Unidentified guests on Garcia shows. Updated 12/27/2019.
LLD’s post on flute players with the GD got me thinking to the vexing question of the unidentified trumpet player on the Pure Jerry vol. 4 release (Keystone, “9/1/74”), which got me thinking to other unidentified guests on Jerry (non-GD) shows. So I figured I’d post a list and see what, if anything, turns up.
– NRPS 1970-07-07, Matrix, SF: “Bev” partners with Nelson for the vocals on “Long Black Veil.” Corry: “I have been thinking about the guest vocalist on “Long Black Veil.” My initial nominee would be Beverly Bivens, former lead singer of the group We Five (who hit it big in ’65 with Sylvia Tyson’s “You Were On My Mind”). The We Five are generally lumped with The Mamas And The Papas and those sorts of groups, but the band members were well connected to the Fillmore/Avalon bands. Bivens had left the We Five in 1967, despite their success, due to management issues. She had married bassist Fred Marshall in 1966, and she largely stepped away from professional music after 1967.”
– JGMS 1972-12-28, Lion’s Share, San Anselmo: trumpet (check which songs). Dave Tamarkin remembers this as a “trumpet player who just walked up out of the crowd.”
– JGMS 1973-07-05, Lion’s Share, San Anselmo: trumpet player for set II. DNC user “sl halper” says this: “The trumpet player is almost certainly the same guy who’s on Pure Jerry 4; he pulls out all the same quotes and is especially heavy with his attempts to play John Coltrane’s Resolution over the jam on d3t2 [Merl’s Tune].”
– JGMS 1973-07-19, Great American Music Hall: harmonica player.
– JGMS 1973-10-02, Winterland, SF: trumpet player. Wolfgang’s Vault says this is Bill Atwood, based on a suggestion by Corry Arnold. Bill Atwood chimes in in comments noting that Joe Ellis did the fall ’73 GD tour trumpet playing (with Martin Fierro on sax), and suggests that this might be Ellis.
– JGMS 1974-02-05, Great American Music Hall: commenter extraordinaire runonguinness says in comments that there might be a second saxophonist, especially audible last three minutes of “My Funny Valentine”. I need to revisit.
– JGMS 1974-02-16, Keystone, Berkeley: conga player (I guess Armando Peraza) and second guitarist.
– JGMS 1974-07-12, Keystone, Berkeley: guitar player. David Grisman shows up on mandolin and Martin is absent, so the lineup is definitely funky this night. Also on the bill is Locomotiv G.T., about which I know nothing, but which could of course have supplied the guest. I also wonder about Paul Pena, who was on the bill a lot during this period. Corry doubts either of these possibilities, suggesting it might be someone close to Grisman, possibly David Nichtern.
– JGMS 1974-08-15, Great American Music Hall: trumpet player
– JGMS “1974-09-01” (really 1974-08-28) Keystone, Berkeley: trumpet player. The Pure Jerry release (#4) is a composite of more than one show. The trumpet player is only partly unidentified, as I understand that his first name was Michael.
– JGMS 1974-09-02, Golden Gate Park: second horn player, maybe Snooky Flowers?
– JGMS 1974-10-27, Golden Bear, Huntington Beach: circulating tapes list the guests as Ringo and Maria Muldaur. I only know of one Ringo, but have no idea if this is him. Need to revisit.
– JGMS 1974-12-28, Golden Bear, Huntington Beach: attendee RD comments that a trumpeter blew some at the end of “Freedom Jazz Dance”. Need to check tape.
– JGB 1977-01-29, 1977-01-30, Keystone, Berkeley: there is a rhythm guitar player. I now know who this was, but am saving it for the book.
– JGB 1977-04-09, Keystone Palo Alto: again, a second guitarist. As with 1/29 and 1/30.
– Reconstruction 1979-01-30, Keystone, Berkeley: female vocal accompanist on “Do I Move You?”
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