Category: 1979
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tuning ditty identification request
Can anyone identify the little ditty or ditties Jerry noodles in this mp3? TIA! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9dDbbvXg9d7w5kikobYCvcgpTStjPPD/view?usp=sharing update: commenter WWHS Clear Vision informs us that it is “The English Country Garden” – “it’s an English folk song that was popularized by Percy Grainger.” Thank you!
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Positively Killer: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, December 21, 1979
I was recently surprised when I listened to JGB 12/17/79 and found the show totally lackluster. Jerry sounds listless, indifferent, tired, and he and Johnny D, the 21 year old Marin kid drumming live with Jerry for only the seventh time, seemed badly out of sync. So, I listened to the next show, 12/20, and…
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Checking Myself: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, December 20, 1979
I just listened to JGB 12/17/79 and found it to be … off. Out of sync. Low energy. Since I don’t trust how my own frame of mind can color my listening experience, I decided to turn directly to a contemporary show, in this case 12/20/79. The big degree to which these are apples and…
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Sunday, Monday, What’s the Difference? JGB #11a at Keystone, December 17, 1979 (Monday)
LN jg1979-12-17.jgb.s1s2p.aud-walscoller.106057.flac1644 I wanted to spin some JGB #11a (Ozzie-Johnny D quartet) from late in 1979, a little window I have neglected in favor of their first few gigs on the one hand (10/7, 10/14), and the Winter 1980 tour (overall economics, 2/16, 2/20, 2/24) on the other hand. (update: see also 12/20/79) Joanie Walker, Paul Scotton and…
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Quicky: I think Reconstruction 6/13/79 at the River Theater in Guerneville should be dated 6/23/79
update: I am now 100% certain that the correct date for this material is 6/23/79 The tape we have of the titular show comes from Alan Bershaw. Turns out he didn’t tape it, but circulating versions come from his copy. This is a 2nd copy, lineaged as follows: Nak 550 w/CP3 caps > MAC >…
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Greenpeace ‘No Nukes’ Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979
I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.flac1644 Reconstruction Old Waldorf 444 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 April 23, 1979 (Monday) – Early and Late shows composite auds flac1644 shnid-126927 –early show (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 92:26)– e-t01. announcement/crowd/tuning [0:52] e-t02. Get Up…
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The Great Barcia
Rock Scully’s book occasionally referred to Jerry as “the Great Barcia“. I had originally thought it was Salvador Dalí, but looking back, I guess not. It still tickles me. This just came back to mind as I came across two ads, a month apart, for Reconstruction at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on 3/31/79. Someone…
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“When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”
LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…
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Linda Chicana
Is the name of the song that has gone on Reconstruction setlists as “Linda”. Here is Cal Tjader doing it:
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Reconstruction in Tempe, AZ, July 29, 1979 (CANCELED)
**update: the show was canceled, per JGBP’s correspondence with show promoter, in comments** I gather up a lot of stuff, and “processing” it takes time. I appear to have gathered the above about 2/20/2015. It bears the watermark of noted photog Jay Blakesberg, and it’s a ca. July 1979 schedule of Dead-related events put out…