Born on valentines day, 1934 in san mateo, california, saunders began learning to. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Fantasy eventually combined this album with an earlier saunders effort for a cd entitled fire up plus. Hammond b3 player merl saunders has recorded with numerous renowned artists since the early 70s and has led many of his own dates in a variety of genres from jazz to blues to new age to rock. Fire up plus is an album by merl saunders and friends. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Compilations other albums which feature this performance of the song. It has lots of superrare fulcherdominated tunes here.
This reissue set combines the two early merl saunders albums on fantasy, fire up and heavy turbulence. Fire up jerry garcia and merl saunders jerry garcia. Were so happy to see the moments captured by fans have a place in the digital space where jerry lives on. A few of the tunes with jerry leading and merle filling with organ are as good, or nearly as good as the saundersgarcia material from the live at the keystone.
Just think how hot jerry was playing with the grateful dead during this same period. On allmusic, lindsay planer wrote, let the music speak for itself as live at keystone is chocked with inspired covers, each respectively extended and collectively improvised by coinstrumental leads jerry garcia guitarvocals and merl saunders organ. Thank you for contributing to the collective memory of jerry garcia. The dead delivered a monster 3 set show, with the third set featuring merl saunders, dickey betts and butch trucks. Here is an opportunity and may hear a fabulous jams where our always reminded tom fogerty the break with its fabulous rhythmical living in addition to other musicians such as the case of jerry garcia. It contains most of the songs from two lps from the early 1970s heavy turbulence, and fire. Merl saunders and friends title of album heavy turbulence fire up 197273 year of release. The content of these original albums is almost there in its entirety and nothing new and previously unreleased is added to the stash. Born february 14, 19341934 02 14 origin san mateo, california, usa died october 24, 20082008 10 24 aged 74 instruments. The six tracks that feature jerry were included on the 1992 release fire up plus. It contains most of the songs from two lps from the early 1970s heavy turbulence, and fire up. It was released on cd by fantasy records on july 9, 1992. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod.
Born on valentines day, 1934 in san mateo, ca, saunders began learning to play the piano at the age of 10. Merl saunders died in san francisco, california on the morning of october 24, 2008, after fighting infections as a result of complications related to the stroke. Merl saunders was an american multigenre musician who played piano and. Merl saunders died in san francisco, california on the morning of october 24, 2008, after fighting infections as a result of complications related to the stroke which he suffered in 2002. The big airplay number of the time was the opener, after midnight, which despite its dated 70s mildew is after all a good vehicle for the saunders greasy organ style, as would be anything even vaguely bluesy. Hammond b3 player merl saunders has recorded with numerous renowned.
It was released on cd by fantasy records on july 9, 1992 fire up plus features merl saunders on keyboards and vocals, jerry garcia of the grateful dead on guitar and vocals, tom fogerty of creedence clearwater revival on guitar, john kahn on. Merl saunders fiesta amazonica, keepers, funky friends, twilight. One winner will be randomly selected on the deads second favorite holiday october 31st and the remaining 5 at the end of the contest on. Why on earth could they not have included these tracks as well. Merl saunders fire up a1 after midnight bass fender bass john kahn drums bill vitt electric piano, organ merl saunders guitar, vocals jerry garcia rhythm guitar tom fogerty a2 expressway to your heart bass fender bass john kahn congas gaylord birch. Be the first to know about the grateful deads exclusive limitededition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. These two cds that here we are a musical quality excellent, and exquisite for all the fans who want to make of step know merl saunders.
Merl saunders and friends heavy turbulence fire up. Merl saunders and friends heavy turbulence fire up 197273 1992 self. Fire up was the better of the two albums and i used to play that one much more often. Versions different performances of the song by the same artist. This one has sara fulcher on vocals in some places and has some rare songs. Hammond b3 player merl saunders recorded with numerous renowned artists beginning in the early 70s and led many of his own dates in a variety of genres from jazz to blues to new age to rock. The six tracks that feature jerry were included on the 1992 release fire up. Jerry garcia and merl saunders fire up may 01, 1973 fantasy. Instrumental funk track from his great 1973 lp fire up.
A few of the tunes with jerry leading and merle filling with organ are as good, or nearly as good as the saunders garcia material from the live at the keystone albums. Merl saunders album fire up was released on fantasy records in early 1973, and it featured the track lonely avenue, recorded at the phr ksan broadcast on february 6, 1972. Hammond b3 player merl saunders recorded with numerous renowned artists beginning in the early 70s, and led many of his own dates in a variety of genres from jazz to blues to new age to rock. A few of the tunes with jerry leading and merle filling with organ are as good, or nearly as good as the saundersgarcia material from the live at the keystone albums. Chocklite puddin is the single missing pearl, representing quite a severe mistake in editing, as this was. The core of garcia, saunders, bassist john kahn and drummer bill vitt are joined. He was survived by his two sons, tony saunders bassist and merl saunders jr. Born on valentines day, 1934 in san mateo, california, saunders began learning to play the piano at the age of 10. Merl saunders and friends heavy turbulence fire up 1972. Featuring live recordings, studio tracks, interviews and much more. Here is another jerry garcia and merle saunders show.
From february 1971 to july 1975, merl saunders and jerry garcia often played live shows together when the grateful dead were not on tour. I personally remember seeing him perform on his legendary blues from the rainforest tour back in 93 and spoke to him briefly after the show. Live material performed by the garcia saunders band in 1973. Producer merl saunders engineer brian gardner assistant engineer eddie harris photos, art direction tony lane thanks to chuck. If you like early 73 garciasaunders, and especially sara fulchers vocal stylings, youll love this. I told him how cool it was that he passed out rain sticks and percussive instruments to the crowd and that i thoroughly enjoyed the show. Merl saunders fire up plus is a more than worthwhile addition to a cd collection. Saunders had his fire up album, the pair were playing the keystone regularly, and they were about to record a live album, so the broadcast helped all those ends. Jerry garcia and merl saunders 19730123 boarding house. Listen free to merl saunders fire up after midnight, expressway to your heart and more.