Category: listening notes
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Ambassador Garcia
LN jg1976-03-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-mcdonald.110281.flac1644 The March-April 1976 Jerry Garcia Band tour is an interesting one. This was the quintet of Garcia, Kahn, Tutt, Godchaux and Godchaux. Let me just make a quick mention of the year overall, then make a few notes about the tour, before discussing this tape of the Jerry Garcia Band, Ambassador Theatre, St.…
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Ladies Taping at the Boston Music Hall, March 14, 1978
LN19780314: jg1978-03-14.jgb.all.aud-rolfe-minches.111596.flac1644 Great first set, OK second set. That’s based on this listen to this tape. Jerry Garcia Band Boston Music Hall Boston, MA March 14, 1978 (Tuesday) Dauby Rolfe MAC –set I (8 tracks, 83:53)– s1t01. Crowd and Tuning {3:53} s1t02. How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You [10:44] [1:31] {12:25} s1t03.…
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Casey Jones Used Cocaine: LN19790613 Reconstruction River Theater Guerneville CA
jg1979-06-23.reconstruction.late-1.aud-bershaw-GEMS.96235.flac1644 On Wednesday, June 13, 1979, Reconstruction appears to have played the River Theater in Guerneville, CA. As far as I know this gig is only known because of a surviving audience recording made by Alan Bershaw. update: I now am about 99.9% sure the correct date is 6/23. Reconstruction River Theater 16135 Main Street…
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LN19810129 JGB Catalyst Santa Cruz
Jerry Garcia Band, Sunday, January 29, 1981, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA. shnid 111412. So I thought I’d check out an early Melvin Seals JGB show as a reward for having concluded that his public debut with JGB was 1/22/81. Randomly picked this one. Pretty nice tape that puts you FOB, but the show is…
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Reasonably Good Voice and Superb Guitar: JGB on the Russian River, May 31, 1982
jg1982-05-31.jgb.all.aud-GEMS.95427.flac1644 So, this show came up a few days ago as one at which Liz Stires and Julie Stafford were probably singing backing vocals. Part of an interesting occasional discussion on personnel issues in which the early 80s JGB backup singers and drummers have been the matter of some focus (see also here on the…
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A Monster Don’t Let Go at Hartwick College, December 3, 1977
LN jg1977-12-03.jgb.90mins.aud-unk-russell.LOSSY.flac1644 update whenever: seems like this material is lossy. One hopes the source tapes can be located and archived at higher resolution (on the sonic plane for sure, but also informationally!). Not a huge amount to say. A show that has been MiA, around which some setlist uncertainty remains. See my overly baroque notes below.…
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LN19690219 High Country “2/19/69” Matrix, San Francisco, CA
LIA’s argument that the GD set circulating under the date of 6/19/68 is actually the 2/19/69 GD show is totally persuasive to me. Of course that probably implies that the 2/19/69 dating of the High Country set from the Matrix, with Garcia and Nelson joining Butch Waller and Rich Wilbur, is probably mis-dated. (A Wednesday…
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The Debut of the Last Quartet: The Catalyst, 10/13/82
The Debut of the Last Quartet was “Listening Notes: JGB, Wednesday, October 13, 1982, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA” –http://etreedb.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=110792 Some listening notes for this recording. See show and recording notes below. Jerry Garcia Band The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA October 13, 1982 (Wednesday) Recorded live and mastered to CD by N. Hoey with: 2x…
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Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (Castelli MAC)
Having just posted on the sbd recording from this show, I’ll post my notes from the newly circulating audience recording by Robert Castelli (1644-shnid 110663, 2496-shnid 110798). I’ll start with a few analytical points, then produce my listening notes based on the 24/96 version. Not a ton to say about this, except that this is…
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Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (sbd)
Low-gen soundboard tape of Thursday, 6/13/74, Keystone, Berkeley (shnid-13768). Note the listing as Great American String Band, though the naming issue is one I am avoiding for now. I’ll just go with GASB for this post. A few analytical points: The setlist issues have been clarified by the Castelli tape, notes on which I’ll post…