In the early '90s he still thought well of the album: "As far as I'm concerned Cats Under the Stars is my most successful record - even though it's my least successful record! I've always loved it and it just never went anywhere." In an interview with Joel Selvin he was more succinct " had everything - chops, production, songs."Ĭats Under the Stars peaked at No. We did all those tunes on tour right after the album came out, with John and Maria, Keith and Donna and I think Ronnie Tutt was still playing drums with us on those first few tours." (Although Ron Tutt played on the album, he left the band before the album was released and was replaced by Buzz Buchanan. That's the one that I’m happiest with, from every point of view in which I operate on that record. On another occasion in the early '80s he said " Cats Under the Stars is my favorite one. But I’ve learned not to invest a lot of importance in 'em, although it's nice to care about your work." I think I probably gave away more copies than I sold.
It did worse than any other record I ever did.
The record was not a financial success, but it remained Garcia's favorite, as he said in an interview in the late 1980s: "The record I worked hardest at and liked best was Cats Under the Stars.
Garcia explained " Tutt liked the drum sound in the room and we hadn't really thought about it before, so we whipped the place into a recording studio." The album was the first to be recorded at the Grateful Dead's Club Front in San Rafael, a warehouse space that had been acquired for band rehearsals and then converted to a studio.
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