His understanding of music and where it comes from are his real chops. There are a lot of pyrotechnical rockers who play like machine guns, but he’s not into that. “I respect anybody who can produce an acoustic tone that sounds like them. Auction Date: Estimate: 2,400 - 4,500 Description: Woodstock signed poster autographed by Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, David Crosby, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, Joan Baez, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Cynthia Robinson, Rose Stone, Fito De La Parra, Jerry Martini, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Jack Casady, Paul Kanter, Jorma.
“Jerry has got a sound of his own, which says a lot,” says Grisman, who has worked with many of the premier acoustic flatpickers over the past two decades. Lot 132: Jerry Garcia, CSNY signed Woodstock poster. Over the course of Five years and dozens of sessions, the pair recorded close to 100 tunes. There was very little rehearsing per se, and no overdubbing: vocals and instruments all went down in one pass. According to Grisman, the tape machines started running the first day they got together. After a couple of jam sessions at Grisman’s cozy home studio in Mill Valley, California, they knew they had the makings of a record. The concept for Garcia/Grisman began in the winter of 1990 when the pair bumped into each other at a party. When Grisman put together his seminal “Great American Music Band” in 1974, Garcia sat in on banjo on several occasions. Old and In the Way imploded after nine months, leaving the live album “Old and In the Way” in its wake. In 1973 the pair formed “ Old and In the Way,” a quirky semi bluegrass band with Garcia on banjo, Grisman on Mandolin, fiddler Vassar Clements, guitarist/vocalist Peter Rowan and John Kahn on bass. Grateful Dead guitar legend Jerry Garcia originally met David Grisman in 1964, while picking banjo in the parking lot of a bluegrass festival in Sunset Park, Pennsylvania.