On Apr 6, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Caleb Kennedy wrote: > "Alembic studios, early or mid '68: studio rehearsal" - A couple > issues here. I believe this is undoubtedly Tom Constanten on organ, > and the rehearsal is for his benefit, which places this rehearsal in > early December '68.
Not necessarily. TC did some work in the studio with the GD before joining the band in December 1968. > Also, there was no "Alembic studios" in '68. The tape is believed to > be from Pacific High Recording in San Mateo, where the Dead were > recording Aoxomoxoa. > <http://archive.org/details/gd1968-11-06.StudioRehearsals.GEMS.82393.flac16> Pacific High was at 60 Brady Street, later the site of Alembic and then His Master's Wheels. The studio in San Mateo was called Pacific, but it wasn't Pacific High.
