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?

@ timhorpo here is an insightful thread that may shed some light on that question https://archive.org/post/356978/dan-hea ... ob-weirwtf

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)

you can hear this same effect on Jerry’s vocal on Uncle John’s Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyxS2dHDmY8

also re American Beauty, Stephen Barncard said "We got the tracks in a couple of weeks; we did the vocals in two more."

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.

GD 3-18-73 available TJI 2/14!

Ha! That 73’ is actually 77 ?

Thanks @Pig Street.

best slide guitar free Franklins from 1978?

Also check out Frank Fairfield for some of the best American music I’ve ever heard

The TJI feature at Archive has SB 1979-02-17 and 1976-08-04 Grab them!