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

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  • Reuben’s Electric Return: JGB at Portland Civic Auditorium, January 14, 1984

    LN jg1984-01-14.jgb.all.aud-faintych.32333.flac1644 “Reuben And Cherise” (s2t06): first electric performance since 1978! Jerry had brought a bunch of the Cats stuff back in ’83. This was the last to re-appear. (Gomorrah: 5/21/83 [electric]; Rhapsody In Red: 5/26/83; Cats: 6/3/83). Jerry sounds good throughout, as, especially, does Kemper. These pre-coma 80s JGB Knockin’s are so sweet and lilting. Rhapsody…

  • The “Little Cash Cow,” Fall 1991 Edition

      Table xxx. JGB Gig Income, Fall 1991 Tour Table xxx. JGB Gig Gross and Income, Fall 1991 Tour

  • Venues not attached to specifics

    So I have been trying to cull information from the Big Steve show, which is just amazingly rich with all kinds of wonderful little anecdotes and tales. They don’t always line up with the historical record precisely, but the man has an amazing memory and it’s all right even when it’s not strictly correct. A…

  • Best Visions

     I know you all know this, but oh my God.

  • Southwest Jerry with the JGB #15b No-Longer-A-Mystery Singers: Mesa and Austin, October 30 – November 1, 1982

    LN jg1982-10-30.jgb.all.aud-maurins.120334.flac1644 LN jg1982-11-01.jgb.all.aud-dogman.100575.flac1644 I have recently copped to the fact that I have no idea who the backing vocalists are from October 24, 1982 to November 15, 1982, comprising a swing south to LA and Arizona, east across Texas (Austin and Houston) and to New Orleans, and up the eastern seaboard. It hurts me to have…

  • I Have A Confession To Make

    I do not know who the JGB backing vocalists were between October 24, 1982 and November 15, 1982 I have posted many, many times about the early 80s backing vocalists (see Appendix below). Our understanding of who was who, and when, was greatly abetted by the fact that Corry Arnold took notes from the GD…

  • Wabbit Hunting with Garcia and Kahn in Oakland and Guerneville, August 17-18, 1985

    I shouldn’t be mean. But posterity might not recall that many characterized Jerry’s vocal sound in 1985 as resembling Elmer Fudd, so I am doing it for future generations. You can thank me later. Not much to report. While the Dunsmuir House and Gardens maybe have been a cool place to see Jerry on an…

  • Nice RAC, Señor: JGB at the Warfield, April 25, 1994, set II

    Not much bandwidth these days, so some bullets. 1) I am way behind on posting listening notes. I have lots backed up, and many of them are pretty spare. I have sometimes threatened to post these kind of notes in batches, just to get them out of my mind, and not always followed up. This…

  • The still-unidentified funky instrumental from 8/20 and 8/30/75

    UPDATE: researcher David Kramer-Smyth spoke with Hadi al-Saadoon, who identified David Kessner as the composer. David Kessner confirms he wrote it, but is not sure if it had a name. At Jerrybase, we are now calling this “David’s Tune (Gm)“ On August 20, 1975 at the Great American Music Hall, and again on August 30,…

  • The August ’85 Electric Shows

    LN jg1985-08-04.jgb.all.aud-connor.11041.shn2flac LN jg1985-08-05.jgb.all.aud-connor.11121.shn2flacLN jg1985-08-09.jgb.all.aud-connor.11131.shn2flacLN jg1985-08-10.jgb.all.aud-connor.11145.shn2flac Waaayyyy back when, in the early lossless era, when shn ruled the roost and files could best be had by FTP (though some grabbed binaries from usenet groups), Charlie Connor’s August 1985 Jerry Band tapes were pretty special. They still are, in the sense that they sound nice (patched…