Citing "mounting health problems," Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater.This ended up being canceled.
I had earlier noted that that summer's Eel River show had been moved from 7/13/91 to 8/10/91, speculating that Jerry was rehabbing his latest fall from the wagon on the heels of yet another GD intervention after the Denver Dead show (6/28/91). The rare candor of the Stanford cancellation announcement feels to me like strong confirmation of rehab as the reason.
I also found a ticket stub at Wolfgang's Vault showing JGB at The Telluride Mid-Summer Music Festival, in beautiful Telluride, CO, Friday, July 19, 1991. (Also billed that day: Jackson Browne / Joe Cocker / Allman Brothers Band.) This performance was also canceled.
REFERENCE:
"No Jerry Garcia concert Sunday," Stanford Daily, July 11, 1991, p. 18.
Bill Graham, June 1991: "The GD at the Coliseum is not as sweet a piece of sugar as a three-day festival at Telluride". No-one ever accused Wolfgang of understatement, but here I am tempted.
ReplyDeleteHochman 1991, F1
scene: Cal Expo August 1989; Bill Graham on ATV
ReplyDeletedeadhead: "Hey Bill, when we going back to Telluride?"
Uncle Bobo: "NO! NO MORE TELLURIDE!!" /drives away
With regard to the Los Angeles Coliseum - this young deadhead was supplied with extremely good seats for the 6/1/1991 concert. As the seats began to fill in after the opening act (Johnny Clegg) some folks arrived up front claiming to have returned from backstage where they reported that Bill Graham was incensed at Garcia's appearance/condition ahead of Summer Tour and was making that point loudly to anyone within earshot. Take that with whatever dose of salt you prefer but that was the conversation of the day upfront on 6/1/91 and the first thing I flashed on returning home from Mile High to learn we weren't going to see JGB at the Frost afterall...
DeleteThanks for that. No salt needed - it lines up perfectly with the fact that the band held an intervention after Denver, and the summer 91 JGB shows were canceled.
DeleteThe rare candor of the Stanford Daily is something else certainly. We were planning on traveling from out of state for the Frost/Eel JGB gigs and IIRC we must have gotten word via GD Hotline well in advance of this July 11th announcement as it was a two day drive from where we were and we knew far enough in advance to refrain from packing and preparing for the trip. I imagine that the GD hotline announcement was made pretty quickly after the Mile High show, probably before July 4th. It's a shame there isn't a telephone based "wayback machine" with which we could relisten and catalog the hotline messages! I suppose the written drafts of those hotline messages might be stored in some box of the GD archive someplace, always sounded like they were reading from some kind of script though who knows if they were dated.
ReplyDeleteone night at Telluride was JGB, and the next night was Garcia Grisman, there were also two red rocks shows scheduled two nights later, same lineups...
ReplyDeleteThank you! So like the Squaw Valley setup the next month.
DeleteAnd, yeah, just found mentions of the Red Rocks gig in the Denver Post. Thanks!
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