Hooteroll

Jerry Garcia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Evolver
• ASIN: B00008V5UD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,781 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Morning in Marin

2. Da Birg Song

3. South Side Strut

4. Up from the Desert

5. DC-502

6. One A.M. Approach

7. Uncle Martini's

8. Evening in Marin

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Grateful Dead guitarist/icon Jerry Garcia was involved in any number of side projects during his illustrious career, but few as adventurous or musically far-ranging as this 1971 collaboration with keyboardist Howard Wales and a handful of other Bay Area musicians (including Garcia Band cohorts John Kahn and Bill Vitt). On his first album release outside the Dead, Garcia seldom takes center stage, instead seasoning a diverse collection of instrumentals with spare, tasty trademark fills and some propulsive funk- and R&B-inspired rhythm work. Selections like "South Side Strut" underscore Wales previous work in service of James Brown and the Four Tops, but range as far a field as the Bitches Brew-lite free form jazz of *Morning in Marin* to the gorgeous, ethereal Garcia showcase "One A.M. Approach." --Jerry McCulley

Product Description

This new version is a replacement for ASIN: B0009839DI, which is now deleted.

The new version is a MUST HAVE CD FOR FANS OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD
AND JERRY GARCIA. Includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks, SHE
ONCE LIVED HERE AND SWEET COCAINE, recorded live in 1972, and A TRIP
TO WHAT NEXT, from the original LP, on CD for the first time! Six-page digipak
features liner notes by Robert Gardiner. Brand new enhanced, repackaged reissue of
this classic features a cover painting by Abdul Mati Klarwein.

o The bonus tapes from the Hooteroll Tour give us a chance to hear Garcia &
Wales, playing before a live audience and having a great time.


* A classic, this record is Jerry Garcia's first non-Grateful Dead work!
* Special digipak reissue never available before in America features stunning art by Mati
Klarwein.
* Hooteroll? shows early-era Dead influence, yet incorporates the years of experience
accrued by Garcia. Some very unique music is created in this session, and lets the listener
see how Garcia could branch out to do something different--more experimental, more off-the-
cuff, and more spontaneous.
* Using a seven-piece band and implementing organs, sax, trumpet, guitars, bass, and
drums, kaleidoscopic musical waves and journeys combine to make a very diverse and jam-
filled record.

Howard Wales: organ, piano
Jerry Garcia: guitar
John Kahn: bass
Curly Cook: rhythm guitar
Bill Vitt, Michael Marinelli: drums
Ken Balzall: trumpet
Martin Fierro: saxophone, flute --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Funkadelic & the Mellow Jerry Garcia, February 9, 2007

By 

TUCO H. "H. TUCO" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hooteroll (Audio CD)

This is a brilliant album from beginning to end. It alternates between high energy, fired-up, funky organ, drum & bass driven tracks with fuzz guitar solos akin to Funkadelic's first album & James Brown or Brian Auger and beautiful, trippy instrumental ballads.

The up-tempo tracks have the rhythm section cookin' and Howard Wales smokin' on the organ with Garcia grooving along and completely at home with the tunes in funky Eddie Hazel fuzz-guitar land and sometimes even venturing into Reggie Lucas/Pete Cosey land of the Miles Davis "Agharta" album. Then you have the slow tracks "Up from the Desert," "One A.M. Approach" & "Midnight in Marin" which are gorgeous compositions with definitely the best Garcia electric playing I've personally ever heard. These are what I always play first for anyone who says they don't understand what's so great about Jerry Garcia. The man is a deeply soulful cat who values feeling more than superficial chops and that's what great music is all about in the end

This is also the album many people will like who aren't big fans of the Grateful Dead because it's a bit more of a departure into a grittier, jazzy urban sound , away from their more countrified, hick influences and from Garcia's bluegrass influenced recordings.

Highest recommendation and one to pull out as the ultimate demonstration of Garcia's hippie-renaissance-man versatility.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Trip To What Next?, February 3, 2005

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mj7den (Stevens Point , WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hooteroll (Audio CD)

Enjoy Hooteroll? and Side Trips Vol. 1 for the fantastic Hammond playing by Howard Wales and it doesn't hurt that JG comes along with the package. I have owned the original Hooteroll? release on Lp record since the mid 1970's and was spoiled by Howard's playing. He squeezes every button on the B3 and pushes the Leslie to it's limits using every tweak and whistle the horn can throw. I've seen several good Hammond players live throughout the years but none of them pushed it to the limits like Howard does and I've always walked away from those concerts feeling somewhat disappointed. My only disappointment with the CD release of Hooteroll? is the fact that one of the better songs where Howard really pushes the envelope was left off the CD. What happened to "A Trip To What Next"? The song was replaced by "Evening In Marin" which is a re mix or second take of "Up From The Desert". It would have been a gem to include all the material on the new CD. Hopefully "A Trip To What Next" will be released on Side Trips Vol. 2. Hooteroll? If your a Garcia fan and haven't heard it... your in for a treat. One of the best projects in Jerry's discography.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, September 23, 2010

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Dark Star-The Other One (The Bus To Never Ever Land) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hooteroll?+2 (Audio CD)

This has been one of my favorite albums since the early '70's and we FINALLY get A Trip To What Next on cd along with two bonus songs recorded in concert on 1-28-72 at the Palace Theatre in Providence RI. This albums has a very heavy jazz feel and may not be up everyone's cup of Kool Aid. This albums was first released in 1971 on Douglas Records and quickly became a rarity. In 1987, this was released on Rykodisc with two outtakes but missing A Trip To What Next and with a slightly edited version of One AM Approach. Both are included here in their entirety. The song layout on all the cd versions including this one, is also different from the lp versions. I should point out that Howard wales plays the organ on the original studio version of Truckin' American Beauty.

The disc starts off with the high energy Morning In Marin which was one of the bonus tracks on the Rykodisc version. Da Bird Song is a wonderful song a more laid back than the opening number. South Side Strut gets things jamming and was the original opening song on the lp. Up From The Desert is a nice laid back song with great playing from all the musicians and I love the effect Jerry uses on his guitar which blends in perfectly with Howard's wonderful keyboard work, John Kahn's bass and the horns. Next, A Trip To What Next makes it's first appearence since '71!!! This starts out with everyone playing a nice melody before giving way to a trippy organ solo which then fades back into the intro at the beginning of the song. DC-502 is another driving song before giving way to the beautiful One AM Approach with just Howard and Jerry. Uncle Martin's is a fun song and is followed by Evening In Marin which was the other bonus song on the Rykodisc version. Evening In Marin is pretty much a slightly longer Up From The Desert but it's nice to have. The bonus songs She Onced Lived Here features Jerry at his country and western best while Sweet Cocaine is a blistering blues number with Roger "Jelly Roll" Torres giving a great vocal performance.