Hooteroll?

Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia

Douglas #5 (manufactured and distributed by Columbia - KZ 30859)

Tracks

Original tracks;

• South Side Strut (Fierro / Wales)
• A Trip To What Next (Wales)
• Up From The Desert (Wales)
• DC-502 (Wales)
• One A.M. Approach (Wales)
• Uncle Martin's (Wales)
• Da Birg Song (Wales)

• Morning In Marin (Wales)
• Da Birg Song (Wales)
• South Side Strut (Fierro / Wales)
• Up From The Desert (Wales)
• DC-502 (Wales)
• One A.M. Approach (Wales)
• Uncle Martin's (Wales)
• Evening In Marin (Wales)

• Morning In Marin (Wales)
• Da Birg Song (Wales)
• South Side Strut (Fierro / Wales)
• Up From The Desert (Wales)
• A Trip To What Next (Wales)
• DC-502 (Wales)
• One A.M. Approach (Wales)
• Uncle Martin's (Wales)
• Evening In Marin (Wales)
• She One Lived Here (Inman)
• Sweet Cocaine (Traditional)

• 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

• Producer - Alan Douglas, Doris Dynamite
• Horn arrangements - Martin Fierro
• Recording Engineer - Russ Geary
• Mixing - Tom Bongiovi
• Cover painting - Abdul Mati
• Design - J. E. Tully

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.

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.

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.

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.

The image on the front cover of this album is part of the middle section of a series of five transformational landscapes by Abdul Mati (Abdul Mati Klarwein) entitled Saint John. The image has been clipped by different amounts on different releases of the Hooteroll? album.

The middle section of Saint Joan has also been used as the cover art on the Kaleidoscope album by Jam & Spoon.

The five images that comprise the Saint John series can be viewed on the Abdul Mati Klarwein Saint John web page.

Images from work by Abdul Mati Klarwein have also been used on the Miles Davis albums Bitches Brew and Live/Evil and the Santana album Abraxas and on albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Reuben Wilson, Matt Egan, Eric Dolphy, The Last Poets, Jon Hassell, Osibisa, Joe Beck, Greg Allman, Buddy Miles and Jackie McLean. For more information about the artist see the Abdul Mati Klarwein website.

Reissues

Reissued in October 1987 on CD, Cassette and clear vinyl by Rykodisc (RCD 10052, RACS 0052 & RALP 052)

Reissued in July 1992 on CD by Grateful Dead Records (GDCD-41082)

Reissued in 2003 on CD by Evolver (Evolver 2016)

Reissued on CD in 2009 with same track list as previous CD releases. This release reinstates the original front cover art.

Reissued on CD in 2010 by Douglas with Trip To What Next reinstated and two bonus live tracks. This release was called Hooteroll! + 2.

Related releases

A 7 inch single was released from Hooteroll?;

• South Side Strut / Uncle Martin's, Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia, January 1972, Douglas JZS7 6501

• South Side Strut / Theme Of El Topo / Peace One / Maybe, Various Artists, 1972, Douglas AS7 1008

• Douglas Sampler, Various Artists, 1998, Douglas 200

• Steal This Disc 2, Various Artists, 1987, Rykodisc

• Here It Is, The Music, Various Artists, 1988

• Side Trips, Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales, 1998, Grateful Dead Merchandising, GDCD4061

• Hooteroll Plus 2, Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales, 2010

2009 CD version

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