Category: Bill Kreutzmann
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Chatty Cathy in the House: JGB at the Stone, December 18, 1981
LN jg1981-12-18.jgb.all.aud-martin.16379.shn2flac I recently learned the term “chompers” to describe people who talk through shows. Well, this phenomenon is as old as time, with the triad of the drum, the chomper and the shusher perhaps very nearly co-constituting each other In The Beginning. Bill Kreutzmann drums, the chomper talks all show long, and I don’t really…
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A JGB drum solo by Bill Kreutzmann – Cape Cod Coliseum, June 18, 1982
LN jg1982-06-18.jgb.all.aud-craigl.138576.flac1644 For about a minute-twenty in “Don’t Let Go,” Billy K. solos. It’s a little surreal. I have historically loved this show, but nothing much jumps out at me on this listen. JERRY GARCIA BAND Cape Cod Coliseum White’s Path off Route 6 South Yarmouth, MA 02664 June 18, 1982 (Friday) – 8:30 PM…
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“Once in a while, …”
.. you know the rest. Was just processing a 1975 article from Hit Parader, of all things. Yet a few things catch my eye: Gives working title for The Movie, soon-to-be released film There is Nothing Like A Grateful Dead Show. Maybe this was out there, but I don’t remember seeing this in print like…
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Reading Notes: Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. This wasn’t as bad as I had feared it might be. You can see that I switched half-way through to endnotes. I have been thinking that works best, all things…
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Horses, cocaine and, 231
So many books. Took my Kreutzmann 2015, no time to really engage it, but wanted to commune with it a little bit, form some expectations. Glad there is an index, just opened to the back and my eye drew to the entry “horses, cocaine and, 231”. “hotels, destruction at, 314” sounds promising, too. Sounds like…
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Deal
Kreutzmann 2015 has landed. When will I be able to give it the time? Not sure, but at some point (if the FSM wills it). I haven’t even opened it, because no time. I don’t know if I expect it to enter The Canon (Jackson 1999, McNally 2002, Lesh 2006, Richardson 2015, Arnold ongoing-A, ongoing-B,…
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Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974
LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…
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That warmish-dampish-Motel-6-towel feeling, without the hygiene – JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, February 4, 1982
LN jg1982-02-04.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 I have always found early 1982 to be an exceptionally weak period for the Jerry Garcia Band. Jerry’s opiate use has really picked up, but in his side band he didn’t seem able to get back up with blow or whatever. Indeed, to tell the truth I think January, February and March JGB…
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JGB: early 1980s drummers and backup singers
I posted some listening notes from the 10/13/82 JGB show at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA. A priori, two things are particularly interesting about that show. First, it’s the public debut of drummer Greg Errico with the Jerry Garcia Band in this particular stint (he had done a mini-tour with them in July 1980).…