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Jerry on banjo with the Dead?

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Jerry on banjo with the Dead?

 #43085  by ker1227
 
Did jerry every play live on banjo with the dead. Or with the dead at all other that workingmans dead?

 #43086  by CountryMile Cadillac
 
It's been a couple decades since I listened to the Dark Star on "What a Long Strange Trip...", but it seems I recall the last bars of that version have a faint Banjo on them. But then again a couple of decades ago I had a lot of things in my mind that really weren't there...

 #43087  by ebick
 
CountryMile Cadillac wrote:the Dark Star on "What a Long Strange Trip...", but it seems I recall the last bars of that version have a faint Banjo on them.
That is correct. I don't know for sure that that if Jer, but one would have to assume so. I am not aware of any other banjo stuff with the Dead.

 #43088  by bodiddley
 
I always wished he would have done this. I use to say this to friends all the time at shows. Woulda been cool.

 #43150  by wisedyes
 
Don't know if he played any of them live, but if you can find the rehearsal tapes from March 1987 with Dylan, there are some songs he plays banjo on.

 #43151  by Tennessee Jedi
 
The "banjo" on the DarkStar was a banjo lesson Jerry recorded for a student.
I read some where that he "threw it in there" as a joke.
:cool:

 #43196  by Banjomike0319
 
Can you guy's provide any links for these, I'm a huge Jerry banjo fan if you can't tell and have been looking all over for this.

Let me know, thanks..

Banjomike0319

 #43231  by Pete B.
 
I played banjo in the late 70's - early 80's for a few years. A friend had left one at my place and didn't come back to pick it up for like 4 years.
I was mostly into OAITW and typical BlueGrass tunes, Foggy Mt, RockyTop, FOTD, etc.
I picked up some chromatics, your basic banjo rolls, and played out at some jams and even a few gigs, but never really got better than an advanced beginner.
I see them on Craigslist fairly often and have been thinking of picking one up, mainly to keep my Jerry vibe going, as I already play guitar and pedal steel.

So anyway... I was listening to the Easy Wind (live version) on the end of the Workingmans Dead re-issue CD, and the intro sounds like it is played on a Banjo with a pickup on it.
Give it a listen:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd70-01- ... sbeok.shnf

 #43246  by BlobWeird
 
Sounds just like a banjo on that Easy Wind. Yet he flows into some chords from the same sound that definitely wouldnt be done on a banjo. So I guess its just the recording/pickup selection. Maybe he's playing real close to the bridge?

 #43255  by Pete B.
 
Agreed.
I haven't listened to that whole show yet... maybe there are some other banjo clues.
I know a guy used to sit in with them on banjo and pedal steel named Pete Grant (maybe it was him?).
But the lick sounds like Jerry playing it to me, on Banjo.

 #43343  by Pete B.
 
It sounds like a banjo to me.
:cool:

 #43344  by astroman99
 
I'd have to say not a banjo, as blob pointed out goes right into guitar riff and intro chords..
lots of attack on the notes...

 #43345  by Tennessee Jedi
 
I dont have this cd thingy you guys are talking about.
Any chance its guitar/banjo ?
A banjo with a guitar neck ?
Hard to mistake the melodious sounds of a banjo....
:smile:
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