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Tracks
Original tracks;
- South Side Strut (Martin Fierro / Howard Wales)
- A Trip To What Next (Howard Wales)
- Up From The Desert (Howard Wales)
- DC-502 (Howard Wales)
- One A.M. Approach (Howard Wales)
- Uncle Martin's (Howard Wales)
- Da Birg Song (Howard Wales)
From 1987 onward reissues have been with an extended and resequenced tracks;
- Morning In Marin (Howard Wales)
- Da Birg Song (Howard Wales)
- South Side Strut (Martin Fierro / Howard Wales)
- A Trip To What Next (Howard Wales)
- Up From The Desert (Howard Wales)
- DC-502 (Howard Wales)
- One A.M. Approach (Howard Wales)
- Uncle Martin's (Howard Wales)
- Evening In Marin (Howard Wales)
Musicians
- Howard Wales - piano, organ
- Jerry Garcia - guitar
- John Kahn - bass
- Curly Cook - rhythm guitar
- Bill Vitt - drums
- Michael Marinelli - drums
- Ken Balzall - trumpet
- Martin Fierro - saxophone, flute
Credits
- Produced - Alan Douglas and Doris Dynamite
- Horn arrangements - Martin Fierro
- Recording Engineer - Russ Geary
- Mixing - Tom Bongiovi
- Cover painting - Abdul Mati
- Design - J. E. Tully
Notes
Evening In Marin is another take of Up From The Desert.
In an interview in 1991 Garcia, while discussing working with John Kahn over the years, commented on his time playing with Howard Wales; He [John Kahn] and I have been playing together since - we started working together for Howard Wales at a little club in San Francisco called the Matrix on Monday nights, right around '68, '69, somewhere around there. When the Grateful Dead isn't working, I like to keep playing.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 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? Anyway, I learned a lot - both of us learned a lot about staying awake and listening to what's going on, playing with Howard. It was a real experience. We played with him for a couple of years, and then Howard went off and kinda - periodically he gets this thing of where he just can't deal with the music world any more, and he just disappears. So we were there, stuck there, and we were supposed to play Monday night, and we didn't have a player. John said, 'Well, I just did some sessions with this guy Merl Saunders.
For another interview he recalled;
Howard was so incredible, and we were just hanging on for dear life ... playing with Howard did more for my ears than anybody I ever played with, because he was so extended and so different.
In an interview in early 1996 John Kahn also discussed the Wales/Garcia band;
I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back, this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We'd split up maybe ten dollars amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that's not what he wanted to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that's when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it's been going ever since.
During an earlier interview Kahn recalled;
We played Monday nights there for a while, and for the longest time, hardly anybody would show up. We'd get ten people and split ten dollars four ways at the end of the night.
Reissues
Issued in the UK in 1972 on LP by CBS (CBS 69013)
Reissued in October 1987 on CD and Cassette by Rykodisc (RCD 10052 & RACS 0052)
Reissued in July 1992 on CD by Grateful Dead Records (GDCD-41082)
1987 and later reissues are in a reconfigured format.
Related releases
A 7 inch single was released from Hooteroll?;
One track from Hooteroll?, South Side Strut, was included on a promotional sampler EP;
South Side Strut was included on the sampler release;
Da Birg Song was included on the Rykodisk sampler;
Da Birg Song was also included on a free Rykodisk sampler;
An archive release featuring Wales and Garcia music from Monday night jams in San Francisco during 1970 has been released;
- Side Trips, Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales, 1998, Grateful Dead Merchandising, GDCD4061
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