tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post359502899364446937..comments2024-03-28T02:11:12.904-07:00Comments on Hooterollin' Around: Jimmy Warren-electric pianoCorry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-35391112354272044832019-06-17T11:18:03.618-07:002019-06-17T11:18:03.618-07:00On last weeks episode of the Big Steve Hour (June ...On last weeks episode of the Big Steve Hour (June 2019) Steve mentioned that he answered the door once and it was the FBI looking for him in an armed robbery incident and that was the last time they heard from him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-6043968565380196182018-10-08T04:42:30.662-07:002018-10-08T04:42:30.662-07:00Jimmy Warren is now Jimmy Jacobs...Jimmy has been ...Jimmy Warren is now Jimmy Jacobs...Jimmy has been playing with the Jello Boys since like '84...we were all good friends through the '80's and '90's but Jimmy wouldn't talk much about his time with the JGB, even though we would badger him for stories...not sure if this is true or not, but there were rumors that he left because of bad influences on Jerry and John...something else must have happened because he changed his name...I don't know, but Jimmy is alive and well today appearing frequently in various ensembles in the Annapolis, MD area...he seems to be doing well for himself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160374829780821057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-60018541638887183112018-03-26T14:31:14.539-07:002018-03-26T14:31:14.539-07:00They have the whole interview up on web now.
http:...They have the whole interview up on web now.<br />http://www.jakefeinbergshow.com/2018/03/the-jimmy-warren-interview/David Kramer-Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068958765621590452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-85254878378077747572018-03-24T11:14:09.658-07:002018-03-24T11:14:09.658-07:00David, thank you so much for transcribing this ove...David, thank you so much for transcribing this over from FB. Nice to hear the real Jimmy Warren talking. <br /><br />Also very intriguing to hear about JK's 8-track...Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-23927218935618249132018-03-24T10:08:30.824-07:002018-03-24T10:08:30.824-07:00“Jerry (Garcia) didn’t want another guitar player ...“Jerry (Garcia) didn’t want another guitar player in his band, he already had that with “The Dead.” He thought he would try the “two keyboard thing” and I think he loved the idea that Melvin Seals was from the church so it could get a little gospely with organ.<br />We showed up at Club Front and John Kahn had lead sheets that he passed out to everyone. We ran through this song and that song and after a couple of hours Jerry says, “can everybody be here tomorrow at 4pm?” I realized I passed the audition, I don’t know if John and him had already decided on what they were doing. I said, “yea, I’ll come back,” because I had fun.<br /><br />Jerry liked to play the song, play the melodies and then we’d “go for it.” I wasn’t really a deadhead and didn’t know much about their organization but eventually they said, “we’re going to start playing some gigs around.”<br /><br />The first gig was Keystone Berkeley (January 1981) and they just told me the night. I go over there and I showed up at 9 or 9:30. Nobody was there, Parish wasn’t there, I go up to the club and I say, “I’m suppose to play with Garcia tonight.” The guy at the front was like, “yea right.” I paid to get in, and the rest of the guys showed up about an hour and a half later. Once they told Parish he gave the front man a really hard time. I learned my lesson, Garcia’s gigs don’t start early. Rock Skully was the road manager, but if you ask me it was Steve Parish who kept it all together.”David Kramer-Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068958765621590452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-18308814393408801992018-03-24T10:07:54.890-07:002018-03-24T10:07:54.890-07:00I found this interview with Jimmie on Facebook...“...I found this interview with Jimmie on Facebook...“I was in New Mexico playing in a country band with a guy who “was going to be the next Jimi Hendrix.” We all went out in his van to Marin County and they knew people in Cascade Canyon in Mill Valley. Liz and her sister Sarah (Stires), that’s how I met them. I saw them singing together and I thought, “man these girls look good, they sound good, we can really get something going.”<br />I was not in the music business, <br />I didn’t have connections like that. I really tried hard to push it. We had a band called “The Cascades” so that’s how Liz and I met.<br /><br />Through friends of them that’s how I met John Kahn, when I first met John he lived in San Rafael. He had a recording studio in his house. Everybody has that nowadays, but back then that was a big deal, to have an 8 Track studio in your house. He had a Tascam, which recorded 8 Track on half inch tape. It came with its old dedicated 8 Track mixer. He had an Oberheim synthesizer, I had never seen anything like it, it was polyphonic and he had an acoustic piano in the room.<br /><br />He wrote out the song that wound up becoming, “Leave The Little Girl Alone,” he wrote it and it was just a Rock & Roll progression. I played piano on it, we had to use a drum machine. His landlady was not cool with us having a drum kit there.<br /><br />He took that song that to Robert Hunter, who put those words to it. Jerry (Garcia) ended up recording it on “Run For The Roses.” I remember making that demo in his studio.<br /><br />He (JK) invited me over, he said, “I’m just doing some demos. Do you want to come play some piano?” We ended up getting along because we both came from LA. He had more connection to show business than my family did. We had similar backgrounds and we certainly had a similar sense of humor.<br /><br />You know the tune “Stormy Monday,” he wrote “Tuesday Morning Blues” and I got a copy of us playing it with Liz singing it. Some of those are old home movies, you put something on like that and you were right back where you were.”David Kramer-Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068958765621590452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-25025443205142806312018-03-18T12:25:16.240-07:002018-03-18T12:25:16.240-07:00Wow this thread really confuses me.Have been seein...Wow this thread really confuses me.Have been seeing Jimmy and the Jello Boys since 88' and in my opinion Jimmy is one of the greatest keyboardists I have had the pleasure of listening and dancing to.I have heard old JGB recordings of his time in the band and can clearly hear his playing and it is solo's not just rhythm playing-I have to believe some are confusing of thinking they are hearing Melvin doing all the keyboard(piano)solos.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704270031464809074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-62209347869630233702017-09-22T09:44:12.067-07:002017-09-22T09:44:12.067-07:00Yep - Mecca from The Land and Rob. Others from the...Yep - Mecca from The Land and Rob. Others from the Stanford crowd were Jay Field (rhythm g., now CTO at City College of San Francisco), Dan McCann (bass, still performing in and around Austin Tx) and the late Ken Johnson (keyboards, sax, etc. etc.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629059182155669055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-51812231685864134462017-08-07T17:41:56.831-07:002017-08-07T17:41:56.831-07:00No, it appears that Jimmy Warren was a pseudonym. ...No, it appears that Jimmy Warren was a pseudonym. He played (and I believe occasionally still plays) with an Annapolis, MD band called The Jello Boys. If you google around, you can find them on Facebook and stuff. He uses the name Jimmy Jacobs, and doesn't particularly deny that he was Jimmy Warren when he was in the JGB. What the exact story might be remains somewhat of a mystery.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-89257088282807010702017-08-07T17:36:23.057-07:002017-08-07T17:36:23.057-07:00Btw I can't even suppose there is an ounce of ...Btw I can't even suppose there is an ounce of truth in it, but i do remember some commentator claiming he/she knew him and that jimmy warren was not his real name but a pseudonym. They said the other name but alas, I don't remember that.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836400229247892182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-6419005235076667542017-08-07T14:20:50.007-07:002017-08-07T14:20:50.007-07:00gd 794 at zippyshare
http://www85.zippyshare.com/v...gd 794 at zippyshare<br />http://www85.zippyshare.com/v/PqQRcwXB/file.htmlCarloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836400229247892182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-54845674359947847492017-08-07T12:04:30.167-07:002017-08-07T12:04:30.167-07:00gdh793 steve parrish interview starts at 28:55
htt...gdh793 steve parrish interview starts at 28:55<br />http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/d8wVwZE1/file.htmlCarloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836400229247892182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-9787926495525574852017-08-07T11:29:25.285-07:002017-08-07T11:29:25.285-07:00here it is the steve parrish interview from gratef...here it is the steve parrish interview from grateful dead hour 794 the warren reference is at 35:25 , ill post the first part of the interview from gdh793 in a bit. <br />http://rg.to/file/51e4a99257111e1c7bf8f3a1e16c8081/gdh794.mp3.htmlCarloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836400229247892182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-35022893014143210602017-08-05T19:02:09.005-07:002017-08-05T19:02:09.005-07:00I've got the audio of the Steve Parrish radio ...I've got the audio of the Steve Parrish radio call in show where listeners asked him questions one of which was about jimmybwarren, it's a good listen with lots of good stories, I think it's gd hour 738 or something, I'll put it up on rapidgatorvwhen I get a chance<br />Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836400229247892182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-52728915614665410802016-01-16T22:03:07.724-08:002016-01-16T22:03:07.724-08:00This is totally fascinating in so many ways. There...This is totally fascinating in so many ways. There appears to be a Mecca Burns on FB, who could be one of the singers. Is Rob Leventhal, the other vocalist, an Associate Professor of German Studies at William and Mary (in VA)? He was a Stanford student from 1975-82, so it sort of fits.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-583032820086523102016-01-16T21:52:10.866-08:002016-01-16T21:52:10.866-08:00Buika, Bob. 1981. Much better live than vinyl. Sta...Buika, Bob. 1981. Much better live than vinyl. Stanford Daily, August 11, 10.<br /><br />Debut EP by the band Wildebeest, entitled Reckless Dreams, was apparently produced by John Kahn and Jimmy Warren, and recorded over five days at Club Front.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-39034507229934672502014-03-30T19:30:51.364-07:002014-03-30T19:30:51.364-07:00Please report on anything interesting. Apparently ...Please report on anything interesting. Apparently he still performs regularly in the Annapolis, MD area.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-70342353207313316542014-03-30T19:25:02.998-07:002014-03-30T19:25:02.998-07:00i'm trying to get in touch with jimmy. this is...i'm trying to get in touch with jimmy. this is Burney C. WarrenAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01038057679971014719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-39244904127504864112012-11-22T11:14:59.244-08:002012-11-22T11:14:59.244-08:00Unlike pretty much everyone else who played with G...Unlike pretty much everyone else who played with Garcia, Jimmy Warren has chosen to remain in the shadows. That makes him all but unique.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-28360677551215665802012-11-22T06:18:50.526-08:002012-11-22T06:18:50.526-08:00I played in the Jello Boys for about a year and I ...I played in the Jello Boys for about a year and I can confirm that Jimmy Warren did play in the band. Sweet fellow but he did have a few habits that were indeed dark. We had a nickname for him in the band: "Jimmy Jones." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-32272863951791542662012-06-22T06:57:32.241-07:002012-06-22T06:57:32.241-07:00Glad he's still playing!Glad he's still playing!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-17625089841092675052012-06-22T01:08:45.368-07:002012-06-22T01:08:45.368-07:00Jimmy was/is in a band called Jello Boys? Popular...Jimmy was/is in a band called Jello Boys? Popular DC-area jam band in the 80s/90s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-44909621548225585052011-12-08T19:41:22.593-08:002011-12-08T19:41:22.593-08:00I updated the post. Great research. Am I correct t...I updated the post. Great research. Am I correct that Melvin Seals has never mentioned that he started in the JGB in a quartet format, and Warren joined afterwards? Of course, I'd guess that no one ever asked him that, either.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-53141773398411984682011-12-08T18:04:45.004-08:002011-12-08T18:04:45.004-08:00OK, I have listened to the following shows:
1/22/...OK, I have listened to the following shows:<br /><br /><a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/12/ln-jg1981-01-22jgbpartialaud.html" rel="nofollow">1/22/81</a><br /><a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/12/ln-jg1981-01-23jgballaud.html" rel="nofollow">1/23/81</a><br />1/27/81<br /><a href="http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/02/ln19810129-jgb-catalyst-santa-cruz.html" rel="nofollow">1/29/81</a><br /><br />And I think <a href="http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/12/jimmy-warren-electric-piano.html?showComment=1322877538199#c3765663281779795106" rel="nofollow">Corry</a> is right: Jimmy Warren comes in on 1/27/81. The first two dates mentioned, first two of the Melvin Seals era, are Garcia-Kahn-Seals-Shaw quartet shows.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-50582458677239199312011-12-05T11:23:16.365-08:002011-12-05T11:23:16.365-08:00I also think I hear two keyboards in "I'l...I also think I hear two keyboards in "I'll Take a Melody". But I am honestly not sure.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com