Category: 1983

  • Insert Pithy Title Here: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983

    Killer “Don’t Let Go”, and two short sets that foreshadow darker days ahead. Great job on the matrix by AF! update: d’oh! posted a second time about this one. DLG so nice, I had to post it twice. JERRY GARCIA BANDKeystone Palo Alto260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306November 12, 1983 (Saturday)*Matrix* shnid-141451 –set I…

  • a great matrix

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-10.139379.mtx.seamons.ht112.flac16 My goodness, what a great sounding recording! Garcia is on fire for the whole first set (all I have heard so far). He sounds amazing. The guitar playing is fluent and fiery, the vocals are lucid and not dreadfully junky-sounding. The whole band sounds good. Lots of train references in the first set, even…

  • “Citizens of Boise – Submit! You Are a Conquered People”

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-02.fob.beyerm160.vlenihan.103181.sbeok.flac16

  • Grass Valley Grateful Dead

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-18.138828.FOB.NAK700.DSD.billydee.Sellers.Noel.t-flac24 Why? Don’t ask why, just listen (if you care to). Patched out of Yamaguchi/Poris and a set of modded Nak 700s. Someone speculates in notes whether a 3rd mic is operating, because Phil. And, yes, Straw ambling out, and – Phil. And, drums. Here are the notes, some classic stuff in here: – tapes…

  • Swan Song for JGB #15c: Philly, June 5, 1983

    LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-nak300-minches.76973.flac1644 LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-peters.138199.flac1644 I consider 5/31/83 at the Roseland Ballroom to be one of the best Garcia Band shows of the 1980s. Six days later, this band, featuring the great and powerful Greg Errico on drums, would play its final two shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. Surprisingly, only two tapes…

  • nothing wrong with this 8/21/83 tape

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-08-21.fob.sonyECM220t.kirschner.miller.95687.flac24 Source (FOB) Sony ECM-220T -> Cassette Master (Sony TC-D5M/FujiMetal Tape/Dolby B)Lineage Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1/Dolby B) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/96k) -> Samplitude Professional v10.1 -> FLAC/24Taped by Michael KirschnerTransferred by Charlie Miller There is not a freaking thing wrong with this tape. If you ever saw a show at the Frost, you know…

  • The Final “After Midnight”: JGB, March 7, 1983, The Stone

    Garcia played J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” a bunch –by my count, 96 times starting 6/30/72– with a number of different personnel configurations, for about ten years. But then, after Monday March 7, 1983, he just dropped it. A new fileset of 3/7/83 shows me some killer guitar work in “After Midnight”, “Catfish John”, and “Tore…

  • Rango at the Greek 5/14/83

    What a great pull. https://archive.org/details/gd1983-05-14.fob.sonyecm220t.keshavan.miller.94396.sbeok.flac16

  • JGB in Phishland: Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT, 12/6/83

    Note that I have started changing all of my info to reflect the presence of DeeDee Dickerson on the bus with the JGB in November-December 1983. 12/6/83a Nice Catfish John, otherwise this early show does not light me up. Jerry Garcia Band Flynn Theater 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 December 6, 1983 (Tuesday) –…

  • On the Bus with the Garcia Band

    I was going through the tour documents for the Jerry Garcia Band’s November-December 1983 tour, which was unusually long. I haven’t compared the various JGB tours, but this one and/or the late ’77 tour are the two longest I can think of, without double checking. I have more documents from the 70s than the 80s,…