Category: listening notes

Humphrey’s Last Hometown Warmup: JGMS at Keystone, November 2, 1974

LN jg1974-11-02.jgms.148mins.aud-castelli-motb-0158.111191.flac2496 Update 12/27/2012: This is, indeed, Paul Humphrey drumming. The Mouth of the Beast crowd, led by the inimitable Bob Menke, recently dropped Robert Castelli’s master audience cassette recording of November 2, 1974 on an unsuspecting world. I foreshadowed this a little bit in a previous post. I have a few observations, and then reproduce…

November 26, 2010
Listening Notes: Great American String Band (GASB), Lion’s Share,San Anselmo, June 12, 1974

**update 20140823 – Elwood 1974 is clear that GASB played the Lion’s Share on Wednesday, June 12, 1974. Thanks to Blair Jackson!** Here are some thoughts based on my notations from this recording (shnid-7331). I’ll start with a few analytical points, then reproduce the raw notations below. It sounds like a single two-set show to…

November 26, 2010
Great American Music Band: Wednesday, April 24, 1974, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

Clearly identified as the Great American Music Band by the emcee at the end, this is the quartet of Grisman (mandolin), Greene (fiddle), Nichtern (ac-guitar, vocals) and Taj Mahal (ac-bass). The performance doesn’t light me up the way some of them do. The tape, via ‘fstop’, is quite nice, though I’d guess that the Will…

November 14, 2010
GSCBF9: Great American String Band: Saturday, April 27, 1974, ca. 23:15 (“Where’s Jerry?”)

Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a.…

November 6, 2010
OAITW: Homer’s Warehouse, July 24, 1973

**This is an update to a post originally made 9/19/2010, now updated as of 12/28/2014** In a first draft of this post, I used the occasion of a listen to an Old And In The Way set from Homer’s Warehouse in Palo Alto from Tuesday, July 24, 1973 to drop a few crumbs. I have…

September 19, 2010
JGMS: January 15, 1972, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

I have been needing to revisit recordings of the very early Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders stuff, and with a bit of time I thought I’d give this show, from a Saturday in mid-January 1972 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, some attention on its birthday. I am not sure who’s drumming … could have been…

January 18, 2010