Posted: August 18, 2008 - 6:34pm

started by Oroboros

Posted: August 16, 2008 - 7:14am
What about another Jerry interview?

Just got this one.
Jerry Garcia interview from 1967.
Jerry was nterviewed at 710 Ashbury, San Francisco, CA by Randy Groeke & Mike Cramer. Date uncertain but probably February or March because it took place when their first album was about to be released (1st album release date was March 17, 1967). Anyway, Groeke was a banjo student of Garcias in the early 60's, when they both lived in the south bay. He and his buddy Cramer simply called Jerry up and arranged to do the interview 'friend to friend'. Besides Jerry and the 2 interviewers, there are bits of Mountain Girl, Bob Weir, Pigpen, and others in the background.

Disc I
1. electric banjo, pedal steel guitar, equipment > 4:05
2. Jefferson Airplane, assisting on Surrealistic Pillow> 1:44
3. the San Francisco sound > 2:51
4. Hippies, Grateful Dead view of music> 4:22
5. the Fillmore audiencs > 5:06
6. Newsweek article "Dropouts on a Mission" > 3:02
7. precursors to the SF scene, banjo to guitar > 1:49
8. influences- Chuck Berry & the Beatles > 3:47
9. the Vietnam War > 4:55
10. "the world needs to take care of itself" > 1:21
11. Dead music not advocating any political message > 1:26
12. looking forward to first trip to New York > :52
13. Buffalo Springfield, Mopy Grape, Skip Spence, Jorma> 1:34
14. Matthew Katz & other old style band managers > :54
15. San Francisco radio & the radio business > 3:16
16. Jerry's review of not yet released LP > :57
42:01
DISC II
1. what might happen to the San Francisco Scene > 1:02
2. stolen equipment form the band warehouse > :55
3. the Haight Ashbury scene > 4:16
4. the Hell's Angels > 4:34
5. stolen band equipment found! > :59
6. Jerry's beliefs > 3:30
7. the police > 1:00
8. drugs > 4:53
10. Banjo with Grateful Dead? > 3:34
11. Jerry's tapes- "go get them from Sara" > 3:38
12. existentialism > 1:07
13. "Blow Up" & Grateful Dead plans to be in movie > 1:23
14. Look magazine artile on JA & Jim Marshall photos > 1:52
15. jazz & other style mixing with Rock & Roll > 1:12
16. talk about getting band equipment back > 1:04
17. talk about old gun Jerry is messing with > 1:27
18. conclusion of interview > :50
41:07
This is thought to be a 2nd or 3rd generation at most and the linage: master reel @ 3:75 ips speed > ? > cassette > cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Macintosh with Digidesign AudioMedia III sound card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck edits, normalization of many clicks and pops manually removed - no noise reduction or equalization) > AIFF >x ACT ( Flac lvel & files with sector boundaries verified).