Category: 1985
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January 18, 1985: Strung Out and Busted
January 18, 1985 has got to be Rock Bottom for Jerry Garcia: strung out and busted. But let me step back. Six days earlier, Garcia gave an interview to Jas Obrecht and Jon Sievert (Obrecht 1985, 2010). Obrecht reports that the interview took place at the home of Nora Sage, said to be a fan…
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LN jg1985-06-01.jgb.all.aud-corley.20921.shn2flac
There are some points I’d like to flesh out, about The Mission, Jerry’s San Francisco DNA, and the rest of it. But there’s just not time to do everything. Another show with the Modulus Graphite guitar. I hear no difference. Sets are still short in historical perspective. For the book I’ll be able to make…
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“awww, no, last song?!?” (LN jg1985-06-03.jgb.all.aud-russjcan.92786.flac1644)
Keystone Palo Alto on a Monday night, as Garcia is trying to kick his junk habit. The show is mostly notable because Garcia plays a Modulus guitar. Playing anything other than the Irwin “Tiger” at this time was an exceptionally rare event. Blair Jackson’s amazing Golden Road (no. 7, Summer 1985, p. 9) mentions that…
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Jerry’s gotta clean up his act, man (LN jg1985-03-02.jgb.all.aud-rlouk.99524.flac1644)
Ticket stub for Jerry Garcia Band, The Stone, 492 Broadway, SF, Saturday, March 2, 1985. Contributed by Erik VanO. First Garcia Band show since the bust on 1/18/85. It delivers a three-song, thirty minute first set. Apparently the ladies were late in arriving. But ol’ Jer makes up for it by stretching out almost a…
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Bullshit! Bullshit! Reprise (LN jg1985-05-31.jgjk.early.aud-pinedo.32007.shn2flac)
updated 20140408 I have told the story once before of the Jerry Garcia/John Kahn acoustic duo early show on May 31, 1985, in the context of Bill Graham’s branding of the ’86-87 JGB tours down south as “The Jerry Garcia Band Electric“. I want to flesh out a bit more detail from the two named…
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
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JG interview: January 12, 1985, Nora Sage’s House, by Jas Obrecht
It’s been linked around, but this interview is amazing, and the context that page gives about this particular moment in Garcia’s life is precious. Anyway, go check it out.