Enjoy this super fantastic 2 1/2 hours of Jerry Garcia from 1973!

Gotta Get Down: Jerry Garcia’s Musical Escapades of November 1973

A Mix By /u/MrCompletely and /u/wilbard –

From arghdos on YouTube:

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Deadheads all know November ’73 to be a high point of the Dead’s early career. The band played nearly a dozen great shows, including some all-time classic performances. But the Grateful Dead was just one of the projects Garcia had going on at that time. The same month featured him on banjo with Old & in the Way in their last full show, on guitar with his Merl Saunders side project (with Bill Kreutzmann on drums), and even in an experimental night of far-out psychedelia at the Palace of Fine Arts alongside Mickey Hart (who was not playing in the Dead at the time), also featuring Ned Lagin and Phil Lesh. Also of note, during the same month Rolling Stone published a long cover-story feature article on the Dead’s evolving “business” model. In the previous month of October, the Dead had just released Wake of the Flood, the forward-looking first album on their own newly-established independent label.

This is meant to be a seamless mix that takes you through it as if all the month’s sounds were played in one evening. Put it on and enjoy from top to bottom. But it’s not meant to be comprehensive, by any means. Most people already know the big shows like Winterland, UCLA, and Boston (if you don’t then get on that!). And the lesser-known GD shows like Evanston (only set 2 survives), El Paso and Tempe are very worth your time too. The whole OAITW show on 11/04 is excellent (their final full concert performance, with Garcia’s banjo chops by then fully re-established), as are both the JGMS Betty Boards (11/05’s soundboard just emerged for the first time last year).

Thanks to /u/arghdos

for hosting on his YT channel.

Enjoy,
MrCompletely & wilbard

Tracklist:

Finders Keepers (JGMS 11/05) 0:00:00
Cumberland Blues (GD 11/14) 0:08:38
Catfish John (OAITW 11/04) 0:15:16
Playing in the Band ~ (GD 11/21) 0:18:58
El Paso ~ Playing jam ~ (GD 11/21) 0:30:58
Wharf Rat ~ Playing jam ~ space ~ (GD 11/21) 0:39:22
Untitled Improvisation (PFA 11/28) 0:50:14
White Dove (OAITW 11/04) 0:57:39
Someday Baby (JGMS 11/03) 1:02:12
China Cat Sunflower ~ I Know You Rider (GD 11/25) 1:02:12
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (JGMS 11/05) 1:32:11
Jerry’s Breakdown (OAITW 11/04) 1:37:52
Stella Blue (GD 11/10) 1:41:36
Expressway (To Your Heart) ~ jam ~ (JGMS 11/03) 1:49:51
space ~ (GD 11/23) 2:16:47
Playing jam ~ (GD 11/21) 2:21:53
Playing Reprise (GD 11/17) 2:23:56