Category: Eugene
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Green Green Grass Of Home
This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…
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Fluent Guitar and Dissonant Vocals: JGB at Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR – December 5, 1984
Drummer David Kemper’s laminate from the “1984 Winter Northwest Tour” of the JGB, December 5-8, 1984. LN jg1984-12-05.jgb.s2.aud.79642.flac1644 I have been engaging this little mini-tour undertaken by the JGB in early December 1984 as a way to reflect on Garcia’s Rock Bottom. I come away consistently impressed with his guitar playing and mortified by his…
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May 5, 1982 should be June 5, 1982
Perhaps the most bootlegged Garcia-on-the-side gig is acoustic Garcia and Kahn, attributed as the Oregon State Penitentiary, 2575 Center St. NE, Salem, OR 97301, May 5, 1982 [JGC | JGBP | map | etree showid-48429] Lots of these have been liberated into freely-circulating lossless formats (shnid-4423, shnid-11463, shnid-17900), which are all pretty much the same…
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Review of Legion of Mary 12/15/74 EMU Ballroom
With the release of this show, thought I’d post the review that I have in my collection. The release sounds fantastic, and I am loving it so far. If I had time to blog, I’d analyze the liner notes and the music and the gigs and all that. But, no time. Deaddisc has an entry…