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[velouria-records]

Live Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia! $19.98 Comment to claim! #NowPlaying #Vinyl #MerlSaunders #JerryGarcia #ShopLocal #BrickAndMortar #LoyalToLocal #EverydayIsRecordStoreDay #Visalia #WaxWars #VelouriaRecords (at Velouria Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_8IqK6pgD4/?igshid=a5h03v2mgqu1

[minstrel75itg]

Live at Keystone is an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on July 10 and 11, 1973, and released later that year as a two-disc vinyl LP. On Fantasy Records, F-79002 From February 1971 to July 1975, Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia often played live shows together when the Grateful Dead were not on tour. For many of those concerts, their band had the lineup featured on this album — Saunders on keyboards, Garcia on guitar and vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Bill Vitt on drums. One track of Live at Keystone, "Positively 4th Street", also includes David Grisman on mandolin. #jerrygarcia #merlsaunders #johnkahn #billvitt #gratefuldead #rockandroll https://www.instagram.com/p/B_DggZYFZJ1/?igshid=niy56e4szsma

[harvestmarketgratefuldead-blog]

#Repost @jerrygarcia (@get_repost) ・・・ "The acoustics there could have been anything from perfect to horrible. My untrained ears didn't care. As long as a stack of amps could rock the room, my friends and I were happy. Someone from the club must have thought differently, because one night strange sound baffles (or maybe deflectors?) suddenly showed up on the walls to both sides of the stage, apparently in some effort to improve the sound. I never noticed any difference. It didn't matter, because the sound was not what the place was about. Heat and sweat, fun and energy were what it was about." Jerry Garcia’s Brokedown Palaces looks back on countless Garcia performances (Garcia/Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band, Legion Of Mary, Reconstruction) from 1971 to 1984 at the legendary Keystone Berkeley including the August 11th, 1974 performance featured on GarciaLive Volume Nine. Read more at the link in the profile. #JerryGarcia #MerlSaunders #berkeley

[jlokensky]

With my friend, drummer Muruga Booker. He played with P-Funk, Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, and, of course, Tim Hardin at Woodstock. #woodstock #pfunk #merlsaunders #jerrygarcia #murugabooker #timhardin (at Issue Project Room)

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders - “Finders Keepers”

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders.

They go together like rock ‘n’ roll. Like rhythm & blues, like jazz and fusion and like electric Kool-Aid and acid tests.

On the upcoming three-disc set Garcia Live Volume Six: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, July 5, 1973, Lion’s Share, out June 24, guitarist Garcia and keyboardist Saunders are joined by a powerhouse rhythm section comprised of drummer Bill Vitt and bassist John Kahn, and a trumpeter whose name is lost to history.

The the namesake duo’s instrumental version of the Chairmen of the Board’s “Finders Keepers" is one of the 14 tracks the band laid down that night and it’s a doozy. It finds Garcia and Saunders, on clavinet and organ, digging deep into a funk-filled groove as they and their mates unwind the song’s infectious theme for more than nine minutes.

Despite featuring half of the original Jerry Garcia Band in Garcia and Kahn, this quintet sounds nothing like JGB and bears little resemblance to the Grateful Dead; even Garcia’s guitar tone is unfamiliar as he occasionally flirts with riffs that recall “After Midnight.” This group hews closer to another of Garcia’s extracurricular bands, Legion of Mary, with a jazz sensibility, a funktastic sense of rhythm and a like-minded ability to improvise.

“Finders Keepers” features jamming without meandering, soloing without dominating and five musicians who are clearly playing for nothing but the fun(k) of it. The less-than-spectacular recording just adds to the amiable ambiance captured inside the 200-capacity Lion’s Share all those years ago.

Grade card: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders - “Finders Keepers” - A