The post-coma Garcia Band was getting hotter and hotter from 1987-1989, in my view, and somewhere along the line two kinds of business/money decisions were made. First, it’d start regularly playing the Warfield, which I think had been recently renovated, for Wolfgang. JGB played fifteen gigs at 982 Market in 1990 –February 2-4, March
1-2, April 13-15, June 12-13, August 7-9, and November 20-21. Second, for the first time since Old And In The Way, Garcia On The Side would tape itself and release a live record.
These came together, of course: all of the material from the 2 LP Jerry Garcia Band Arista release (hitting shelves on 8/25/91) and the posthumous (1997) How Sweet It Is came from 1990 Warfield shows. If you look closely, you’ll notice that only the April and August shows supplied released material, something I have wondered about over the years.
As I listed to some newly-circulating transfers of June 1990 DAT audience masters –as far as I can tell on a cursory glance, other transcriptions of these same masters have been in lossless circulation for a long time– I was guessing that the reason no material from this Tuesday-Wednesday tandem had been released is that these shows just aren’t very good. I stand by the quality assessment. Garcia sounds exhausted, coming right off three nights with the Dead at Cal Expo and heading into another weekend –not very good either, by my recollection– at Shoreline. The first night is especially ragged, but the 13th isn’t great either (IMO, YMMV).
Whatever your view, or mine, or Jerry’s/Kahn’s/Cutler’s on that question, not releasing these shows seems to have been overdetermined. Why? Because, as it happens, only the April and August shows were recorded for release. I had never realized that until prompted to dig through my massive stash of squirreled-away, generally forgotten and largely useless GOTS trivia. But, while the February, March, June and November shows were recorded to two-track DAT, only the A’s got the full treatment, with 5000 feet of 2 inch Ampex 456 Grand Master spinning at 15 ips and magnetizing 24 tracks of Jerry, John, David, Melvin, Jacklyn and Gloria for posterity. I don’t know why, but it seems to be a fact.
Anyway, with respect to these June shows, they didn’t miss much, so it’s fine. There are a few good moments, but not that much to show the band at its best to the record-buying public. Clarence Clemons comes in the second night, and contributes nothing of note, to my ears, though I am sure he was fun to party with.
Some listening notes follow, for what they’re worth.
~~6/12/90 set II “Rick” MAD shnid-141471–
Jerry Garcia Band
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
June 12, 1990 (Tuesday)
s2 Rick MAD flac1648 shnid-141471
— set II (7 tracks, 73:25)–
s2t01. The Way You Do The Things You Do [12:38] [0:26]
s2t02. [0:12] Mission In The Rain [9:06] [0:26]
s2t03. Dear Prudence [12:52] [1:21]
s2t04. [0:11] Russian Lullaby [11:09] [0:15]
s2t05. Think [8:04] [0:58]
s2t06. Gomorrah [6:32] ->
s2t07. Midnight Moonlight [8:03] (1) [0:12]
! ACT1: JGB #21b (THE Jerry Garcia Band)
! lineup: Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn – bass;
! lineup: Melvin Seals – keyboards;
! lineup: David Kemper – drums;
! lineup: Jacklyn LaBranch – backing vocals;
! lineup: Gloria Jones – backing vocals.
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.
! JGC: http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1990-06-12
! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/11365 (shnf); http://db.etree.org/shn/108908 (Reutelhuber s2 flac); http://etreedb.org/shn/141471 (this fileset). I haven’t compared to see if the Bill R. and the Rick tapes are the same, which one might suspect since both are only set II.
! band: http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html
! map: https://goo.gl/maps/ZW52vfHTbjs
! JGBP: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2013/02/warfield-982-market-street-san.html
! venue: http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/11/september-25-1980-fox-warfield-theater.html
! R: source: DAT Audience Recording attributed to “Rick”
! R: lineage: DAT Archived and Transferred By Stuccoholmes 2018; Edited and Mastered by Jamie Waddell in Wavelab 7.2, 16bit 48kHz FLAC Level8 in TLH
! R: seeder comment: “clear, balanced sound, minimal crowd intrusion, gets an A from me”
! P: s2t01 TWYDTTYD sounds low energy to me.
! P: s2t02 MITR JG sounds a little unsure of himself.
! P: s2t03 DP very good, excellent guitar work throughout. 8 min exemplary playing. At the end, Melvin holds onto it too long, and JG needs to walk it down for an emergency landing.
! P: s2t04 RL JG sounds tired. JK’s feature get completely off any known beat at some point. Again, Garcia sounds exhausted.
! s2t07 (1) JG: “Thanks a lot. See y’all later.”
~~6/13/90 “Rick” shnid-141472–
Jerry Garcia Band
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
June 13, 1990 (Wednesday)
Rick MAD flac1648 shnid-141472
–set I (7 tracks, 65:02)–
s1t01. Cats Under The Stars [8:34] [0:07] % [0:29]
s1t02. They Love Each Other [7:55] [0:39] %
s1t03. [0:13] Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door [11:08] [0:03] % [0:53]
s1t04. That’s What Love Will Make You Do [8:39] [0:58]
s1t05. Like A Road Leading Home [8:55] [0:14]
s1t06. My Sisters And Brothers [4:24] [0:17]
s1t07. Let’s Spend The Night Together [11:31] (1) [0:02]
–set II (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 77:07)–
s2t08. Second That Emotion
s2t09. [0:30] And It Stoned Me :31-7:36 – 7:54
s2t10. Tears Of Rage [10:10] [0:07]
s2t11. crowd and tuning [1:28]
s2t12. Reuben And Cérise [7:56] [0:10]
s2t13. crowd and tuning [1:05]
s2t14. Waiting For A Miracle
s2t15. Tore Up Over You [7:24] [0:12]
s2t16. That Lucky Old Sun [11:17] ->
s2t17. Tangled Up In Blue [12:10] (3) [0:17]
! ACT1: JGB #21b (THE Jerry Garcia Band)
! lineup: Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn – bass;
! lineup: Melvin Seals – keyboards;
! lineup: David Kemper – drums;
! lineup: Jacklyn LaBranch – backing vocals;
! lineup: Gloria Jones – backing vocals;
! guest: Clarence Clemons – saxophone.
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.
! Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19900612-01
! JGC: http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1990-06-12
! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/11366 (unknown MAD, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/85819 (mixed sources [Bu & Rick set I, Schoeps CMC 521s set II] flac); http://etreedb.org/shn/141472 (this fileset). I am pretty sure we will find that 85819 and this tape match, but I haven’t verified.
! map: https://goo.gl/maps/ZW52vfHTbjs
! JGBP: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2013/02/warfield-982-market-street-san.html
! venue: http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/11/september-25-1980-fox-warfield-theater.html
! P: Overall, this is stronger than the prior night (IMO), when Jer sounded really fatigued, but he still sounds a little down and it doesn’t knock me out.
! R: DAT Audience attributed to “Rick”. DAT Archived and Transferred By Stuccoholmes 2018
Edited and Mastered by Jamie Waddell in Wavelab 7.2, 16bit 48kHz FLAC Level8 in TLH.
! R: seeder notes: clear, balanced sound, minimal crowd intrusion, gets an A from me”
! personnel: Clarence enters about 2 minutes into TLEO.
! historical: Per seeder, “John Kahn’s Birthday, crowd sings to him set2”. A group wishes him HBD again at the very start of Luck Ol’ Sun.
! s1t01 @ about 27 seconds in, someone close to mic says “OK if you move it”.
! P: s1t01 CUTS Garcia sounds tired.
! P: s1t03 KOHD was very sweet.
! P: s1t04 TWLWMYD gets nice and grungy late 6 into 7.
! s1t07 (1) JG: “We’ll be back in a little while. Thanks a lot.”
! song: R&C (s2t12): this was last played 12/1/89. Not forever, but it just wasn’t always played in this period.
! s2t13 (2) female taper’s friend: “This is a test of the emergency Jerry system. This is only a test.”
! P: s2t17 TUIB JG sounds vocally tired. The playing is fine, but it never really achieves escape velocity.
! s2t17 (3) JG: “See y’all later. Thanks a lot.”
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