CommentĮxcellent episode! When I began listening to Dead music again, after 15 years off of it, the first Garcia album was my way back in. Both, along with an additional Stoned Sunday Rap with Reich, became the excellent book, Garcia: A Signpost to New Space, available from Da Capo/Hachette wherever you get your books. The photo shoot, Garcia on Stinson Beach, was by Annie Leibovitz. The interview was with Jann Wenner and Yale Law professor Charles Reich. One of Jerry’s activities in July 1971-right between album sessions-was the long interview and photo session that became the cover of Rolling Stone issue #100. For those hoping to linger a bit longer in Wally Heider’s this summer, check out the new season of Freak Flag Flying by Deadcast pals Steve Silberman and David Crosby, literally recorded at Heider’s. Using their handy search functions you can see just how busy Jerry Garcia really was in the summer of 1971. Joe’s vigilant research has combined with generations of other Dead historians to create. By going through San Francisco musicians’ union paperwork, Dead scholar Joe Jupille was able to determine what else was being tracked at Wally Heider’s during those weeks in July 1971. The result was Garcia’s classic self-titled debut, available (once again) on LP from Garcia Family Provisions.Ĭo-producer Bob Matthews placed a sign on the door, “Anita Bryant, closed session” in an effort to deter surprise guests.
Except drums (by Bill Kreutzmann) and a few trumpets and radio samples (by Robert Hunter), Garcia made all the sounds, improvising most of the second side from the ground up.
A few days after the Dead’s final Fillmore West performance (where Garcia also played with the New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Rowan Bros.), Garcia returned to Wally Heider’s San Francisco studio, site of the previous year’s American Beauty sessions, with a plan that was equally ambitious and laidback. After spending the spring of 1971 on the road with the Grateful Dead, and the early part of the summer putting together the live album that became Skull and Roses, Jerry Garcia kept right on truckin’.
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