Category: reggae

  • If ACT = JGMS and Taper = Louis Falanga, and YYMM = 7402, does XX = 17?

    I recently wrote that in engaging any Garcia event, I first want to pin down the who, the where, and the what. So I want the sociometric, geometric, and the chronometric particulars … If I can pin down those three pieces about any given event with reasonable certainty, I feel like it “exists” in a…

  • Come back for Garcia Band. Come back, come back.

    LN jg1978-03-10.interview.all.fm-zimmerman.82210.flac1644 I love these March ’78 interviews. 3/11/78 is my absolute favorite, all kinds of great stuff. This one has less going on, but still interesting to the likes of me. Jerry Garcia Band InterviewWCMF-FM Studios129 Leighton AvenueRochester, NY 14614March 10, 1978 (Friday) afternoon46 minute Alan Zimmerman FM cassette (7 tracks, 46:25)jg19780310d3t001. Reuben and…

  • Johnny Too Bad

    I cannot get this song out of my ear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgkZwUDt98o The Slickers, “Johnny Too Bad” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slickers. “The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” https://www.discogs.com/Slicker-The-Johnny-Too-Bad/master/630180 looks like first release was 1971 on Punch. One of the youtube versions is said 1970, but discogs 1971 as Panther P-01.…

  • I came for the Johnny Too Bad, I Stayed for the Don’t Let Go

    LN jg1994-09-01.jgb.all.aud-neumann.12024.shn2flac Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 September 1, 1994 (Thursday) – 8 PM Neumann KM-140 shnid-12024 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 70:18)– s1t01. [0:43] How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [6:51] [0:31] s1t02. Get Out Of My Life Woman s1t03. Run For The Roses…

  • Garcia and Marley

    At some point I will write up Garcia’s engagements with reggae. It’s an interesting story, really revelatory. In the meantime, on a lark, I played with Google Ngram for these two. Ngrams are a very neat tool. Figure xxx. Google Bigram: Bob Marley and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1981 The vertical is the percentage of all consecutive…

  • The John Rich Question: Reply to Corry

    Bravo, Corry! The John Rich Question is indeed a great mystery.See Corry’s post for the details of the question. I am sure I’ll have to update this post several times, but I wanted to take the second I have available to get started with a reply. I love this mystery. I agree with Corry that…