The Pizza Tapes

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The Pizza Tapes
The Pizza Tapes cover
Studio album by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice
Released April 25, 2000
Recorded February 1993
Dawg Studios
Genre Folk, Bluegrass
Length 73:58
Label Acoustic Disc
Producer(s) Craig Miller
Professional reviews
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice chronology
Breakdown
(1997)		 The Pizza Tapes
(2000)		 Don't Let Go
(2001)


The Pizza Tapes is an album by the American musicians Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice. The album was made over a series of two evenings in 1993 featuring completely unrehearsed songs recorded in Grisman's own recording studio.

Contents

[edit] History

Garcia knew Grisman from playing with him in Old and in the Way. Also, Grisman had contributed his mandolin to Ripple and Friend of the Devil on American Beauty.

In February 1993, Grisman was playing with Tony Rice and invited Garcia to his studio. Over the nights of February 4 and February 5, the trio recorded what would be known as The Pizza Tapes.

Garcia's copy was stolen by a pizza delivery boy and, not long after, Grisman heard a song on the radio in New York. Fans started bringing tapes to Grateful Dead shows for autographs, and shortly after, the band confiscated a box of bootleg CDs of the session.

Seven years later, Grisman released the album with the songs in the order recorded, with a few mistakes, false starts, and some talking between musicians.

Rice gave credit to the late Garcia and wrote:

“ I wish there were words that would express my gratitude for being a part of it. Perhaps just knowing that Garcia might be smiling somewhere saying, "Dawg can we hear that take again?" will suffice. ”
 
— Tony Rice, The Pizza Tapes

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Appetizer" – 0:13
  2. "Man of Constant Sorrow" (traditional) – 5:06
  3. "Appetizer" – 0:29
  4. "Louis Collins" (Mississippi John Hurt) – 5:57
  5. "Shady Jam" (Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice) – 3:41
  6. "Shady Grove" (trad.) – 4:46
  7. "Always Late" (Lefty Frizzell, Blackie Crawford) – 0:57
  8. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) – 3:19
  9. "Appetizer" – 0:26
  10. "Long Black Veil" (Danny Dill, Marijohn Wilkins) – 4:31
  11. "Rosalee McFall "(trad.) – 3:12
  12. "Appetizer" – 1:13
  13. "Drifting Too Far From The Shore" (Charles Moody) – 4:54
  14. "Amazing Grace" (trad.) – 4:52
  15. "Little Sadie" (trad.) – 3:12
  16. Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 4:47
  17. "Space Jam" – 0:59
  18. "So What" (Miles Davis) – 6:29
  19. "Appetizer" – 0:23
  20. "House of the Rising Sun" (trad.) – 5:39

[edit] Trivia

  • The Pizza Tapes contains the only known version of Garcia performing "Amazing Grace" which was only played after Pam Rice, Tony Rice's wife, requested it.

[edit] Credits

[edit] Musical personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producer – David Grisman
  • Executive producer – Craig Miller
  • Recording, mixing – David Dennison
  • Mastering – Paul Stubblebine
  • Production assistant – Rob Bleetstein
  • Photography – Pamela Rice, Dexter Johnson
  • Design, layout – D. Brent Hauseman
  • Liner notes – David Grisman, Tony Rice

[edit] Samples

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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