Category: 1978

  • Old old old notes: JGB at the Leroy Theatre, Pawtucket, RI, March 11, 1978

    LN jg1978-03-11.jgb.all.aud-friend.97682.flac1644 I listened to this years ago, was just doing some housecleaning and thought I’d post. Bullets: Really nice tape. Piano sounds especially great .Thank you, Tim Friend! I note that it runs faster than the set II soundboard tape. I also noted that AF’s ITAM patch from shnid-14931 (Tom Dalti aud) sounds pitched differently.…

  • 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…

  • Late ’78 Kahn (JGB at Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, October 26, 1978)

    LN jg1978-10-26.jgb.all.aud-severson.148655.flac2496 Not a ton to report. Kahn sounded absolutely amazing on this tour. Really, all through 1978. I don’t know if he changed something, if the sound people just dialed him in especially well, or something else, but the bass was big and fat. Great recording by Mark Severson, full of ambience. Garcia strong. Apparently…

  • Emerge and See: Hunter Hosting Garcia at the Cellar Door – May 15, 1978 (DISCONFIRMED)

    update 20210526: this seems not to have happened. David Kramer-Smythe reached out to David Morgenstern, who was with Comfort at this time. He remembered this gig for other reasons, but said Garcia definitely did not join, and that, in fact, Garcia never sat in with Comfort. So this is one of those cases of ….…

  • The Bard on WLIR (Long Island), March 1978

    http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/RobertHunter1978-03WLIRInterviewRoslynNY.html Robert Hunter 1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unknown hotel (Hunter’s room) Interview by Denis McNamara for 92.7 WLIR-FM Garden City, New York (M?-FM) “Sunday At 9:00” radio program -expanded edition- (3 shows/parts) “A Conversation With Robert Hunter” Not sure how close in time this was to the 3/12/78 Long Island show with JGB, NRPS, and…

  • Palm Sunday

    I know today is Easter, but JGBP tipped me off to a reddit AMA with Donna Jean the other day, and she provided this great memory from the Cats Under the Stars sessions: It was about 4 o’clock in the morning, and Jerry and I were singing the duet on Palm Sunday, and we had…

  • Come back for Garcia Band. Come back, come back.

    LN jg1978-03-10.interview.all.fm-zimmerman.82210.flac1644 I love these March ’78 interviews. 3/11/78 is my absolute favorite, all kinds of great stuff. This one has less going on, but still interesting to the likes of me. Jerry Garcia Band InterviewWCMF-FM Studios129 Leighton AvenueRochester, NY 14614March 10, 1978 (Friday) afternoon46 minute Alan Zimmerman FM cassette (7 tracks, 46:25)jg19780310d3t001. Reuben and…

  • The Little Engine That Could

    LN jg1978-03-10.jgb.all.aud-zimmerman-minches.80887.flac1644 Love this image of Jerry’s face on a locomotive. The show didn’t do that much for me, though I do give rare praise to Dixie Down. Reviewer paints a picture of the Dirty F$%^ing Hippies and assorted others: The dressing room backstage at the Auditorium Theater [sic] has that lived-in look. The air…

  • oh my

    https://archive.org/details/gd1978-01-11.135498.sbd.miller.flac16 Check out the Let It Grow.

  • UCSB ’78

    Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978. I have two followups, a tape beg and a tangential piece of metadata. First, does anyone have a copy of the Elvin Bishop set, with Jerry sitting in? Apparently there is an aud…