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

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  • Mahalo, Jer: JGB, January 27, 1989 at the Orpheum

     LN jg1989-01-27.jgb.all.sbd-moses.84866.flac1644 Can’t believe I haven’t annotated any 1989 Garcia Band. For my money, 1988-1989 is one of the great JGB periods, which a fresh and healthy Jerry (that’s what starts to break down, for me, 1990-1991), solid band, some fresh material, rehearsed arrangements, and lots of classic American songs. Nothing too crazy, lots of…

  • From Sanctity to Sin – Club Casino the Night after the Nunnery

    Jim Costa’s ticket stub from JGB 8/12/84, Club Casino. LN jg1984-08-12.jgb.all.aud-senn441s-FAIL.24496.flac1644 Since I did the night before, at the nunnery, I cued up a random fileset for 8/12/84, first of two nights at the Club Casino in Hampton Beach, NH. Via JGBP Not a ton to say – I think this is also an average…

  • Cabaret Economics

    I have been dinging Garcia during his hard times for playing really short sets. Check the tag for 1985 for a sample. I knew I had heard him talking about what a burn short sets were. And I have found at least one instance, at http://www.gdao.org/items/show/378627 (Jerry Garcia interview, broadcast on WHMR, November 27, 1978).…

  • Sci Fi

    Anyone know if Garcia ever copped to reading, or more tantalizingly still, might ever have met, Philip K. Dick?

  • Gloria’s First Night Out? Update: NO

    LN jg1984-01-08.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 update: I now believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. update2 (4/16/2020): I no longer believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. I now believe that 7/10?/84 enjoys that distinction. First show of 1984, Sunday night at 492 Broadway. This setlist differs from what was traditionally listed,…

  • A Motley Crew Down at the Nunnery (LN jg1984-08-11.jgb.all.aud-weez.111743.flac1644)

    Ticket stub for JGB 8/11/84 show at Caldwell College, contributed by Ed. Photo of JGB 8/11/84 at Caldwell College, courtesy of Jck007. What a weird show. Reviewer Bill Breen (1984) sets the stage. The August 11 Robert Hunter/ Jerry Garcia Band gig at Caldwell College, New Jersey had to be one of their stranger forays.…

  • Hilarious

    “I realized that in the excitement of meeting Jerry Garcia I had pissed all over my white boots with alligator tips”

  • Summer 1995

    Just found a nice post based on some very careful and knowledgeable listening. I won’t always wallow so much in the dark stuff, but it’s there, too. This is just a marker. http://moderndeadhead.blogspot.com/2011/04/grateful-dead-summer-1995.html

  • Thelma

    Paul Liberatore has a good review in the I-J. Looking forward to checking this one out.

  • January 18, 1985: Strung Out and Busted

    January 18, 1985 has got to be Rock Bottom for Jerry Garcia: strung out and busted. But let me step back. Six days earlier, Garcia gave an interview to Jas Obrecht and Jon Sievert (Obrecht 1985, 2010). Obrecht reports that the interview took place at the home of Nora Sage, said to be a fan…