At 9:09 AM -0500 5/19/02, Richard Dykes wrote:
>I was listening to the gd hour this morning and heard the "First
>There Is A Mountain" (a.k.a. "Mountain Jam") quote/tease on
>Alligator from 1/22/68 Eagle's Auditorium, Seattle WA. I've heard
>these before but I never realized before this morning that they were
>pre-Allman Brothers. I quess Duane and/or Gregg heard the Dead on
>the west coast when they were working on the "Allman Joys" album &
>it stuck in their head. Interesting that these nuggets evolved into
>the 30-45 opus that the brothers eventually created.
I think it's also possible that the Allman Brothers found Donovan's
"There Is a Mountain" without any help from the Dead. We can't know
for sure, but it's certainly possible.
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