Category: Marcus Buick
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JGB Debuting Señor and Tears of Rage: The February 1990 Warfield Run
LN jg1990-02-02.jgb.all.aud-darroch-paul.86658.flac1644LN jg1990-02-03.jgb.all-1.sbd-seaweed.114060.flac1644LN jg1990-02-04.jgb.all.aud-buick.30811.flac1644 The Jerry Garcia organization embraced a “no taping” policy, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear given the principal’s own experience recording bluegrass in the Sixties, his oft-stated indifference to audience taping in the Grateful Dead (GD) context (“when we’re done with it, they can have it”), the Dead’s own allowances in the form, from…
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Saxophone Somewhere Far Off Played: JGB at the Warfield, December 2, 1989
If you are following along, you might notice that I listened to a bunch of early December shows from various years, but am late in posting them. It’s rare for me to get enough contiguous time to listen and note and post these days. My notes on this show, from a soundboard tape (shnid-117562) and…
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Blissfully Clarenceless on Market Street: JGB at the Warfield, December 1, 1989
LN jg1989-12-01.jgb.all.aud-bk4011.141459.flac1648 God, ’89 was such a great year for the Jerry Band. I really need to find some more of the out-of-town shows to spin, though everytime I do I tend not to note much, because it’s all just really consistently good. This show, 12/1/89, is absolutely outstanding. I am glad that, contrary to what…
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Taper Extraordinaire Sean Webber-Small
Spinning Sean Webber-Small’s spaced omni recordings of the GD at Cal Expo on this date in 1990. I am not sure if I was there – I don’t think so, but I can’t really remember and I can’t find my stubs to verify one way or the other. But SWS generously shares some insights into…
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June 1990 at the Warfield
The post-coma Garcia Band was getting hotter and hotter from 1987-1989, in my view, and somewhere along the line two kinds of business/money decisions were made. First, it’d start regularly playing the Warfield, which I think had been recently renovated, for Wolfgang. JGB played fifteen gigs at 982 Market in 1990 –February 2-4, March 1-2,…