Category: SF
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Cities Burn and The Show Goes On: JGB at the Warfield, April 30, 1992
jg1992-04-30.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141475.flac1644 On April 30, 1992, as on other Thursdays before, at least a couple American cities were in flames as protests over racial injustice turned violent and disorderly in the aftermath of a Simi Valley jury’s acquittal of four LAPD officers accused in the March 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney King. The Garcia Band…
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Twenty-Four Performances in Twenty-Four Days: April 6-30, 1973
update: commenter RoG has brought two more gigs to my attention, Wed-Thurs April 25-26 with JGMS at Keystone, so the title has changed from “Twenty-Two” to “Twenty-Four”. All the more remarkable. update2: oh yeah, I forget to mention another little detail from this period: on April 19th, the Dead decided to start up their own…
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Let’s Spend the (Wednesday) Night Together
November 21, 1990, a Wednesday night, Garcia played a killer “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” featuring what the seeder notes as “relentless, furious” guitar work. Indeed. “Tears Of Rage” and “Tore Up Over You” also stand out. Pack of Wolves opened, for the record. Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA…
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June 1990 at the Warfield
The post-coma Garcia Band was getting hotter and hotter from 1987-1989, in my view, and somewhere along the line two kinds of business/money decisions were made. First, it’d start regularly playing the Warfield, which I think had been recently renovated, for Wolfgang. JGB played fifteen gigs at 982 Market in 1990 –February 2-4, March 1-2,…
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Certainly One of the Best and Most Interesting Shows of the 90s: JGB, March 1, 1991, Warfield
I have a “P: Overall:” note below which sums up my assessment. Very good, ol’ Jer. Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 March 1, 1991 (Friday) B&K 4011s MAD flac1648 shnid-141449 –set I (8 tracks, 7 tunes, 64:44)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [2:54] s1t02. Cats Under The Stars [9:15]…
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Acoustic Sing-Along at the Stone: Garcia and Kahn, September 27, 1985
I don’t have a ton to say about this – it’s about what you’d expect. Two sets below the 45-minute Minnelli Line, voice bad to start and shot by the end. But, besides the fact that this was taped by the lovely Don Dearth, who was my third grade teacher, the best part about this…
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Above Ground, But Below the Minelli Line: JGB, The Stone, August 9, 1985
A decade before the final fall, Garcia played another Friday night at the Stone. I still think of this as the Rock Bottom period, even though he is clearly recovering. Two sets below the Minelli Line (45 minutes), the whole gig fits snugly on a single Maxell, with room for filler on the B-side. Nothing…
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Magic at the Edge of the Western World
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Woody’s Rag
For years, I have wanted to know the name of the second song from the first “real” live Garcia-Grisman gig, 2/2/91 at the Warfield, which has always just been identified as “Instrumental”. It starts at 7:20 of the embedded video. (It was also the second song of the second night, 2/3/91, starting at about 7:50…
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4/23/93: great setlist, low energy
LN jg1993-04-23.jgb.all.aud-neumann.15923.shn2flac Great setlist, low energy. At least that’s how I hear it. Jerry Garcia Band Warfield Theater 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 23, 1993 (Friday) Neumann KM54 MAD shnid-15923 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 56:56)– s1t01. … Cats Under The Stars [#8:13] [0:47] s1t02. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door [10:15] [0:26] s1t03.…