Uhhh, wow.
The amazing NRPS archivist Rob Bleetstein not only responded to my query about the source for the NRPS official concert history listing that shows Garcia (guitar) and Sandy Rothman (banjo) sitting in with the New Riders on “Glendale Train”, 12/15/73 at Winterland (see also Corry). I say, he not only responded to my query, he went ahead and posted video of the thing at YouTube.
Check it out.
Thank you, Rob.
Since this is JGMF, I’ll allow myself a few Garciacentric observations.
Our Hero steps up for a little twirl from about 4:45ff, on Marmaduke’s invitation. Not that there’s any doubt about provenance, but he’s beardless, as he should be during this particular period, wearing what I can only think of as an “Atlanta” dye, similar in pattern to what he wore on 5/10/70.
This is a great little piece of evidence around Garcia’s traveling habits. One might have thought he’d stay in the southeast between the Dead’s gigs in Atlanta on 12/12 and Tampa on 12/18, but no – back home he goes. Since it seems a safe assumption that the Dead’s gear didn’t need to breathe the salt air of The City, and thus stayed in the east, Jerry doesn’t have his regular guitar, and is playing one I don’t recognize here with the New Riders – I assume it’s one of Nelson’s. Gear heads (not me!) take note.
Sociometrically, I believe this is the only known Garcia-Rothman shared stage until Thanksgiving 1986 (which wasn’t really a stage, but was a performance together in front of other people). Garcia would sit in again with the Riders a few months later, at Keystone Berkeley on 2/2/74, and as far as I know would not play live with Nelson again until the same Thanksgiving ’86 reunion.
Wow. What a world we live in. Thanks again, Rob!
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