Music - Featuring Jim Krueger and Keith & Donna w/ Jerry Garcia

This is the most popular section of our website, and contains a compilation of songs from bands that my dad (Mike Larscheid) has played in over the years. This section will be a work in progress, as new music will be submitted as we get the ball rolling.

Please visit all of the music sections below, and use the comments section to submit your own music and comments as well as start your own forum or web log (blog):


Submitted by cp on Mon, 2006-01-09 16:53. 1 comment | 4601 reads

Grease - Backing Up Otis Rush - Madison, Wisconsin - 1970

Here is some music from Grease in 1970 backing up Otis Rush.

Mike Larscheid stated, "Grease was playing in Madison and our manager Ken Adamady asked us if we wanted to back up Otis Rush. Otis had recently released a new album which was produced by Nick Gravanitice and Mike Bloomfield which we were listening to for a couple of months and loved it and knew it by heart. Long story short, Otis never did one cut from the album cause he didn’t like it. We ended up jamming on songs we all knew and it worked out fine."

Players:

Otis Rush, Jim Krueger, Mike Larscheid, Andy Pigeon, Larry Byrne, and Junior Olson

Here are 7 songs from that night:

Intro Jam

Cross Cut Saw

Drown on Dry Land

Got Nobody

Natural Ball

Our Love Will Never Die

Stormy Monday 


Submitted by cp on Tue, 2010-01-26 00:06. login to post comments | 2520 reads

Grease at the Famed Armory

Update 1/23/2010 to fix the bad link to the song, sorry about that...

A song from the band Grease at the Famed Armory.

Night Life

Band Members:

Jim Krueger, Mike Larscheid, Andy Pigeon, Larry Byrne, and Junior Olson


Submitted by cp on Wed, 2008-05-28 09:41. 1 comment | 3956 reads

Jim Krueger and Mike Finnegan - Hays Kansas 1974

Theses songs were submitted by a friend of the site and feature Jim Krueger and Mike Finnegan from a show in Hays, Kansas - 1974:

Going Down Slow (mp3)

Martha's Madman (mp3)

Band Members:

Jim Krueger - lead guitar, vocal


Submitted by cp on Sun, 2008-04-27 15:06. read more | login to post comments | 6371 reads

Jim Krueger - Sweet Salvation

 

Jim Krueger's Sweet Salavation
 
Jim Krueger was a close family friend until his untimely death in 1993. Jim moved to California with our family in the early '70s and played with my dad in both The Denis Guyer Band and Elvin Bishop before joining Dave Mason. Jim was notorious for scaring the living daylights out of my brothers and I when we were kids. During his years with Dave Mason, he wrote We Just Disagree, which is still heard daily on radio stations around the world. The music here is from Jim's solo album "Sweet Salvation" for Columbia Records + the song Words (The Words). Here are the songs, if you have more you would like to contribute, please upload the music and add a posting:

 

Songs: 

Run For Cover

Trinidad

Sweet Salvation

Hotnoggin Country Raga

We Just Disagree

How Long Has it Been

Lay Down Your Weapons

Don't Call Me Chief

Midnight at My Door

Last Call

The Words


Submitted by cp on Mon, 2006-01-09 16:57. 10 comments | 29111 reads

Keith and Donna Band - Featuring Jerry Garcia - 1975

 Keith and Donna Godchaux

Keith and Donna was a band my dad played with during 1975 that was made up of some of the band members of the Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, Keith and Donna Godchaux and Bill Kreutzmann).The music in this section was provided by Ryan Shriver @ thejerrysite.com.  Ryan was also kind enough to provide two shows of Keith and Donna with Jerry Garcia - from August 20,1975 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and December 20, 1975 at Winterland in San Francisco.  Thanks a million Ryan!!

 

Band members of The Keith and Donna Band Keith and Donna Band (8/5/75 thru 12/31/75) Jerry Garcia: guitar and vocals, Keith Godchaux: piano, Donna Godchaux: vocals, Bill Kreutzmann: drums, Ray Scott: guitar, Steve Shuster: saxophone and flute, Mike Larscheid: bass - information about the band was obtained at http://www.op.net/~ujband/jgbmembs.html.  Jerry Garcia sings lead vocals on Scarlet Begonias!

12/20/75 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA

Stuck On You 5.7MB

River Deep, Mountain High 4.3MB

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 6.6MB

I Can't Turn You Loose 6.8MB

Strange Man 4.6MB

Scarlet Begonias 24.2MB

08/20/75 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco

Tough Mama 7.9MB

My Love For You 8.9MB

Straight Life 18.8MB

Straight Life II 2.9MB

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 8MB

Showboat 9.3MB

Come See About Me 9.6MB


Submitted by cp on Mon, 2006-01-09 00:00. 1 comment | 7221 reads

Dennis Geyer Band - Featuring Jim Krueger and Mike Larscheid

Liquid Johnny's Jim Liban, Sam McCue and Dennis Geyer
 
The Dennis Geyer Band is another San Francisco Bay Area band from the early '70s. I am still getting information on band members etc...  This is one of my all-time favorite bands (great horns and rhythm section!). 

 

I believe this show was recorded during a live radio show in either Sacramento or LA...

Band Members (please submit more information as these are all I know of):

Mike Larscheid - Bass, Backup Vocals

Jim Krueger - Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals

Dennis Geyer - Guitar, Lead Vocals

Bill Meeker - Drums

Songs (please submit songs names as I don't know the names of the songs and guessed based on the lyrics):

Easy Peace of Mind

Dream on all You People

Lonely Too

Hit by a Falling Tree

Keep on Tryin'

Hey Ms. Jones

Came Down with the Blues

Move to the Country

The Woman Never Left Me


Submitted by cp on Mon, 2006-01-09 00:00. 2 comments | 5123 reads

Stand Back Blues Band - Featuring Bruce "The Groove King" Koenig

Stand Back Blues Band

Bryan Koenig and The Stand Back Blues Band - Recorded live at the Blue Moon, Kasota, MN - 1996

 

"A hard to find item in the 1990's, a blues band that plays Real Blues" - Wisconsin Blues Society

Musicians:

Bryan Koenig - Harp, Vocals

Bruce "The Groove King" Koenig - Hammond Organ - GRHS

Jay Stulo - Guitar

Mike Larscheid - Bass, (vocals track 6)

Kenny Keoppler - Drums

Songs -

I Don't Wanna Know- Jim Libar

Coo Coo- Jimmy Rogers

Deal the Card- Johnny Young

It Ain't Right- Little Walter Jacobs

Scared of that Child- Little Walter Jacobs

Cross Cut Saw- R.G Ford

She's Tuff- Slim Harpo

Beer Drinkin' Women- Peter Chatman

Blues with a Feeling- Little Walter Jacobs


Submitted by cp on Mon, 2006-01-09 00:00. login to post comments | 4213 reads