Ian & Sylvia Tyson with Jerry Garcia - C.C Rider

[delpurgatorio117]

just discovered Ian & Sylvia. GRAND! SO VERY GRAND!!! AND WITH JERRY GARCIA. man, oh man!

[moostafamalik]

sylvia is so beautiful here, such a fox

[Turgorful]

@gbgregg: good observation. Wish she'd borrowed Velveeta Boy's shorts.

Ain't that Billy K on tambourine?

[TheVoicefromNowhere]

@Turgorful..it is..

[SpeedOfDark186Kmps]

There's no mistaking Jerry's guitar style in this performance.

[MortenRisdon25]

Download the audio from this clip at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[Putaspellonyou]

who is the guy playing slide? anybody know?

[doktordre77]

@Putaspellonyou looks kinda like Jan Michael Vincent

[pinz2022]

@doktordre77

That's Edgar Winter on the keyboard, right?

[jeffkahl]

I think Garcia's playing George Harrison's Tele that he gave to Delaney Bramlett.

[saintjamesjohn]

@jeffkahl geez...! that's some history there



[pwea1]

... I remember in 1973 a rack of "Great Speckeled Bird " album being on sale with a hole punched in the front lobby on a tin rack at Sam the Record Man on Yonge St downtown Toronto for 3.99 ..... worth bout 200 to 400 now at e bay .. I bought 2 . still got 'em , and was going on my way down to get Mc Kenna Mendelson Mainline "Stink " black album ! Joe's album now is worth bout a hun .... lol ....

[deadrabbitsification]

festival express is amazing.

[gbgregg]

What a pair of legs!

[VinnyLLL]

Love that kickin' solo by Amos Garrett - so many talented people in this lineup!

[stuco]

so badass

[ntownsend82]

JAMMIN

[ccrider83]

love this !

[wolfdream2012]

Guess the magic comes and goes. What they were doing on the train tour pours out with soul and is really a medicine journey too. Train is comin' round again. Look for RXR Crossing. this June..'09 Our tunes are co-written and performed together as a couple inspired by the journey and will to become experienced. Oh yeah, Rock and Roll !!!! Peace to all. RXR Studio.

[EvanLouKy]

I wish I could get a puff of what they were doing on the train. In all seriousness, Festival Express was a great documentary with a lot of great lost footage from some true rock legends. I highly recommend it to fans of the bands from the period.

[pinz2022]

@EvanLouKy

I love the way Neil Young and Jerry Garcia are getting into it. They know they're participating in something historic. Too bad this was never screened till decades later. I saw the movie and this one clip made it worth the price of admission.

[JessiesDaftStuff]

That was bloody awesome!

[parmamagoo]

Nice I see a very young Buddy Cage of NRPS jamming with Jerry and the crew. Very cool.

Sounds a lot like another band he is involved with Stir Fried...

[davidlenander]

At that point he was a member of Great Speckled Bird, which is really the band performing here, augmented by other folks like Garcia and the Bramlets, etc.

[rudolfforever]

God, this version is amazing. Beautiful live performance.

[pinz2022]

@rudolfforever

This was so unlike her better-known version. She doesn't do that sensual warbling thing anywhere else. This was NOT folk, rather a sizzling blues-rock rendition.

[pinz2022]

@rudolfforever

What blows my doors off is the contrast between Sylvia's performance here and her innocent folkie black & white rendition of the same song just a few years earlier. Dress code notwithstanding, that warbling was something she had never done before.

[rudolfforever]

@pinz2022 Cheers to that!!!

[BufordStone]

Great jam.

[HailTTThief86]

This was on "Festival Express." The percussion is right on. Fucking incredible.

[jojojosmart]

@HailTTThief86 -that's N.D. Smart II on drums

[pinz2022]

@jojojosmart

I did some looking. So that was Norman Smart the 2nd as gap-toothed idjit on drums.  Good though...

A little bit of history.

[jojojosmart]

@pinz2022 -Yep, one the best drummers around in the 60's and 70's. i think he got his teeth knocked out boxing. He was into kung fu fighting,. I guess like one of the original ultimate fighters. He played with the Remains, Leslie West, Gram Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Emmy Lou Harris.

[zenartist]

and delaney Bramlet

[rvcrvc2]

Ian was so cool, she was so hot. He was an under-rated singer, I always thought, & they were under-rated songwriters

[Nefarioso]

Sylvia was and remains a sweet, classy lady. So, what broke up Ian & Sylvia, exactly?

[FATWONTON]

Their marriage

[jackwhiskey]

Exactly? No one will ever know for sure but like a lot of couples, I'd guess they got married for one reason and couldn't hold it together for the same reason a few years later. Ian seemed to be a fairly head-strong guy, a cowboy at heart and a tad conceited. Sylvia perhaps more culturally inclined with less of an appreciation for ranches. They just grew apart. Ian remarried, I don't think Sylvia did. But I sure love what they did when they were together!!

[moonflower1967]

right on man..best version ive heard

[jackwhiskey]

Somehow folk musicians initially associated with folk music seem out of place in another genre. I don't like this. GSB was supposedly ahead of its time. I never embraced it.

[davidlenander]

Oh, you mean like former folkies/blues people like Janis Joplin, David Crosby (and the rest of the Byrds), most of the Airplane (heard the Town Criers?), even Grace Slick once described herself as once a Joan Baez imitator, David Freiberg, Bob Dylan, etc?? I don't mean to be sarcastic, just curious what you mean by this. Maybe you don't think Ian & Sylvia manage the transition well, but in general? I think John Martyn did a wonderful transistion between his early folkie stuff and _Solid Air_.

[Ermengarde11]

Yeah, wasn't there a guy named Bob Dylan who switched from folk to rock? LOL. He does both just beautifully. Not many know that Janis started out doing country blues at that famous bar in Austin, what's it called? Starts with a T I think, I believe it's still there, wish I'd been to it just once, what history there. Man my memory's getting challenged these days! I did stop in Port Arthur passing thru once to see her exhibit in the local museum. I love it all.

[Ermengarde11]

Sylvia has always done excellent blues. I like it. Try to find her song "Midnight". It's a toned-down type of blues but very nice. I had the album but it's long gone, one the same one with Ian that has Last Lonely Eagle and Summer Wages.

[davidlenander]

I like that song, too--I think she was trying to invoke Patsy Cline. All of these songs are available on the Bear Family release THE BEGINNING OF THE END, basically an expanded reissue CD of the Columbia LP IAN & SYLVIA With David Wilcox album. It has interesting liner notes, too, including references to unreleased songs that would've been part of a similar reissue of the I & S & GSB YOU WERE ON MY MIND, their only album still unreleased on CD.

[Ermengarde11]

ThanxDavid,good2know where2find it. Always wondered where the term GSB came from,a guy in Atlanta named Wolf used2peddle a local newspaper called GSB 4years on street corners,&he hung out with a guy named Jerry who looked much like Jerry Garcia!Both were homesless or living in shelters,I still see'em on occasion if I go2Atl.,the Little Five Points square. Wolf plays guitar&harmonica but sadly is tonedeaf,a true legend on the streets of Atl. So many of the old folks gone now.

[winger1985]

That,s Sylvia Fricker

[davidlenander]

Well, yes, but by this point she was billed as "Sylvia Tyson," see her signature on the cover art of the Great Speckled Bird album. And, technically, I think they were billing themselves just under the name of the band, though by the last album they'd restored the Ian & Sylvia identifier. I read something once where they definitely indicated that GSB was to replace the name of the act. They agreed to a "sticker" on the album later on....