Jerry Garcia w/ Great Speckled Bird - CC Rider (1970-07-04)

[davidlenander]

The other long form video is posted as Grateful Dead 1970 CC Rider by Direwolf I think Bonnie Bramlet is even playing a tambourine in one shot, and you can see some other people more definitely in that. I saw Sylvia mention that she started singing professionally in 1959, which was also the year that Joan Baez broke through at Newport. But I don't think Baez had influence on Sylvia at that point, if ever. They may have had some influences in common. Amos Garret is an amazing guitarist.

[livninrhythm]

@pinz2022

Neil Young wasn't on the tour or at this show. If you pay attention it shows Ians face clearly (0:34)

[livninrhythm]

@pinz2022

You are mistaken, it is not Neil Young. Not only was he not on the the tour or bill for this show, you can see especially at 0:34 it is not him.

[lovecanfill]

Wow. Trippy voices! Thanks for posting this!

[biglloyddobbs]

She's a Joan Baez starter kit.

[pinz2022]

@biglloyddobbs

You can pull up the "Ian and Sylvia" folkie rendition of the same song. Completely different. She blows the doors off here. That warbling technique she does with her voice, never before and never after. I swear those guys were on some strong stuff.

[pinz2022]

@biglloyddobbs

I've been reviewing the "Ian and Sylvia" catalog. "Whitebread folkies"all the way. She gets naughty here and blows the doors off. Totally different from her goody two-shoes image. Those must have been some powerful mushrooms they were doing on the Festival Express.

[piehole23]

@pinz2022

Gee now, there's a brilliant piece of insight that Ian and Sylvia were white! Goody two shoes sounds like vocabulary from a daycare centre. Ian and Sylvia never tried to sound like someone they weren't. If that isn't your taste pinz-head, go find something that is. Or have we a troll in our midst?

[piehole23]

@biglloyddobbs

Hardly. Sylvia Fricker Tyson always sang very differently from Joan Baez, if you have anything more than a tin ear.

[piehole23]

Two responses to Davedcp64 - 9a) weren't most hippies whiote? (b) the lead singer is most definitely not from the Bay area. It's Sylvia Tyson Fricker of Ian and Sylvia fame. Ian's the guy with the cowboy hat. Both were born and have lived all their lives in Canada.

[pinz2022]

@piehole23

Wrong! I'm certain the guy in the hat is Neil Young.

[piehole23]

@pinz2022

There was almost no physical or voice similarity between Ian Tyson and Neil Young, not then, not now. Confusing them is like saying Obama looks like Jesse Jackson.

[mendex2006]

this is the best concert men

[davedcp64]

pretty damn funky for a bunch of white hippies from the bay area...........smoove indeed...nice post!

[sandblast68]

yes!

[winstonmatthews]

Really enjoyed a good listen to this! timeless classic!

[VinnyLLL]

Amos Garrett on guitar behind Delaney.

[ReadyToRamble]

not much better in the world than funky electric blues

[BufordStone]

My favorite performance from Festival Express.

[cryingsoftly]

It is N. D. Smart (the drummer)

[revbeni]

Man, he's a badass drummer!!

[davidlenander]

Is that drummer N.D. Smart II of Gram Parsons' Fallen Angels?

[davidlenander]

I remember reading an interview with Jerry Garcia in a magazine called _Pop Talk_ (I think) in the public library where he talked about playing with "Ian & Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird" on the Festival Express tour. The funny thing is, I knew who the GSB were, but I didn't know who Jerry Garcia was until that article. I had borrowed the GSB album from the library, but never heard the Dead. This would have been about 1970 or '71.

[austinitesince1979]

I think it's one of the best songs on the movie

[coltonjd]

It was accually ian and sylvia tyson's great speckled bird and jerry is just joining them on stage. You can see the dead's drummer playing tamborines and also rick danko watching behing them...if anybody has ian and sylvia tyson doing tears of rage by bob dylan, also from that tour across canada in 1970, please upload it!!

[davidlenander]

Someone did.  Search YouTube for it.

[chiachllc]

If anyone knows,

@ 1:14 what is the dude's name that played

the solo on the pedal steel...

[DrIck2]

The pedal steel player is Buddy Cage, who later replaced Jerry Garcia in the New Riders of the Purple Sage. I'm not positive but I think the guitar player at 2:03 may be Delaney Bramlett. I wonder if anyone knows for sure.

[mempheel]

Drick- yes that's Delaney.  On the other (extended) video you can see Bonnie hanging around behind the stage too.

[pinz2022]

@mempheel

Is that the young Edgar Winter on the keyboard?

[chiachllc]

..good vibe, good players ( i bet you can't

name more than one) up on stage AND killer

Acid....you got yourself some sweet,sweet

music. This tour was done via train!

All the musicians (J Joplin included)..were on that train! Great Vid

[MarksCoffeehouse]

Jerry playing what may be George Harrison's "Let It Be" guitar- sweet.

[ThankYouJerryGarcia]

Jerry's having fun,

Pretty funky