Category: college gigs
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Jerry Band SoCal ’89
LN jg1989-05-19.jgb.all.aud-tfh.24537.flac1644 LN jg1989-05-20.jgb.all.sbd-miller.20679.shn2flac LN jg1989-05-22.jgb.all.aud-ebay-liberation.150868.flac2448 The Jerry Band in SoCal After the Jerry Band started in 1975, SoCal trips were mostly one, two- and few-offs – no real tours as we define them at Jerrybase. Starting in spring 1983, the band started doing what were called “tours” in-house, but were typically just a couple days, couple…
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DOWN in South Jersey? JGB at Glassboro State College, February 15, 1981
LN jg1981-02-15.jgb.all.aud.137422.flac1644 Rock Scully’s book Living with the Dead (1996) gets mixed reviews for all kinds of reasons, among them that he presents lots of factually inaccurate information. But, on another intepretation –and, I think, relaying something Corry has expressed– the book may not be right, but it contains lots of truth. Here is some of his…
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Brief Encounters of the Weird Kind: JGB at Penn State, December 11, 1977
jg1977-12-11.jgb.all.sbd-sirmick.80773.flac1644 Again, listening notes may be briefer for awhile. Certainly, these are bullet-style. David Gans once said something to the effect that Garcia exhibits the shortest distance between spirit and fingertip of any musician he knows. That’s probably not quite right, but it was something like this. A reviewer from this last show of the…
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Upon Further Review: Various and Sundry Listening Notes on the Last Night of the Fall ’83 Tour: JGB at Wilkins Theatre, Kean College, December 13, 1983
LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early.aud-newberger-seaweed.133469.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-minches.31253.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-newberger.77710.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.late.aud-nak300.151810.flac2496 I first heard 12/13/83 in 2003, when Andrew Faintych sent me tapes from both shows recorded with Senn 421s from the 10th row by “Tom from Avon, NJ”. In 2005, Bu lent me his DAT of an unattributed aud, and minches and I did our transferring and…
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Segueing Out of Stony Brook: JGB in Pritchard Gym, SUNY Stony Brook, December 4, 1983
Lawn Guy Land, and especially SUNY Stony Brook, stands in the pantheon as one of the ground zero sites of the birth and development of the East Coast Deadhead and, by derivation, of the East Coast Garcia Freak. The Dead played Pritchard Gym on campus very early on, and, as so often happened, the Garcia…
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JGB in Binghamton, November 20, 1977: first night DLG + LAALWFH = 1/2 (two weeks later DLG + LAALWFH)
LN jg1977-11-20.jgb.all.sbd.141495.flac1644 First night of the fall ’77 Garcia Band tour (22 gigs in 22 nights), third live gig for young Buzzy Buchanan in the drummer’s seat. The great Jerry Moore had some nasty thoughts about him, but I think he sounds fine here. Keeping time for this group could not have been a picnic. I…
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Dawn of the NRPS
I am sure you have already pre-ordered, as I just did, but just in case, here’s link to the upcoming Owsley Stanley Foundation (OSF) release called “Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage”. I cannot freaking wait to hear this! https://owsleystanleyfoundation.org/bears-sonic-journals/dawn-of-the-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage/
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A Long Way From Spain: JGB at SUNY Stony Brook, December 9, 1977
LN jg1977-12-09.jgb.all.aud-matera-fix.137736.flac2488 Not much time to post much detail, so some bulleted observations. 1) Keith is playing some classical-Spanish sounding thing at the end of s1t01. Then, @ 7:21 of “Lonesome And A Long Way From Home”, I hear John hitting some Spanish stuff, too. Check it out because, while Jerry was Swedish-Irish on his mom’s…
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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…