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
Rick Eshleman - 19 year old singer guitarist in June 1970 "who has performed with Jerry Garcia, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Byrds and John Fahey" -- Tacoma News-Tribune 6/12/70.
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)
Should David Mansfield be on this list too? See here: https://www.david-mansfield.com/about, but he isn't listed at Jerrybase
ReplyDeleteBrian 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
ReplyDeleteTony Markellis.
ReplyDeletehttps://jambands.com/features/2021/05/01/twenty-years-later-tony-markellis-talks-tab/
Van Dyke Parks said he participated in some GD at studio sessions.
ReplyDeleteLinda 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?
ReplyDeleteWould Andy Narells participation in the recording of the Apocalypse Now sessions be enough for him to say he "recorded with the Grateful Dead"?
ReplyDeleteProbably, yes!
ReplyDeleteCould 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.
ReplyDeleteFascinating. 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..."
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*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.
Reading this felt like crate-digging through rock history—half myth, half magic jam session. I love these “maybe Jerry played with them” moments. It reminds me of chasing trending soundboard online.
ReplyDeleteI found this interview with one of the members of Jacobs Ladder.
ReplyDeleteMentioning "playing with the Dead near Oregon City" Any idea of which show he is referencing?
"Don McFadden, Jacob’s Ladder
I was 19 and the band all lived on a 175-acre farm near Beavercreek. We had played Bullfrog I and II and played with the Dead near Oregon City. We got word of Vortex and wanted to play. We took our bus out there and I think were the first band there. The stage wasn’t even built yet. We plugged a couple of 200-watt Marshall stacks and a PA into a stove or an outlet in a restroom. I'll never forget walking from the area where we were set up, over to the edge of a hill sloping down to the Clackamas River. As we peered over the edge, we were shocked and delighted to observe around a dozen young girls naked in and around the water. Needless to say, four guys fresh out of high school, went absolutely wild. Later we came on the main stage, about three or four in the morning. It was foggy, awesome, out in the middle of nowhere, Bob Stearn was in a semi-truck running the console. I couldn’t see him. The sound was awesome. Fifty thousand lighters lit the place up. Prime time. *(Jacob’s Ladder nearly hit the big time back in the Vortex I era. The writer implores the reader to listen to the CD of the band’s music (in mono!) included at the back of the book. Track ten, “Time and Eternity,” is the ten-minute sonic reincarnation of the festival, and features lead guitarist Frank Dardano, who turns in what has to be considered one the great rock guitar solos of all time. The writer suggests that when the reader is listening to the CD, the act should be accompanied by inhaling grass deeply or spilling jug wine. Other advice: just let go.)"
https://nestuccaspitpress.com/docs/vortexi/vortexi.pdf