Category: Dave Peters

  • Dull as Dishwater in a Classic Art Deco Movie Palace: JGB, Astor Theatre, Reading, PA, September 20, 1976 late show

    zzzzz LN jg1976-09-20.jgb.late.aud-peters.138205.flac1644 The rooms sounds fantastic, but the show bores me to tears, except for some nice flowing guitar work in “Catfish John”. My copy of the band itinerary lacks the pages after Ithaca College (9/18), but for that gig they flew in and out of Teterboro, coming back to the St. Moritz and…

  • Swan Song for JGB #15c: Philly, June 5, 1983

    LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-nak300-minches.76973.flac1644 LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-peters.138199.flac1644 I consider 5/31/83 at the Roseland Ballroom to be one of the best Garcia Band shows of the 1980s. Six days later, this band, featuring the great and powerful Greg Errico on drums, would play its final two shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. Surprisingly, only two tapes…