Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Armistice Day Rocker: JGB at Felt Forum, November 11, 1982
JGB #15b played two long, smoking shows for John Scher and the assembled faithful on Thursday, November 11, 1982. Among these faithful was taper Jim Wise, who pulled two beautiful, powerful tapes from the theater inside Madison Square Garden. If forced to choose, I’d recommend the late show to you. Clocking in at 108 minutes…
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The Hypothesis is Wrong – Long Live the Hypothesis!
update: I now have it on good authority that, indeed, the arrangements in the tour book are for the crew, while the band enjoyed a somewhat more upscale experience. So, the hypothesis is correct, I just don’t have any parchment evidence for it. update2: here is link to the whole tourbook as a pdf. I…
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Above Ground, But Below the Minelli Line: JGB, The Stone, August 9, 1985
A decade before the final fall, Garcia played another Friday night at the Stone. I still think of this as the Rock Bottom period, even though he is clearly recovering. Two sets below the Minelli Line (45 minutes), the whole gig fits snugly on a single Maxell, with room for filler on the B-side. Nothing…
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Half Century Jerry: JGB in Irvine, August 1, 1992
In looking at the date index for the blog, I noticed I hadn’t engaged a 1992 show, and the only tag for the year wasn’t really focused on it. I confess that I have a strong prior that 1992 sucks. I have spun pieces of shows a time or two, and even whole ones, including…
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Dull as Dishwater in a Classic Art Deco Movie Palace: JGB, Astor Theatre, Reading, PA, September 20, 1976 late show
zzzzz LN jg1976-09-20.jgb.late.aud-peters.138205.flac1644 The rooms sounds fantastic, but the show bores me to tears, except for some nice flowing guitar work in “Catfish John”. My copy of the band itinerary lacks the pages after Ithaca College (9/18), but for that gig they flew in and out of Teterboro, coming back to the St. Moritz and…
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‘We’re Havin’ Fun” – Healthy, Happy Jerry at the Greek, July 10, 1988
LN jg1988-07-10.jgb.all.aud-reutelhuber.25416.shn2flac God, this is such a fantastic fileset. First, the legendary Bill Reutelhuber pulled a tape that just grabs you by the collar and forces you to listen. It is right in your face, in the best possible way. Second –and I hope this isn’t just a tape artifact!– the show, too, brings tremendous…
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Paper Inspiration
In the man-cave in which JGMF happens, I mostly work while facing this wall. My aim is to build a poster collection (which might, naturally, spill over onto other walls) with posters for as many Garcia On The Side configurations as I can. I don’t have a ton of money for this, so I often…
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NOT Jacklyn’s Debut: JGB at the River Theater, Guerneville, October 24, 1982
UPDATE 20211026: Jackie has clearly stated that she and DeeDee joined the band in January 1983. So, as of now, this is the first show with the late ’82 mystery (unidentified) singers backing vocalists Elisecia Wright and Shirley Faulkner. The man who taped this show has just passed away. RIP, John Anzaldo. This is a…
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JGB at the Eel River, Humboldt County, June 10, 1989
Jerry Feelin’ It: JGB at the Eel River, 6/10/89, photographer Steve Walker LN jg1989-06-10.jgb.all.aud-schoeps-ladner.17116.shn2flac Nice tape. Jerry sounds absolutely wonderful, still healthy and happy. Very solid show from a very solid year of shows for the ol’ Garcia Band. Jerry Garcia Band French’s Camp on the Eel River Piercy, CA 95542 June 10, 1989 (Saturday)…
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Placeholder Dates
Some time back, you all convinced me that I should track placeholder dates, and I agreed that it would be helpful in all kinds of ways. But I confess that, not having systematically tracked all of this, it would be a truly massive pile of work to try to reconstruct it all. Does anyone have…