Jerry Garcia
04/14/1964
Unknown location (possibly Dana Morgan's music store?).
Banjo lesson with an unknown student.
Unknown person (possibly student) records the lesson.
source; audience mic to reel to reel recording by unknown student > ? >
7 1/2 ips reel > Matt Smith (Akai GX-625 > Apogee Mini Me (24/96) >
Apogee Mini Dac (monitoring/mastering > Wavelab 5.0 (dithered to
20/44)) > CD
CD > EAC (tracking and mastering) > CD ( 47:20 ) by Ihor Slabicky
01. Jerry Garcia: "...Reno, I think, does it down here..." > tune 1 (2:01)
02. unk.: "...there's something that you did ... on Joni's song..." > tune 2 (3:28)
03. unk.: "...would you do that thing for..." > tune 3 (0:40)
04. tune 4 > tuning (1:06)
05. tune 5 > Jerry Garcia: "I'm still working on that..." (1:00)
06. tune 6 > Jerry Garcia: "I really like the tune. it's a pretty tune, but I can't, I could never
play it right..." (1:00)
07. tune 7 (0:47)
08. unk.: "any pedal steel stuff, you know, like the..." > tune 8 (1:51)
09. tune 9 (1:40)
10. tune 10 (3:18)
11. tune 11 > Jerry Garcia: "...no, a guy's just taping some stuff. You wanna open the door, go
ahead..." (1:55)
12. tune 12 (0:57)
13. unk.: "Would you show me that break with that phrase in there? > tune 13 (1:50)
14. tune 14 (2:58)
15. Jerry Garcia: "Well, whatta you want me to put on there?" unk.: "...'Red Wing', for one..."
Jerry Garcia: "...I can't really play that..." > "Red Wing" (tune 15) (2:46)
16. Jerry Garcia: "...you know, I haven't listened to ahh, much Reno..." > tune 16 (1:03)
17. unk.: "...about a month ago...you showed me something that..." > tune 17 (x) (1:24)
18. (x) tune 18 (1:42)
19. tune 19 > Jerry Garcia: "That's a pretty tune." (1:25)
20. tuning > unk.: "'Rawhide'?" Jerry Garcia: "...I haven't really got anything much more to talk
about. I'm not too happy with the way I play it. If you really want it that badly." unk.: "Yes,
yes I do." > tuning (1:03)
21. "Rawhide" (1:35)
22. unk.: "...would you mind breaking down the first chord run on the D?" Jerry Garcia: "...uh-uh, I
ain't gonna break that...you're gonna havta figger it out yourself..." ? tune 22 >
Jerry Garcia: "there's a zillion things you can do with that. I mean, it's got so many good
possibilities... odd chords, you know." (1:21)
23. tune 23 (2:03)
24. tune 24 (3:07)
25. unk.: "How about 'Stoney Creek'?" Jerry Garcia: "(sigh) okay-ah... that's in A, usually." >
tuning > "Stony Creek" (2:02)
26. Jerry Garcia: "...it's sort of a hard song to organize. I, ahh..." > "Stoney Creek" (1:12)
27. "Stoney Creek" workup (0:56)
28. tune 28 > Jerry Garcia: "By the way, why doncha play alotta that stuff back. I wanna hear what
it sounds like." unk.: "(laughs)" Jerry Garcia: "Really. No kidding (x)" (1:23)