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Category: east coast

  • 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…

  • Folk Songs of America, 2: map

    Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter

  • JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)

    LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…

  • “The Little Cash Cow” – JGB, Early 1980

    Last weekend’s post “On the Bus with the Garcia Band” looked at the November-December 1983 JGB tour’s extensive ground travel – everything was by bus, 3,000 miles on the road in a few weeks in the eastern time zone. Commenter Nick asked a great question comparing that tour with earlier ones, pointing out Ozzie Ahlers’s…

  • On the Bus with the Garcia Band

    I was going through the tour documents for the Jerry Garcia Band’s November-December 1983 tour, which was unusually long. I haven’t compared the various JGB tours, but this one and/or the late ’77 tour are the two longest I can think of, without double checking. I have more documents from the 70s than the 80s,…

  • 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…

  • The Grateful Dead: Top-Grossing Act of 1991

    I just picked up a copy of Pollstar‘s 1991 Year-End Special Edition, entitled Year of the Dead, dated December 31, 1991. Though I don’t do much GD stuff, blogger’s stats tell me that GD posts are the most popular. People are funny. But I digress. One of the reasons I don’t do it is that…

  • “Bloody Hell”

    A while back I posted some listening notes from the Jim Cooper audience tape of the Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) show at Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Queens, NY on Thursday, October 30, 1975. When called to summarize the show in a headline for my etree list, which is a date index for the site, I…

  • Two Negative Reviews, One Participant Observation of Deadheaddom, Long Island Style: JGB at Stony Brook, February 24, 1980

    So much to say, so little time. Eventually the February 1980 tour will have to be written up. Here are some raw materials. Really nice tape, an excellent version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” , two negative show reviews and one a participant observation study of Deadheaddom, Long Island style, February 1980. LN jg1980-02-24.jgb.all.aud-stankiewicz.126077.flac2496…

  • The April 1975 Legion of Mary Tour

    LN jg1975-04-10.lom.early.aud-moore.117250.flac2496 In April 1975, Legion of Mary (Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Martin Fierro, John Kahn and Ronnie Tutt) went on its only tour, performing, by my count, twenty-five shows in the seventeen days between April 4th and April 20th (inclusive). They started in Brooklyn, spent a bunch of time in the core Northeast (New…