Find Someone Who Looks at You the Way John Looks at Jerry

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Jerry Garcia Band

Convention Hall

1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
July 9, 1977 (Saturday) –Late Show 10 PM

complete (128:25) B&W proshot video via Music Vault,
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glq7yzbfy-o

re-do the time markers

0:00:00
– [0:47 The Harder They Come 0:48-15:04 -15:06

0:15:07
– Stage Noise

0:17:42
– They Love Each Other -25:42

0:25:46
– Stage Noise

0:30:05
– Midnight Moonlight

0:40:13
– Stage Noise

0:43:38
– Russian Lullaby (incomplete)

! R: RL splice @ 58:05, not much missing

0:58:57
– noodling

1:00:51
– Tore Up Over You

1:14:06
– crowd noise

1:14:54
– Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

1:31:32
– Stage Noise

1:33:51
– Tangled Up in Blue

1:45:46
– crowd noise

1:51:00
– Not Fade Away (Incomplete)

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band

! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g, vocals;

! lineup: John Kahn – el-b;

! lineup: Keith Godchaux – el-piano (Polymoog keyboard),
ac-piano;

! lineup: Ron Tutt – drums.

JGMF:

! Recording: symbols: % = recording discontinuity; / =
clipped song; // = cut song; … = fade in/out; # = truncated timing; [ ] =
recorded event time. The recorded event time immediately after the song or item
name is an attempt at getting the “real” time of the event. So, a
timing of [x:xx] right after a song title is an attempt to say how long the
song really was, as represented on this recording.

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8659
(Mattson early and late shows shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/76441
(Mattson early and late shows flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/124426 (Steve
Strange late show flac1644).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/tfwJJ

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/convention-hall-1300-ocean-ave-asbury.html

! band: JGB #xxx. Notice that neither Donna Jean Godchaux
nor Maria Muldaur is present.

! JGMF: see also “Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away:
July 9, 1977,” http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2013/12/ln-jg1977-07-09jgblate-2aud-strange.html.

! ad: Asbury Park Press, June 26, 1977, p. 14.

! expost: “Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts,” Asbury
Park Press, July 11, 1977, p. unk.

! historical: “More than 30 persons, most of them from
North Jersey and New York, were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday
morning” after the Garcia Band shows (“Arrests Follow 2 Rock
Concerts”). 22 police. Crowd of 250-300 (per police) gather at Bradley
Park, across Ocean Avenue from Convention Hall, about 6:30 pm. Drinking. Cops
announce they’re gonna bust the drinking, etc. over the bullhorn. Crowd mostly
dispersed 7:30, when JGB scheduled to start. Arrests begin at 10:30 pm, after
the early show. “Police arrested people as they came off the Boardwalk and
were visibly intoxicated. The arrests continued until about 1:25 am [text not
clear]”. Most was possession of alcohol, maybe 28? That’d be a summons or
$100 bail. Nine for possession of marijuana or LSD, $500 bail. One Prince
Charming got three charges and $5,000 bail: possession of a large knife, assault
and battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest. (Your mother will love
him!) Wage: $20,557. Only 120 tickets shy of a sellout (3,776 of 3,896).

! R: seeder notes: Thanks to BGA LLC.

! R: Original audio from video mastered using Adobe Audition

! R: audio patch in NFA from shnid 76441 taped by Mark
Mattson

! R: audio and video editing by Voodoonola

! R: the video and audio quality are breathtaking.

! P: HTC catch Tutt do a great run around 3:15. Keith’s
electric keyboard is clearly shown 7:15ish. Watching JG play 8:30 is wonderful.
At 10:10 he looks at John with such love. The admiration is so great. Swaying
and smiling 10:25 as the crowd cheers. So, so, so nice.

! P: TLEO Tutt doing some harmonies visibly @ 20:10. Keith
now on acoustic piano.

! P: MM KG has baritone and Tutt has high parts. KG’s voice
is unfortunate. Nice solo over 30, Kahn hitting some nice fat stuff and there’s
a crowd shot of a dude right upfront reacting to it, probably same look I had
on my face. Wow. Late 30 Jerry takes another turn, he wasn’t satisfied with the
first one (it’s true he hit a bad note in there), now he has his eyes closed
and that helps, sometimes.

! P: RL wow. We know that Jerry, John and Keith, sometimes
just Jerry and Keith (!), played some Hot Club stuff at Club Front in mid-1978.
The love that Jerry and John share for each other is palpable. Over 43 John is
practically cooing at Jerry, playing with him like a kitten, and Jerry is using
that to get off. It’s potent. At 45, John steps in front of Jerry and is ready
to jump on a feature, but Keith steps up and plays a beautiful little thing.
Jerry sways with pleasure and smiles at Keith, comping with his eyes on Keith.
If Garcia’s comping and looking at you and urging you to play, you play, by
God. 46 Keith picks up his tempo a little bit. He’s playing very
well-controlled piano here, not so heavily percussive on the left hand. Now
John feature 47:15 ff. At 48:45 you are getting a perfect view of John’s
fingers. It is very nice to see this, but I don’t think this bass solo holds a
candle to what some of John’s contemporaries could do. Garcia is having a smoke
and watching John, so it’s a little trio configuration of John leading, Keith
and Ronnie just holding the beat. Jerry comes back 50:35, crowd gives John a
nice hand. But it also knows, or many of its members do, that Garcia’s about to
play his guitar.

! P: TUOY John was playing something very interesting around
70 min mark, but the seeder had already tracked KOHD. I think he was noodling
something else, and then the transition to KOHD sounded abrupt. But maybe I
just wasn’t playing close enough attention.