Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Weakest Show of ’88? JGB, December 3, 1988, Orpheum SF
I absolutely love 1988 JGB. There’s not much of it, but it’s mostly all light and bouncy and healthy sounding and interactive and good. He does speak from stage here, as he did on 7/10/88. That’s kind of noteworthy, I guess. That said, just spun 12/3/88 and it left me whelmed. Bill Reutelhuber made a…
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JGB in Binghamton, November 20, 1977: first night DLG + LAALWFH = 1/2 (two weeks later DLG + LAALWFH)
LN jg1977-11-20.jgb.all.sbd.141495.flac1644 First night of the fall ’77 Garcia Band tour (22 gigs in 22 nights), third live gig for young Buzzy Buchanan in the drummer’s seat. The great Jerry Moore had some nasty thoughts about him, but I think he sounds fine here. Keeping time for this group could not have been a picnic. I…
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Makes Up In Enthusiasm What It Lacks In Precision: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983
LN jg1983-11-12.jgb.all.mtx.141451.flac1644 update: d’oh! Already posted this one. Crispy clean but flat and unbalanced sbd meets in-your-face but unbalanced Menke aud to make for a sweet matrix. Thank you Andrew F. for your work! The show? It’s late ’83. The sets are getting shorter. The DLG is fucking killer, and the Deal makes up in enthusiasm…
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Anyone ever seen tape of JGB January 8, 1983?
UPDATE: someone on Twitter, I can’t recall who, points out that this is very likely to be a mislabel of 1/8/84, and I agree. No ads, no listings, and a setlist very similar to what we know for 1/8/84. I now consider this a phantom gig. Man, for all kinds of reasons, I need to…
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These sets aren’t getting any longer: JGB #21a at the Beverly Theatre, October 1, 1983
One of the things that I expect will become possible at some point is to get some relatively valid data on set times across the years. One of the reasons I try to be so precise with my timing notations is that I am going to want to train a machine to parse song, set…
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First JGB at the Keystone: October 11-12, 1975
The JERRY GARCIA Band Prior to fall of 1975, Garcia’s side bands had mostly a) been relatively loose aggregations and/or b) not had his name on the marquee. All of this preserved a kind of informal quality, maybe some plausible deniability, a little bit little less spotlight to go with his insatiable appetite for gigging.…
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Imagine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_song) Wiki says John Lennon’s “Imagine” was released on October 11, 1971. Yet Garcia and Saunders played it on September 24, 1971. Corry has explained that release dates are a little fuzzy, but can someone narrate how Merl Jr. would have had the record to play some time before 9/24? (He says he was playing…
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JGMF on Tales From the Golden Road
Dear readers, David Gans and Gary Lambert will be hosting yours truly on “Tales From the Golden Road” on the SiriusXM GD channel today at 5 PM eastern, to talk about the topics you know well from the site and, especially, Jerrybase! m0thra and I keep working the site, lots more features, new data, eye…
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Farewell to Ronnie at the Rainbow: JGB in Denver, November 19, 1981
LN jg1981-11-19.jgb.all.aud-unk-vamarty.25792.shn2flac If Garcia’s local gigs paid for his smokes and such, his east coast jaunts paid the big bills. In the book I will try to narrate coherently (ha!) that late 1981 through 1982 showed Garcia trying to straighten out his financial and business affairs (including a relatively local early 1982 “tax tour” that never…
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Garcia Undercover
If you have Spotify, someone has done what I have considered doing, and surely better than I could have – compiled a whole bunch of the original and other versions of tunes that Garcia covered. Spotify – Garcia Undercover Looking forward to checking this out!