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  • During Gaylord’s Second Stint: JGB at the Stone, October 14, 1985 (Monday)

    These may be the shortest two JGB sets ever played. Gaylord Birch drumming. See also “The December ’85 Garcia Band Shows“ LN jg1985-10-14.jgb.all.aud.138028.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 October 14, 1985 (Monday) CC shnid-138028 –set I (4 tracks, 34:48)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars [7:12] % s1t02. When I Paint…

  • The Final “After Midnight”: JGB, March 7, 1983, The Stone

    Garcia played J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” a bunch –by my count, 96 times starting 6/30/72– with a number of different personnel configurations, for about ten years. But then, after Monday March 7, 1983, he just dropped it. A new fileset of 3/7/83 shows me some killer guitar work in “After Midnight”, “Catfish John”, and “Tore…

  • JGB at Freeborn Hall, November 12, 1976

    Sometime in the afternoon or thereabouts of Friday, November 12, 1976, Garcia, John Kahn, Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, probably Richard Loren hopped into sedans being driven by monitor mixer Harry Popick and roadie Bill ‘Kidd’ Candelario to Davis, California, about a hundred miles east of San Francisco on I-80. Thus began a little weekend…

  • JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)

    LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…

  • JGB in Phishland: Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT, 12/6/83

    Note that I have started changing all of my info to reflect the presence of DeeDee Dickerson on the bus with the JGB in November-December 1983. 12/6/83a Nice Catfish John, otherwise this early show does not light me up. Jerry Garcia Band Flynn Theater 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 December 6, 1983 (Tuesday) –…

  • A 35 Minute Second Set: JGB at The Stone, March 4, 1984

    LN jg1984-03-04.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.85294.flac1644 Sunday night, 3/4/84, Jerry races out of the building with a 35 minute set II. Maybe he was late for mass. Nothing much else to report. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133 March 4, 1984 (Sunday) sbd GMB flac1644 shnid-85294 –set I (5 tracks, 48:57)– s1t01. //Rhapsody In…

  • LN jg1995-01-13.jgb.s2.aud-sisler-goodbear.79638.flac1648

    update 5/17: I have revisited this date, with rather contrasting perceptions. Needless to say, I don’t get out to 1995 very much. I enjoyed this, overall. It was not a ripoff. Jerry’s guitar play is fine, if mixed very low. The arrangements are pretty interesting, but the execution suffers without David Kemper in the chair.…

  • LN jg1983-11-30.jgb.all.aud-commander.134251.flac2496

    Jerry Garcia Band The Agora 165 Dexter Avenue West Hartford, CT 06106 November 30, 1983 (Wednesday) Commander MAC flac2496 shnid-134251 –set I (5 tracks, 43:38)– s1t01. [0:13] /I’ll Take A Melody [#13:18] [0:06] % [0:03] s1t02. [0:09] The Way You Do The Things You Do [9:33] [0:03] % s1t03. When I Paint My Masterpiece [7:09]…

  • August 9th

    This August 9th finds me thinking more about 70 years since Nagasaki than 20 years since Jerry Garcia, though that, too, is on my mind. Might as well go straight for the cream: cue this one up from about 5:40 to hear Garcia wail. In the alternative check out the whole smokin’ hot, first-night-of-tour set…

  • NRPS (formerly The Murdering Punks) – August 7, 1969

    There has long been a tape identified as New Riders Of The Purple Sage (NRPS), Thursday, August 7, 1969 at the Matrix in San Francisco. Corry has found corroborating evidence for the dating, though of course the tape cannot be tied to the Ralph Gleason “On The Town” listing he found, which bills the band…