At 9:40 PM -0400 8/12/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I spent some time listening to the Deads June 10 1973 RFK jamset#3 and I like
>it a lot but I'm questioning the presence of Merle Saunders on keyboards. I
>know its documented that way in all the most reliable places but it sounds
>like only one keyboard to me - Keith on piano. I checked out the great
>soundboard and then a good audience and I couldnt hear any organ at all.
>Taking into consideration that Dickey Betts and the Allman drummers are so
>obviously on this set, wouldnt it make more sense to be Chuck Levell or even
>Greg Allman other than Merle in the case Keith mightve sat this out? Anyone
>with firsthand experience on this question?
I don't know what evidence exists for it being Merle. Gregg Allman
was there with a Hammond organ, and so Occam's Razor suggests --
INSISTS -- that's who plays organ w/ the Dead.
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