Category: Cats Under The Stars
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Reuben’s Electric Return: JGB at Portland Civic Auditorium, January 14, 1984
LN jg1984-01-14.jgb.all.aud-faintych.32333.flac1644 “Reuben And Cherise” (s2t06): first electric performance since 1978! Jerry had brought a bunch of the Cats stuff back in ’83. This was the last to re-appear. (Gomorrah: 5/21/83 [electric]; Rhapsody In Red: 5/26/83; Cats: 6/3/83). Jerry sounds good throughout, as, especially, does Kemper. These pre-coma 80s JGB Knockin’s are so sweet and lilting. Rhapsody…
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Palm Sunday
I know today is Easter, but JGBP tipped me off to a reddit AMA with Donna Jean the other day, and she provided this great memory from the Cats Under the Stars sessions: It was about 4 o’clock in the morning, and Jerry and I were singing the duet on Palm Sunday, and we had…
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Come back for Garcia Band. Come back, come back.
LN jg1978-03-10.interview.all.fm-zimmerman.82210.flac1644 I love these March ’78 interviews. 3/11/78 is my absolute favorite, all kinds of great stuff. This one has less going on, but still interesting to the likes of me. Jerry Garcia Band InterviewWCMF-FM Studios129 Leighton AvenueRochester, NY 14614March 10, 1978 (Friday) afternoon46 minute Alan Zimmerman FM cassette (7 tracks, 46:25)jg19780310d3t001. Reuben and…
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Cats in the Studio: September 1977
–> I can’t write up everything I have gathered around the recording of Garcia’s 1978 masterpiece Cats Under the Stars, not now, and, alas, perhaps not ever in any true sense of the word “everything”. Once I write the book I plan on just throwing open all of my materials and letting others have at…
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Reading Notes: Jon Sievert’s 1978 Guitar Player interview with Jerry Garcia
Man, this is such a great interview. Sievert always connected well with Jerry. These are my “reading notes”, which just means that I am drawing quotes and dropping them back into context. So, for example, some of the pedal steel talk below has been pasted back into my materials on the pedal steel guitar and…
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Finally Busting out Cats at the End of the Cats Tour: JGB at the Philly Spectrum, March 16, 1978
LN jg1978-03-16.jgb.all.aud-petrunis.124066.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band Spectrum Theater 3601 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 March 16, 1978 (Thursday) Petrunis aud shnid-124066 –complete show (10 tracks, 87:45)– t01. The Harder They Come [10:36] % [-0:02] t02. [+0:02] /Mission In The Rain [10:40] % t03. /That’s What Love Will Make You Do [10:25] % t04. /Gomorrah [#7:15]…
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LN jg1978-03-17.jgb.late-1.sbd-bershaw-nolan.123184.flac1644
update 20170710: Here the show doesn’t light me up, yet my CC aud listening notes from a month before this post include this: The show is quite hot, IMO. MITR ends in a manic flurry. Tore Up, my notes tell me, is “ridiculous”. Jerry is *really* into this Dixie Down. RIR is absolutely fantastic, with…
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One of the Great Interviews of the Garciaverse
jg1978-03-11.interview.45mins.fm-gefen-goodbear.retracked.shn2flac Remember, I am on hiatus until at least March 2013. Having taken this opportunity to remind you of this, as a PSA, let me also leave you something to read. This is truly one of the great, hilarious interviews in the Garciaverse, chock full of great stuff. Jerry Garcia Band Interview (by Andy Gefen)…
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I did not know that
According to Alex Allan’s incredible Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder site, Love in the Afternoon credits lyrics to Robert Hunter and music to John Kahn. “I did not know that.”
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Cat in the Limelight: RN Grosswald and Blavat 1978
Grosswald, Mike and Glen Blavat. 1978. Jerry Garcia’s Band Under the Stars. Happytimes (Philadelphia), March 31, 1978, p. 15. Grosswald-Bavat 1978: This is a really nicely done piece from what I assume was a Philly underground paper, Happytimes, around the time of the JGB’s visit to that town in mid-March (3/16/78 at the Spectrum Theatre).…