Category: 1981
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jg1981-02-09.jgb.all.aud-streeter.123532.flac1644
This show, on this listen, didn’t move me. The tape is nice. Jerry Garcia Band Ocean State Theater 220 Weybosset StreetProvidence, RI 02903 February 9, 1981 (Monday) Frank Streeter complete MAC shnid-123532 –set I (7 tracks, 74:48)– s1t01. tuning [1:03] s1t02. Sugaree [12:27] % [0:13] s1t03. Love In The Afternoon [9:33] % [0:25] s1t04. That’s…
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Is Jimmy Here? JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, January 23, 1981
LN jg1981-01-23.jgb.all.aud-latvala.97205.flac1644 Well, I hear some electric piano here (see notes), but I think it’s Melvin. So, as Corry indicated, this (along with 1/22/81) might be a hitherto unknown quartet configuration of Garcia, Kahn, Seals and Shaw — no Jimmy Warren on second keys, as traditionally believed. Otherwise, nothing to write home about, to my…
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Melvin in the House: JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, January 22, 1981
LN jg1981-01-22.jgb.partial.aud-latvala.97266.flac1644 Corry listened to this and said he didn’t hear two keyboards (in comments to his main post on Jimmy Warren). I don’t think I do, either, but I’d love for someone to check the 2-minute mark of I’ll Take a Melody and the 6-minute mark of Like a Road. I have a much…
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‘Yayyyyy, Jerry!’
LN jg1981-04-18.jgb.all-1.aud-jaret.107843.flac1644 Looks like I hear a mixed bag – HSII and CJ strong to start, but on STOF I call him zonked – “Sounds like he’s learning how to sing on smack”, and there are various clusterfucks. Little kid in the crowd gives a “Yayyyyy, Jerry!” as Our Hero steps up for “Let It…
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Q: Where was Jerry on June 24, 1981? A: Breaking in new singers at the Keystone Palo Alto
update: I have found a listing for JGB playing Keystone Palo Alto this Wednesday night, 6/24/81. It makes sense – first night out for Liz Stires and Essra Mohawk, and they usually played gigs on off-nights and/or off-the-beaten path when breaking in new members. That seems especially pertinent when the first two gigs are going…
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JGB “1st Northern California Tour”: August 6-8, 1981
One of the oddest little jaunts you’ll find the in Garcia On The Side histories is one billed as the “1st Northern California Tour”, comprising the following three off-the-beaten-path gigs: Wednesday, August 6, 1981, Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main Street, Salinas, CA Thursday, August 7, 1981, Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA Friday, August 8,…
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‘Nice Hat, John’: JGB at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, August 7, 1981
LN jg1981-08-07.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 JGB’s “First Northern California Tour“, heh heh. Having just posted about the JGB Salinas show on August 6, 1981, here I just drop the raw data on a pretty grungy old tape of what purports to be the next night, Friday, August 7, 1981 at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA. One of…
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“We Hardly Know Each Other”: JGB at Sherwood Hall, Salinas, CA, August 6, 1981
LN jg1981-08-06.jgb.all.aud-unk-russjcan.110492.flac1644 JGB’s “1st Northern California Tour“, as the Keystoners had it. In response to a really intriguing email about possible late June 1981 JGB show in Salinas, about which I have posted separately, and with the generous help of folks over at Lossless Legs, I was able to get my ears around the only…
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LN19810129 JGB Catalyst Santa Cruz
Jerry Garcia Band, Sunday, January 29, 1981, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA. shnid 111412. So I thought I’d check out an early Melvin Seals JGB show as a reward for having concluded that his public debut with JGB was 1/22/81. Randomly picked this one. Pretty nice tape that puts you FOB, but the show is…
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When did Melvin Seals begin with JGB?
Edited 20110216 The Jerry Garcia Band show listed as Saturday, December 20, 1980, Keystone Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, has always struck me odd. I argue here that (1) “12/20/80” is a “phantom” listing, a mislabel of 12/20/79. Along the way (2) I argue that “1/18/81” is also a phantom, a mislabel of 1/18/83. This…