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Category: Greg Errico

  • Warmup for Four: JGB at the Stone, July 19, 1980

    LN jg1980-07-19.jgb.all.aud-moore-berger.122980.flac1644 These notes were orphaned – I listened to this sometime back, never posted them. Last of three warmups for the short-lived JGB #11b quartet. We used to think that this band happened because the 11a drummer, John d’Fonseca, died in Spring 1980. But we now know that’s not true, so it’s not clear why…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1972

    I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local No. 6 in San Francisco. San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972 There is nothing representative about these – I have information on stuff that is…

  • 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…

  • Greg Errico hits like a linebacker

    LN jg1982-11-13.jgb.all.aud-lamarre.135183.flac2496 Jerry Garcia Band Bushnell Auditorium 166 Capitol Street Hartford, CT 06105 November 13, 1982 (Saturday) – 7:30 PM Lamarre MAC flac2496 shnid-135183 –set I (7 tracks, 62:13)– s1t01. //How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [#7:59] [0:04] % s1t02. They Love Each Other [8:00] [0:02] % s1t03. Valerie [8:10] [0:02] %…

  • The Final “After Midnight”: JGB, March 7, 1983, The Stone

    Garcia played J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” a bunch –by my count, 96 times starting 6/30/72– with a number of different personnel configurations, for about ten years. But then, after Monday March 7, 1983, he just dropped it. A new fileset of 3/7/83 shows me some killer guitar work in “After Midnight”, “Catfish John”, and “Tore…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1969

    update: changed title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972  Moving through the Garciaverse, I pick up lots of pieces that are more degrees of separation out from Jerry than I can ever have real occasion to…

  • Jerry’s New Year’s Eve – LN jg1975-12-31.jgb.all.aud-Falanga-Menke-8664-retrack.noshnid.shn2flac

    GarciaLive 5 GarciaLive, volume 5, December 31st 1975 Keystone Berkeley (2014) is out, available via jerrygarcia.com. Let me start by expressing gratitude for these GarciaLive releases. Having been a massive outlier in my interest in Garcia on the side, having often expressed frustration at the paucity of Jerry shows released under the old regime, I…

  • I sing the blues, where has it led?

    LN jg1983-05-31.jgb.all.aud-vita.76578.flac1644 On Tuesday, May 31, 1983, the Jerry Garcia Band (#15c) lit up an SRO West 52nd Street institution, the venerable Roseland Ballroom, with one of the finest shows of the 1980s.  On any given night, Jerry Garcia could deliver the fucking goods, and this is the fucking goods. Everything crackles. I have titled…

  • JGB: June 23, 1977: Benefit Concert for the Survival of the Forest Community of Camp Meeker

    On Thursday, June 23, 1977, Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) out-of-pattern early and late shows at Santa Rosa High School. High school gigs were pretty unusual for Garcia at any point (beyond early Grateful Dead), but by the late 1970s it almost always meant that there was some personal connection, somehow, to Garcia. For example, Garcia-Kahn…

  • 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…