Jerry Garcia and David Crosby DID do an album together along with Grace Slick and Paul Katner. It was Blows Against the Empire. If you like this jam session, you will love this album. It's Grateful Dead plus Crosby Stills & Nash with a little Jefferson Airplane on acid thrown in. Check out "Have you seen the stars tonght" "Hijack" and "Starship".
Blows Against the Empire - long before the Star Wars "empire" existed. A bunch of hippies hijacking an interplanetary spaceship - musically flowing like ocean waves - played that album to death, just saying the word "starship" was code for potential, community, drugs and adventure. Still to this day my favorite album.
This is so satisfying on so many levels. Like dropping acid at early show at the Fillmore and meeting some girls that have some good weed and tickets to the late show. Long live rock and roll. 🙏🏻
Damn, now that's going back a ways. In 75' I was 18. Those were great times. We all thought this music would last forever. It always will in my head and heart. love and "light" to all....
@@kgilliagorilla2761 yeah when Columbian Gold first showed up on Long Island it was selling for $50 an ounce-people were complaining about the high price-that is until they smoked some!!
I love finding this collaboration stuff from that era. Just watched Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia from 1989. Great, great stuff and thanks to whomever put this out there!
@no yes Since when did appreciating a valuable service while also making a buck make one a fool? Almost the entire music industry exists on the exchange of money.
I just reloaded RU-vid and spun the videos with my eyes closed. I said what ever it lands on is going to be the greatest thing ever… literally…. This is what I got.
I lived in California during this time and loved the Grateful Dead and went to numerous concerts there. All the San Francisco bands were great. I saw Jerry play with Merl Saunders. It was a beautiful time.
Spring & summer of 74 i was in San Rafael & saw numerous Jerry/Merl in numerous spots including Great American Music Hall when one particular evening Steven Stills joined in 💜.
Cali rocks right now.. Well not now but normally! Tons of shows every night of the week in the Bay Area and even more down in LA.. So much good music, it takes over
Thanks for bringing up Saunders. I was also lucky, my guitar teacher in the early '60s was a Mr. Schmitt. His son was Timothy B Schmitt. Craig Chaquico (Starship - wrote Jane) was in my English class in High School. Reggie Knighton was in our band who played a few years with the Guess Who.
Incredible. So good. I was 4 months old. Regularly say that my favorite music across most genres is from about 2-3 years before I was born to about 5-6 years after (so '67-'76). Think of all the incredible music that came out of that period! A very, very long list. Mind boggling.
@Lastname First My favorite west coast S.F. band is Hot Tuna. I know that you love Jorma maybe as much as me. I tend to give most of your comments and replies a like, we tend to think a bit similar. I'm going to dig up some QSM and give a listen. Take care.
I left a reply somewhere in the 780 comments (I think) but I'm coming back around to this again.....RIP David Crosby🙏 You and Jerry are picking in the land beyond! Thanks be to @nognuisagoodgnu!!! This is incredible💥❤🤍💙😎
Has this been hidden somewhere! It is fantastic. The play of the three guitars with Phil’s steady groove makes for an incredible jam. I want to hear the rest of the session.
It was circulated amongst tapers as long as I can remember. We literally popped popcorn and had friends over to unwrap the fed ex when we got the DATs in college.
I think the bass players have their own corner with their own rules for which is playing when & when they are switching off how often I think the photo is expressing the musical architecture of these jams 3 guitarists mixing what they are doing as they play 2 bassists mixing what they are doing as they choose
Incredible talent Jack and Phil the best bass players I've ever seen or heard and for jorma best acoustic sound I ever heard and for jerry he was a god
Thanks whoever decided to share this incredible music. It demands relaxed listening, in the same way it was created. Just musicians getting together to play whatever they felt at the moment. Incredible treasure !!
It was Graham Nash who leaked it to Paul Kantner in the late 90s. Graham did not fully realize Paul’s relationship with the taper community and now iyou have this recording. Because of this bootleg, there was not to be any record company interest in this product. The master tapes remain in david crosby’s vault to this day.
2 of my favourite albums ever! such a collection of artists the world will never see again!! What times they must've been for all involved wonderful absolutely wonderful music!!!! Ems
Let's not forget BARON VON TOLLBOOTH AND THE CHROME NUN. A truly psychedelic masterpiece from a mix of all these San Francisco musicians. same as IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER MY NAME , BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE and SUNFIGHTER
"If I Could Only Remember My Name..." The Best Album that Nobody Bought. Every song was great, you got your monies worth, I still have my copy. And the song book.
Blows Against the Empire (and White Bird, by It's a Beautiful Day) was the soundtrack to my first acid trip in 1971. It was perfect. I remember it like yesterday.
The early Dead . Janis . Carlos jamming with Bloomfield . Jimi playing in the Panhandle near Haight street . Crosby singing 8 miles high with the Byrds . The incredible Jorma . Cippolina . Barry Melton . Jazz legends jamming at the Fillmore .
'tis a Cold Wind that..."Blows Against the Empire"..the 1st Starship album had most of these guys guesting...great concept album : let's steal the 1st Starship and populate the cosmos with flower children and hippies! yeah! let's do it!!!
I am sending a cat to the moon in 2021.... with myself and Dr Punkin Pie Carew... and back again.... it's the first step in real starships ==>> StarFire is going to the Stars 🌟 Think geodesic dome type sphere... that flies through atmosphere and can make it through the van Allen belts to LEO... after which the escape velocity increases to about 40 thousand meters per hour ... did the math... man I knew this number was important... 666 meters a minute... or 11.11111... meters per second... it's gonna take a long fuggin time to get to the next star.... so I am looking for a shortcut;;☆》... it's about bending space-time... not necessarily going fast
Saw Gary Burton @ Great American Music Hall in '76, with 2 bassists, 1 was Eberhard Weber, & a wild-haired young guitarist who'd begged to sit-in earlier in the tour & was hired on the spot, it was Pat Metheny, starting his brilliant career! Wow!
Close my eyes and transported back to the ‘70’s....thanks for sharing. Dead and Hot Tuna, early and late shows at the Fillmore East and saw CSN&Y record Love The One Your With, for their 4Way Street Album. Great times, incredible music!
Yes! Hot Tuna! I was in the studio when they where mixing the album Burgers. Even had a ride in the car on the cover of the album. Joey was driving and the sun was coming up in SF!
@dougpotosky4102 you gotta be kidding? You where in studio for Burgers? omg Ive seen jorma 3 times solo and electric hot tuna. You got a ride in the Burgers car. I guess you met the band and popa john too. How old are you? Are you an engineer or mixer?
Wow Crosby “Remember My Name” sessions. I grabbed my album to see the pictures of all the participants. For those of us that found transcendence in music, liner notes & album covers - I used to sit for hrs. with this one. (Can’t imagine I was the only one) This adds to the joy. Thanks. “I want to drive right over, this afternoon and give them a piece of my mind about peaceful mankind.”
Now this is kindness indeed! Thanks Pastor Dave. Wish I could download this. For me this was the apex of our hippie music, this is its zenith. Peace. NFA.
Stumbled on this whilst just going down the daily rabbit hole of youtube.....Man alive! Love all the music that these individuals have ever produced with their beautiful band mates.... This has just been in my cans through bath time...exquisite! The Alexis Korner and Stephen Stills sessions are worth a listen too!!
@Etienne Jour You have an incredible ear! I can hear Jerry most easily, Crosby definitely, Young think so. Kaukonen my favorite, I'm not even sure he played in this jam. Bass was all Lesh, no Casady at all ( if no Casady, very likely no Kaukonen)! I believe Kaukonen is the best guitarist with Jerry a clear second! They're all very good. Absolutely love Kaukonen and he kept getting better and better as time passed!
he's happy and alive now so it's just how you look at it. He probably wouldn't have had it any other way knowing what I know about him (or think i know)
Neil Young was also part of PERRO or at least the sessions, I believe D. Crosby's classic If I Could Only Remember My Name came from these same sessions. Significant stuff...Thanks !
I loved Neil young since "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" I guess in 1968. I didn't like his lead guitar on "Cowboy Movie". Jerry was more restrained and tasteful.
Righteous. For a couple of days Hot Tuna was a supergroup. Who knew? Not saying they aren’t still, of course, but nothing says supergroup like double bass players. ...Thanks for sharing! ...Keep those lamps trimmed and burning, Yippee!
I always wondered how Crosby got so many killer musicians to play on If I Could Only Remember My Name. I remember I had to return the first copy of that album I bought from the music store because it was warped and wouldn't play right. The guy at the counter looked at the album, opened it up (it was one of those single albums that used a double album cover for the album design) and said "Holy shit" as he pondered the photos of all the people who played on it. It really was a who's who of California musicians at the time.
Ben you are so so so correct! ❤ Agree a million %! I feel I HAVE to gamble today bc it’s my lucky AF day my brother of excellent music! Much love to whoever you are that’s blessed us so kindly with this love ❤️ 🧡💕💚☮️💣💙💚💜💗💋
True, but sometimes he can go way out there.... like an one hour "Dark Star" jam with a totally nonexistent beat or rhythm. However, he certainly does have his moments!
This kind of gives some of the old wonderful times back again sadly, maybe not, without the acid. I will be buried with this sound in my old bones. 🇦🇺🐨🥰😎
Ummmm Phil lesh(leash) played base with the Dead... and Garcia... for about 20 or so years 🤔... I have seen him play at the La Paloma in Encinitas, Ca.... by himself... but I don't think he played with anyone else... but... I am not a Dead groupie... so I don't fuggin know
I have seen Jerry band warfield theater and I have seen Phil lesh and friends korma and Jack Cassidy hot tuna. korma at his fur peace ranch has work shops to stay for a couple weeks or more and he is the host teaching his style of playing guitar that is his own week end shows at the ranch his own organic coffee and south of Columbus just outside ATHENS OHIO SMALLEST PARTYING UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY JUST ACROSS THE HOKEN RIVER PARKERSBURG WV ITS A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH OF A TOWN SKATE UTOPIA SKATE COMMUNE HOT TUNA BEEN TOURING WITH FURTHER SHOWS FESTIVAL,S THEY ARE LIVING UP TO THERE NAME THE SOUND AT THESE SESSIONS ARE LOOSE AND FREE I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SEE DAVID CROSBY UNFORTUNATELY. I LOVE THE FREE FORM NOTHING EXCEPT GOOD HOT ENERGY WOULD GIVE MY FINGER TO BE ABLE TO PLAY LIKE THIS YOUR .THIS IS MY STORY AND I AM STICKING TO IT.
For B Kocewar: is not important that you were not Born, the real important thing is if this music reaches your soul is all that has a great value for you...i only was fourteen years old.
Agree Marco. It doesn’t matter if you were there to witness. The list of old work that never gets old is long, Beethoven, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash to name a few. I grew up in the Bay Area and started seeing the Dead and Hot Tuna the following year after this was made, but I never heard tons of what was played until fairly recently, including this.
@@jayoleary4538 Give it a rest, analog-crusader. The quality is good because they recorded it in a STUDIO, man. Wally Heider's, no less. Ground zero for SF sound musicians.
Wow! My 1st concert @ 13, just moved from the actual end of the paved road, N.Central Wa.state, June 1968: Fillmore West- Santana opened, Chicago Transit Authority, middle bill, a year b4 either had an album; headliner - Big Brother & The Holding Co, with Janis Joplin! As a percussionist & jazz fan, I was in heaven: Santana had 3 percussionists, Chicago had horns! Big Brother played most of 1st song instrumental, then Janis walked up behind guitarist Peter Albin with an extension cord & plugged in a halo of tiny clear lights in his big hair, 'bing!', & the crowd roared, though she hadn't sung a note yet! I'm thinkin, these peeps are weird! Then, they left no prisoners! Can still play all that sound in my head! & was this thick, sweet smell I couldn't identify..musta been No-Cal homegrown, cuz it don't smell pretty like that now!
Phat jams! Great find! There was much off stage mixing of SF 60s bands. Jerry was a pillar of that society. Combine Crosby and Garcia, what could possibly go wrong?
@@markgucciardi5724 fuc that they have 3 original member plus Chimenti . Mayer is trying ,does o k in spots , but what do u expect , he never did time on the bus . they are not pretty much a cover band or at leasT the best one your going to see breathing today . Bring back Jerry Garcia .! ! Oh Ya Killer Post , Poster ,Man .
