Jerry Garcia & David Crosby - The Perro Sessions

Kids and Dogs
Jorma & Jerry's Jam v1
Mountain Song (v 2&3)
Loser (Versions 1-4)
Mountain Song (v4)
Eep Hour
Jorma & Jerry's Jam v2

Some excellent reference material on the PERRO sessions:
http://www.philzone.com/philbase/perr...

DETAILS
On 8/23/91 a copy of the several PERRO reels were compiled onto a DT 120 DAT on request by Paul to Graham (since the tapes where kept in the latter's vault) for a copy.

When the Crosby, Stills & Nash box-set was being put together, some mystery reels were found.
All of the CSNY tape collection was brought in to one place for the first time, including personal collections of Barncard, Joel Bernstein, Nash and Stills. One of the PERRO tapes had a small pipe with weed in it and somebody smoked it! It was still good.

The material on the PERRO tapes was very interesting, but had nothing to do with CSNY. There were 4 reels of 2 track mixes made in 1971 during the sessions (obviously there is more that has never been mixed). The tapes were put into storage in Nash's vault.
Paul called Nash in 1992 and requested DATs of those tapes. This was the first time they had been outside of the CSNY organization. They were copied at
A&M Post Production audio and my personal DAT was made at that time.

The roots of PER&RO go back a lot further than 1971. 1 guess it had its inception in the early years of the '60s (prior to the Airplane, the Byrds et al) when Kantner, Crosby and Freiberg used to hang out, play music, get high and rap together around Venice Beach. That was the initial bond, the start of it all.

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[RustedTelevisione]

Nice to hear from the esteemed engineer of these amazing sessions, Mr Stepehn Barmcard. Will these sessions ever be released? I think a box set is in order. Please?

[txeire]

this sounds like so many other musicians just jamming and experimenting with different things...except its OUTSTANDING even in its rough form. I'd would rather listen to these guys tune their guitars than listen to most bands today play at all.

[paintedmandolin71]

I've been a Dead/CSNYhead for thirty years,and this is just absolutely amazing!!.Grate post!!..We dankya!!

[Richard Kraus]

thank you for the confirmation. Just wanted to make sure my ears were not playing tricks on me ! - thanks again Nathan Gawor

[Nathan Gawor]

15. Mountain Song #4

16. Tamalpais High (at about 3) aka Kids and Dogs

The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra (PERRO) was a loose affiliation of musicians who recorded many sessions at Wally Heider's Studio. This recording is a collection of some of those sessions. The personnel on this recording include: Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, David Crosby, Paul Kantner, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, Grace Slick, Graham Nash, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Spencer Dryden.

[Nathan Gawor]

12-00-70 PERRO Simply Incredible Wally Heider's Studio San Francisco, CA 1st 1st Loser Simply Incredible 1. Wooden Ships Jam 2. Walking In the Mountains 3. Is it Really Monday 4. Mountain Song #1 5. Loser #1, #2 6. Under Anesthesia (false start) - aka You Sit There 7. Under Anesthesia - aka You Sit There 8. Mountain Song #3 9. Wall Song #1 10. Over Jordan - aka Wayfaring Stranger 11. Wild Turkey - aka Leather Winged Bat 12. Loser #3, #4 13. Epp Hour aka Rounds 14. Wall Song #2

[Nathan Gawor]

This Was Recorded At Wally Heider's studio over three or so nights in 1971, this was the very first recording of Loser, in fact when the Grateful Dead finally Played it live in 1971 Jerry still had not worked out the lyrics and just hummed along, as you listen to 1971 Grateful Dead eventually the lyrics debut....there is so much info about the PERRO recordings and who was there, even banter about going to drive and buy more drugs and Jerry saying he will drive....

here is the original set list:

[Nathan Gawor]

Yes



[LeeeShore]

LOL, you're referring to Jerry G's standard 'where the heck is that note - hunt & wander' style on the left channel. David's ad-lib is just fine. :wink:

[Ann Navon]

Someone just turned me on to that album this week, I had never heard it before nice to find musical treasures from artists who helped to write the sound tracks of our lives