Category: Santa Barbara
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JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977
In my writeup of the Garcia Band’s 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre, I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol’ Hoyt Axton in a couple of weeks. “He’ll be down here doin’ a benefit for Redwind, which is just a good scene, about forty miles from here, a lot of good…
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Digitization Makes Me Happy
Via https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu, the UCSB Daily Nexus (and before it, the El Gaucho) has been digitized. Having sniffed around Santa Barbara a fair bit (UCSB being my alma mater), I am happy to see this, and found a few good things. First, I have found a preview and a review of OAITW 4/12/73 at the Granada,…
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Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You?
A little over a year ago, I found a review of a unique-sounding Garcia-Saunders gig, backing Maria Muldaur at the Berkeley Community Theatre on October 12, 1974. While unique at the gig level, it turns out that JGMS backing John Kahn’s then-“old lady” Maria Muldaur, still flying high from a hit record or two, was…
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Old And In The Way at the Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Several years ago, Richard Greene was kind enough to work through some of his old datebooks with me over the phone. He showed himself at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 12, 1973, a date for which no Old And In The Way (OAITW) gig has been listed. I thought it was…
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Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)
The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of the January 17, 1969 gig. The gig was absent from Deadbase, is listed as Unknown Venue chez Deadlists, and circulates from Vault -> Latvala -> world tape as “Civic Auditorium, Santa…
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UCSB ’78
Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978. I have two followups, a tape beg and a tangential piece of metadata. First, does anyone have a copy of the Elvin Bishop set, with Jerry sitting in? Apparently there is an aud…
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There is World-Class Guitar Playing Here (JGB at the Arlington in Santa Barbara, May 19, 1984)
LN jg1984-05-19.jgb.all.aud-rossi-ford.124791.flac1644 Really great tape. And, while things are a little bit uneven, there’s a lot to like in this performance. The arrangements are generally tight and the guitar playing can be outstanding. This band is together. Melvin plays colorfully, drums strong and bass nice and thompin’. Garcia does a lot of very sophisticated layering…
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Recently added to TJS, Saunders images
I am sure everyone who reads here knows one can follow changes at The Jerry Site (there’s also an RSS feed). TJS admin slip_not has been adding some nice data from poster and handbill images shared at the Merl Saunders Facebook page. Since these photos are shared intentionally downloadable from Facebook, and acting on the…
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LN jg1973-xx-xx.oaitw.88mins.sbd-PNW.99222.flac1644
This is shnid-99222, a somewhat degraded soundboard tape of Old And In The Way (OAITW) with Richard Greene on fiddle. I had mentioned it when it first came out. update: I surmise that this is Thursday, April 12, 1973, Granada Theatre, 1216 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. It’s not certain by any stretch, but that’s what…
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Great American Music Band: Wednesday, April 24, 1974, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
Clearly identified as the Great American Music Band by the emcee at the end, this is the quartet of Grisman (mandolin), Greene (fiddle), Nichtern (ac-guitar, vocals) and Taj Mahal (ac-bass). The performance doesn’t light me up the way some of them do. The tape, via ‘fstop’, is quite nice, though I’d guess that the Will…