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Category: JGB

  • Insert Pithy Title Here: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983

    Killer “Don’t Let Go”, and two short sets that foreshadow darker days ahead. Great job on the matrix by AF! update: d’oh! posted a second time about this one. DLG so nice, I had to post it twice. JERRY GARCIA BANDKeystone Palo Alto260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306November 12, 1983 (Saturday)*Matrix* shnid-141451 –set I…

  • Jerry Has Fallen, and He Can’t Get Up

    OK, maybe I am feeling a little bit cranky. I have been doing some late era listening, and it’s not always easy. Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at the Warfield, for example, has a “Don’t Let Go” – which is good! – but it falls into quite a remarkable rut. From 3:22-6:03 of this lovely Vasseur…

  • A Second Triumphant Return: JGB, Halloween ’92

    LN jg1992-10-31.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141463.flac1644 Almost six years to the day after Jerry’s “Triumphant Return” from death’s door with the Garcia Band at the Stone, on October 31, 1992 he made a second comeback from a major health scare, playing with the JGB in the less homey Oakland Coliseum Arena less than three months after collapsing at home…

  • Confused, Trainwreck, Yeesh and Yikes: JGB at the Warfield, August 14, 1994

    jg1994-08-14.jgb.all.sbd-miller.136390.flac1644 The title conveys some of the adjectives and interjections I used in listening to this rare sbd tape of late-era Jerry. He sounds bad – bad, I tell you. Jerry Garcia BandThe Warfield982 Market StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102August 14, 1994 (Sunday)remastered Miller sbd shnid-136390 –set I (7 tracks, 68:22)–s1t01. How Sweet It Is (To…

  • JGB19900302: Saturday, March 2, 1990, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA

    update: this was originally posted some years ago. I accidentally reposted it today. It looks like it is not perfectly together – you get what you pay for. I wanted to try a little experiment by just unpacking a single show. I am not a very effective “prosopographer”, so I can’t do what Corry does,…

  • Cities Burn and The Show Goes On: JGB at the Warfield, April 30, 1992

    jg1992-04-30.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141475.flac1644 On April 30, 1992, as on other Thursdays before, at least a couple American cities were in flames as protests over racial injustice turned violent and disorderly in the aftermath of a Simi Valley jury’s acquittal of four LAPD officers accused in the March 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney King. The Garcia Band…

  • The Reedman vs. The Gunslinger: JGB with David Murray, Madison Square Garden, November 12, 1993

    LN jg1993-11-12.jgb.all.aud-brennecke-litzenburger-GEMS.91812.flac1644 LN jg1993-11-12.jgb.s2.aud-gastwirt.139507.flac1648 The man had conceived the band bearing his name as a way to scratch some musical itches, play some mostly consonant music with mostly-simpatico (or at least deferential) people, and make a little bit of walking around money. The Jerry Garcia Band provided its namesake with a comfortable and, eventually, highly…

  • Let’s Spend the (Wednesday) Night Together

    November 21, 1990, a Wednesday night, Garcia played a killer “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” featuring what the seeder notes as “relentless, furious” guitar work. Indeed. “Tears Of Rage” and “Tore Up Over You” also stand out. Pack of Wolves opened, for the record. Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA…

  • June 1990 at the Warfield

    The post-coma Garcia Band was getting hotter and hotter from 1987-1989, in my view, and somewhere along the line two kinds of business/money decisions were made. First, it’d start regularly playing the Warfield, which I think had been recently renovated, for Wolfgang.  JGB played fifteen gigs at 982 Market in 1990 –February 2-4, March 1-2,…

  • Certainly One of the Best and Most Interesting Shows of the 90s: JGB, March 1, 1991, Warfield

    I have a “P: Overall:” note below which sums up my assessment. Very good, ol’ Jer. Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 March 1, 1991 (Friday) B&K 4011s MAD flac1648 shnid-141449 –set I (8 tracks, 7 tunes, 64:44)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [2:54] s1t02. Cats Under The Stars [9:15]…