Grateful Dead
12/24/68

The Matrix
San Francisco, CA


Source: SBD>MR>PCM>WAV>SHN
             Transferred from PCM via SEK'D Prodif96Pro & Samplitude
             This was the source info bundled with the original shns.
             Alternate possible source info could be:
             SBD>MR>??>DAT>CDR>EAC>SHN


Disk 1 [79:14]

SET1	
1. Jam [36:11]
2. Feel It [05:02]
3. Three O Clock In the Morning [11:08]
4. Mojo Worker --> [07:40]
5. Jam [19:12]

NOTES:
-Re-tracked with CD Wave and fixed SBEs with SHNTOOL

-This show has traded under several names: Mickey and the Heartbeats, 
Garcia/Mandel, Jerry Garcia and Friends, and Jerry Garcia and the Harvey Mandel 
Band.

-Known personal: 
Jerry Garcia
Harvey Mandel
Stephen Miller (not Steve Miller, Stephen was keyboard player in Harvey Mandel?s 
and Elvin Bishop?s band)

-Possible personal:
Elvin Bishop
George Chambers
Jack Casady (though unlikely)
?68 era Harvey Mandel Band

- The Deadheads Taping Compendium Vol 1 states Stephen Miller sings vocals on 
trks 2 & 4. Elvin Bishop is credited with vocals on trk 3.

-Further comments from Deadlists:	
The tapes circulating with this date are from a "Heartbeats" show, without Bobby 
and Pigpen, with Harvey Mandel (and George Chambers?). 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 Garcia jamming with the Harvey 
Mandel Band.  This show is not listed in DeadBase XI. 
 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.
CONTRIBUTORS	David Sorochty <scarletfire@erols.com>, Bill Gadsden 
<wgadsden@aol.com>, Dick Latvala, Michael Parrish 
<michael_parrish@worldnet.att.net>

- Thanks to Eric Coplen for the orginal SHN set
  Seeded to etree 6/17/03 by Dave Litfin ? newpotato83@hotmail.com
