Category: Rock Bottom
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Acoustic at the Denver Rainbow – JGJK, May 23, 1985 (late show)
LN jg1985-05-23.jgjk.late.aud.137966.flac1644 These shows have been very elusive, and the early show still has not made a digital appearance. Standard “Rock Bottom Era” take: croaking vocals and very good (acoustic) guitar picking. The one plus of the acoustic setting is that he can sing quietly, which works well on a relative rarity like “She Belongs…
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During Gaylord’s Second Stint: JGB at the Stone, October 14, 1985 (Monday)
These may be the shortest two JGB sets ever played. Gaylord Birch drumming. See also “The December ’85 Garcia Band Shows“ LN jg1985-10-14.jgb.all.aud.138028.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 October 14, 1985 (Monday) CC shnid-138028 –set I (4 tracks, 34:48)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars [7:12] % s1t02. When I Paint…
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A 35 Minute Second Set: JGB at The Stone, March 4, 1984
LN jg1984-03-04.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.85294.flac1644 Sunday night, 3/4/84, Jerry races out of the building with a 35 minute set II. Maybe he was late for mass. Nothing much else to report. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133 March 4, 1984 (Sunday) sbd GMB flac1644 shnid-85294 –set I (5 tracks, 48:57)– s1t01. //Rhapsody In…
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Fluent Guitar and Dissonant Vocals: JGB at Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR – December 5, 1984
Drummer David Kemper’s laminate from the “1984 Winter Northwest Tour” of the JGB, December 5-8, 1984. LN jg1984-12-05.jgb.s2.aud.79642.flac1644 I have been engaging this little mini-tour undertaken by the JGB in early December 1984 as a way to reflect on Garcia’s Rock Bottom. I come away consistently impressed with his guitar playing and mortified by his…
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The vocals are as bad as Garcia ever inflicted on a paying audience: August 26, 1984
LN jg1984-08-26.jgb.all.aud-dearth.84568.flac1644 OK, turns out I was most of the way through a listen to this, so I finished it. On the one hand, that wasn’t so bad. I don’t feel too unclean. On the other hand, as Jimmy Fallon’s teenaged character Sara might say — “Ew”. First, tip o’ the cap to Mr. Don…
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Lost Your Voice? Play a Monster “Don’t Let Go” (8/27/84)
LN jg1984-08-27.jgb.all.aud-corley.15029.shn2flac I have sometimes joked, half-seriously, that 8/26/84 may be Garcia’s most wasted performance, but I just do that to embody a feeling about the period as a whole. At some point I’ll bring myself to revisit it. I like listening around such things, as much as listening directly to them. Hence the JGB…
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January 18, 1985: Strung Out and Busted
January 18, 1985 has got to be Rock Bottom for Jerry Garcia: strung out and busted. But let me step back. Six days earlier, Garcia gave an interview to Jas Obrecht and Jon Sievert (Obrecht 1985, 2010). Obrecht reports that the interview took place at the home of Nora Sage, said to be a fan…
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LN jg1985-06-01.jgb.all.aud-corley.20921.shn2flac
There are some points I’d like to flesh out, about The Mission, Jerry’s San Francisco DNA, and the rest of it. But there’s just not time to do everything. Another show with the Modulus Graphite guitar. I hear no difference. Sets are still short in historical perspective. For the book I’ll be able to make…
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“awww, no, last song?!?” (LN jg1985-06-03.jgb.all.aud-russjcan.92786.flac1644)
Keystone Palo Alto on a Monday night, as Garcia is trying to kick his junk habit. The show is mostly notable because Garcia plays a Modulus guitar. Playing anything other than the Irwin “Tiger” at this time was an exceptionally rare event. Blair Jackson’s amazing Golden Road (no. 7, Summer 1985, p. 9) mentions that…
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Jerry’s gotta clean up his act, man (LN jg1985-03-02.jgb.all.aud-rlouk.99524.flac1644)
Ticket stub for Jerry Garcia Band, The Stone, 492 Broadway, SF, Saturday, March 2, 1985. Contributed by Erik VanO. First Garcia Band show since the bust on 1/18/85. It delivers a three-song, thirty minute first set. Apparently the ladies were late in arriving. But ol’ Jer makes up for it by stretching out almost a…