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Garcia & Friends, "Matrix 12/16/68" & "Matrix 12/24/68") "Matrix 12/16/68" MSR > R > P > C > C Jam #1 (Garcia, Casady, Hart, left channel; Dryden, right): 40:10 Jam #2 (Garcia, Casady, Hart, left channel, Dave Getz of Big Brother, right): 37:30 Jam #3 (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden): 28:40 [drop outs circa 1:28:16, 1:29:05, 1:43:52, 1:46:40, 1:47:07, 1:47:24, 1:47:37, 1:48:09] Jam #4 (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden, Garcia): 4:24 Jam #5 (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden, Garcia, Hart, left): 15:24# (breaks off before end of jam) "Matrix 12/24/68" MSR > R > P > C > C Garcia, Hart, Lesh, Harvey Mandel, George Chambers (vocals & rhythm guitar) (* unidentified organ) #Feel It #4:41 Three O'Clock Blues 8:53 "Mojo Worker" jam 27:26 jam #6 * 36:15 jam #7 ("Walk In The Water"#) * 9:14# (breaks off before end of jam) ***** Notes This catalog derives from consulting three sources, 5 cassettes in all. One is labeled "Jefferson Airplane House 10/21/68" and two are labeled "Matrix 12/16/68." This latter date is often 'corrected' to "12/24/68" (see etree). I have three cassette sources for jams #1 & #2, 2 sources for jam #5 and one source for jams #3 & #4. Two sources place "jam #1" first and "jam #2" second, one reverses this order. One cassette source continues without a splice from jam #4 to jam #4 (but then breaks off after 9:40 at the end of the cassette side). The superior source for Jam #5 runs for 15:24 before it, too, breaks off at the end of a cassette side. My suspicion is that jams #3 and #4 were dropped from most copies because Jerry does not appear at all in Jam #3 and plays a subdued rhythm part in jam #4. Latvala's comments quoted in etree from Dupree's Diamond News (Summer '96) appear to me to be confusing 12/16/68 with 12/16/70, when Crosby did play at the Matrix with Jerry & others as "David & The Dorks." It seems likely that the master SBD reels contain the end of Jam #5 and the end of Jam #7. I see no way to surmise from the tapes whether these two items are from one show or from two, or whether the correct date(s) are 12/16/68 or 12/24/68 or both (or neither -- or 12/23/68) but I incline to think they are from two different dates. As soon as I've had a chance to compare these tapes with the circulating fragments we'll put a best copy into circulation. |
Title: "12/16/68" (aka "12/24/68" & "10/21/68")
