nofollow">suppose it's him on 2/16/74 on congas</a>, as well. So he was around a bit. But this maraca or whatever could have been just about anybody, I'd guess. Hell, it could have been an audience member!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-77650754010682018752010-11-08T10:08:49.279-07:002010-11-08T10:08:49.279-07:00Well, I suspect Kahn's comment that "most...Well, I suspect Kahn's comment that "most of the time" 5 or 6 people would join in is selective memory. Nonetheless, I do take it to mean that others were known to participate. I assume that many of those participating were people who turned up later, like Martin Fierro and Tom Fogerty, but it's still interesting.<br /><br />The most likely candidate for a 1974 conguero would be Armando Peraza. Besides being the best conga player on the West Coast, and a North Beach regular, Peraza was part of a Latin/jazz/rock crowd that hung out and jammed, with trumpeter Luis Gasca as the centerpiece. Garcia was apparently part of that crowd too, during the 70-72 period.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-56700923689533537532010-11-08T06:19:24.782-07:002010-11-08T06:19:24.782-07:00I am a little dubious that there were five or six ...I am a little dubious that there were five or six people "most of the time" at the Matrix, but in the absence of some trove of tapes emerging we are unlikely ever to know.<br /><br />I will say that the <a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/11/jgms-november-2-1974-keystone-berkeley.html" rel="nofollow">Nov. 2, 1974 JGMS show</a> -- much later and presumably less fluid than the Matrix days, I know -- has a Latin-type percussion player stepping out a time or two. FWIW.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-40849569666522484442010-11-07T22:13:50.003-07:002010-11-07T22:13:50.003-07:00Another fascinating detail regards John Kahn going...Another fascinating detail regards John Kahn going on tour with Maria Muldaur, which I don't believe he had done previously. Do we have any idea who was in Maria's band in 1978? Of course, I am hoping it features John Rich and Tim Hensley, but that's just me.<br /><br />It would also suggest that John Kahn was directing two bands (JGB and MM) during this period, an interesting detail in its own right.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-19428503287916944352010-11-07T20:35:41.802-07:002010-11-07T20:35:41.802-07:00"...Jerry was with organ player Howard Wales,..."...Jerry was with organ player Howard Wales, myself, and Bill Vitt, and I’ve been playing with Jerry ever since. The jamming went on for years; most of the time five or six people would join in.’”<br /><br />This is the most intriguing remark, of many. This suggests that a lot more people than just Garcia/Kahn/Vitt/organist (Wales>Saunders) played, even if each only once.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.com