Category: 1981
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August 9th
This August 9th finds me thinking more about 70 years since Nagasaki than 20 years since Jerry Garcia, though that, too, is on my mind. Might as well go straight for the cream: cue this one up from about 5:40 to hear Garcia wail. In the alternative check out the whole smokin’ hot, first-night-of-tour set…
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“A Shitty Father”
The title of this post comes from Garcia daughter Annabelle’s remarks at his funeral on 8/11/95, probably not said in anger, almost certainly considerably true. I don’t recall Jerry speaking so frankly about this issue as here, ca. July 1981: I have a family – I am talking about the woman I used to live…
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Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead
I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…
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JGB: Halloween 1981 – LN jg1981-10-31.jgb.early-late.aud-levene.88958.flac1644
Late Jerry loved playing on Halloween. In the last fifteen years of his life, the only years he is not known to have gigged on Halloween are 1982 and 1994. Table xxx. Garcia on Halloween, 1980-1994. Orange is GD, blue is GOTS. As indicated in the table, things were distributed across the GD (6 dates/shows)…
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Old Folks at Home for a Very Long Show: JGB at the Uptown, November 17, 1981
LN jg1981-11-17.jgb.all.aud-mason.131710.flac1644 Not much to report. Note that I have just been doing a bunch of listening and most of my reports are lukewarm – what are the odds that it’s as much to do with me-in-these-moments as what’s actually on the tapes? Anyway, there were no early and late shows on the Chicago stop…
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BOAT TWYDTTYD: JGB, Palladium, November 10, 1981 (late show)
LN jg1981-11-10.jgb.late.aud-stankiewicz.127293.flac2496 JGB played The Palladium twice in 1981, 2/11/81 and this night. Richie Stankiewicz taped both nights. Both really good shows and really good tapes. This one has the best of all time (BOAT, in some circles) Garcia Band version of “The Way You Do The Things You Do”, IMO. It’s quite good. I…
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LN jg1981-02-11.jgb.s1.aud-stankiewicz.127292.flac2496
Nice tape, nice show. Bob Minkin took some nice photos this night, a bunch of tapers nailed it, the band sounds strong. This must have been a great, weird old room. Jerry Garcia Band The Palladium 126 E 14th St New York, NY 10003 February 11, 1981 (Wednesday) – 8 PM Stanki s1s2p flac2496 shnid-127292…
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Ronnie’s Return, Pete’s Payoff: JGB in Provy, November 15, 1981
Ticket stub for JGB 11/15/81, contributed by Doc Gillespie to TJS. LN jg1981-11-15.jgb.all.aud-stankiwiecz.127050.flac2496 Ron Tutt is a great drummer, but am I biased? Ron Tutt is a beast. Check out the little one-minute fragment discussed in note #1. No biggie, just fun. Then pick some of the other songs I note and hear him play.…
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Ronnie’s and Rowan’s Returns
LN jg1981-11-13.jgb.early-late.aud-streeter.123554.flac1644 I cannot believe that things were nearly forgotten that should not have been around this late ’81 JGB tour, namely that Ronnie Tutt was back on the skins. Somehow that information didn’t make it to Garciabase, and thence to TJS, but thankfully Corry Knows and we have the old McNally-Arnold JG List still…
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Two Keyboards on Tour: JGB, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, February 7, 1981
LN jg1981-02-07.jgb.early-late.aud-streeter.123543.flac1644 I have some pretty bland listening notes to catch up with posting. Might try to plant a few this weekend. Jerry Garcia Band Orpheum Theatre 1 Hamilton PlaceBoston, MA 02108 February 7, 1981 (Saturday) Streeter early and late complete MAC Miller flac1644 shnid-123543 JGMF retrack –early show (8 tracks,73:36)– a-t01. tuning [1:54] a-t02.…