Fate Music

  • Tasty Fucking Tape: JGB at Paramount Northwest Theatre, Seattle, October 28, 1978 (Severson MAC)

    LN jg1978-10-28.jgb.early-late.aud-severson.148540.flac2496 These last few shows of the Keith and Donna JGB are generally strong. And the recordings often sound really nice, not least because the bass, and I’d say generally the whole band, was dialed-in in the rooms. I don’t know who was doing room sound, but they did a great job. Mark Severson pulled the…

  • Peppy: JGB at the Stone, May 31, 1981 (and contemporary data missingess)

    LN jg1981-05-31.jgb.s1s2p.aud.137952.flac1644 More spare listening notes, more JGB #12b. I actually like TLEO here (rare), find characteristically strong-for-the-period versions of Sugaree and Tangled Up, enjoy a melodious Simple Twist, pick up some rock-n-roll goodness in Let It Rock, and totally dig the litling beauty of an early Melvin-era Knockin’. Early 80s Knockin’s are the best, IMO.…

  • Calderone Valentine: JGB in Hempstead, NY, February 14, 1981

    LN jg1981-02-14.jgb.all.aud-hance.155565.flac2496 Just did the previous night, and I had just listened to this one to get a load of the fresh transfer from John Jay Hance‘s master. I hear plenty of stuff to like, don’t go into much detail. The “Like A Road” feels really sweet. Quicky listening notes. Jerry Garcia Band Calderone Concert Hall…

  • DOWN in South Jersey? JGB at Glassboro State College, February 15, 1981

    LN jg1981-02-15.jgb.all.aud.137422.flac1644 Rock Scully’s book Living with the Dead (1996) gets mixed reviews for all kinds of reasons, among them that he presents lots of factually inaccurate information. But, on another intepretation –and, I think, relaying something Corry has expressed– the book may not be right, but it contains lots of truth. Here is some of his…

  • JGB Debuting Señor and Tears of Rage: The February 1990 Warfield Run

    LN jg1990-02-02.jgb.all.aud-darroch-paul.86658.flac1644LN jg1990-02-03.jgb.all-1.sbd-seaweed.114060.flac1644LN jg1990-02-04.jgb.all.aud-buick.30811.flac1644 The Jerry Garcia organization embraced a “no taping” policy, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear given the principal’s own experience recording bluegrass in the Sixties, his oft-stated indifference to audience taping in the Grateful Dead (GD) context (“when we’re done with it, they can have it”), the Dead’s own allowances in the form, from…

  • The Bicycle Rule: Don’t Stop Pedaling, or You Might Fall Over (JGB at the Stone, November 10-11, 1986)

    LN jg1986-11-10.jgb.all.aud-corley.17749.shn2flacLN jg1986-11-11.jgb.all.aud-ty.94632.flac1644 Not a lot happening here one way or the other. It’s a Monday-Tuesday night, Jerry sounds a little tired, even Corley’s tape from the 10th sounds a little muffled. Jerry Garcia BandThe Stone412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA  November 10, 1986 (Monday) – 9 PMCorley shnid-17749 sh2flac –set I (8 tracks, 7 tunes, 52:51)–s1t01. ambience [0:13]s1t02.…

  • If ACT = JGMS and Taper = Louis Falanga, and YYMM = 7402, does XX = 17?

    I recently wrote that in engaging any Garcia event, I first want to pin down the who, the where, and the what. So I want the sociometric, geometric, and the chronometric particulars … If I can pin down those three pieces about any given event with reasonable certainty, I feel like it “exists” in a…

  • Open-Air Vasseur: JGB at Shoreline, July 26, 1992

    LN jg1992-07-26.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141462.flac1644 Brief listening notes. Vasseur Warfield tapes are incredible. Vasseur Shoreline tapes are … incredible. So much air in this mics. Wow. Jerry does some extra percussive stuff in a few places that I found noteworthy. Guy who called out “Reuben!” and got it must have been pretty fired up. I would have been. I…

  • Brief Encounters of the Weird Kind: JGB at Penn State, December 11, 1977

    jg1977-12-11.jgb.all.sbd-sirmick.80773.flac1644 Again, listening notes may be briefer for awhile. Certainly, these are bullet-style. David Gans once said something to the effect that Garcia exhibits the shortest distance between spirit and fingertip of any musician he knows. That’s probably not quite right, but it was something like this. A reviewer from this last show of the…

  • How Come History’s Got to Take Such a Long, Long Time? JGB, Warfield, Sunday, May 3, 1992

    LN jg1992-05-03.jgb.all.aud-lucien.106771.flac1648 I just don’t always have a lot to say, but want to put these here to invite others to comment. I enjoyed this. Some mumblyverse, but some real depth of feeling, too. I really enjoyed this version of “The Maker”, with a little extra vocalization at the end that I can’t quite make out…