Fate Music

Category: members

  • Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…

  • Jerry’s January 1976

    (formatting will almost certainly be a mess – I blame Blogger) I.                    Preface My band is in a state of flux right now. John Kahn and Ron Tutt and I are the main … are the nucleus of it, such as it is. We’re hoping to have a four-piece band that we all like, sometime.…

  • Jerry Band at the Pismo Theatre

    On Friday-Saturday, November 19-20, 1976, the Jerry Garcia Band played four improbable gigs at the stunning Pismo Theatre in foggy, salty, sandy, lovely little Pismo Beach, California. If you only know it from Bugs Bunny, I urge you to pass through it some time (though I have not done so in more than twenty years).…

  • Nedbase

    http://nedbase.blogspot.com/ Thanks to all of those involved in getting this wonderful resource, bringing loads of heretofore unknown information into the light for the first time. Jerry’s collaboration with Ned Lagin forms a fascinating, little known piece of his musical mosaic. In my dialogue with Corry about Jerry and Merl (among other things), I gave expression…

  • DeeDee Dickerson Discography

    I recently posted a little bit of information from the John Scher Presents program for JGB 5/31/83. It included a little bio on the various band members. In comments, nick picked up on Dee Dee Dickerson’s work with Pharoah Sanders, and posted link to Donna Dickerson at discogs.I had not known her name was Donna.…

  • 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,…

  • There is World-Class Guitar Playing Here (JGB at the Arlington in Santa Barbara, May 19, 1984)

    LN jg1984-05-19.jgb.all.aud-rossi-ford.124791.flac1644 Really great tape. And, while things are a little bit uneven, there’s a lot to like in this performance. The arrangements are generally tight and the guitar playing can be outstanding. This band is together. Melvin plays colorfully, drums strong and bass nice and thompin’. Garcia does a lot of very sophisticated layering…

  • 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…

  • Second Gig for the new Sextet: Rissmiller’s 10/27/82

    LN jg1982-10-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 Jerry Garcia Band Rissmiller’s Country Club 18415 Sherman WayReseda, CA 91335 October 27, 1982 (Wednesday) 83 min s1s2p Closet Call aud –set I (7 tracks, 57:16)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:28] s1t02. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:43] % s1t03. … They Love Each Other [8:11] [0:08] % [0:32]…

  • Second night out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/21/83

    Second night out for drummer David Kemper and Gloria Jones. See also “First Night Out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/20/83 (WED).” This was conventionally considered the second show for vocalist Gloria Jones, but the late ’83 Garcia Band tour still featured DeeDeeDickerson, raising doubts about a summer time switchover. It’s still possible, but as of…