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Gene Shalit interviews Jerry.

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Jerry Garcia afternoon of March 28, 1981 hotel room, Essen, Germany This is a 48-minute recording of an informal conversation between Jerry Garcia and Ayatolla H?bsch (?), held at Garcia's hotel room in the afternoon before the Rockpalast show. Topics include Illuminati books, islam and the Sikhs. Somewhere in the middle the telephone rings. Jerry picks up and talks to Brent for a moment. At the end H?bsch starts singing a song to Jerry, who then accompanies him on an acoustic guitar. This recording saw minimal circulation when it was reportedly sold in Germany in the 80s. Many thanks are due to Tilli for obtaining a copy of the master cassette. I applied some denoising in SoundForge; the sound is not optimal but still listenable. I don't know much about H?bsch (who contributes at least as much to the conversation as Garcia) except that he was a writer and "beat poet" and he converted to islam in the late seventies.

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Disk 1: 1.intro w/greg Harrington 2.Acoustic sets...song selection... 3.video brodcast 4.Reckoning..dead set's 5.15yrs...deadheads 6.hunter 7.brent 8inspiration..transition...communtication 9.slide guitar...Bobby 10.brent 11.taping shows 12.venues 13.(phone call) 14.song teases(knock on door) (more people in room) 15.setlist 16.unbroken cahin 17.radio city music hall 18.(phone call) 19.improv... 20.tours 21.sign this...deaadbase 22.intro of new people in room 23.talking about-pot,people,)jerry choking on joint),red rocks,ect.. 24.playing the zoo

1.songs 2.passing the joint-trip down mem lain w/jerry 3.weir...hart 4.straight people 5.(pat calls) 6.talkabout time..(backround noise of the news somthing is going on in london)talk about wars,acid test,new years 7.(phone call) 8.jerrys got to go 9.Althea from that night (in 2nd set)

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DISC ONE 1) intro w/Greg Harrington -questions & answers- 2) acoustic sets...song selections... 3) video broadcasts, etc... 4) Reckoning....Dead Set(being mastered today) 5) 15 yrs...deadheads/crowds... 6) songwriting w/Hunter... 7) The Eleven....performing w/Brent... 8) Inspiration...transitions...communication... 9) Slide guitar ....Bobby's rappin' 10) Brent's style... 11) taping shows... 12) different venues... 13) (phone call/splice) 14) song teases...Unbroken chain... (knock at door/splice) more people in the room now.... 15) song selections...setlists... 16) unbroken chain ever played?... 17) video of Radio City... 18) phone call 19) (splice) improvisation... 20) future plans...tours... 21) autographs & generosities...future deadbase... (knock at the door) 22) new folks are introduced 23) chatting w/new folks about midwest...pot...people...choking on joint....red rocks...etc, ...more coughing...Chicago... 24) talking about Althea.... playing the Zoo (phone call, splice/tape flips)

DISC TWO 1) /songs....Althea in set 2?.... 2) passing the joint...remebering venues....tunes....tours... 3) talking about Weir...Hart...flying... 4) being around straight people... 5) someone named Pat calls, Jerry invites backstage access 6) chatting about time off...singing... Women R Smarter/Aiko... (at various points, folks in the room are watching some crazy event on the news in London? I'm not sure what was happening in the world on this day...) chatting about Ireland...War...Cambodia Benefit...New Years....Acid Tests...Alaska... 7) phone call 8) Jerry's gotta go... 9) Althea from that night (in the 2nd set)

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