Thursday, September 6, 2012

Garcia's garage, 351 Bryant Court, Palo Alto, CA

Weir had just met Garcia (as he says, on New Year’s Eve, 1963). “I think I first met Pigpen in Garcia’s garage in Palo Alto at the first jug band rehearsal. Garcia had said he knew this guy Pigpen who played real good blues; and even though he’d been around, I’d never really heard about him until that day.”(1)

"The jug band rehearsed anyplace it could--at the Hamilton Street pad, Weir's parent's house or, as likely, in the garage of the cozy two-bedroom cottage Jerry and Sara rented after he returned from his eastern odyssey.
Three-fifty-one Bryant Court was a sunny little house with a small yard surrounded by a white picket fence, a great improvement over their previous residence."(2)

Jerry rehearsed on
12/31/63 Bob Weir, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Other numerous unknown dates

1.)^http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/04/pigpen-solo.html
2.)^http://www.postertrip.com/public/5568.cfm

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