Category: Jimmy Warren
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JGB: Halloween 1981 – LN jg1981-10-31.jgb.early-late.aud-levene.88958.flac1644
Late Jerry loved playing on Halloween. In the last fifteen years of his life, the only years he is not known to have gigged on Halloween are 1982 and 1994. Table xxx. Garcia on Halloween, 1980-1994. Orange is GD, blue is GOTS. As indicated in the table, things were distributed across the GD (6 dates/shows)…
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Is Jimmy Here? JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, January 23, 1981
LN jg1981-01-23.jgb.all.aud-latvala.97205.flac1644 Well, I hear some electric piano here (see notes), but I think it’s Melvin. So, as Corry indicated, this (along with 1/22/81) might be a hitherto unknown quartet configuration of Garcia, Kahn, Seals and Shaw — no Jimmy Warren on second keys, as traditionally believed. Otherwise, nothing to write home about, to my…
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Melvin in the House: JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, January 22, 1981
LN jg1981-01-22.jgb.partial.aud-latvala.97266.flac1644 Corry listened to this and said he didn’t hear two keyboards (in comments to his main post on Jimmy Warren). I don’t think I do, either, but I’d love for someone to check the 2-minute mark of I’ll Take a Melody and the 6-minute mark of Like a Road. I have a much…
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JGB “1st Northern California Tour”: August 6-8, 1981
One of the oddest little jaunts you’ll find the in Garcia On The Side histories is one billed as the “1st Northern California Tour”, comprising the following three off-the-beaten-path gigs: Wednesday, August 6, 1981, Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main Street, Salinas, CA Thursday, August 7, 1981, Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA Friday, August 8,…
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LN19810129 JGB Catalyst Santa Cruz
Jerry Garcia Band, Sunday, January 29, 1981, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA. shnid 111412. So I thought I’d check out an early Melvin Seals JGB show as a reward for having concluded that his public debut with JGB was 1/22/81. Randomly picked this one. Pretty nice tape that puts you FOB, but the show is…
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When did Melvin Seals begin with JGB?
Edited 20110216 The Jerry Garcia Band show listed as Saturday, December 20, 1980, Keystone Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, has always struck me odd. I argue here that (1) “12/20/80” is a “phantom” listing, a mislabel of 12/20/79. Along the way (2) I argue that “1/18/81” is also a phantom, a mislabel of 1/18/83. This…
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JGB: early 1980s drummers and backup singers
I posted some listening notes from the 10/13/82 JGB show at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA. A priori, two things are particularly interesting about that show. First, it’s the public debut of drummer Greg Errico with the Jerry Garcia Band in this particular stint (he had done a mini-tour with them in July 1980).…