Category: TN

  • JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    Here’s an ad from the Memphis Commercial Appeal billing Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) at the Auditorium Music Hall in Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975. Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), November 2, 1975, p. 5 The show must have been canceled, because I have never seen other record of this *and* the Garcia Band played the Keystone Berkeley this…

  • Triple-Booked Vassar: October 6, 1973

    My post on Old And In The Way in Santa Cruz on Friday, October 5, 1973 referenced some of the band’s contemporaneous gigs. One of these was a gig the next night in Berkeley. In comments, I then noted that Vassar was advertised with Tut Taylor that same Saturday at the Exit/In in Nashville, whereupon…

  • LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.1p-2p.aud-coplen.20700.shn2flac

    If there were more time, I’d like to talk about “Who Was John?”, elaborate on the racial structure of the music, the unevenness of this period (March-April 1976).  But there’s not time, so just a data dump. Jerry Garcia Band Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University 600 Emerson StreetEvanston, IL 60201 March 12, 1976 (Friday) 55 minute…

  • JGB in Memphis, March 28, 1976

    **updated** I made this post to ask about this show, which has always been shrouded in some mystery and confusion. It is listed, without comment, on the McNally-Arnold JG List. TJS has had a note, information of unknown provenance, that the show was canceled “due to an illness in the band.” I also had a…