Fate Music

Category: IL

  • Don’t judge a tape by the gear: JGB at Stages, East St. Louis, May 23, 1983

    The only tape circulating for the Garcia Band show at Stages in East St. Louis, May 23, 1983, was recorded using the built-in mics of a Sony D6 by one Steven Shayman. Looks like it entered circulation in June 2004 as a shn fileset put together by Dr. Chris Ladner (neo_levo) as part of the…

  • Legion of Mary at the Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago, April 18, 1975

    LN jg1975-04-18.lom.all.composite-proctor-droncit.124466.flac1644 Thought I’d spin this one on its 45 anniversary yesterday. The only moment of the show that made me sit up some was the meltiness at the end of La-La, which could have gone anywhere and ended up going nowhere. After mostly getting through the show yesterday, I thought to myself “It’s no wonder…

  • The Humanity

    Video of “So Many Roads” from 7/9/95 below the fold.

  • Old Folks at Home for a Very Long Show: JGB at the Uptown, November 17, 1981

    LN jg1981-11-17.jgb.all.aud-mason.131710.flac1644 Not much to report. Note that I have just been doing a bunch of listening and most of my reports are lukewarm – what are the odds that it’s as much to do with me-in-these-moments as what’s actually on the tapes? Anyway, there were no early and late shows on the Chicago stop…

  • Fall 1971: Keith Speaks, records, FM broadcasts

    van Matre, Lynn. 1972. The Grateful Dead Haven’t Changed Much. Now Sound 1, 4 (January): 4, 14. Very brief little piece, the text of which I reproduce in full, à la Dead Sources, below the fold. Here, just a few bullets, I’ll also file under “reading notes“. The interview material with Phil Lesh and Keith…

  • JGB at Northwestern: Cahn Auditorium, March 12, 1976 (late show)

    LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.late.aud-unk.xxxxx.flac1644 My love of audience tapes is evident to anyone who reads here. The anthropological instinct (and practice) underpinning field recording enthralls me. To me, everybody who ever taped a gig is right there with Alan Lomax and all the rest. Now, sometimes you have to be willing to sacrifice your aesthetics a little…

  • LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.1p-2p.aud-coplen.20700.shn2flac

    If there were more time, I’d like to talk about “Who Was John?”, elaborate on the racial structure of the music, the unevenness of this period (March-April 1976).  But there’s not time, so just a data dump. Jerry Garcia Band Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University 600 Emerson StreetEvanston, IL 60201 March 12, 1976 (Friday) 55 minute…

  • November 24, 1968: Jam with Jefferson Airplane, Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI (POSSIBLE)

    In connection with another post that is taking me a long time to finalize, I have been looking at the various crossings of Garcia and the Jefferson Airplane. Among the many sources I have been using is Scott Abbot’s JABase volume 3, available online at http://home.myfairpoint.net/srabbot/airplane/jabase.htm. There, I find a listing for the Airplane doing…

  • JGB: November 17, 1981, Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL

    A couple of quick notes about the Jerry Garcia Band @ Uptown Theatre in Chicago, IL, in late 1981. [note that the Trib appeared to be misspelling it as “Theater” in this timeframe.] First, it appears the show might have originally been scheduled for 10/29/81. That would have made it the first show of the…

  • GD: March/April 1971, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (CANCELED)

    More early ’71 scheduling stuff: “The Grateful Dead pulled a last-minute cancellation at Northern Illinois University a few weeks ago.” This was in an article published on May 7, 1971 (1). So depending on the meaning of “a few weeks”, it could have been in March, when the GD were in Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, canceled…