1969-08-13 [Wed]

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Family Dog On The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA

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Jerry Garcia - banjo
David LaFlamme - violin
David Nelson - acoustic guitar
Peter Grant - banjo
John Cohen - banjo
Title
Hoe-Down
Also Appearing
New Lost City Ramblers and New Riders of the Purple Sage
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Notes
  • Pete Grant, via Corry: "Not surprisingly, Garcia and Nelson were very excited to play on the same bill with the New Lost City Ramblers, and at the end of the show members of both bands played a few tunes together."
  • We only list Cohen among the NLCR members, because we know that he played. The others (Mike Seeger and Tracy Schwartz) probably did as well, but we just aren't sure. Cohen recalls a young man approaching him before the set (h/t LIA): "He asked me if I want some apple cider, and I said, 'Sure.' I drank it, and he said, 'Have you ever tripped?' I said, 'No.' He laughed and said, 'Well, you're going to now!' So I told Mike and Tracy [the other Ramblers] because I didn't know what would happen. They were terrified that it might have happened to them ... I didn't know if I would fall down or writhe on the ground or what. And as the music went on and the dancing went on, I would focus on this and that. But the music was interesting, because I was reducing what I was doing on the banjo to fewer and fewer notes, but they were so amplified with this sound system that they sounded gigantic! ... Eventually, I obsessed on this girl's bright red shoes, like from the Wizard of Oz, and I'm just kind of 'Whooo!' ... I was hanging on, I wasn't falling behind, and the music certainly had interesting qualities ... Then afterwards the colors and everything happened, and they took me upstairs. There was another bluegrass band playing in the dressing room, and I was astounded by their precision. It was overwhelming." (Allen 2010, 193)
  • More description of what this Hoe-Down may have been like attaches to the Square Dance from 11/18/69.
  • lostlivedead: Family Dog At The Great Highway, August 13, 1969 New Lost City Ramblers/New Riders Of The Purple Sage
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