#Mcree’s uptown jug champions

[gratefulfrog]

On December 31, 1963 Jerry Garcia was playing a banjo in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Store while waiting for his regular Tuesday night students to arrive. Since it was New Year's Eve they never came, but a group of friends from Atherton out looking for a place to spend the holiday evening heard the music and went to the door. Among the boys were Bob Matthews, one of Jerry's students, and his classmate Bob Weir.

Jerry got instruments from the front of the store for everyone and they jammed the rest of the night. Soon afterward, they formed the jug band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, which became the Warlocks and then the Grateful Dead. Bob Matthews was an early sound engineer for the Dead during shows and on studio recordings.

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