Fate Music

Category: Denver

  • Farewell to Ronnie at the Rainbow: JGB in Denver, November 19, 1981

    LN jg1981-11-19.jgb.all.aud-unk-vamarty.25792.shn2flac If Garcia’s local gigs paid for his smokes and such, his east coast jaunts paid the big bills. In the book I will try to narrate coherently (ha!) that late 1981 through 1982 showed Garcia trying to straighten out his financial and business affairs (including a relatively local early 1982 “tax tour” that never…

  • Acoustic at the Denver Rainbow – JGJK, May 23, 1985 (late show)

    LN jg1985-05-23.jgjk.late.aud.137966.flac1644 These shows have been very elusive, and the early show still has not made a digital appearance. Standard “Rock Bottom Era” take: croaking vocals and very good (acoustic) guitar picking. The one plus of the acoustic setting is that he can sing quietly, which works well on a relative rarity like “She Belongs…

  • Reconstruction at the Rainbow – April 11-12, 1979

    Probably my last substantial piece for at least three weeks. I. Barry Fey (1938 – April 28, 2013)[1] A. Background Once upon a time, twentysomething New Yorker Barry Fey set out to promote rock shows in Chicago and wound up in Denver. Arriving there in 1967, he would have found a town built on stuff…

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  • Errico is a monster: JGB at the Rainbow, Denver, May 21, 1983

     LN jg1983-05-21.jgb.all.aud-unk.xxxxxx.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band Rainbow Music Hall 6358 East Evans AvenueDenver, CO 80222 May 21, 1983 (Saturday) –Set I (6 tracks, 52:29)– s1t01. [0:17] Sugaree [10:54] [0:07] s1t02. [0:01] % [0:10] I Second That Emotion [9:25] [0:13] s1t03. [0:02] % [0:12] Simple Twist Of Fate [11:19] [0:10] % s1t04. [0:05] That’s What Love Will…

  • GD at Mammoth Gardens, Denver CO, April 24-25, 1970

    It seems that these shows have been shrouded in mystery and legend for a very long time. Maybe it’s because April 1970 was such a hot month, because the tape circulating from this weekend reveals a characteristically hot show, because the next gig (4/26/70 at Poynette Wisconsin) is similarly enshrouded, because “Mammoth Gardens” just sounds…