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Shaun's Collection

Grateful Dead   12/24/1968

The Matrix, San Francisco, CA
Recording SHNID 9475
Source SBD>MR>??>DAT>CDR> EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable)
Media SHN   1 disc
Notes " The tapes circulating with this date are from a "Heartbeats" show,
without Bobby and Pigpen. (1) with Harvey Mandel (and George Chambers?)
. This jam has previously circulated as "Set 3" of 12/16/68, but Bill
Gadsden says that it's "with Harvey Mandel from 12/24/68".

From the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper of Monday December 23, 1968
pg 35: "At the Matrix tonight and tomorrow night: Jerry Garcia, Jack
Casady, open end jam, no door charge" and elsewhere on the same page
under the heading "OPENING TODAY": "ROCK CLUB - Jam Session with Jerry
Garcia, Jack Cassady and others, from 9:30 p.m., the Matrix, 3138
Fillmore. Free."

On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of Dupree's Diamond News, Dick
Latvala stated in an interview "There are tapes of 12/16/68 marked
Hartbeats at the Matrix, but I don't know if that's really accurate.
You know [David] Crosby was playing with them quite a lot that month."
He makes no other mention of 12/68 Matrix tapes in that article, but he
has stated on another occasion that the tapes in the vault of 12/24/68
are labeled as Garcia jamming with the Harvey Mandel Band. This show
is not listed in DeadBase XI.
Trades Allowed Yes
SHNID 9475
30 minute jam; See info file for details; SBD>MR>??>DAT>CDR; via Raoul Duke; Seeded to etree by Matt Vernon
Owned by Shaun · Last Updated Oct 8, 2004