Side Trips, Volume One

Side Trips, Volume One is a jazz-rock fusion album by Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia. It was recorded live at the Matrix in San Francisco in 1970, and released in October 1998.[2][3]

Side Trips, Volume One
Live album by
Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia
ReleasedOctober 1998
Recorded1970
GenreJazz-rock fusion
Length65:22
LabelGrateful Dead Records
ProducerHoward Wales
John Cutler
Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia chronology
Hooteroll?
(1971)		 Side Trips, Volume One
(1998)
Jerry Garcia chronology
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(1999)
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Monday night jam sessions at the Matrix

In a 1991 interview, Garcia said, "So they used to have this Monday night jam session, but Howard gradually sort of took it over. Howard's this amazing organ player — difficult person, but wonderful musician. And for some reason he liked our playing, John [Kahn] and mine. We didn't know each other, John and I. In fact we played with Howard for almost a year before we even actually started talking to each other. Really. We would just show up, plug in, and play. About half the set I'd be whispering to John, I'd be saying, 'Hey, man, what key are we in?' Howard didn't have tunings or anything, he just played. Sometimes he would do these things that were so outside that you just couldn't — unless you knew where it was going, you had no idea where to start. Sometimes they'd turn out to be just these things like four-bar blues turnarounds, relatively simple musical things, but they were so extended the way he'd play them — 'God, what is this?'"[4]

Nevertheless, Side Trips, Volume One contains four relatively accessible jazz-rock improvisational performances.

Track listing

All compositions by Howard Wales.

  1. "Free Flight" – 18:14
  2. "Space Funk" – 13:12
  3. "All for Life" – 24:33
  4. "Venutian Blues" – 9:15

Credits

Musicians

Production
  • Produced by Howard Wales and John Cutler
  • CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman
  • Design by Gecko Graphics
  • Photo by Ron Rakow
  • Logo photo by Mary Ann Mayer
  • Thanks to Deborah Garcia, Herbie Herbert, Steve Parish

References
  1. Ruhlmann, William. Side Trips, Volume One at AllMusic
  2. Side Trips, Volume One on DeadDisc.com
  3. Side Trips, Volume One on Dead101.com
  4. Hooteroll? on DeadDisc.com
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