John Dawson
- electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
David Nelson
- electric guitar (lead), vocals
David Torbert
- electric bass, vocals
Jerry Garcia
- pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden
- drums
Title
A Party for Mother Earth
Also Appearing
Country Joe, Grootna, and Stoneground
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Notes
Benefit for the Bear Tribe.
listings: "Folksinger at Friends and Relations," San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1971, p. 37; San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 1971, p. 42; Staska and Mangrum 19710603; "Datebook," San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 1971, p. 51
announce: "A Benefit for Bear Commune," San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 1971, p. 41
expost: "Unfriendly Relations," Berkeley Tribe, v. 5 n.19 (issue #99) (June 11-18, 1971), p. 10: narrates a naked brother onstage before the New Riders started, getting hassled by "rent-a-pig" and someone else before they got him dressed. He appeared again as the Riders were playing, and "rent-a-pig" got help from a full-blown "uniformed, helmeted porkchop", and they busted him right in front of the stage as folks were obliviously dancing, and the band played on. In classic Berkeley vs. SF fashion, the author excoriates "the individuals [who] decided it was easier to think of their momentary titillations than our common oppression".