Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

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  • The Dates of All of the Tracks on the Late-Era Arista JGB Releases

    Internaut jmoleton posted sometime back a more or less complete set of dates for the 1990s-2000s official JGB releases, Jerry Garcia Band (1991), How Sweet It Is (1997), and Shining Star (2001), over at the Workingman’s Tracker. I have appropriated jmoleton’s info, asked commenter Nick to check a few things, verified a few things myself,…

  • E72 post 14

    Should have been mentioning that there’s been some good Tigering in the recent PITBs. 5/18/72 bullets follow. Overall, a wonderful show up to Dark Star (where I left off yesterday). I confess that I managed to “miss” “It Hurts Me Too” and “You Win Again” while my headphones had to be removed. Whole (rest of)…

  • The Beatles

    At about the age of 10, my sage older brother got a copy of Abbey Road, and I learned every groove of that record. Then, let’s say in adolescence, the cassette of all the greatest hits and #1 singles and all that, which was ubiquitous in my piece of suburban America, burned me out on…

  • E72 post 13

    5/13/72 fin I know the Lille cancellation and then 5/13/72 has been discussed by LIA and probably Corry in his recent free gigs post. These E72 posts of mine just can’t do justice to what’s out there – feel free to post additional links in comments! I like this show, a lot. The first set…

  • GarciaLive vol. 9: JGMS at Keystone, 8/11/74

    GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – set for 7/28 release. I have done listening notes on the Falanga-Menke aud, and beside the Four Tops’ “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)” –and the tape– it doesn’t slay me. That said, I’ll happily buy it – an uncirculated soundboard to support the…

  • E72 post 12

    5/11/72 Rotterdam Nothing really knocked me out. Nice to see some setlist variations (PITB and Truckin’ in unconventional placements, Dew and UJB making appearances). But Pigpen seems to be running out of steam – neither Good Lovin’ nor Caution really takes off for me, though I did enjoy learning that Pig keeps a bucket of…

  • The Penultimate Garcia Band Show

    LN jg1995-04-22.jgb.all.aud-km54.137833.flac1648 Not a ton jumps out at me, though the “Mission In The Rain” has a nice feel, and “My Sisters And Brothers” takes on some country flavor. Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 22, 1995 (Saturday) – 8 PM Neumann KM54 flac1648 shnid-137833 –set I (6…

  • “When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”

     LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…

  • Swan Song for JGB #15c: Philly, June 5, 1983

    LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-nak300-minches.76973.flac1644 LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-peters.138199.flac1644 I consider 5/31/83 at the Roseland Ballroom to be one of the best Garcia Band shows of the 1980s. Six days later, this band, featuring the great and powerful Greg Errico on drums, would play its final two shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. Surprisingly, only two tapes…

  • A JGB drum solo by Bill Kreutzmann – Cape Cod Coliseum, June 18, 1982

    LN jg1982-06-18.jgb.all.aud-craigl.138576.flac1644 For about a minute-twenty in “Don’t Let Go,” Billy K. solos. It’s a little surreal. I have historically loved this show, but nothing much jumps out at me on this listen. JERRY GARCIA BAND Cape Cod Coliseum White’s Path off Route 6 South Yarmouth, MA 02664 June 18, 1982 (Friday) – 8:30 PM…