But then Ned Lagin cleared things up in 2014, relating that the entire premise of the jam session was a little different. He says that “this was a local radio broadcast designated and promoted as ‘A Day In The Country.’” However, Ned does remember it as a “very high day for everyone. One of the very memorable days.” And he thinks the “day exemplifies the spirit of music and comradeship of the times” that he experienced in the early seventies in the Bay Area.

Ned also clears up some of the confusion about who exactly was there. Phil dubbed a tape for Lagin and also wrote a few notes on the case, including a list of musicians: “Stokes, Garcia, Lagin, Hart, Lesh, Crosby, Cippolina, Freiberg.” But Ned says that Phil just tired of writing and left off “Barry Melton, Jorma, Jack Casady, Paul Kantner, maybe Merl Saunders.”

So, we seem to have a pretty definitive idea of the principals and a better sense of what everyone was up to. We can definitely still dream of hanging out in Mickey’s barn and listening to everyone jam away.