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

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  • Second Gig for the new Sextet: Rissmiller’s 10/27/82

    LN jg1982-10-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 Jerry Garcia Band Rissmiller’s Country Club 18415 Sherman WayReseda, CA 91335 October 27, 1982 (Wednesday) 83 min s1s2p Closet Call aud –set I (7 tracks, 57:16)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:28] s1t02. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:43] % s1t03. … They Love Each Other [8:11] [0:08] % [0:32]…

  • LN jg1983-01-13.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448

    Pretty perfunctory, on my part as a note-taker, as well as on the part of the band. First show of 1983. DeeDee and Jackie’s public debut. Jerry Garcia Band Keystone 2119 University AvenueBerkeley, CA 94704 January 13, 1983 (Thursday) 93 min CC aud –set I (6 tracks, 46:43)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:07] s1t02. How…

  • Dealin’ on Johnny D’s Third Night: JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, October 14, 1979

    LN jg1979-10-14.jgb.s1s2p.aud-unk-moore-berger.122979.flac1644 Understood second third show for Ozzie Ahlers and John d’Fonseca. Update: I had this as the second show for this outfit, a week after its 10/7/79 debut, but it turns out they also played the Monday night, 10/8, in Berkeley. Excellent Sugaree and After Midnight, songs which this band made its own right…

  • LN jg1978-03-17.jgb.late-1.sbd-bershaw-nolan.123184.flac1644

    update 20170710: Here the show doesn’t light me up, yet my CC aud listening notes from a month before this post include this: The show is quite hot, IMO. MITR ends in a manic flurry. Tore Up, my notes tell me, is “ridiculous”. Jerry is *really* into this Dixie Down. RIR is absolutely fantastic, with…

  • LN jg1983-05-25.jgb.all-1.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448

    Nothin’ really jumps out at me. Jerry Garcia Band Shea’s Theatre 646 Main StreetBuffalo, NY 14202 May 25, 1983 (Wednesday), 8 PM all-1 85 min CC aud –Set I (5 tracks, 38:13)– s1t01. … How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [#7:49] [0:34] % s1t02. They Love Each Other [8:08] [0:24] % [0:18]…

  • Second night out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/21/83

    Second night out for drummer David Kemper and Gloria Jones. See also “First Night Out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/20/83 (WED).” This was conventionally considered the second show for vocalist Gloria Jones, but the late ’83 Garcia Band tour still featured DeeDeeDickerson, raising doubts about a summer time switchover. It’s still possible, but as of…

  • First Night Out for Kemper: Keystone Palo Alto, 7/20/83 (WED)

    LN jg1983-07-20.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 First night out for drummer David Kemper and Gloria Jones. (See also “Second night out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/21/83“.) This was conventionally considered the first show for vocalist Gloria Jones, but the late ’83 Garcia Band tour still featured DeeDeeDickerson, and as of 2020 I am quite sure that DDD was around…

  • GAMB: July 7, 1974, CXL’D?

    So, these showed up on ebay a few months back. Poster advertising a “Freak Fair” from July 4-7, 1974 at Shorebird Park on the Berkeley Marina. The red-and-white line drawn poster features illustrations of a native American, a hot air balloon “Enterprise”, a geodesic dome, and mintrally-inspired freaks dancing. Listed attractions include jugglers, belly dancers,…

  • Who Was John? JGB at GWU, April 3, 1976 (early show)

     LN jg1976-04-03.jgb.early.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 OK, maybe the last post of my hiatus hiatus. 4/3/76a. This is probably the same source tape as shnid-82761. A nice show. Jerry Garcia Band Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University 730 21st and H Street NWWashington, DC 20052 April 3, 1976 (Saturday) – Early show, 7 PM 80 min CC aud-1 flac2448 [upgraded…

  • LN jg1975-04-05.lom.early.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448

    So, this show has not really circulated complete, unless it does and I missed it. Nice to hear the John Scher introduction intact. The first 60 minutes have never made the digital jump, as far as I know. There’s a “Creepin’” here, which is conceptually interesting but practically, to my ears, not so much. We…