Category: 1978
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The Blogging Hobby
Blogging is a great hobby – if you have ever thought of just wanting to keep some intellectual interest of yours pinned down a little better than purely in your head, I highly recommend it. Among Blogger’s very limited features – You Get What You Pay For, Corry reminds us, and as a Braudelian he…
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Lost Godchaux-Muldaur Era JGB
New to The List: Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnold JG List, and there is tape), but also Sunday, August 13, 1978. The latter would be new to The List. ! listing: Stanford Daily, August 11, 1978, p. 7. Still Uncertain? 11/4/78 and a…
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Cats in the Studio: September 1977
–> I can’t write up everything I have gathered around the recording of Garcia’s 1978 masterpiece Cats Under the Stars, not now, and, alas, perhaps not ever in any true sense of the word “everything”. Once I write the book I plan on just throwing open all of my materials and letting others have at…
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Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.
Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…
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Burnt to a Crisp on Long Island
LN jg1978-03-12.jgb.all.aud-unknown.82587.flac1644 Sunday, March 12, 1978, the Mystery Cats met up with all kinds of old friends for a party on Long Island. Corry’s got the goods on Hunter, Nelson, Marmaduke and Garcia all finding themselves together this night – it’s great stuff. See also my other posts from this tour: 3/10/78 interview 3/10/78 listening…
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Compensation on TDIH
I have explored, mentally more than online, the hypothesis that when Jerry’s vocals were especially, noteworthily bad, he compensated with his guitar playing, really concentrating on it and giving it extra “oomph”. If we could gather all the data (like continuous measures of the quality of singing and guitar playing), the compensation hypothesis might be…
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Sebastopol Benefit: March 22, 1978
LN jg1978-03-22.jgb.all.sbd-ladner.19832.shn2flac As a prelude to a review of the off-to-a-great-start GarciaLive 4 release of the Sebastopol 3/22/78 benefit show, here are some fragmentary listening notes from a year ago on the rough circulating sbd copy. It appears that I engaged the question of the pianist on that very date over at Corry’s post (probably…
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JGB 10/27/78 pix [update: and saga] [update2: and listening notes]
Jerry Garcia Band at Washington State College, Cheney, WA, October 27, 1978 Ben Upham‘s wonderful shot of Jerry Garcia at Washington State College, 10/27/78 Updates Since I already have a post on this show specifically, let me accompany Upham’s beautiful pix with some less beautiful details about how this thing went down. This, from a…
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GarciaLive volume 4: March 22, 1978
http://www.musictap.net/2014/05/29/tapsheet-release-notes-05292014-us-report/ ATO Records will release Garcia Live, Volume 4: March 22nd, 1978 Veteran’s featuring Jerry Garcia Band. The set will be released on 2CD on July 8. This is great news! I hope the liner notes are informative, and I can’t wait to hear it. The only circulating tape (shnid-19832) has pretty significant issues. Naturally,…
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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).…