Category: 1984
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I stand corrected: it is that bad
The pithy title I gave to a set of 8/24/84 listening notes (s1 only) was “It’s not that bad, given how much Persian he was doing.” I stand corrected. Yes, yes it is. It is *that bad*. Here are notes on the three consecutive tracks of s2: ! P: s2t01 HTC … these vocals are…
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A 35 Minute Second Set: JGB at The Stone, March 4, 1984
LN jg1984-03-04.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.85294.flac1644 Sunday night, 3/4/84, Jerry races out of the building with a 35 minute set II. Maybe he was late for mass. Nothing much else to report. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133 March 4, 1984 (Sunday) sbd GMB flac1644 shnid-85294 –set I (5 tracks, 48:57)– s1t01. //Rhapsody In…
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Fluent Guitar and Dissonant Vocals: JGB at Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR – December 5, 1984
Drummer David Kemper’s laminate from the “1984 Winter Northwest Tour” of the JGB, December 5-8, 1984. LN jg1984-12-05.jgb.s2.aud.79642.flac1644 I have been engaging this little mini-tour undertaken by the JGB in early December 1984 as a way to reflect on Garcia’s Rock Bottom. I come away consistently impressed with his guitar playing and mortified by his…
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The vocals are as bad as Garcia ever inflicted on a paying audience: August 26, 1984
LN jg1984-08-26.jgb.all.aud-dearth.84568.flac1644 OK, turns out I was most of the way through a listen to this, so I finished it. On the one hand, that wasn’t so bad. I don’t feel too unclean. On the other hand, as Jimmy Fallon’s teenaged character Sara might say — “Ew”. First, tip o’ the cap to Mr. Don…
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Lost Your Voice? Play a Monster “Don’t Let Go” (8/27/84)
LN jg1984-08-27.jgb.all.aud-corley.15029.shn2flac I have sometimes joked, half-seriously, that 8/26/84 may be Garcia’s most wasted performance, but I just do that to embody a feeling about the period as a whole. At some point I’ll bring myself to revisit it. I like listening around such things, as much as listening directly to them. Hence the JGB…
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gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648
https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648 Spinning this now. Oade. Garcia gave an interview to the Boston Globe guy around this time in which he sounds very happy and positive about the Dead. It’s stunningly orthogonal to so much of the other stuff going on in his life around this time. But I love that the big fella could just…
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Don Dearth Was My Third Grade Teacher, And He Was A Taper: JGB at the Stone, May 12, 1984
LN jg1984-05-12.jgb.all.aud-dearth.85568.flac1644 Quite a nice performance, quite a nice tape, pulled by my 3rd grade teacher from Burton School (Lafayette, CA), the lovely Don Dearth. I like the Cats and the Knockin’ here. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 May 12, 1984 (Saturday) Dearth shnid-85568 –set I (5 tracks, 51:07)– s1t01.…
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From Sanctity to Sin – Club Casino the Night after the Nunnery
Jim Costa’s ticket stub from JGB 8/12/84, Club Casino. LN jg1984-08-12.jgb.all.aud-senn441s-FAIL.24496.flac1644 Since I did the night before, at the nunnery, I cued up a random fileset for 8/12/84, first of two nights at the Club Casino in Hampton Beach, NH. Via JGBP Not a ton to say – I think this is also an average…
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Gloria’s First Night Out? Update: NO
LN jg1984-01-08.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 update: I now believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. update2 (4/16/2020): I no longer believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. I now believe that 7/10?/84 enjoys that distinction. First show of 1984, Sunday night at 492 Broadway. This setlist differs from what was traditionally listed,…
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A Motley Crew Down at the Nunnery (LN jg1984-08-11.jgb.all.aud-weez.111743.flac1644)
Ticket stub for JGB 8/11/84 show at Caldwell College, contributed by Ed. Photo of JGB 8/11/84 at Caldwell College, courtesy of Jck007. What a weird show. Reviewer Bill Breen (1984) sets the stage. The August 11 Robert Hunter/ Jerry Garcia Band gig at Caldwell College, New Jersey had to be one of their stranger forays.…