Category: JGB
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How Come History’s Got to Take Such a Long, Long Time? JGB, Warfield, Sunday, May 3, 1992
LN jg1992-05-03.jgb.all.aud-lucien.106771.flac1648 I just don’t always have a lot to say, but want to put these here to invite others to comment. I enjoyed this. Some mumblyverse, but some real depth of feeling, too. I really enjoyed this version of “The Maker”, with a little extra vocalization at the end that I can’t quite make out…
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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…
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Slowly Unraveled Over You: JGB 3c at Keystone Palo Alto, April 9, 1977
Obviously I am catching up on posting some listening notes. Quality will be even more variable than usual. LN jg1977-04-09.jgb.all.aud-bunjes.13361.shn2flac Some tapes travel unlikely paths to our ears. Here’s an unattributed aud tape, the only one circulating, which went to Germany before coming out into the broader world. I really love the feel of it. It’s…
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Chatty Cathy in the House: JGB at the Stone, December 18, 1981
LN jg1981-12-18.jgb.all.aud-martin.16379.shn2flac I recently learned the term “chompers” to describe people who talk through shows. Well, this phenomenon is as old as time, with the triad of the drum, the chomper and the shusher perhaps very nearly co-constituting each other In The Beginning. Bill Kreutzmann drums, the chomper talks all show long, and I don’t really…
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Little Legal Matters: JGB #1 at Keystone, November 8, 1975
LN jg1975-11-08.jgb.all.aud-castelli-motb-0151.109001.flac1644 ad for JGB 11/8/75 at Keystone, SFSECDB-19751102-p31 Not going to do long listening notes, so a few random bits from this one. First, “Micky” [sic] Hopkins. Heh heh. We are easily amused here. Also @Corry: the ad says advance tickets at BASS, but that was absolutely not the case for any Jerry show at…
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The December ’85 Garcia Band Shows
LN jg1985-12-14.jgb.all.aud-CC.137723.flac1644 LN jg1985-12-15.jgb.all-1.aud-CC.137724.flac1644 LN jg1985-12-21.jgb.all.aud-gale.14980.shn2flac LN jg1985-12-22.jgb.all.aud-gale.14981.shn2flac seealso: LN jg1985-10-14.jgb.all.aud.138028.flac1644 Earlier this year I posted listening notes on four JGB shows from August 1985, and here I do the same for December of the same year. It’s relatively feasible to do this for Rock Bottom shows because they are fun sized, with sets regularly clocking…
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Late ’78 Kahn (JGB at Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, October 26, 1978)
LN jg1978-10-26.jgb.all.aud-severson.148655.flac2496 Not a ton to report. Kahn sounded absolutely amazing on this tour. Really, all through 1978. I don’t know if he changed something, if the sound people just dialed him in especially well, or something else, but the bass was big and fat. Great recording by Mark Severson, full of ambience. Garcia strong. Apparently…
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Kemper’s Last: JGB at Hampton Coliseum, November 19, 1993
The great drummer David Kemper joined the JGB on Wednesday, July 20, 1983, at the Keystone Palo Alto, probably for a few hundred beer drinkers at a show with gross potential of something like $5 grand. He played his last gig with the band at the legendary Hampton Coliseum on November 19, 1993, before a…
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Reuben’s Electric Return: JGB at Portland Civic Auditorium, January 14, 1984
LN jg1984-01-14.jgb.all.aud-faintych.32333.flac1644 “Reuben And Cherise” (s2t06): first electric performance since 1978! Jerry had brought a bunch of the Cats stuff back in ’83. This was the last to re-appear. (Gomorrah: 5/21/83 [electric]; Rhapsody In Red: 5/26/83; Cats: 6/3/83). Jerry sounds good throughout, as, especially, does Kemper. These pre-coma 80s JGB Knockin’s are so sweet and lilting. Rhapsody…
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The “Little Cash Cow,” Fall 1991 Edition
Table xxx. JGB Gig Income, Fall 1991 Tour Table xxx. JGB Gig Gross and Income, Fall 1991 Tour