#9169  by GratefulFloyd
 
I was at Excluisve Company last night, and as usual I went to the Dead cd's. The first thing I see is a this "Grateful Dead 64 Live." It has a ton of songs like Uncle Johns Band, Ripple, Casey Jones, everything, even "Early Morning Dew". jerry sounds young as hell, and pigpen sounds even more young. has anybody else seen or heard this?

 #9171  by tigerstrat
 
Sounds like some kind of hack job compilation of tracks from several different years, in the style of some of those goofy 70's vinyl bootlegs.

The Dew sounds like a score, but is probably from '67-'69... Casey Jones was first performed in mid-69, while Ripple & UJB were written in the prolific year of 1970.

The "64" part will be completely false, as the proto-Dead Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions did not go electric as the (proto-Dead) Warlocks until 1965, and the earliest known recording of that is the Emergency Crew sessions of Nov 65; a handful of shows are available from 66, then many more from 1967 and on. Garcia also spent a good portion of 1964 playing banjo in bluegrass groups and driving cross-country with Grisman being a Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys tourhead/tapers... can you imagine that- going from city to city, living out of your car, following the every move of a band of musicians and attending every show they play- and recording it???

 #9172  by GratefulFloyd
 
yea i knew something was up with it

 #9173  by phreaker
 
ive heard of a mother mcrees live recording. i highly doubt any of those songs were on it though.