Was about to say this. Would have been amazing if they got more time together. We got the Pizza Tapes from only two days recording and no rehearsals.
Love Jerry and the Dead but Tony is my #1 favorite guitarist
To be fair, he’s in amazing shape and he’s literally been to every Dead show, lol. I’m one of the few that likes the slower tempo because I can kinda play along with them. I love mid 70’s GD but my god to the play fast. Speed years I guess.
I'm sorry - they released After Midnight as a single from the new '81 Cape Cod JGB show being released. [If you have Spotify..](https://open.spotify.com/track/10keeI0mWfXYJ13Qah40ri?si=3c7d05b82d304115)
Put Jerry on banjo! If the cards fell slightly differently for him the 60's he would have probably been a professional bluegrass banjo player and the Dead wouldn't have existed
For sure, I loved his banjo playing with Old & In the Way. Which man, there's a super group too. John Hartford and Peter Rowan teaming up with Jerry and Dawg, how can you go wrong there? And then you've got Vassar Clements, John Kahn, and Richard Greene, there's not a single name there that isn't a bluegrass legend.
Always thought it would be cool to hear Jerry play the dobro too. He could sure hold his own on the pedal steel, think he'd have killed it on dobro.
Derek once made a veiled reference to Jerry in an interview, something to the effect about some people squandering their talent. Kinda made me feel bad, because he was right.
# 1971-04-26 New York, NY @ Fillmore East
**Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Big Boss Man, Loser, Playing in the Band, Hard To Handle, Dark Star > Wharf Rat, Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Sugar Magnolia, It Hurts Me Too, Beat It On Down the Line, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Deal, Mama Tried, Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Sing Me Back Home, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-04-26)
Came here to say this exact thing- a Jerry/Knopfler album along the lines of that Atkins/Knopfler would be legendary. We got something similar with the Pizza Tapes, which is obviously absolutely top tier
They do play together, sort of, in CSNY's "Teach your children" (Stills doesn't really solo but he's there). Likely they got together on other occasions too
I saw Stills play with the GD in the early 80’s at Brendan Byrne Arena in NJ. For reference it was one of the few times that they played “Ballad of a Thin Man” I seem to remember it was April 1st or 2nd. Stills was sitting in a luxury box right behind me. I said to my sister “hey, isn’t that Stephen Stills. She replied, no your just Stoned. Smoke another joint.”
That would be fascinating! My two favorite guitarists. They would be very interesting together, because both believed in the importance of live improvisation, but had very different styles, techniques, and influences - Jerry was more free-flowing and influenced by American roots music and jazz, while Fripp worked with much stranger tonalities and was a lot more disciplined. Both were technological pioneers - Fripp with his looping and soundscapes, and Jerry with MIDI guitars et cetera. Very interesting.
On another note, I would love for Trey Anastasio, who took a lot of influence from Fripp in the first place, to have Fripp mentor him and do some sort of Guitar Craft workshop so that Trey can refine his musicianship and general life philosophy without having to abandon his current style. I feel like that would make a big impact.
Django Reinhardt. Trey Anastasio. John Mayer. Steve Kimock.
I’m a big Paul Simon fan - and I would have loved to hear Jerry on 80’s Paul Simon compositions like Graceland rhythm of the saints stuff.
Would have loooved to hear more of Jerry with Duane Allman and Dickey Betts. We got a few recordings but man I would have loved to have gotten a lot more high quality cuts.
Geezus. Prince's house is a museum. There's a GIANT mural in downtown Minneapolis. Evidently his catalog of unreleased recorded music will last for decades or longer.
How much more "credit" do you think he deserved?
Don't even bring up Buckethead. Hes the goat that not many people know. Soothsayer is a seriously great instrumental. Plus you know Jerry wouldn't have minded eating the chicken for his hats. It would have been a match made In heaven.
In August 1987 I saw the Calaveras Mountain Air shows with the Dead and Carlos Santana, and they traded licks on Watchtower, and that was all I needed.
I would sell all my worldly possessions to see Jerry ripping through a wall of high gain amps. The 60s stuff was borderline proto metal at points, he could have been a force of nature metalhead if he kept in that direction.
Acoustic set with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (mars Volta guy) would be fun to see those two maybe do a flamenco style jam
or
Throw Jerry into the Wild Wilburys, primarily to get him to jam with George with some Roy vocals
George Harrison and Jerry would be an interesting matchup. Could see them having fun jamming on a Carl Perkins or Chuck Berry tune.
Alternatively, I'd love to see him play with Sonny Sharrock, a great avante garde jazz guitarist. I could see those two taking Dark Star to the outer edges of the universe.
strange as it sounds at first....Keith Richards...they cross over each other with love of oldies and through Chuck Berry....both more focused on feel than technique. Jerry's sense of melody riding on Keiths rhythm....this could have been REAL good.
Bobby stays on as rhythm guitarist, but add in Django Reinhardt or Charlie Christian with jerry, and they could do similar stuff that they did with branford marsalis. Also add in art tatum with brent. Epic!
I scrolled all the way through this and didn’t see an Eddie Van Halen post? And I know there is a pretty big overlap in Van Halen and grateful dead among GEN Xers.
Prince - arguably the greatest rock guitarist since Jimi - and Jerry would been … interesting. Not sure they would have shared the stage well - remember the RNR Hall of Fame performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”? Prince just OBLITERATED everyone else on stage. Maybe someone more … collaborative, or deferential? I would liked to have seen him with Django, personally!
John Mayer - game peep game y'all and what John's been able to do with the catalog is special - I think the Jerry would respect the hell out of him as a guitar player.
Mayer. With him you’re also getting strong influences of SRV, Hendrix and Clapton, currently in his prime but nowhere near past his prime. Also is an incredible rhythm player and deeply loves the songs.
Prince’s incredible talents are no great secret. Except maybe among stodgy classic rock only types.
With that being said I’d love to see Jerry with either Merle Haggard (and The Strangers) or Herbie Hancock
John Lennon.
I know this doesn't answer this question in the straightforward sense, but this is where my mind went first for whatever reason.
John was a rhythm guitarist and they would've complemented one another well. Where they really would've shone would be on vocals. We're get some gorgeous Dear Prudence, Julia, In My Life, even Imagine, while also getting some rocking Johnny B. Goode, Not Fade Away, and Twist and Shout. (Fun fact: Bobby played Helter Skelter with Paul McCartney at Fenway in 2016.) They'd also have a lot of spaced-out fun with Strawberry Fields, I Am the Walrus, and Dark Star.
So a guitar duo not really centered around the guitar, but a powerful duo making incredible music whilst playing guitars.
Well, you screwed yourself, because I could’ve thought of a good answer but now all I can think of is him playing with Prince.
Which 100% would be an incredible, epic, legendary combination. They could play a to our fire on theountain just trading licks and solos back-and-forth. And it would wander in an out of various songs that they both knew and loved.
His Super Bowl show is what proved prince as a guitarist to me, I have no doubt that they both had a ton of songs in common that they knew how to play, and they both have that certain kind of confidence it takes to go away out on a limb like that. Not every guitarist, even really good guitarists that have all their licks and chops down and are amazing, can do what those two men could do seemingly effortlessly. I.
Ritchie Blackmore or Eddie Van Halen. Incredible blues players, and I think playing with Jerry and/or the dead would have brought a different side of their playing out.
Me
If this isn't everyone's answer, you failed the quiz
I’d be too embarrassed to play with Jerry lol I’m not that good. Kinda how krist novoselic felt about playing with Paul McCartney
Haha was going to say exactly this 😀
We got the dream duo. Tony Rice on the Pizza Tapes. That would have been one hell of a trio.
Was about to say this. Would have been amazing if they got more time together. We got the Pizza Tapes from only two days recording and no rehearsals. Love Jerry and the Dead but Tony is my #1 favorite guitarist
What a tour that would have been!
I always liked him with Bob Weir. China Cat
Who's this.. Bob Weird you speak of? Never heard of the guy
You’ve probably seen him. He goes to All the shows
100%. Love Bobby.
You are boring!
I have been slowing down lately.
So has Bob Weir.
To be fair, he’s in amazing shape and he’s literally been to every Dead show, lol. I’m one of the few that likes the slower tempo because I can kinda play along with them. I love mid 70’s GD but my god to the play fast. Speed years I guess.
Certain stretches of 80’s Dead were WAY faster. Go listen to an Eyes of the World from like ‘83. The tempo is one-seventy-coke.
Heh, heh
What do you know. You’re just sumdumhoe! Couldn’t resist,lol.
Billy Strings
I like to think Jerry would have loved Billy.
Would be so much fucking fun to watch that.
It'd be a real hoot! I'd love love to see them do an After Midnight or another JGB song
What era of Jerry do you picture with Billy?
80's acoustic sets
Nailed it 80s/early 90s was my choice as well. Really think a JGB song like after midnight would be killer
That new JGB After Midnight release is HOT
The Kean College show? There’s a new release? 🤤
I'm sorry - they released After Midnight as a single from the new '81 Cape Cod JGB show being released. [If you have Spotify..](https://open.spotify.com/track/10keeI0mWfXYJ13Qah40ri?si=3c7d05b82d304115)
Jerry, Billy, and Grisman together would have been something
Maybe it'd be getting a little crowded with guitars but why not throw Tony in for good measure? Now that's a super group.
Put Jerry on banjo! If the cards fell slightly differently for him the 60's he would have probably been a professional bluegrass banjo player and the Dead wouldn't have existed
For sure, I loved his banjo playing with Old & In the Way. Which man, there's a super group too. John Hartford and Peter Rowan teaming up with Jerry and Dawg, how can you go wrong there? And then you've got Vassar Clements, John Kahn, and Richard Greene, there's not a single name there that isn't a bluegrass legend. Always thought it would be cool to hear Jerry play the dobro too. He could sure hold his own on the pedal steel, think he'd have killed it on dobro.
Old & In the Way.
On my way to saying this… or the Kahn, Grisman and Rowan stuff, Pizza Tapes would be sick too
That’s a good one. I think they’d both learn a thing or two
Derek Trucks.
Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes playing some Allman tunes. Otiel can come too.
Derek and Warren played with Phil Lesh for a few weeks in 1999, and that's some of my favorite Dead music ever! They had such telepathic chemistry.
Now that’s cooking!
Good call.
I came here to say this!
This was my first thought
Derek once made a veiled reference to Jerry in an interview, something to the effect about some people squandering their talent. Kinda made me feel bad, because he was right.
Skydog
They played together 2/11/70
Absolutely, but that would have been a beautiful thing had Duane not died. Would have loved to see it live.
Are their tapes of this?
Yep, [here's one](https://archive.org/details/gd1970-02-11.sbd.smith.patched.99154.sbeok.flac16)
Which set or songs does Duane and Greg play on? All or just set 2? The comments didn’t really say…
Dark Star>Spanish Jam>Lovelight.
4/26/71 as well. Sugar Magnolia, Hurts Me Too, and BIODTL. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1971/04/26/sugar-magnolia?source=335820
# 1971-04-26 New York, NY @ Fillmore East **Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Big Boss Man, Loser, Playing in the Band, Hard To Handle, Dark Star > Wharf Rat, Casey Jones **Set 2:** Sugar Magnolia, It Hurts Me Too, Beat It On Down the Line, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Deal, Mama Tried, Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Sing Me Back Home, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-04-26)
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Mark Knopfler
He definitely had a knopfler/Chet Atkins thing going for a while, loved it
Came here to say this exact thing- a Jerry/Knopfler album along the lines of that Atkins/Knopfler would be legendary. We got something similar with the Pizza Tapes, which is obviously absolutely top tier
West LA Fadeaway sounds very much like Dire Straits to me.
Wasnt knopfler in the conversation to replace jerry for a minute?
It happened, but I would love to have seen him and Stephen Stills together.
They do play together, sort of, in CSNY's "Teach your children" (Stills doesn't really solo but he's there). Likely they got together on other occasions too
I saw Stills play with the GD in the early 80’s at Brendan Byrne Arena in NJ. For reference it was one of the few times that they played “Ballad of a Thin Man” I seem to remember it was April 1st or 2nd. Stills was sitting in a luxury box right behind me. I said to my sister “hey, isn’t that Stephen Stills. She replied, no your just Stoned. Smoke another joint.”
Wes Montgomery and Jerry would have bubbled into some smooth magic.
Holy moly that is cozy to.imagine
Jimi Hendrix
Almost happened
Jerry Reed or Willie Nelson.
Willie 🤯
The Phish guy
scrolled too far to see Troy
I love Troy Anastasia.
Gilmour! Let him just do his thing on darkstar
Zappa lol
Pretty sure Zappa hated the Grateful Dead and all bands who took drugs lol.
I know. Love him just the same tho.
He did play with Pink Floyd though
Peter Green
2/11/1970 epic lovelight jam
John Scofield
Neal Casal
Robert Fripp
Scrolled to see if my choice had been taken. Fripp!
That would be fascinating! My two favorite guitarists. They would be very interesting together, because both believed in the importance of live improvisation, but had very different styles, techniques, and influences - Jerry was more free-flowing and influenced by American roots music and jazz, while Fripp worked with much stranger tonalities and was a lot more disciplined. Both were technological pioneers - Fripp with his looping and soundscapes, and Jerry with MIDI guitars et cetera. Very interesting. On another note, I would love for Trey Anastasio, who took a lot of influence from Fripp in the first place, to have Fripp mentor him and do some sort of Guitar Craft workshop so that Trey can refine his musicianship and general life philosophy without having to abandon his current style. I feel like that would make a big impact.
Acoustic with bill frisell.
Django Reinhardt. Trey Anastasio. John Mayer. Steve Kimock. I’m a big Paul Simon fan - and I would have loved to hear Jerry on 80’s Paul Simon compositions like Graceland rhythm of the saints stuff.
Curtis Mayfield joining Merl and Jerry, let's get funky
not guitar but les claypool
Would have loooved to hear more of Jerry with Duane Allman and Dickey Betts. We got a few recordings but man I would have loved to have gotten a lot more high quality cuts.
> Prince didn’t get nearly the credit he deserved as a musician imo. Pardon?
Geezus. Prince's house is a museum. There's a GIANT mural in downtown Minneapolis. Evidently his catalog of unreleased recorded music will last for decades or longer. How much more "credit" do you think he deserved?
Yeah, for real. Prince is widely accepted as one of the best multi-instrumentalists ever.
Robert Randolph
Great answer, he would be incredible on JGB tunes and Jerry would appreciate the hell out of his playing with his pedal steel past
jack white
Jerry.... Jerrryyyy.. jeerrrrryyyyyyy. Please don't take away my suitcase... Just because you can.
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Don't even bring up Buckethead. Hes the goat that not many people know. Soothsayer is a seriously great instrumental. Plus you know Jerry wouldn't have minded eating the chicken for his hats. It would have been a match made In heaven.
Joe Walsh
Pat Metheny
Jorma
In August 1987 I saw the Calaveras Mountain Air shows with the Dead and Carlos Santana, and they traded licks on Watchtower, and that was all I needed.
Tony Iommi
I would sell all my worldly possessions to see Jerry ripping through a wall of high gain amps. The 60s stuff was borderline proto metal at points, he could have been a force of nature metalhead if he kept in that direction.
Fuck yeah buddy hahaha i wrote the same thing then scrolled down and saw your comment hahaha
Willie freakin Nelson
John Bell or that john mayor guy
I would clone Jerry Garcia and have Jerry play with Jerry man
🤯
This is nuts lol
Prince was ABSOLUTELY a jam band when he played live. One day everyone will realize this.
Lil wayne
Mick Taylor
Dream no more. Mick was far too laid back. Playing a Weir modules https://youtu.be/L9w9NjroByE
Jerry and Barney Kessel on Bird Song
Carlos Santana, and I saw it around ‘91 in Vegas.
Wouldn't have minded seeing him trade licks with Mayer.
Had to scroll way too far for this!
Billy Strings
Acoustic set with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (mars Volta guy) would be fun to see those two maybe do a flamenco style jam or Throw Jerry into the Wild Wilburys, primarily to get him to jam with George with some Roy vocals
Tony Iommi
Tommy Emmanuel
Grant Green
George Harrison and Jerry would be an interesting matchup. Could see them having fun jamming on a Carl Perkins or Chuck Berry tune. Alternatively, I'd love to see him play with Sonny Sharrock, a great avante garde jazz guitarist. I could see those two taking Dark Star to the outer edges of the universe.
strange as it sounds at first....Keith Richards...they cross over each other with love of oldies and through Chuck Berry....both more focused on feel than technique. Jerry's sense of melody riding on Keiths rhythm....this could have been REAL good.
Bobby stays on as rhythm guitarist, but add in Django Reinhardt or Charlie Christian with jerry, and they could do similar stuff that they did with branford marsalis. Also add in art tatum with brent. Epic!
Bob Weir
Young Jerry and clapton first a whatever blues song then a more psychedlic dead song like dark star or something like let it grow would be sick
Trey Anastasio would have been great with Jerry.
Jeff Beck
Willie Nelson and Jerry would have been a dream show for me.
Freddie King Danny Gatton
BB King or Buddy Guy would have been awesome
Kimock or BS
Chet Atkins Robby Robertson Derrick Trucks
Django, Jerry, and Grisman for a Pizza session
Acoustic ragas/sound collages with John Fahey
Jerry Reed
Tommy Emmanuel.
Duane Allman or BB King
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd 🎸
I scrolled all the way through this and didn’t see an Eddie Van Halen post? And I know there is a pretty big overlap in Van Halen and grateful dead among GEN Xers.
Bob Weir
my dream lineup is John Mayer, Jerry, Weir, Mydland, Chimenti, Billy, Mickey, Phil, Claypool and Oteil! let’s gooo
there’s this guy from the bay area named bobby weir that i feel like he’d really shred with
Jerry and Bobby
Prince - arguably the greatest rock guitarist since Jimi - and Jerry would been … interesting. Not sure they would have shared the stage well - remember the RNR Hall of Fame performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”? Prince just OBLITERATED everyone else on stage. Maybe someone more … collaborative, or deferential? I would liked to have seen him with Django, personally!
Whoa Django Reinhardt interesting
Matt Pike
Jj Cale
Brent Hinds
Scott Metzger
Neil!
Jerry and Del McCoury doing Bill Monroe jams, Sierra Hull on mandolin to give Grisman a well deserved break.
Justin Hayward.
Jimmy Herring JJ Cale Billy Strings Uncle Warren Slash
John Mayer - game peep game y'all and what John's been able to do with the catalog is special - I think the Jerry would respect the hell out of him as a guitar player.
Mayer. With him you’re also getting strong influences of SRV, Hendrix and Clapton, currently in his prime but nowhere near past his prime. Also is an incredible rhythm player and deeply loves the songs.
Billy Strings
Vieux Farka Touré
I wouldve loved to listen to cream era clapton and 68’ jerry
Prince’s incredible talents are no great secret. Except maybe among stodgy classic rock only types. With that being said I’d love to see Jerry with either Merle Haggard (and The Strangers) or Herbie Hancock
David Gilmour
Bonnie “that ain’t no way to treat a lady” Raitt
A bunch of good answers, but IMHO nobody could have played with Jerry as well as Bob did.
Duane Allman
Carlos Santana
John Lennon. I know this doesn't answer this question in the straightforward sense, but this is where my mind went first for whatever reason. John was a rhythm guitarist and they would've complemented one another well. Where they really would've shone would be on vocals. We're get some gorgeous Dear Prudence, Julia, In My Life, even Imagine, while also getting some rocking Johnny B. Goode, Not Fade Away, and Twist and Shout. (Fun fact: Bobby played Helter Skelter with Paul McCartney at Fenway in 2016.) They'd also have a lot of spaced-out fun with Strawberry Fields, I Am the Walrus, and Dark Star. So a guitar duo not really centered around the guitar, but a powerful duo making incredible music whilst playing guitars.
Jorma, John Cippolina, Hunter (for thr love)
Frank Zappa
Charo
Personally, seeing him do an acoustic set with Doc Watson would be a dream come true
Jerry plays banjo, Billy Strings play guitar.
I think Pete Townshend and Jerry in 1969 would have been a wild rock and roll jam
Duane Allman
robert smith
Stevie ray
Mark Knopfler
Terry kath
I would have live to see Jerry play with the John ColtrNe Quartet.
Jerry and Billy Strings
electric:Zappa or Hendrix,,,, acoustic Blind Willie McTell pedal steel with Junior Brown
It already happened. Steve Kimock with Jerry Garcia.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Steve Kimok or David Lindley
I wish I could sing TLEO with Jerry backing me on guitar.
Keith Richards
Well, you screwed yourself, because I could’ve thought of a good answer but now all I can think of is him playing with Prince. Which 100% would be an incredible, epic, legendary combination. They could play a to our fire on theountain just trading licks and solos back-and-forth. And it would wander in an out of various songs that they both knew and loved. His Super Bowl show is what proved prince as a guitarist to me, I have no doubt that they both had a ton of songs in common that they knew how to play, and they both have that certain kind of confidence it takes to go away out on a limb like that. Not every guitarist, even really good guitarists that have all their licks and chops down and are amazing, can do what those two men could do seemingly effortlessly. I.
Depending on the tune. Stevie Ray Vaughn or David Gilmore
ummm.... Trey
Woody Guthrie
Bob Weir
Ritchie Blackmore or Eddie Van Halen. Incredible blues players, and I think playing with Jerry and/or the dead would have brought a different side of their playing out.
john mayer
Good choice. Agreed on the credit aspect- Prince was an incredibly talented musician and song writer.