Category: rehearsals

  • Did You Ever Notice the 9/18/81 JGB Rehearsal Has Jerry Playing Acoustic?

    The spine of Betty’s 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal tape box A beautiful piece of tape: Betty’s reel from the 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal I just revisited this little 20+ minute rehearsal fragment. Thank you Betty! This is the latest piece of Betty Board of interest to me: some of the abortive Brent solo album material came from…

  • Seasons Of My Heart

  • Cats in the Studio: September 1977

    –> I can’t write up everything I have gathered around the recording of Garcia’s 1978 masterpiece Cats Under the Stars, not now, and, alas, perhaps not ever in any true sense of the word “everything”. Once I write the book I plan on just throwing open all of my materials and letting others have at…

  • “Gimme some chords, Jerry Garcia, gimme some chords”

    LN jg1976-01-07.jgb-rehearsal.93mins.sbd-tjs.8385.shn2flac I will just post raw listening notes, because I will be sweeping bit and pieces of it up into a larger narrative that I have been working on. (update – see “James Booker, Classified”) Jerry Garcia Band Club Front 20 Front Street San Rafael, CA 94901 January 7, 1976 (Wednesday) – rehearsal 93min…

  • LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.early.sbd-smith-boswell.113805.flac1644

    ad for Keystone, Berkeley, July 19 – August 1, 1973; Berkeley Barb (7/19/73-8/1/73), p. 21 Let me just make a few points to head up these listening notes for this newly-circulated version of these rehearsals. They are very, very important. First, the provenance of the tape is awesome. Thanks to the Pacific Northwest Crew for…