Fate Music

Category: Bob Weir

  • ’88 Bridge Benefit is Good

    A lot of good material at the Bridge Benefit, 12/4/88 in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. It’s not like 15-20 minutes was very demanding, but Garcia sounds much more enthusiastic belting out the backing vocals here on “Wang Dang Doodle”, and giving “Friend Of The Devil” a sprightly run-through, than he did on either of the…

  • I don’t do a lot of Weir talk

    But man, I do love this guy. We are such fortunate fans to have such smart and literate artists in our lives! Quote from a recent interview about his songwriting, which I recommend. One bigger point, one smaller point. I take the dream seriously. That’s all I can say. They’re very real. It’s not just…

  • Long Ago and Far Away: JGB at Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME, June 20, 1982

    LN jg1982-06-20.jgb.all.aud-lamarre.139447.flac2496 Great pull by Doug Lamarre, very good JGB from the strong month of June 1982. Bobby Cochran and Bob Weir from Bobby and the Midnites sit in on the encore, which includes the JGB singleton “Johnny B. Goode”. Jerry sounds quite strong.  Two new tunes stand out. “Valerie” holds some serious heavy-metal appeal, and…

  • 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…

  • Bobby Ace

    I was doing some thinking about Bob Weir’s musical journey, and what I view to be the pivotal “Bobby Ace” period, running most obviously from about mid-1969 through 1970. And, since we were just talking about Family Dog shows, I got to thinking about the April 1970 acoustic gigs. Long story short, I just did…

  • Desolation Row

    Man, at like 9:30 of this incredible, late-Mydland era Dead version of Dylan’s “Desolation Row”(track 4) Garcia thrusts into a scuba-evoking scream of Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow harmonizing behind Weir, who delivers a BOAT-contending version. Outstanding! Thanks to Joani Walker, Paul Scotton, Charlie Miller for the tunes. ! song:…

  • Green Green Grass Of Home

    This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…

  • James and the Mercedes demos

    The great Stephen Barncard has posted some snippets of 1974 James and Mercedes demos from Weir’s place. I had never heard these before. http://media.barncard.com/audio/history/james-mercedes/ No Garcia Content (NGC). 

  • So He Goes Nowhere

    https://archive.org/details/gd1980-06-08.SonyECM250.walker-scotton.miller.88452.sbeok.flac16 This fileset is great – awesome tape by Joani Walker. It also includes a few great tracks from the Warren Zevon set and a post-show interview with Bob Weir. Here’s an interesting little exchange, 24 minutes into the interview, or thereabouts. Bob: “Garcia, who’s really visible for miles … he can’t go anywhere. He…

  • Weir’s Book

    Since books are in the air (and when, in the Good Life, aren’t they), I thought I’d note that Weir says he plans to write his own. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bob-weir-on-dead-reunion-his-doc-and-being-jerrys-bag-man-20150520 Bring it on!