Category: compensation hypothesis
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Old old old notes: JGB at the Leroy Theatre, Pawtucket, RI, March 11, 1978
LN jg1978-03-11.jgb.all.aud-friend.97682.flac1644 I listened to this years ago, was just doing some housecleaning and thought I’d post. Bullets: Really nice tape. Piano sounds especially great .Thank you, Tim Friend! I note that it runs faster than the set II soundboard tape. I also noted that AF’s ITAM patch from shnid-14931 (Tom Dalti aud) sounds pitched differently.…
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Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead
I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…
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Compensation on TDIH
I have explored, mentally more than online, the hypothesis that when Jerry’s vocals were especially, noteworthily bad, he compensated with his guitar playing, really concentrating on it and giving it extra “oomph”. If we could gather all the data (like continuous measures of the quality of singing and guitar playing), the compensation hypothesis might be…
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Lost Your Voice? Play a Monster “Don’t Let Go” (8/27/84)
LN jg1984-08-27.jgb.all.aud-corley.15029.shn2flac I have sometimes joked, half-seriously, that 8/26/84 may be Garcia’s most wasted performance, but I just do that to embody a feeling about the period as a whole. At some point I’ll bring myself to revisit it. I like listening around such things, as much as listening directly to them. Hence the JGB…
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‘And It Stoned Me’ Debut: JGB, The Stone, October 18, 1986
LN jg1986-10-18.jgb.81mins.sbd-jgmf.112794.flac1648 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 492 Broadway San Francisco, CA October 18, 1986 (Saturday)mono sbd shnid-112794 –set I (6 tracks, 33:58)– s1t01. //Think [#3:52] [0:12] s1t02. And It Stoned Me [5:25] [0:30] s1t03. Run For The Roses [5:21] [0:02] -> s1t04. Let It Rock [4:49] [0:59] s1t05. Forever Young [6:24] -> s1t06. Deal…