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  • Two Negative Reviews, One Participant Observation of Deadheaddom, Long Island Style: JGB at Stony Brook, February 24, 1980

    So much to say, so little time. Eventually the February 1980 tour will have to be written up. Here are some raw materials. Really nice tape, an excellent version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” , two negative show reviews and one a participant observation study of Deadheaddom, Long Island style, February 1980. LN jg1980-02-24.jgb.all.aud-stankiewicz.126077.flac2496…

  • jg1981-02-09.jgb.all.aud-streeter.123532.flac1644

    This show, on this listen, didn’t move me. The tape is nice. Jerry Garcia Band Ocean State Theater 220 Weybosset StreetProvidence, RI 02903 February 9, 1981 (Monday) Frank Streeter complete MAC shnid-123532 –set I (7 tracks, 74:48)– s1t01. tuning [1:03] s1t02. Sugaree [12:27] % [0:13] s1t03. Love In The Afternoon [9:33] % [0:25] s1t04. That’s…

  • No Donna Tough Mama

    LN jg1977-07-08.jgb.early.aud-moore-minches.21478.shn2flac I like this show a lot. Donna Jean is not present. Who sings harmonies? Jerry Garcia Band Calderone Concert Hall 145 N. Franklin StreetHempstead, NY 11550 July 8, 1977 (Friday) – Early Show (scheduled 8 PM) definitive Moore shnid-21478 shn2flac –(8 tracks, 92:34)– t01. [0:12] Sugaree [15:28] [3:00] t02. Stop That Train [13:00]…

  • Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away: July 9, 1977

     LN jg1977-07-09.jgb.late-2.aud-strange-miller.124426.flac1644 Not a whole ton to say, not a ton of time, so I’ll just bullet. Donna is absent. I wonder why? I need to document her 1977 absences, because there was a good number. “Not Fade Away” is a JGB singleton, and is very interesting. Jerry is super-fired up for it and does…

  • Finally Busting out Cats at the End of the Cats Tour: JGB at the Philly Spectrum, March 16, 1978

     LN jg1978-03-16.jgb.all.aud-petrunis.124066.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band Spectrum Theater 3601 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 March 16, 1978 (Thursday) Petrunis aud shnid-124066 –complete show (10 tracks, 87:45)– t01. The Harder They Come [10:36] % [-0:02] t02. [+0:02] /Mission In The Rain [10:40] % t03. /That’s What Love Will Make You Do [10:25] % t04. /Gomorrah [#7:15]…

  • Late for Supper: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, October 7, 1978

    LN jg1978-10-07.jgb.all.aud-angus-hart.105024.flac2496 Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Palo Alto 260 South California Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 October 7, 1978 (Saturday) Angus-Hart complete aud flac2496 shind-105024 –set I (6 tracks, 56:11)– s1t01. tuning [0:20] s1t02. I Second That Emotion [12:40] [0:08] % s1t03. It Ain’t No Use [8:31] [0:02] % (1) [1:00] s1t04. Knockin’ On Heaven’s…

  • JGB at Queens College, October 30, 1975

    LN jg1975-10-30.jgb.all.aud-cooper.124251.flac2496 Have barely had time to write a word about the Hopkins-era JGB these last 4+ years of blogging and hiatuses. That remains true, so the writeup will be short. Bottom line is that I think Nicky sounds really good (i.e., reasonably sober). I sort of figure that the day off the day before…

  • LN Reconstruction May 19, 1979 Old Waldorf, set II

    Corry attended the Reconstruction show at the Old Waldorf on May 19, 1979, and has written it up very nicely from all of the angles that matter. He saw the 1st set. The second set, probably most of it, circulates from a very nice but unattributed audience recording. It’s not the best Reconstruction set around,…

  • It’s not that bad, given how much Persian he was doing

    LN jg1984-08-24.jgb.s1.aud-GEMS.124940.flac1644 There are lots of ways to interpret this performance. One reasonable way would be to say that this is just about the nadir of Garcia’s performing career (perhaps 8/26/84), a professional embarrassment shocking only because playing at least competently for a paying audience formed perhaps the only real commitment in his life, a…

  • 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…