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Category: The Stone

  • 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.…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 42

    Regular reader Dr. Jeff once asked that I post listening notes for Jerry’s 42nd birthday show at the Stone, 8/1/84. I have dutifully done so, some years later, and have just about nothing to report. Jerrybase tells me that he hadn’t opened a second set w How Sweet in over three years, so there is…

  • How about the Mouth on that Beast? JGB at the Stone, February 2, 1980, as recorded by Bad Bob Menke

    LN jg1980-02-02.jgb.all.aud-menke-motb-0038.105635.flac1644 I recently revisited an old favorite, 2/17/80, and surprised myself by not noting anything about the “After Midnight -> Eleanor Rigby -> After Midnight” medley, to say nothing of an old favorite of another kind, “Positively 4th Street”. I have vowed to revisit these. Someone was also extolling old favorite 3/8/80 on its recent…

  • Warmup for Four: JGB at the Stone, July 19, 1980

    LN jg1980-07-19.jgb.all.aud-moore-berger.122980.flac1644 These notes were orphaned – I listened to this sometime back, never posted them. Last of three warmups for the short-lived JGB #11b quartet. We used to think that this band happened because the 11a drummer, John d’Fonseca, died in Spring 1980. But we now know that’s not true, so it’s not clear why…

  • Gettin’ Churchy: JGB at the Stone, Sunday, November 30, 1986

    LN jg1986-11-30.jgb.all.aud-corley.21301.shn2flac Spun on its 34th anniversary yesterday, this show supplied me with a delightful hour and a half of easy-feeling post-coma Jerry Band. “Stop That Train” opens the show for the second and final time ever (also 1/29/77), and returns to the lineup after nine years away (11/26/77a). “My Sisters And Brothers” also returns after…

  • “Garcia Sounds Pretty Wrecked” – JGB at the Stone, July 31, 1984

    A rare Tuesday night outing finds the newly-formed JGB #21b sounding pretty typical for the period. Apparently the second set started after midnight, which meant it happened on Garcia’s 42nd birthday, which the crowd apparently commemorated with a song of its own. Not much to note. I noted generically that Garcia sounds pretty wrecked, noted…

  • Last Freddie-ish Gig on Tape: JGB at the Stone, May 28, 1987

    update: I can’t believe I didn’t know that Freddie didn’t actually run the Stone and KPA. I knew the Coronas were involved, but Corry informs me in comments that they actually ran the KPA and the Stone, and Freddie really only had the Berkeley club. Learn something new everyday. I will still refer to this…