Category: listening notes
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Gloria’s First Night Out? Update: NO
LN jg1984-01-08.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 update: I now believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. update2 (4/16/2020): I no longer believe this is the first night out for Gloria Jones. I now believe that 7/10?/84 enjoys that distinction. First show of 1984, Sunday night at 492 Broadway. This setlist differs from what was traditionally listed,…
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A Motley Crew Down at the Nunnery (LN jg1984-08-11.jgb.all.aud-weez.111743.flac1644)
Ticket stub for JGB 8/11/84 show at Caldwell College, contributed by Ed. Photo of JGB 8/11/84 at Caldwell College, courtesy of Jck007. What a weird show. Reviewer Bill Breen (1984) sets the stage. The August 11 Robert Hunter/ Jerry Garcia Band gig at Caldwell College, New Jersey had to be one of their stranger forays.…
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A Pigless Monster at the Fillmore East: July 12, 1970
LN jg1970-07-12.nrps-gd.aud-cooper.122707.flac1644 More old listening notes. The “Not Fade Away” and “Good Lovin’” from the electric Dead set feature absolutely top shelf rock and roll playing. Look at how I go off on this stuff wow wow wow wow wow and all that. If this tape sounded better, this’d be in the canon with 5/2/70.…
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Garcia and Kahn Sell Out: Orpheum Theatre, Boston, November 17, 1984
LN jg1984-11-17.jgjk.all.aud-drew-seaweed.110537.flac1644 Regular readers will know I have been exploring Garcia’s putative Rock Bottom period by listenings to tapes and more or less noting what I hear. Tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it. I harbor considerable ex ante animus toward this tour – I have heard some first hand reports of its deep, dark,…
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LN jg1985-06-01.jgb.all.aud-corley.20921.shn2flac
There are some points I’d like to flesh out, about The Mission, Jerry’s San Francisco DNA, and the rest of it. But there’s just not time to do everything. Another show with the Modulus Graphite guitar. I hear no difference. Sets are still short in historical perspective. For the book I’ll be able to make…
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“awww, no, last song?!?” (LN jg1985-06-03.jgb.all.aud-russjcan.92786.flac1644)
Keystone Palo Alto on a Monday night, as Garcia is trying to kick his junk habit. The show is mostly notable because Garcia plays a Modulus guitar. Playing anything other than the Irwin “Tiger” at this time was an exceptionally rare event. Blair Jackson’s amazing Golden Road (no. 7, Summer 1985, p. 9) mentions that…
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Jerry’s gotta clean up his act, man (LN jg1985-03-02.jgb.all.aud-rlouk.99524.flac1644)
Ticket stub for Jerry Garcia Band, The Stone, 492 Broadway, SF, Saturday, March 2, 1985. Contributed by Erik VanO. First Garcia Band show since the bust on 1/18/85. It delivers a three-song, thirty minute first set. Apparently the ladies were late in arriving. But ol’ Jer makes up for it by stretching out almost a…
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Bullshit! Bullshit! Reprise (LN jg1985-05-31.jgjk.early.aud-pinedo.32007.shn2flac)
updated 20140408 I have told the story once before of the Jerry Garcia/John Kahn acoustic duo early show on May 31, 1985, in the context of Bill Graham’s branding of the ’86-87 JGB tours down south as “The Jerry Garcia Band Electric“. I want to flesh out a bit more detail from the two named…
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BOAT TWYDTTYD: JGB, Palladium, November 10, 1981 (late show)
LN jg1981-11-10.jgb.late.aud-stankiewicz.127293.flac2496 JGB played The Palladium twice in 1981, 2/11/81 and this night. Richie Stankiewicz taped both nights. Both really good shows and really good tapes. This one has the best of all time (BOAT, in some circles) Garcia Band version of “The Way You Do The Things You Do”, IMO. It’s quite good. I…
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Great ‘Don’t Let Go’ on the Second Starry Night – Portland, OR, December 7, 1984
LN jg1984-12-07.jgb.all.aud-young.127069.flac2496 Nice tape, and a good night if you can filter out Garcia’s singing. Jerry’s peppy and there’s lots of good playing here. I have argued that this period (August-December 1984) is rock bottom, but if it is, I gotta give the guy credit for slogging through it pretty respectably. Two arguments for rock…