Category: CA
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Chieftains Opening for OAITW
Update 7/22/2022: somehow I got the date wrong by a week, but in any case this Chieftains set is now being released by the Owsley Stanley Foundation! A book by John Glatt entitled The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) describes Chesley Milliken arranging a meeting between Garcia and The Chieftains, who were…
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What is the Opposite of a Bat Outta Hell? JGB at Keystone, September 10-12, 1976
I am not a huge fan of the syrupy tempos of 1976 JGB, the ultimate comfort band for Our Hero. There are some great sounding tapes, the occasional killer show (4/3/76b), and some spectacular specific songs (“Right Mighty High”, “Moonlight Mile”, “Who Was John” and others are some of my faves), but the overall vibe…
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Jerry Garcia at the Warfield – August 21, 1982??
What a strange thing this is. SFC listing for Jerry Garcia at the Warfield, August 21, 1982. It almost certainly wasn’t JGB: that band had last played June 24 out east, and wouldn’t play again (in a new configuration) until October 13th. It was almost certainly planned to be the Garcia/Kahn acoustic duo, two days…
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GD at Freeborn Hall: Friday, October 28, 1966
This is out of my wheelhouse, but since it brings together two loose ends for me I thought I’d post it here. The Sacramento Bee of 10/23/66 p. W14 has a piece on upcoming homecoming events at Cal Aggie, i.e., UC Davis. The Grateful Dead are scheduled to play Freeborn Hall Friday 10/28/66, Yellow Brick…
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Second Night Out for Liz and Essra: JGB, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, June 25, 1981
update: the original title of this was “First Night Out”, but I have discovered a warmup gig on 6/24/81 at the Keystone Palo Alto (not in Salinas, as I had elaborately laid out). Liz Stires and Essra Mohawk appear to debut as backing vocalists on the night before this show. There are no singers on the late…
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Taper Extraordinaire Sean Webber-Small
Spinning Sean Webber-Small’s spaced omni recordings of the GD at Cal Expo on this date in 1990. I am not sure if I was there – I don’t think so, but I can’t really remember and I can’t find my stubs to verify one way or the other. But SWS generously shares some insights into…
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Purty
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GD Frost ’85 matrix
Man, this recording from TDIH sounds nice to these ol’ ears.
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“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…
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Last Time in Irvine: JGB at Irvine Meadows, May 15, 1994
I forewarned a few posts back that I had some backlogged listening notes, and have been posting them this weekend. They were backlogged, in many cases, because I just didn’t have that much to say. I often check the date index for the blog in picking something to listen to, looking for gaps or inflection…