China Camp Family Band

Garrett Deloian, JP McLean, Jerry Saracini and Scott Guberman started this band while three of them were living on a property at China Camp in San Rafael, which is where the name comes from. All four work the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band side of the Bay Area scene, and the band's stated purpose is to make new versions of familiar songs the way the Dead did rather than to reproduce recordings. The Junction in Mill Valley bills them as two sets of Dead and JGB, which is what they play. They have no site of their own; McLean's gig list carries the dates.