Category: songs-P
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Positively Killer: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, December 21, 1979
I was recently surprised when I listened to JGB 12/17/79 and found the show totally lackluster. Jerry sounds listless, indifferent, tired, and he and Johnny D, the 21 year old Marin kid drumming live with Jerry for only the seventh time, seemed badly out of sync. So, I listened to the next show, 12/20, and…
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Palm Sunday
I know today is Easter, but JGBP tipped me off to a reddit AMA with Donna Jean the other day, and she provided this great memory from the Cats Under the Stars sessions: It was about 4 o’clock in the morning, and Jerry and I were singing the duet on Palm Sunday, and we had…
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Il lui manque du souffle
LN jg1995-04-15.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.94692.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 15, 1995 (Saturday) Vasseur flac1644 shnid-94692 –set I (5 tracks, 47:32)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars s1t02. And It Stoned Me s1t03. He Ain’t Give You None s1t04. Dear Prudence s1t05. My Sisters And Brothers –set II (7 tracks, 68:03)–…
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People Make The World Go Round
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LN jg1995-01-13.jgb.s2.aud-sisler-goodbear.79638.flac1648
update 5/17: I have revisited this date, with rather contrasting perceptions. Needless to say, I don’t get out to 1995 very much. I enjoyed this, overall. It was not a ripoff. Jerry’s guitar play is fine, if mixed very low. The arrangements are pretty interesting, but the execution suffers without David Kemper in the chair.…
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“Bloody Hell”
A while back I posted some listening notes from the Jim Cooper audience tape of the Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) show at Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Queens, NY on Thursday, October 30, 1975. When called to summarize the show in a headline for my etree list, which is a date index for the site, I…
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LN jg1974-08-24.jgms.all.sbd.10162.shn2flac
On Saturday, August 24, 1974, the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders played the Great American Music Hall at 859 O’ Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109. I have written about this show once before, just to lay out a few contradictions around the date/venue combination, which I basically dismiss. I am of the view that…
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The 1974 Garcia/Saunders instrumental previously listed as “Bags’ Groove”
UPDATE 1/24/2015: Commenter Nick has determined that this is actually “Darben The Redd Foxx“. For fans of Jerry Garcia’s pre-1975 excursions beyond the Grateful Dead, one of the great fun things is to hear Jerry trying on really unusual material, seemingly without much preparation. I think of the instrumental versions of “Day By Day” (from…