Just finished phil lesh’s book ( a bit behind). Gee what was Healy’s problem with Bobby?? I know he was an amateur guitarist, but hey...? Messing his mixes up, distorting his vocals...?
Regarding recording American Beauty, I was ill back around 1971 and watching daytime TV (in the UK). There was a programme about music recording showing Pink Floyd in the studio, then a segment with Garcia, Weir and Lesh in the studio standing round a single mic recording the vocals to Candyman. Never seen it since. So, yes, the vocals were over-dubbed onto a basic track but dies this clip circulate?
re American Beauty vocals, listen to this isolated vocal track from Sugar Magnolia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtErc3XiTA You can hear where Bobby’s double-tracking his vocals (overdubbing himself singing the same vocal part)
There is a few downloadable SBDs available as of this moment with the TJI feature, https://archive.org/details/GratefulDea ... publicdate 9/21/73, 6/19/80 , 4/26/71 etc for those looking upgrades, FLACS etc.... I used to have the grabber but for some odd reason it was not too friendly for my Google Chrome.