So this is my 365th post. After a year of daily undiscovered songs, I'm going with a longer post today.
In 1970, Grateful Dead studio engineer Bob Matthews was in London working with some other groups(while the Dead toured). Specifically, he was working at Trident Studios with some relatively unknown bands. It so happens that George Harrison was working in the same building one night mixing tracks for his new album. Matthews was waiting to use the rest room and ran into George. Matthews expressed how much of a fan he was and told Harrison that he worked for the Dead.
Some time after that conversation, Matthews and fellow Dead engineer Betty Cantor ended up getting invited to listen to the near finished album that Harrison was working on, All Things Must Pass. After being blown away by the new double-LP, Harrison then put on a tape of some studio outtake jams. These jams were very different from the rest of the album but they really cooked. Harrison said that they weren't going to release those. Matthews then told Harrison about how the Dead convinced their record label to release a double LP, Live Dead. by convincing Warner Bros. to release it at a single LP price. That double LP went on to cement the Grateful Dead's growing legend as a live band.
Several months later, wasn't Bob Matthews surprised to see that All Things Must Pass was released as a triple LP at a double LP price. The third LP were all of those jams that may otherwise not have been released. More details on that story here.
Here is a track off of that third disc called I Remember Jeep. Jeep was Eric Clapton's old dog and features Eric Clapton on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_lNY0VRHk
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