Category: 1983
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Nina Blackwood Interviews Jerry Garcia for MTV, ca. June 2, 1983
Some classic lines here, like the studio as building a ship in a bottle and playing live like piloting a rowboat in the ocean. I wasn’t super careful about getting everything 100% perfect, especially not where there’s GD talk. I am not 100% certain about the geolocation, but it’s got to be about right. Jerry…
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Don’t judge a tape by the gear: JGB at Stages, East St. Louis, May 23, 1983
The only tape circulating for the Garcia Band show at Stages in East St. Louis, May 23, 1983, was recorded using the built-in mics of a Sony D6 by one Steven Shayman. Looks like it entered circulation in June 2004 as a shn fileset put together by Dr. Chris Ladner (neo_levo) as part of the…
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Upon Further Review: Various and Sundry Listening Notes on the Last Night of the Fall ’83 Tour: JGB at Wilkins Theatre, Kean College, December 13, 1983
LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early.aud-newberger-seaweed.133469.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-minches.31253.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-newberger.77710.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.late.aud-nak300.151810.flac2496 I first heard 12/13/83 in 2003, when Andrew Faintych sent me tapes from both shows recorded with Senn 421s from the 10th row by “Tom from Avon, NJ”. In 2005, Bu lent me his DAT of an unattributed aud, and minches and I did our transferring and…
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Valerie Needs a Bath, ’cause she is GRUNGY: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, February 26, 1983
I have a stack of listening notes that don’t really say much, but I do like to post them just to keep track. 2/26/83: nice tape, good performance, nothing that absolutely slays me, except that “Valerie” absolutely KILLED in this period. I know the esteemed David Minches favors the 3/5/83 version, which I have revisited…
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Segueing Out of Stony Brook: JGB in Pritchard Gym, SUNY Stony Brook, December 4, 1983
Lawn Guy Land, and especially SUNY Stony Brook, stands in the pantheon as one of the ground zero sites of the birth and development of the East Coast Deadhead and, by derivation, of the East Coast Garcia Freak. The Dead played Pritchard Gym on campus very early on, and, as so often happened, the Garcia…
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Makes Up In Enthusiasm What It Lacks In Precision: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983
LN jg1983-11-12.jgb.all.mtx.141451.flac1644 update: d’oh! Already posted this one. Crispy clean but flat and unbalanced sbd meets in-your-face but unbalanced Menke aud to make for a sweet matrix. Thank you Andrew F. for your work! The show? It’s late ’83. The sets are getting shorter. The DLG is fucking killer, and the Deal makes up in enthusiasm…
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Anyone ever seen tape of JGB January 8, 1983?
UPDATE: someone on Twitter, I can’t recall who, points out that this is very likely to be a mislabel of 1/8/84, and I agree. No ads, no listings, and a setlist very similar to what we know for 1/8/84. I now consider this a phantom gig. Man, for all kinds of reasons, I need to…
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These sets aren’t getting any longer: JGB #21a at the Beverly Theatre, October 1, 1983
One of the things that I expect will become possible at some point is to get some relatively valid data on set times across the years. One of the reasons I try to be so precise with my timing notations is that I am going to want to train a machine to parse song, set…
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MTV Interview, June 2, 1983
I don’t know where this would have taken place, but the date of June 2, 1983 seems right, in between shows at the venerable Roseland Ballroom on 52nd Street and promoter John Scher’s main room, the Capitol Theatre in Passaic outside of Philly. I have gotten direct quotes on the Garcia-on-the-side (GOTS) material, and sketchily…
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No Sellout on Cape Cod: JGB, May 28, 1983
LN jg1983-05-28.jgb.all.aud-huston.141978.flac2496 I have a bunch of listening notes to catch up on, but I have been holding back maybe because I don’t find myself with much to say. Saturday night, May 28, 1983 at the Cape Cod Coliseum, JGB #15c lays down a characteristically strong show. It doesn’t knock my socks off like 5/31/83…