![jerrygarcia's tweet photo. Jerry had several lineups he played with across his non-Dead musical life, but one person was by his side through almost all of it: John Kahn, born 79 years ago today.
In an interview originally published in May 1996, John shared his recollection of getting to know Jerry: “I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We’d split up maybe $10 amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that’s not what he [wanted] to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that’s when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it’s been going ever since.”
From those quiet Monday nights at The Matrix to decades of music with Jerry, thanks for keeping it steady, John. What Jerry/Kahn performance should we turn up today?
📸 Bob Minkin Photography | Ed Perlstein](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKksF6FWMAASFfw.jpg)
![jerrygarcia's tweet photo. Jerry had several lineups he played with across his non-Dead musical life, but one person was by his side through almost all of it: John Kahn, born 79 years ago today.
In an interview originally published in May 1996, John shared his recollection of getting to know Jerry: “I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We’d split up maybe $10 amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that’s not what he [wanted] to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that’s when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it’s been going ever since.”
From those quiet Monday nights at The Matrix to decades of music with Jerry, thanks for keeping it steady, John. What Jerry/Kahn performance should we turn up today?
📸 Bob Minkin Photography | Ed Perlstein](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKksF6AXsAAyUMD.jpg)
![jerrygarcia's tweet photo. Jerry had several lineups he played with across his non-Dead musical life, but one person was by his side through almost all of it: John Kahn, born 79 years ago today.
In an interview originally published in May 1996, John shared his recollection of getting to know Jerry: “I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We’d split up maybe $10 amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that’s not what he [wanted] to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that’s when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it’s been going ever since.”
From those quiet Monday nights at The Matrix to decades of music with Jerry, thanks for keeping it steady, John. What Jerry/Kahn performance should we turn up today?
📸 Bob Minkin Photography | Ed Perlstein](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKksF6AXQAA2Rhx.jpg)
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Jerry had several lineups he played with across his non-Dead musical life, but one person was by his side through almost all of it: John Kahn, born 79 years ago today.
In an interview originally published in May 1996, John shared his recollection of getting to know Jerry: “I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We’d split up maybe $10 amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that’s not what he [wanted] to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that’s when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it’s been going ever since.”
From those quiet Monday nights at The Matrix to decades of music with Jerry, thanks for keeping it steady, John. What Jerry/Kahn performance should we turn up today?
📸 Bob Minkin Photography | Ed Perlstein
![jerrygarcia's tweet photo. Jerry had several lineups he played with across his non-Dead musical life, but one person was by his side through almost all of it: John Kahn, born 79 years ago today.
In an interview originally published in May 1996, John shared his recollection of getting to know Jerry: “I actually got to know Jerry because of this Monday night jam session gig at a club called the Matrix in San Francisco. This goes pretty far back this is like 1968. It was a Monday jam session gig. It was Jerry, Howard Wales, the organ player and Bill Vitt. Bill Vitt was the drummer with the Bloomfield Band at that time, and he turned me on to the gig. I had never met Jerry, I had met Howard once before. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I just kept doing that. We played Monday nights when everybody was in town. Nobody came, there was maybe five or six people there. We’d split up maybe $10 amongst the four of us. It went on for a while like that, I mean nobody ever came. Then finally one night there were a lot of people out there, and Howard realized that that’s not what he [wanted] to do, and he stopped doing it. So I got Merl Saunders, and that’s when it turned into the Jerry Garcia Band, and it’s been going ever since.”
From those quiet Monday nights at The Matrix to decades of music with Jerry, thanks for keeping it steady, John. What Jerry/Kahn performance should we turn up today?
📸 Bob Minkin Photography | Ed Perlstein](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKksF6GWcAA412h.jpg)
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