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Category: 1989

  • Jerry Band SoCal ’89

    LN jg1989-05-19.jgb.all.aud-tfh.24537.flac1644 LN jg1989-05-20.jgb.all.sbd-miller.20679.shn2flac LN jg1989-05-22.jgb.all.aud-ebay-liberation.150868.flac2448 The Jerry Band in SoCal After the Jerry Band started in 1975, SoCal trips were mostly one, two- and few-offs – no real tours as we define them at Jerrybase. Starting in spring 1983, the band started doing what were called “tours” in-house, but were typically just a couple days, couple…

  • Saxophone Somewhere Far Off Played: JGB at the Warfield, December 2, 1989

    If you are following along, you might notice that I listened to a bunch of early December shows from various years, but am late in posting them. It’s rare for me to get enough contiguous time to listen and note and post these days. My notes on this show, from a soundboard tape (shnid-117562) and…

  • At Wolfgang’s Orpheum: JGB with Clarence Clemons, March 3, 1989

    The success of the Dead’s Touch of Grey didn’t only limit that band’s venue (and even city) options. It also impacted ol’ Midas’s bar band. Freddie Herrera’s last remaining club, the 700-seat Stone on Broadway, didn’t stand a chance, and a four-night Garcia Band run on May 27-28 and 30-31, 1987 brought the curtain down on Jerry and…

  • Last Show at Alpine Valley: JGB, September 15, 1989

    Jerry smiling at Clarence Clemons, Alpine Valley, 9/15/89. Photo credit: Todd Darrow. The Dead played this space all (and very often well) throughout the 80s. Garcia played it once, and it was his last time there. There must have been plenty of room to boogie on this night, as the place was half-full, but Jerry…

  • JGB at the Eel River, Humboldt County, June 10, 1989

    Jerry Feelin’ It: JGB at the Eel River, 6/10/89, photographer Steve Walker LN jg1989-06-10.jgb.all.aud-schoeps-ladner.17116.shn2flac Nice tape. Jerry sounds absolutely wonderful, still healthy and happy. Very solid show from a very solid year of shows for the ol’ Garcia Band. Jerry Garcia Band French’s Camp on the Eel River Piercy, CA 95542 June 10, 1989 (Saturday)…

  • The Mecca

    These Dead shows from The Mecca in Milwaukee, WI, from April of 1989 are outstanding. Garcia is burning a hole in the atmosphere in “Little Red Rooster”, of all places. This band is Locked. In.

  • California Earthquake

    Garcia was endeavoring to bring Rodney Crowell’s contemporary “California Earthquake” to the Dead just a little bit before the Loma Prieta quake struck. That is really weird. ! ref: Morse, Steve. 1989. Man with a Mission: Garcia is Back from the Dead, Back with the Dead. Boston Globe, October 29, B1.

  • Reading Notes: Goodman 1989

    Goodman, Fred. 1989. Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview. Rolling Stone no. 566 (November 30, 1989): 66-68, 73-74, 118 Garcia says he has “vacillated furiously” over the years as to whether he wanted to stay with the Dead or not (Goodman 1989, 68). “The most cogent example of how my life is changing is that…

  • How Sweet It Is

  • We’re Having a Reasonably Good Time Here

    LN jg1989-01-28.jgb.all.sbd-goetz-retracked.28352.shn2flac Love this show. Two snaps up. A few bullets. First, I had a cryptic note-to-self in the 1/27/89 listening notes to elaborate on the “a year too late” thesis. In a nutshell, it’s my argument that when JGB recorded itself in 1990 at the Warfield for what would become the eponymous 1991 double-live…