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Assorted jams on various themes: Low Down Payment, Homeward Through The Haze, Stronger than Dirt, Music Never Stopped, Frozen Logger(?)

Notes

SBD>MR>DAT>CDR; David Crosby and the Dead from weir's Studio; via Raoul Duke

 Subject: Dead & Crosby

This is a long session which features Ned Lagin and David Crosby practicing various Crosby & Dead songs. The two Crosby songs are quite dull, though if you're patient enough to make it through the full songs, they have interesting jams in the second halves. But it will take quite a dedicated listener to endure a half-dozen takes of Low Down Payment! Track 6 is a long, different jam which is the highlight - check it out to hear an unusual Dead jam with three guitarists and two keyboards. Later they practice Music Never Stopped and Stronger Than Dirt, over and over. Garcia is quite restrained during this Dead rehearsal; in fact, I wonder if he's even on guitar in this part, or if it's just Crosby & Weir. (Crosby was supposed to play with the Dead at the 3-23-75 show, which is why he's learning their songs.) Overall, not a recommended session.

 Subject: David Crosby vocals here

That's not Jerry doing the vocals, but David Crosby, who was living in Marin at the time. Low Down Payment and Homeward Through the Haze appeared on the Crosby and Nash album "Wind on the Water" later that year. Here, Crosby is audible in the second version of Homeward. Low Down Payment is the better song, and here Jerry is in his element. You can only really hear Crosby in the last instance, track 10. The Dead here are very relaxed thoughout. Listen to Kreutzman, who is really on in this set.