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Jerry Garcia at the office in 1970
©
2003 Stephen Barncard |
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Jerry
Garcia played on "Oh Mommy" |
The long list of musicians who have
appeared on Brewer &
Shipley albums is truly a
Who's Who of musicians. Of all the
contributions by those brilliant musicians, the one that seems to draw the most
interest from fans, is the late Jerry Garcia's contribution to Brewer & Shipley's 1970 Tarkio
album.
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Another day at the office |
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"Wally Heider's studio in San Francisco had
a
bunch of the Bay Area musicians in there every day," explained Michael
Brewer. "Part
of Jefferson Airplane's original record deal was unlimited studio time
there, so Studio A was basically their room and the Dead had kind of the
same deal and they were upstairs in Studio B or D.
It was like going into the office. The Dead was in there every day, or
some offshoot of the Dead; the Airplane or offshoots were in there every
day, Hot Tuna or whoever.
We knew a lot of them from back in the folk days. I met Paul Kantner
when he played banjo
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and had a flat-top
haircut, so we went back a ways with some of these people. Jerry
had just started playing pedal steel guitar. He came in one day, and we
were working on some stuff. We said, 'Hey Jerry, we got a song here,
would you like to play pedal steel?' And he said, 'Sure.' So
he set up his pedal steel and played on a song called
'Oh Mommy'
(I Ain't No Commie),
the B-side to 'One Toke Over the Line.'"
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