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Category: JGB

  • The Fat Man Is Back – LN jg1987-02-24.jgb.all.aud-pinney-gems.82610.flac1644

    Poster for JGB 2/24/87 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Tuesday, February 24, 1987, image courtesy of Wolfgang’s Vault. Since I gathered an ad and a few listings in Santa Cruz, I gave the 2/24/87 JGB show at the Civic Aud a spin and discovered a great tape (a single one in circulation, thanks…

  • Documenting the JGB – February 26, 1976 – Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

    Continuing this little Santa Cruz series, I thought I’d use the next gig to lay out some nomenclature. A little taxonomy to tempt your tastebuds. Institutionalized Practices The current title only came to me after I had just posted this more generically. It currently reads “Documenting the JGB” to complement the Billing and Accounting posts…

  • Don Dearth Was My Third Grade Teacher, And He Was A Taper: JGB at the Stone, May 12, 1984

     LN jg1984-05-12.jgb.all.aud-dearth.85568.flac1644 Quite a nice performance, quite a nice tape, pulled by my 3rd grade teacher from Burton School (Lafayette, CA), the lovely Don Dearth. I like the Cats and the Knockin’ here. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 May 12, 1984 (Saturday) Dearth shnid-85568 –set I (5 tracks, 51:07)– s1t01.…

  • Sebastopol Benefit: March 22, 1978

    LN jg1978-03-22.jgb.all.sbd-ladner.19832.shn2flac As a prelude to a review of the off-to-a-great-start GarciaLive 4 release of the Sebastopol 3/22/78 benefit show, here are some fragmentary listening notes from a year ago on the rough circulating sbd copy. It appears that I engaged the question of the pianist on that very date over at Corry’s post (probably…

  • JGB 10/27/78 pix [update: and saga] [update2: and listening notes]

    Jerry Garcia Band at Washington State College, Cheney, WA, October 27, 1978 Ben Upham‘s wonderful shot of Jerry Garcia at Washington State College, 10/27/78 Updates Since I already have a post on this show specifically, let me accompany Upham’s beautiful pix with some less beautiful details about how this thing went down. This, from a…

  • DeeDee Dickerson Discography

    I recently posted a little bit of information from the John Scher Presents program for JGB 5/31/83. It included a little bio on the various band members. In comments, nick picked up on Dee Dee Dickerson’s work with Pharoah Sanders, and posted link to Donna Dickerson at discogs.I had not known her name was Donna.…

  • Accounting the JGB: October 8, 1975

    Since we are having fun with a few provisions around how the JGB was billed and advertised for the October 8, 1975 (Wednesday!) shows at the Del Mar Theatre in Santa Cruz [JB 7:30 PM | JB 10:30 PM | map | JGBP venue, but ‘Theatre’ is correct], why don’t we look at this in…

  • Billing the JGB: October 8, 1975

    Billing shall be as follows without deviation: JERRY GARCIA BAND 100% size type Featuring 25% size type Nicky Hopkins 75% size type John Kahn 75% size type Ron Tutt 75% size type The names of each band member shall appear below “JERRY GARCIA BAND” in any and all forms of advertising in the order listed…

  • 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…

  • We’re Having a Reasonably Good Time Here

    LN jg1989-01-28.jgb.all.sbd-goetz-retracked.28352.shn2flac Love this show. Two snaps up. A few bullets. First, I had a cryptic note-to-self in the 1/27/89 listening notes to elaborate on the “a year too late” thesis. In a nutshell, it’s my argument that when JGB recorded itself in 1990 at the Warfield for what would become the eponymous 1991 double-live…