Category: listening notes
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LN jg1974-11-09.jgms.late.aud-slabicky.8661.shnf
I guess I’d say I see that as a rather loose and very good show, maybe above average for the time. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Capitol Theatre 326 Monroe Street Passaic, NJ 07055 November 9, 1974 – 11 PM Late Show Slabicky shnid-8661 shn2flac –(9 tracks, 85:20)– l-t01. band introduction (1) [0:26] l-t02. Harder…
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Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead
I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…
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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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Vassar’s Debut With Old And In The Way
Listing for “Old And In The Way” featuring Jerry Garcia, Richard Greene, David Grisman, John Kahn and Peter Rowan, Tuesday, June 5 at the Aquarius Theatre”, Boston Phoenix, May 29, 1973, p. 27. Mention for “Jerry Garcia, Richard Green [sic], ‘Old And In The Way’, June 5th, 8 PM at the Orpheum”, Boston Phoenix, June…
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Fluent Guitar and Dissonant Vocals: JGB at Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR – December 5, 1984
Drummer David Kemper’s laminate from the “1984 Winter Northwest Tour” of the JGB, December 5-8, 1984. LN jg1984-12-05.jgb.s2.aud.79642.flac1644 I have been engaging this little mini-tour undertaken by the JGB in early December 1984 as a way to reflect on Garcia’s Rock Bottom. I come away consistently impressed with his guitar playing and mortified by his…
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Old Folks at Home for a Very Long Show: JGB at the Uptown, November 17, 1981
LN jg1981-11-17.jgb.all.aud-mason.131710.flac1644 Not much to report. Note that I have just been doing a bunch of listening and most of my reports are lukewarm – what are the odds that it’s as much to do with me-in-these-moments as what’s actually on the tapes? Anyway, there were no early and late shows on the Chicago stop…
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Jerry Garcia Band at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, June 4, 1983 late show
LN jg1983-06-04.jgb.late.aud-vita.78981.flac1644 update: lots of great photos from the EARLY show by Peter Hazou [dead link] 1983, like some other years, was best smack dab in the middle for the Jerry Garcia Band. The JGB’s May 31 show at the Roseland Ballroom on West 52nd Street in New York is one of the best of…
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Burnt to a Crisp on Long Island
LN jg1978-03-12.jgb.all.aud-unknown.82587.flac1644 Sunday, March 12, 1978, the Mystery Cats met up with all kinds of old friends for a party on Long Island. Corry’s got the goods on Hunter, Nelson, Marmaduke and Garcia all finding themselves together this night – it’s great stuff. See also my other posts from this tour: 3/10/78 interview 3/10/78 listening…
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LN jg1987-10-28.jgb.early.aud-koucky.80044.flac1644
Perfectly competent musicianship, but nothing here really lights me up. Good tape with lots of atmosphere. Jerry Garcia Band Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 W. 46th StreetNew York, NY 10036 October 28, 1987 (Wednesday) – Early Show – set II (electric) Koucky MAC shnid-80044 — set II + encore (9 tracks, 69:14)– — set II (8 tracks,…