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| David Nelson |
lead guitar, vocals |
| John Dawson |
rhythm guitar, vocals |
| Jerry Garcia |
pedal steel guitar |
| Dave Torbert |
bass, vocals |
| Spencer Dryden |
drums |
| * represents standard lineup during this period, but may not be completely accurate for this show |
Updates
Added time of show based on poster...Changed venue based on poster and listing at Deadlists. - slip_not on Feb 3, 2012
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John Dawson (Marmaduke) - Acoustic guitar, superb Lead Vocals,
David Nelson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals,
Dave Torbert - Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals,
Jerry Garcia - Pedal Steel Guitar,
Spencer Dryden - Drums and Percussion.
For all intents and purposes this was Jerry's last show with The New Riders. He did appear again on 3/18/73 and 2/2/74.
See
NRPS website for bootleg record of this date.
from Blair Jackson's Garcia: An American Life
Page 224, bottom; more on Garcia leaving the NRPS:
"Basically, Jerry got to be too busy," John Dawson says. "But also, it was sort of understood that he was helping get what I wanted goin'. He dug what I was doing and he dug the fact that my trip let him do something different, because he was always looking do different things. It gave him a chance to warm up and also to relax a little bit before he had to concentrate on the Grateful Dead's set. At some point he said, 'I don't think I can do this too much longer; I think you guys should get someone else.' But he knew at that point that we'd already met Cage and that's who we'd probably go with. So he knew we were covered and then he took that opportunity.
"And it worked out great. When we changed from Garcia to Cage, the pedal steel playing got better. Garcia wasn't a steel player; it's as simple as that. He definitely brought a certain panache to the whole thing and a certain style that had never been explored on that instrument before — like the fuzz-tone on 'Dirty Business.' But Cage was so good and he could even pick up on all that — he loved the fuzz tone, for example. He did some stuff on 'I Don't Need Doctor' that was unreal. I don't know whether Garcia actually influenced how Cage played — it was more like it was a green light for exploring directions he'd already checked out a little. He picked up where Garcia had been headin', but with a professional touch that he already had. We were after a more traditional kind of thing, to tell you the truth. We welcomed and liked that improvisational edge, but Cage was even better at that, because he was a real steel player." Garcia agreed, and often credited Cage with teaching him much about the steel during the Festival Express trip. |
| Recordings courtesy of db.etree.org and Lossless Legs |
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