Category: Julie Stafford
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I Have A Confession To Make
I do not know who the JGB backing vocalists were between October 24, 1982 and November 15, 1982 I have posted many, many times about the early 80s backing vocalists (see Appendix below). Our understanding of who was who, and when, was greatly abetted by the fact that Corry Arnold took notes from the GD…
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Lizless Sextet: JGB at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, June 23, 1982
LN jg1982-06-23.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 This date interests me because Liz Stires is said to have left the JGB tour after the previous night’s gig (6/22/82). So this would be a show with only one backing vocalist (Julie Stafford), a rare JGB sextet with two keyboards (JGB #14d, I have proposed we catalogue it). Truth is, I can’t…
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The River Theatre (Guerneville, CA) 1982 Liz and Julie Conundrum, Resolved
In my previous post on the JGB’s early 1980s drummers and backup singers, I grappled with the puzzle of the backup singers on 10/24/82 at the River Theater, 16135 Main Street, Guerneville, CA, 95446-8301: an eyewitness to the 10/24/82 River Theater (Guerneville, CA) show, which we know featured the return of female vocalists after the…
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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).…