Category: JGB
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Segueing Out of Stony Brook: JGB in Pritchard Gym, SUNY Stony Brook, December 4, 1983
Lawn Guy Land, and especially SUNY Stony Brook, stands in the pantheon as one of the ground zero sites of the birth and development of the East Coast Deadhead and, by derivation, of the East Coast Garcia Freak. The Dead played Pritchard Gym on campus very early on, and, as so often happened, the Garcia…
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These Listening Notes May Be A Touch Unreliable: JGB at Orpheum, December 2, 1988
LN jg1988-12-02.jgb.all.aud-webber-small.xxxxxx.flac1644 In my neck of the scientific woods, reliability refers to the reproducibility of empirical measurement. My measurement is reliable to the extent that another scholar can follow my procedure (which must be made transparent, of course) and arrive at the same value. For measurement that involves subjective judgment (how prevalent is corruption in country…
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Blissfully Clarenceless on Market Street: JGB at the Warfield, December 1, 1989
LN jg1989-12-01.jgb.all.aud-bk4011.141459.flac1648 God, ’89 was such a great year for the Jerry Band. I really need to find some more of the out-of-town shows to spin, though everytime I do I tend not to note much, because it’s all just really consistently good. This show, 12/1/89, is absolutely outstanding. I am glad that, contrary to what…
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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…
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Weakest Show of ’88? JGB, December 3, 1988, Orpheum SF
I absolutely love 1988 JGB. There’s not much of it, but it’s mostly all light and bouncy and healthy sounding and interactive and good. He does speak from stage here, as he did on 7/10/88. That’s kind of noteworthy, I guess. That said, just spun 12/3/88 and it left me whelmed. Bill Reutelhuber made a…
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JGB in Binghamton, November 20, 1977: first night DLG + LAALWFH = 1/2 (two weeks later DLG + LAALWFH)
LN jg1977-11-20.jgb.all.sbd.141495.flac1644 First night of the fall ’77 Garcia Band tour (22 gigs in 22 nights), third live gig for young Buzzy Buchanan in the drummer’s seat. The great Jerry Moore had some nasty thoughts about him, but I think he sounds fine here. Keeping time for this group could not have been a picnic. I…
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Makes Up In Enthusiasm What It Lacks In Precision: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983
LN jg1983-11-12.jgb.all.mtx.141451.flac1644 update: d’oh! Already posted this one. Crispy clean but flat and unbalanced sbd meets in-your-face but unbalanced Menke aud to make for a sweet matrix. Thank you Andrew F. for your work! The show? It’s late ’83. The sets are getting shorter. The DLG is fucking killer, and the Deal makes up in enthusiasm…
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Anyone ever seen tape of JGB January 8, 1983?
UPDATE: someone on Twitter, I can’t recall who, points out that this is very likely to be a mislabel of 1/8/84, and I agree. No ads, no listings, and a setlist very similar to what we know for 1/8/84. I now consider this a phantom gig. Man, for all kinds of reasons, I need to…
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These sets aren’t getting any longer: JGB #21a at the Beverly Theatre, October 1, 1983
One of the things that I expect will become possible at some point is to get some relatively valid data on set times across the years. One of the reasons I try to be so precise with my timing notations is that I am going to want to train a machine to parse song, set…
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First JGB at the Keystone: October 11-12, 1975
The JERRY GARCIA Band Prior to fall of 1975, Garcia’s side bands had mostly a) been relatively loose aggregations and/or b) not had his name on the marquee. All of this preserved a kind of informal quality, maybe some plausible deniability, a little bit little less spotlight to go with his insatiable appetite for gigging.…