[shakedown_04092]

The one where he mentions how he picks with the pointy part of the pick, and not the rounded side part as some players do. Thanks.

Actually, any other interviews/articles would be cool too. I was just thinking we should get a sticky page together that has links to all the band members interviews. Would be cool to have easy access to that stuff.

*Edit*

Here are some of the ones I'm aware of:

http://www.muthergrumble.co.uk/issue05/mg0523.htm

http://www.levity.com/mavericks/garcia.htm

http://www.yoyow.com/marye/garcia.html

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/rem ... v-05/15094

http://www.geocities.com/mnoferi/garcia.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/n ... 064170.stm
The last one is a John Barlow interview

[nicolasalk]

i think you'll like this link

ftp://gdead.berkeley.edu/pub/gdead/interviews/

there is a lot of material, not very well organized, but a lot, and not only from jerry

but ive been all my life looking for the rolling stone interview jerry made in november 89

if anyone knows where i can get it please help me, i would also like to find others old rolling stone's interviews

thanks

[nicolasalk]

ftp://gdead.berkeley.edu/pub/gdead/misc ... -pboy-3-72

[kenneybonz]

does anyone have that on mp3? he talks catholicism and ufos and it is really funny.. i wanna say it is 1987? tk

[strumminsix]

I have a pdf of JG interview from Guitar player 71.

He talks about his picking approach from banjo and on electric.

If that's it hit me up with your email via pm and i'll send it.

[razmablues]

http://www.archive.org/details/jg1981-0 ... rview.shnf

that's a really cool informal interview, jerry even smokes a J in it haha. it's funny

[XxRouninxX]

Good post, i was just hunting interviews last night..
heres a compilation of youtube clips

Bobby and Jerry on Electric Koolaide talk show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZIUSfGo40

Jerry and Kesey on Electric Koolaide talk show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ilnADv ... re=related

Garcia Art Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM64QhtD ... re=related

Four Part Series of Garcia Clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QjzaLt ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_w3LjO ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWQ4tk_ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewTbvmQ ... re=related

Group Interview + Encore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFVSbMq3 ... re=related

1967 Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMqRf77d ... re=related

3 part Vegas Interview 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_T3XNCanjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gll4jRMF ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXxV1xW ... re=related

Jerry and Hugh Hef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwDGcgJp ... re=related

Phil Lesh - Box of Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQbURirZSRY

Bob Weir Vegas 93
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7WGq2ZgQng

Bobby Reflects on Monterey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkUeO3sB ... re=related

GD Home Movies series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eAVSHjeiyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBqEQq ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHR2kLjs ... re=related

Garcia Diving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlVxD8jf ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVK3RJ8 ... re=related

[gratephulphish123]

i think you'll like this link

ftp://gdead.berkeley.edu/pub/gdead/interviews/

there is a lot of material, not very well organized, but a lot, and not only from jerry

but ive been all my life looking for the rolling stone interview jerry made in november 89

if anyone knows where i can get it please help me, i would also like to find others old rolling stone's interviews

thanks

I saw this rolling stone interview somewhere about a year ago via a random google search and alot of digging. i looked for it again but had no luck i forgot the keywords i entered last time

if you called rolling stone and payed a bit of money i'm sure they'd send you a copy

[strumminsix]

The one where he mentions how he picks with the pointy part of the pick, and not the rounded side part as some players do. Thanks.

You should really try this new tool google:
jerry garcia interview picking tip



Guitar.com: Do you hold the pick the same way for both instruments?

Garcia: Pretty much, yeah, but I move it around all the time while I’m playing. I don’t have a way to hold the pick — you know, an iron grasp. I constantly adjust it. I always strike the string with the pointy end. A lot of guys use the rounded shoulder of the pick because it makes it seem like you can play faster. But what you pick up in speed, you sacrifice in point. I like to have a lot of control over the attack of the note. By relaxing or tightening up your grip on the pick, you can get a lot of change in touch, coloration, and harmonic content. With acoustic guitar, that’s one of the ways you can really color your playing. I use a real thick pick, one with absolute zero flexibility. It’s like a stick.

http://members.tripod.com/malfalfa1/garciainterview.htm


(BTW this dude also hosts the infamous "blue book")

[tigerstrat]

I transcribed an interview I have on CD. It took a lot of close listening because the audio was pretty muddled in spots. My friend Geoff whom I met in 2001, was working for the Reed College radio station in 1977 and had met Jerry a few years before through one of Scully's friends. This is them chatting in the dressing room of the Paramount (now the Schnitzer) Theater in Portland, OR 10/2/77:

The following takes place backstage at the Paramount Theater (now the
Schnitzer) Portland, OR, perhaps post-soundcheck, 10/2/77. A Reed College
student-radio producer, an acquaintance of Jerry's since Europe tour of '74,
is making a recording of basically hanging out with Jerry as he
changes strings. Some dialogue is hard to make out, because the
interviewer has brought a few friends along(or they were already
there?), and it's more of a mini-party going on than an interview,
with frequent snuffling and chopping and scraping sounds audible.
Jerry talks about a wide range of things, among them Kesey, Mickey's car
accident, their Egypt plans, a possible Iran trip(!) and the guitar he
is servicing as they speak. What I've transcribed is just the parts of the conversation as it pertained to guitars or gear:
>
> **Interviewer(GT):"Is that the one you were using last night?"
> **JG:"Yup."
> **GT:"What was the one with the 'T' in the neck?..."
> **JG:"Um, Travis Bean."
> **GT:"Are you still using that one then?"
> **JG:"Uhh....yea, I had been using it, but I just got this back
from
> uh, the guy who made it for me; whose been- whose worked on it
> some...and uh, wanted to...see if there's...still
anything...between
> me and it."
> **faint tuning noises**
> **GT:"Do you have your guitars worked on at Alembic?"
> **JG:"No. Don't trust 'em...!"
> (general appreciation of the joke)
> **JG:"This guy named Doug Irwin, who's real good, does really nice
> work. Like when I gave him this guitar, it was really pretty beat-
> up ...it had a decal on it, this little...(probably pointing at the
> Wolf inlay)...and I got it back from him and he'd inlaid it in wood
> and brass, you know (laughs) My god, it blew my mind! Now there's a
> guy-(unintelligible through the murmurs of appreciation)"
> *(more tuning)
> **JG:"You can talk to me while I'm doing this..."
> RE: STRINGS:
> **GT:"What are you using for strings now?"
> **JG:"Uh, these are these strings called uh...Vinci's. And, uh,
> they're made, uh...by this guy Tony Vinci, a guy in NYC who builds
> the string-winding machine that all the other companies (use)...And
> the interesting thing about them is that they're uh...they don't
have
> any nickel in them, so in terms of their magnetic efficiency,
they're
> about 50% more...efficient as far as magnets are concerned."
> **GT:"So they're just pure steel?"
> **JG:"Yeah. They don't last very long; they rust through in a
> night...and they're really-"
> **GT:"You lost a couple last night,"
> **JG:"Oh yeah! That was the first string I've broken in about four
> years; Me and (RainBob?) were...exclaiming about it. That's because
> this guitar isn't set-up quite right yet. I need to fool with this,
> and uh..."
> **GT:"I'm still workin' on that Black Walnut thing"
> **JG:"Oh yeah?"
> **GT:"Yep, goin on three years now. One of these days..."
> (tuning)
> **JG:"Jeez, I hate this. This is really the most miserable part of
> music: Tuning."
> THEN A FEW MINUTES LATER:
> **Girl:"You done?"
> **JG:"Well, I have to let it sit for awhile,"
> **GT:"Stre-e-e-tch..."
> **JG:"...And everything has to get adjusted. See, the Travis Bean,
> the nice thing about it is that it's uh, incredibly stable, so you
> can change the strings and it doesn't have to go through any
changes.
> But this guitar, like other wooden guitars, to get it to really
work
> right and play in tune and stuff, you gotta set it up again every
> time the strings are changed, because it changes the whole
> (unintelligible)."
> **GT:"How old is that thing?"
> **JG:"Oh,it's about 5...maybe 5 years...6 years old I guess. I'm
not
> exactly sure how old."
> **GT:"What brand is it?"
> **JG:"It's not any brand, a guy made it."
> RE: PICK-UPS:
> **GT:"What kind of pick-ups are those?"
> **JG:" These things? I don't know. There's this new company that
> makes these things and I don't even know what they're
called...yeah,
> I don't know what the name is, but they're uh single...single-coil
> pick-ups like a, a Tel-, uh, Stratocaster."
> **GT:"Have you heard of Danny Sheen's pick-ups? There's this guy in
> town..."
> **JG:"Yeah,"
> **GT:"He's supposed to wind incredible pick-ups, just beautiful
> things..."
> **JG:"(deep breath) It's one of those things, that I'm not sure...
> I'm not sure what the trip is with them. I don't even really... I
> don't have really- I don't really like magnetic pick-ups all that
> much; I wish there was some other way to do it; they're kind of
> clumsy. And the thing is that the hotter you make the pick-up, the
> more irregular the harmonics get to be, because it bends the string
> down here. (laughs) You know, if you have really strong magnets,
it's
> like wauuhh...the string, the string, instead of being like that
it's
> like that. So the harmonics here are always incredibly inharmonic.
So you
> always wonder 'Why the fuck's my guitar sound like it's not in tune
> here'. You run into those kind of weird exchanges."

[shakedown_04092]

You should really try this new tool google:
jerry garcia interview picking tip

Doh!

Thanks bud!

[strumminsix]

You should really try this new tool google:
jerry garcia interview picking tip

Doh!

Thanks bud!

No worries, brother! You know I got your back!!