Clearly identified as the Great American Music Band by the emcee at the end, this is the quartet of Grisman (mandolin), Greene (fiddle), Nichtern (ac-guitar, vocals) and Taj Mahal (ac-bass). The performance doesn’t light me up the way some of them do. The tape, via ‘fstop’, is quite nice, though I’d guess that the Will Boswell/Matt Smith version may be even better. I’d have to do a side-by-side comparison. No Garcia Content, but since I mentioned this in GSCBF9 I thought I’d lay this out here.
Arlington Theatre is amazing, by the way. I saw the Allman Brothers there in the early 90s and it was one of the finer musical experiences I have had.
Great American Music Band
Arlington Theatre
1317 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
April 24, 1974 (Wednesday)
49 min sbd tape via fstop
(19 tracks, 49:09)
–main set (16 tracks, 44:21)–
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t01. crowd and tuning [0:31]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t02. Katy Hill [2:39] [0:37] (1)
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t03. Limehouse Blues [3:11] [0:11]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t04. banter (2), tuning [0:42]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t05. I’ll Be A Gambler If You’ll Deal The Cards [2:27] [0:14]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t06. banter (3), tuning, banter (4) [1:25]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t07. Swing ’42 [4:46] [0:21]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t08. Dawg intro (5), song intro [0:26]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t09. Dawg’s Bull [2:02] [0:10]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t10. “Tex” Mahal introduction [0:37]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t11. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms [2:56] [0:42]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t12. David Nichtern intro, song intro [0:45]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t13. My Plastic Banana Isn’t Stupid [3:13] [1:06]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t14. Midnight At The Oasis [3:46] [0:18]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t15. Dawg’s Rag [5:38] [1:22]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t16. Sweet Georgia Brown [3:50] [0:32] %
–encore (3 tracks, 4:47)–
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t17. pre-encore crowd and tuning [0:10]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t18. Orange Blossom Special [4:08] [0:09]
gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t19. outro (6) [0:19]
! band: Great American Music Band
! lineup: David (“Dawg”) Grisman – mandolin;
! lineup: Richard Greene – fiddle;
! lineup: David Nichtern – guitar, vocals;
! lineup: Taj (“Tex”) Mahal – bass.
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.
! TJS: n/a
! db: http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=389520
! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/arlington-theater-1317-state-st-santa.html
! map: http://goo.gl/maps/U3Bfh
! R: fstop’s unknown (low) gen sbd reel > CD > EAC > CD Wave > TLH (16/44 FLAC8).
! song: “Katy Hill” (gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t02): a traditional popularized by Bill Monroe (Allan).
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t02. (1) RG: “OK, here’s a little something Hot Club style. … Django Reinhardt … It’s called Limehouse Blues.”
! song: “Limehouse Blues” (gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t03): (Lyrics: Douglas Furber; Music: Phillip Braham) (Allan).
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t04. (2) RG: “I’d like to introduce David Nichtern on guitar. He’s also a very prolific and successful songwriter, and this is one of his songs. It’s called ‘I’ll Be A Gambler If You’ll Deal The Cards’.”
! song: “I’ll Be A Gambler If You’ll Deal The Cards” (gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t05): I am using the title as given here, on the 6/13/74 GASB show, and perhaps another time or two. Deaddisc calls it “I’ll Be A Gambler”, noting “Registered title is ‘I’ll Be A Gambler’”. I am not sure if, by this, the curator means has registered it that way, or it’s officially registered that way somewhere.
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t06. (3) RG: “This is something called ‘Swing 42’, named after the very successful year of my birth.”
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t06. (4) requests for soundman
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t07. R: Swing 42 SQ anomalies @ 2:45.
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t08. (5) RG: “This here’s Dawg. I’d like to present Dawg. [Grisman laughs] Dawg is permanently trapped in The Zone.”
! song: Dawg’s Bull (gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t09): a Grisman instrumental, released in 1979 on Hot Dawg.
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t15. R: Dawg’s Rag @ 2:40 some overload, mostly from the bass.
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t16. R: SGB more bass overload
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t16. P: SGB is all-instrumental, whereas on other occasions (4/20?) Taj also took vocals.
! gamb1974-04-24-fstop-t19. historical: emcee twice calls the band “Great American Music Band”, including in note (6), the outro.
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