Category: PA
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Brief Encounters of the Weird Kind: JGB at Penn State, December 11, 1977
jg1977-12-11.jgb.all.sbd-sirmick.80773.flac1644 Again, listening notes may be briefer for awhile. Certainly, these are bullet-style. David Gans once said something to the effect that Garcia exhibits the shortest distance between spirit and fingertip of any musician he knows. That’s probably not quite right, but it was something like this. A reviewer from this last show of the…
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Dull as Dishwater in a Classic Art Deco Movie Palace: JGB, Astor Theatre, Reading, PA, September 20, 1976 late show
zzzzz LN jg1976-09-20.jgb.late.aud-peters.138205.flac1644 The rooms sounds fantastic, but the show bores me to tears, except for some nice flowing guitar work in “Catfish John”. My copy of the band itinerary lacks the pages after Ithaca College (9/18), but for that gig they flew in and out of Teterboro, coming back to the St. Moritz and…
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“When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”
LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…
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Swan Song for JGB #15c: Philly, June 5, 1983
LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-nak300-minches.76973.flac1644 LN jg1983-06-05.jgb.early-late.aud-peters.138199.flac1644 I consider 5/31/83 at the Roseland Ballroom to be one of the best Garcia Band shows of the 1980s. Six days later, this band, featuring the great and powerful Greg Errico on drums, would play its final two shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. Surprisingly, only two tapes…
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Visions of Johanna
Powerful viewing of a gut-wrenchingly beautiful performance, a dying man grasping at life, stumbling a time or two, laying bare the depth and beauty of the human condition. Thank you, videographer, thank you Bob Dylan, thank you Jerry.
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JGB: Halloween 1981 – LN jg1981-10-31.jgb.early-late.aud-levene.88958.flac1644
Late Jerry loved playing on Halloween. In the last fifteen years of his life, the only years he is not known to have gigged on Halloween are 1982 and 1994. Table xxx. Garcia on Halloween, 1980-1994. Orange is GD, blue is GOTS. As indicated in the table, things were distributed across the GD (6 dates/shows)…
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Finally Busting out Cats at the End of the Cats Tour: JGB at the Philly Spectrum, March 16, 1978
LN jg1978-03-16.jgb.all.aud-petrunis.124066.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band Spectrum Theater 3601 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 March 16, 1978 (Thursday) Petrunis aud shnid-124066 –complete show (10 tracks, 87:45)– t01. The Harder They Come [10:36] % [-0:02] t02. [+0:02] /Mission In The Rain [10:40] % t03. /That’s What Love Will Make You Do [10:25] % t04. /Gomorrah [#7:15]…
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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…
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By the Grace of the Lord: Legion of Mary at the Masonic Temple, Scranton, April 12, 1975
LN jg1975-04-12.lom.late.sbd-gems.117832.flac1644 Legion of Mary Masonic Temple 420 North Washington AvenueScranton, PA 18503 April 12, 1975, 11 p.m. late show (Saturday) sbd gems shnid-117832 –late show, 11 pm, main set + encore (7 tracks, 91:36)– –late show, main set (6 tracks, xx:xx)– t01. Let It Rock [12:27] [0:16] % [0:04] t02. tuning [0:38], La-La [12:44] (1)…
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OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple University-Ambler, Ambler, PA
This show (OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple Festival Theater, Ambler, PA) will end up being important to me, I think, as I write more about OAITW and the summer of 1973. Can’t wait. For now, I just want to address venue confusion. **update: it was definitely in an amphitheater, not an enclosed theater – thanks…