Fate Music

Category: SF

  • Setting Right What Was Rent Asunder

    Or something like that. Forgive me, for I have sinned. I have added entropy to the world. I am here to make amends. When the Falanga-Menke Stash of Garcia-Saunders tapes from 1974 first came to me, one of them was labeled 8/14/74. I had what I thought was another recording of the show connected to…

  • Odd Pair at the Old Waldorf: JGB, Monday, January 11, 1982 and Wednesday, January 13, 1982

    LN jg1982-01-11.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.84012.flac1644 | LNjg1982-01-13.jgb.all.aud-GEMS.98706.flac1644 What a weird little pair of shows – an early year Monday-Wednesday pairing at the Old Waldorf. Also an interesting pair of tapes. The 11th is represented by one of the uber-clean early 80s soundboard cassette tapes, which the old rumor had it marched out of “official” possession powered by a Peruvian…

  • Unidentified Nicky Hopkins Instrumentals

    update: Mark Mattson has identified the number as “Lucky Old Sun” – wow! There may be others, but I am right now pondering two distinct instrumentals that Nicky does out of “Lady Sleeps” with the JGB in the last month or so of his run with the band. 11/23/75: about 1:38:30ff here –> https://ia600902.us.archive.org/9/items/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO.mp3 He announces…

  • Peppy: JGB at the Stone, May 31, 1981 (and contemporary data missingess)

    LN jg1981-05-31.jgb.s1s2p.aud.137952.flac1644 More spare listening notes, more JGB #12b. I actually like TLEO here (rare), find characteristically strong-for-the-period versions of Sugaree and Tangled Up, enjoy a melodious Simple Twist, pick up some rock-n-roll goodness in Let It Rock, and totally dig the litling beauty of an early Melvin-era Knockin’. Early 80s Knockin’s are the best, IMO.…

  • JGB Debuting Señor and Tears of Rage: The February 1990 Warfield Run

    LN jg1990-02-02.jgb.all.aud-darroch-paul.86658.flac1644LN jg1990-02-03.jgb.all-1.sbd-seaweed.114060.flac1644LN jg1990-02-04.jgb.all.aud-buick.30811.flac1644 The Jerry Garcia organization embraced a “no taping” policy, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear given the principal’s own experience recording bluegrass in the Sixties, his oft-stated indifference to audience taping in the Grateful Dead (GD) context (“when we’re done with it, they can have it”), the Dead’s own allowances in the form, from…

  • The Bicycle Rule: Don’t Stop Pedaling, or You Might Fall Over (JGB at the Stone, November 10-11, 1986)

    LN jg1986-11-10.jgb.all.aud-corley.17749.shn2flacLN jg1986-11-11.jgb.all.aud-ty.94632.flac1644 Not a lot happening here one way or the other. It’s a Monday-Tuesday night, Jerry sounds a little tired, even Corley’s tape from the 10th sounds a little muffled. Jerry Garcia BandThe Stone412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA  November 10, 1986 (Monday) – 9 PMCorley shnid-17749 sh2flac –set I (8 tracks, 7 tunes, 52:51)–s1t01. ambience [0:13]s1t02.…

  • How Come History’s Got to Take Such a Long, Long Time? JGB, Warfield, Sunday, May 3, 1992

    LN jg1992-05-03.jgb.all.aud-lucien.106771.flac1648 I just don’t always have a lot to say, but want to put these here to invite others to comment. I enjoyed this. Some mumblyverse, but some real depth of feeling, too. I really enjoyed this version of “The Maker”, with a little extra vocalization at the end that I can’t quite make out…

  • Chatty Cathy in the House: JGB at the Stone, December 18, 1981

    LN jg1981-12-18.jgb.all.aud-martin.16379.shn2flac I recently learned the term “chompers” to describe people who talk through shows. Well, this phenomenon is as old as time, with the triad of the drum, the chomper and the shusher perhaps very nearly co-constituting each other In The Beginning. Bill Kreutzmann drums, the chomper talks all show long, and I don’t really…

  • The December ’85 Garcia Band Shows

    LN jg1985-12-14.jgb.all.aud-CC.137723.flac1644 LN jg1985-12-15.jgb.all-1.aud-CC.137724.flac1644 LN jg1985-12-21.jgb.all.aud-gale.14980.shn2flac LN jg1985-12-22.jgb.all.aud-gale.14981.shn2flac seealso: LN jg1985-10-14.jgb.all.aud.138028.flac1644 Earlier this year I posted listening notes on four JGB shows from August 1985, and here I do the same for December of the same year. It’s relatively feasible to do this for Rock Bottom shows because they are fun sized, with sets regularly clocking…

  • Venues not attached to specifics

    So I have been trying to cull information from the Big Steve show, which is just amazingly rich with all kinds of wonderful little anecdotes and tales. They don’t always line up with the historical record precisely, but the man has an amazing memory and it’s all right even when it’s not strictly correct. A…