Jerry Garcia Band at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, June 4, 1983 late show

update: lots of great photos from the EARLY show by Peter Hazou [dead link]

1983, like some other years, was best smack dab in the middle for the Jerry Garcia Band. The JGB’s May 31 show at the Roseland Ballroom on West 52nd Street in New York is one of the best of the 1980s. I also love the next night’s show, and I recall really liking the June 4th early show from Mark Cohen’s tape (shnid-15619).

Add in an attractive setlist and a Minches-transferred Jim Vita tape and I had high hopes for 6/4/83b (shnid-78981). I give a bottom line in my listening notes: “I find a lot to like in the guitar playing, much less so in the strained
vocals. The clammy start to MITR also knocks it down a peg or two.” “Rhapsody In Red” and “Sugaree” provide some utterly characteristic-for-the-period pyrotechnical guitar.

Oh yeah, one more thing – I don’t seem to have the board tape of this set (shnid-10133), which is strange. Does anyone have an etreedb compatible copy of 6/4/83b sbd (shnid-10133)? Hell, anyone have any flavor of board tape for this?

Jerry Garcia Band
The Chance
6 Crannell Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
June 4, 1983 (Saturday) – Late Show
Vita-Minches late-1 shnid-78981

–(9 tracks, 78:02, missing encore)–
l-t01. tuning [0:05]
l-t02. Rhapsody In Red [9:46] [0:06] % [0:11]
l-t03. Harder They Come [14:56] [0:08] % [0:09]
l-t04. Sugaree [12:53] [0:02] %% [0:30]
l-t05. Cats Under The Stars [7:56] [0:03] % [0:04]
l-t06. Mission In The Rain [10:39] [0:13] %
l-t07. Gomorrah [5:04] ->
l-t08. Run For The Roses [5:12] ->
l-t09. Deal [9:13] (1) [0:09]
[MISSING –encore– Midnight Moonlight]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #15c
! Lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g, vocals;
! Lineup: John Kahn – el-bass;
! Lineup: Melvin Seals – keyboards (Hammond B-3 organ);
! Lineup: Greg Errico – drums;
! Lineup: Jacklyn LaBranch – vocals;
! Lineup: DeeDee Dickerson – vocals.

JGMF:

! Recording: symbols: % = recording discontinuity; / = clipped song; // = cut song; … = fade in/out; # = truncated timing; [m:ss] = 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 [m:ss] right after a song title is an attempt to say how long the song really was, as represented on this recording.