Category: listening notes
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Hey Merl, you wanna do that tune in ‘G’? Get spaced out a little? LN jg1971-05-11.jgms.partial.aud.28784.flac1644
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Matrix 3138 Fillmore StreetSan Francisco, CA 94123 May 11, 1971 (Tuesday) 20 min flac1644 shnid-28784 –(2 tracks, 19:58)– t01. talk and tuning (1, 2) [1:03] t02. Save Mother Earth [18:44] [0:10] ! ACT1: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders ! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g; ! lineup: Merl Saunders – keyboards,…
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The Fat Man Is Back – LN jg1987-02-24.jgb.all.aud-pinney-gems.82610.flac1644
Poster for JGB 2/24/87 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Tuesday, February 24, 1987, image courtesy of Wolfgang’s Vault. Since I gathered an ad and a few listings in Santa Cruz, I gave the 2/24/87 JGB show at the Civic Aud a spin and discovered a great tape (a single one in circulation, thanks…
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Don Dearth Was My Third Grade Teacher, And He Was A Taper: JGB at the Stone, May 12, 1984
LN jg1984-05-12.jgb.all.aud-dearth.85568.flac1644 Quite a nice performance, quite a nice tape, pulled by my 3rd grade teacher from Burton School (Lafayette, CA), the lovely Don Dearth. I like the Cats and the Knockin’ here. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 May 12, 1984 (Saturday) Dearth shnid-85568 –set I (5 tracks, 51:07)– s1t01.…
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Sebastopol Benefit: March 22, 1978
LN jg1978-03-22.jgb.all.sbd-ladner.19832.shn2flac As a prelude to a review of the off-to-a-great-start GarciaLive 4 release of the Sebastopol 3/22/78 benefit show, here are some fragmentary listening notes from a year ago on the rough circulating sbd copy. It appears that I engaged the question of the pianist on that very date over at Corry’s post (probably…
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JGB 10/27/78 pix [update: and saga] [update2: and listening notes]
Jerry Garcia Band at Washington State College, Cheney, WA, October 27, 1978 Ben Upham‘s wonderful shot of Jerry Garcia at Washington State College, 10/27/78 Updates Since I already have a post on this show specifically, let me accompany Upham’s beautiful pix with some less beautiful details about how this thing went down. This, from a…
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Harpur College NRPS set
“Enough about the Dead, how was the New Riders’ set?” – one guy, once Any Deadhead worth her salt knows the Harpur College gig from May 2, 1970. It’s a monster, one of the Dead’s best, and long-circulating from FM tapes; it has blown a lot of minds. I don’t remember hearing much about the…
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I sing the blues, where has it led?
LN jg1983-05-31.jgb.all.aud-vita.76578.flac1644 On Tuesday, May 31, 1983, the Jerry Garcia Band (#15c) lit up an SRO West 52nd Street institution, the venerable Roseland Ballroom, with one of the finest shows of the 1980s. On any given night, Jerry Garcia could deliver the fucking goods, and this is the fucking goods. Everything crackles. I have titled…
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We’re Having a Reasonably Good Time Here
LN jg1989-01-28.jgb.all.sbd-goetz-retracked.28352.shn2flac Love this show. Two snaps up. A few bullets. First, I had a cryptic note-to-self in the 1/27/89 listening notes to elaborate on the “a year too late” thesis. In a nutshell, it’s my argument that when JGB recorded itself in 1990 at the Warfield for what would become the eponymous 1991 double-live…
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Mahalo, Jer: JGB, January 27, 1989 at the Orpheum
LN jg1989-01-27.jgb.all.sbd-moses.84866.flac1644 Can’t believe I haven’t annotated any 1989 Garcia Band. For my money, 1988-1989 is one of the great JGB periods, which a fresh and healthy Jerry (that’s what starts to break down, for me, 1990-1991), solid band, some fresh material, rehearsed arrangements, and lots of classic American songs. Nothing too crazy, lots of…
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From Sanctity to Sin – Club Casino the Night after the Nunnery
Jim Costa’s ticket stub from JGB 8/12/84, Club Casino. LN jg1984-08-12.jgb.all.aud-senn441s-FAIL.24496.flac1644 Since I did the night before, at the nunnery, I cued up a random fileset for 8/12/84, first of two nights at the Club Casino in Hampton Beach, NH. Via JGBP Not a ton to say – I think this is also an average…