Jerry Garcia, Harvey Mandel & Elvin Bishop
The Matrix - San Francisco, CA.
December 24, 1968
SBD>unknown generation cass>wav>shn
Wave &Shn conversion 11-24-02 by Tommy McKeown (Smilin' Sam)
Disk 1
1. Jam
2. Jam cont.
3. We got the Feeling Jesus
Disk 2
1. Thinkin' bout You
2. She's a Motor Worker
3. Jam
* Tracks 1 & 2 are actually 1 track broken into two parts so as not to have to post a 200+meg file.


BAND	Jerry Garcia And Friends 
VENUE	The Matrix 
CITY	San Francisco 
STATE	CA 
DATE	12/24/68 
SET1	Jam [#36:35] ; [0:55] % Feel It [#4:44] ; [0:39] % Three O'Clock In The 
Morning [9:09] ; [0:50] ; Mojo Worker > Jam [27:34] ; [0:18] % Unknown [#2:16] ; 
[0:36] ; Unknown [3:18#] 
SET2	 
SET3	 
ENCORE	 
COMMENTS	Not listed in DeadBase XI. The tapes circulating with this date are 
Jerry Garcia with Harvey Mandel (guitarist who played with Charlie Musselwhite 
and in Canned Heat), Stephen Miller (keyboards player from Linn County, Harvey 
Mandel's Band, Elvin Bishop's band, and The Allman Brothers Band). Some tapes 
list this as also with Elvin Bishop on guitar. Unknown drummer(s). Miller may be 
the person singing on Feel It (title song for Elvin Bishop's second album), 
Three O'Clock In The Morning, and Mojo Woker. The jam after Mojo Worker or one 
of the unknown songs may be "Wade In The Water". The newspaper ads mention Jack 
Casady (bass player in Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) so perhaps he is the 
bass player, but some tapes list George Chambers (bass player for The Chamber 
Brothers). This jam has previously circulated as "Set 3" of 12/16/68, but Bill 
Gadsden says that it's "with Harvey Mandel from 12/24/68". From the San 
Francisco Chronicle newspaper of Monday December 23, 1968 pg 35: "At the Matrix 
tonight and tomorrow night: Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, open end jam, no door 
charge" and elsewhere on the same page under the heading "OPENING TODAY": "ROCK 
CLUB - Jam Session with Jerry Garcia, Jack Cassady and others, from 9:30 p.m., 
the Matrix, 3138 Fillmore. Free." On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of 
Dupree's Diamond News, Dick Latvala stated in an interview "There are tapes of 
12/16/68 marked Hartbeats at the Matrix, but I don't know if that's really 
accurate. You know [David] Crosby was playing with them quite a lot that month." 
He makes no other mention of 12/68 Matrix tapes in that article, but he has 
stated on another occasion that the tapes in the vault of 12/24/68 are labeled 
as Jerry Garcia and the Harvey Mandel Band. 
RECORDING	SB 80 mins. Most circulating recordings of the 1968 Matrix shows 
trace back to Bill Gadsden's reels. Bill and Peter Kafer made copies of Peter 
Abram's (owner of the Matrix) two track 7" Scotch reels in the summer of 1974. 
Peter Abram's reels were either Masters or 1st gens. Recently (5/02) circulating 
CDRs are reportedly MSR(vault)>1R>CDR. 
CONTRIBUTORS	David Sorochty <scarletfire at erols.com>, Bill Gadsden 
<wgadsden at aol.com>, Dick Latvala, Michael Parrish <michael_parrish at 
worldnet.att.net>, Gregg Bucci <slipknot at telocity.com>, Dave Litfin <LITFIND 
at polarfab.com>, Jeff Teidrich <jeff at tiedrich.com>, David Minches <dminches 
at snip.net>  

