Category: Nicky Hopkins
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Notes from Dawson 2011 re Nicky Hopkins
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Unidentified Nicky Hopkins Instrumentals
update: Mark Mattson has identified the number as “Lucky Old Sun” – wow! There may be others, but I am right now pondering two distinct instrumentals that Nicky does out of “Lady Sleeps” with the JGB in the last month or so of his run with the band. 11/23/75: about 1:38:30ff here –> https://ia600902.us.archive.org/9/items/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO.mp3 He announces…
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First JGB at the Keystone: October 11-12, 1975
The JERRY GARCIA Band Prior to fall of 1975, Garcia’s side bands had mostly a) been relatively loose aggregations and/or b) not had his name on the marquee. All of this preserved a kind of informal quality, maybe some plausible deniability, a little bit little less spotlight to go with his insatiable appetite for gigging.…
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The Group Probably Will Be Short-Lived, Because Hopkins Has Other Contractual Obligations
The titular line comes from an interview Garcia gave ca. November 22, 1975 to a Twin Cities journalist, Jon Bream, and references JGB #1. It could be that this was true all along, and the plan was just to monetize the Jerry Garcia name in the new Band, as well as Nicky’s name, for the…
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JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)
LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…
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Reading Notes – Loren 2014
Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. 2014. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. Demariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing. When I read a book that I will need to be able to cite chapter and verse, this is how I arrange the chapters and verses. I just pull out quotes and other observations, I effectively tag them, and…
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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.…
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Spork: Jerry Garcia Band with Nicky Hopkins- Let It Rock
Spork: Jerry Garcia Band with Nicky Hopkins- Let It Rock: With the possible exception of his work with David Grisman , this first iteration of The Jerry Garcia Band was totally unique because it i…
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Risk and Challenge in the 1970s
Here’s a back-of-the-napkin sketch, my subjective assessment, of the musical risks and challenges associated with Garcia’s 1970s bands (qua personnel and repertoire) playing black and race-fusion music. So, this includes Wales-Garcia, all of the Jerry and Merl outfits, and all of the JGBs. It excludes NRPS, OAITW, GAMB/GASB (playing mostly white roots music), and the…
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Jerry’s New Year’s Eve – LN jg1975-12-31.jgb.all.aud-Falanga-Menke-8664-retrack.noshnid.shn2flac
GarciaLive 5 GarciaLive, volume 5, December 31st 1975 Keystone Berkeley (2014) is out, available via jerrygarcia.com. Let me start by expressing gratitude for these GarciaLive releases. Having been a massive outlier in my interest in Garcia on the side, having often expressed frustration at the paucity of Jerry shows released under the old regime, I…