Fate Music

Category: Bob Dylan

  • JGB Spring ’93 SoCal

    Preface: JGB in SoCal Little springtime SoCal jaunts became a regular thing for JGB starting in 1983. (OK, that was very late winter, but March is generally pretty springy down there.) Some were one- or two-offs, others were a little more elaborate. Here’s a sketch. 1983: 3/11a and 3/11b in Santa Barbara; 3/12a and 3/12b,…

  • Best Visions

     I know you all know this, but oh my God.

  • Positively Killer: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, December 21, 1979

    I was recently surprised when I listened to JGB 12/17/79 and found the show totally lackluster. Jerry sounds listless, indifferent, tired, and he and Johnny D, the 21 year old Marin kid drumming live with Jerry for only the seventh time, seemed badly out of sync. So, I listened to the next show, 12/20, and…

  • 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…

  • One More Cup Of Coffee

    I think Garcia could have done this one well. https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-more-cup-coffee-valley-below/ One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN Your breath is sweet Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky Your back is straight, your hair is smooth On the pillow where you lie But I don’t sense affection No gratitude…

  • “I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes”: JGB at the Warfield, March 4, 1995

    LN jg1995-03-04.jgb.all.aud-sonics.141470.flac1648 I don’t feel like I have time or energy to do a full write-up, so let me try to sketch a few thoughts around a recent listen to taper Wilson66’s very enjoyable Sonic Studios DSM-6 drink rail tape of the Jerry Band on home turf, March 4, 1995. Tone and Technique > Lyrical Precision…

  • JGB19900302: Saturday, March 2, 1990, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA

    update: this was originally posted some years ago. I accidentally reposted it today. It looks like it is not perfectly together – you get what you pay for. I wanted to try a little experiment by just unpacking a single show. I am not a very effective “prosopographer”, so I can’t do what Corry does,…

  • “When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”

     LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…

  • Il lui manque du souffle

    LN jg1995-04-15.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.94692.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 15, 1995 (Saturday) Vasseur flac1644 shnid-94692 –set I (5 tracks, 47:32)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars s1t02. And It Stoned Me s1t03. He Ain’t Give You None s1t04. Dear Prudence s1t05. My Sisters And Brothers –set II (7 tracks, 68:03)–…

  • Acoustic at the Denver Rainbow – JGJK, May 23, 1985 (late show)

    LN jg1985-05-23.jgjk.late.aud.137966.flac1644 These shows have been very elusive, and the early show still has not made a digital appearance. Standard “Rock Bottom Era” take: croaking vocals and very good (acoustic) guitar picking. The one plus of the acoustic setting is that he can sing quietly, which works well on a relative rarity like “She Belongs…