Comments on: Ian & Sylvia Jamming CC Rider http://www.deadshowpodcast.com/ian-sylvia-jamming-cc-rider-131/ Live Dead Videos. Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil - Jerry Garcia Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: george http://www.deadshowpodcast.com/ian-sylvia-jamming-cc-rider-131/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 george Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:12:47 +0000 http://www.deadshowpodcast.com/?p=131#comment-1434 The key to the whole thing was the guy playing the Strat, stage left, wearing a brown vest over a short-sleeved, yellow/white striped polo shirt! THAT - is Amos Garrett. When Tyson asked me to come to an I&S concert in Feb. 69, he wanted me to hear this new thing he had going - new way of writing, new music. Turned out to be one of the seminal folk/rock cum country/rock bands of that period. Great Speckled Bird, he called it. He already had a steel player, Bill Keith (yeah, Bill of the Banjo!) but they hated each other. He had heard me playing with Ronnie Hawkins, wanted me and told The Hawk (and I quote) "When you're done with him. I want him!" Tyson's a cowboy - a real one. He doesn't fuck around. I went to the concert, took my hippie girlfriend (the very epitome of what a hippie chick should look like!), I was loaded for bear. But what I wasn't prepared for was this guitar player. Holy fuck!!!!! Up to today, I've never heard anything like this guy. Now, moving up the ladder to I&S was something but man...I would have done this gig just to carry this guy's suitcase. Jerry knew! bc The key to the whole thing was the guy playing the Strat, stage left, wearing a brown vest over a short-sleeved, yellow/white striped polo shirt! THAT – is Amos Garrett.

When Tyson asked me to come to an I&S concert in Feb. 69, he wanted me to hear this new thing he had going – new way of writing, new music. Turned out to be one of the seminal folk/rock cum country/rock bands of that period. Great Speckled Bird, he called it.

He already had a steel player, Bill Keith (yeah, Bill of the Banjo!) but they hated each other. He had heard me playing with Ronnie Hawkins, wanted me and told The Hawk (and I quote) “When you’re done with him. I want him!”

Tyson’s a cowboy – a real one. He doesn’t fuck around.

I went to the concert, took my hippie girlfriend (the very epitome of what a hippie chick should look like!), I was loaded for bear. But what I wasn’t prepared for was this guitar player. Holy fuck!!!!! Up to today, I’ve never heard anything like this guy. Now, moving up the ladder to I&S was something but man…I would have done this gig just to carry this guy’s suitcase.

Jerry knew!

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