I LOVE the internet

Look what I found online! The following is a poster created for a gig Jerry played in 1987 at the Country Club in Reseda. I found it for sale at Wolfgang's vault which is Rock Promoter, Bill Graham's personal collection of rock-n-roll memorabilia. For a mere $50 I was able to surprise Jerry with a piece of his past. The band Go Ahead was an offshoot of The Grateful Dead. When Jerry Garcia was in a diabetic coma this band was formed. The Dead members in the band were Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzman and Brett Mydland. Singing was Alex Ligertwood who also sang lead with Santana at the time and Dave Margen bassist for Santana.

While performing a google search I came across the following link http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/ if you scroll way down the page to "Go Ahead" and wait for it to open in windows media player you can hear Jerry playing live in 1986. What was great about this was that I never heard Jerry play with Go Ahead until just now Monday April 9th, 2007 at 1:40 a.m. I am amazed that on a stage with one really great singer and two good singers with clout they let Jerry sing a song. Many times less talented singers will hog the limelight al night. Even if this is not your cup of tea it is pretty cool for a number of reasons. Brent Mydland was an amazing B3 player but in the Grateful Dead hippy jams he did not get to show his great funky bluesy chops. Jerry sings lead on the fourth or fifth song, Take Me to the River. Check out the way Jerry and Brent trade fours on Take me to the River. Trading fours is when one instrumentalist takes a four bar solo and then another instrumentaltist takes a four bar solo which answers the first line and so forth. It must have been a lot of fun for Brent and Jerry, since they were good buddies. It is like a musical conversation. Alex Ligertwood is an astounding singer from Scotland. Jerry is playing all the lead guitar parts. Definitely hang in for the second song. Alex kills on the vocals.