I know someone who knows him very well. I'll see what I can find out. -----Original Message----- From: owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu [mailto:owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Powell Sent: 25 April 2012 11:57 To: deadlists Subject: supposed "Alembic studio 68 rehearsal with T.C."
It would be useful if someone who's in touch with him -- without mentioning any names -- could ask T.C. to give a listen to the tape posted on archive.org and see if he can say whether it's him or not. Maybe he'll surprise us but it sounds like there's an emerging consensus that the keyboards aren't T.C. and aren't Pipgen, for whom the incessant wooden repetition of that riff would have been as unlikely as for T.C., unless maybe he was on a macrobiotic fast and ludes or something. Maybe it's an electric organ, John. It's not necessarily possible to tell, especially at that point. I hazarded the "May-June 1958" date based on the sense that the band is less together, more tentative than in the August 68 tapes (21, 22, 23, 24, 28) and partly because they are rehearsing material they play in August. But maybe the "11/6/68" date is accurate. It's around the period when we have circulating tapes of Dead members with other musicians & without Pigpen & Bobby (Oct 8, 9, 10 & 30). Where does the "11/6/68" date come from? Can Lemieux comment on this? How is this tape labeled in the Vault? I have the impression that "Alembic" was a name Bear applied variously at will. * Michael Zlotnick., my guess is your bootleg's track is actually Cafe a Go Go, NYC 9/29/69 Doin' That Rag [7:30] > The Seven [7:04] ... -- ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4957 - Release Date: 04/24/12
