Saturday, January 23, 2021

You Know What's Crazy? I Have Never Listening-Noted a Garcia-Grisman Gig

So I will do the January 12-13, 1994 Warfield shows together.

The performances are delightful, and I don't have tons of comments at that level. They play a number of rarities which had been relatively recently released on Not For Kids Only (Acoustic Disc ACD 9, 1993), and I am a huge fan of that record, which was recently remastered and topped-up with some bonus tracks. The first two tunes on the record are "Jenny Jenkins" and "Freight Train", which I played a LOT for my kiddos and which are both burned into my DNA. JJ kicks off set II of the first night, while Freight Train, which had gotten a one-off breakout with JGB on 11/3/93, happens in set II of night two. Merle Travis's coal miner's lament "Dark As A Dungeon" was a real highlight for me - I recommend it via the video of 1/12/94. But, really, I have to say that I love every single song they played.

There is no banjo playing at these shows, and I think at least "Stealin'" and "Jenny Jenkins" are done as David and Jerry duets.

Set I the second night is quite short, about 36 minutes. Some number of those minutes come out of the great Garcia-Grisman composition "Grateful Dawg", which clocks in here at a mere three-and-a-half minutes. I don't have specific timing for earlier versions, but I want to say they might have gone 6 or 7 or more.

I do want to provide a little repertorial analysis to illustrate the range of (mostly) American musics from which Jerry and David drew, and to which they contributed in turn. Some data next.

I am wide open to suggestions about this set of classifications. In particular, I have in my mind a genre called country blues which I guess is black acoustic, but, again, I don't really know what I am talking about. I have only just come to understand what a standard is. The next table summarizes the shows by genre.


I guess the main take-home from this little exercise is that the first night was a little more contemporary, while the second was a little more traditional. Anything else jump out at you?

Anyway, totally wonderful to listen to these. I was responsible for the earliest seeds of these two shows, which were not very good. Then they were remastered by someone else, not very well. While a bunch of other sources for 1/13 have come about, 1/12 was only very recently upgraded from the recording annotated here, pulled by Steve Fink. So we now have very good tapes from both nights, and they are worth your ear time.

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LN jg1994-01-12.jgdg.all.aud-Fink.150311.flac1648
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
January 12, 1994 (Wednesday) - 8 PM
Fink MAD shnid-150311

--set I (9 tracks, 8 tunes, 47:35)--
s1t01. Teddy Bears' Picnic [4:52] [0:53]
s1t02. Jack-A-Roe [4:32] [1:07]
s1t03. Dark As A Dungeon [7:12] [0:18]
s1t04. Bow Wow [5:19] [0:05]
s1t05. ambience [1:28]
s1t06. Two Soldiers [4:20] -> 
s1t07. Friend Of The Devil [6:57] [0:05]
s1t08. Louis Collins [5:20] [0:19]
s1t09. (1) [0:39] Stealin' [3:59] [0:11]

--set II (12 tracks, 9 tunes, 62:38)--
s2t10. ambience [0:48]
s2t11. Jenny Jenkins [4:50 [0:05]
s2t12. Walkin' Boss [7:16] [0:06]
s2t13. When First Unto This Country [4:32]
s2t14. ambience [1:43]
s2t15. Milestones [8:30] [0:15]
s2t16. Sitting In Limbo [9:21]
s2t17. ambience [1:02]
s2t18. Russian Lullaby [6:37] ->
s2t19. I Ain't Never [3:10] [0:32]
s2t20. Bag's Groove [9:22] ->
s2t21. Ripple [4:11] (2) [0:18]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - acoustic guitar, vocals;
! lineup: David Grisman - mandolin, vocals;
! lineup: Jim Kerwin - acoustic bass;
! lineup: Joe Craven - fiddle, percussion.

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.


! db: https://etreedb.org/shn/11169 (shnf); https://etreedb.org/shn/30691 (loy remaster of shnid-11169); https://etreedb.org/shn/150311 (this fileset)





! setlist: Old data, based on attendee recollections, had Stealin' as the first song of set II, but the recordings clearly reveal it to be in set I. Similarly, Ripple as given as an encore, but continuous tape from Bag's Groove belies this idea.

! R: field recordist: Steve Fink

! R: field recording gear: 2x Neumann KM54 > DAP-20

! R: field recording location: drink rail

! R: lineage: DAT Archived and Transferred by Stucco; Mastering by Jamie Waddell 16bit/48kHz FLAC. Originally shared at www.shnflac.net in celebration of the 15th birthday of our website June 25, 2020 **gems** team.

! R: My goodness, this tape dramatically improves on the only previously circulating version. So clear!

! P: s1t03 DAAD Wow! Garcia is giving this real feeling. 

! song: "Dark As A Dungeon" (s1t03): Public debut. Amazing that he is doing this tune, written by country legend Merle Travis. So freaking great!

! song: "Bow Wow" (s1t04): Public debut. Dawg original.

! s1t09 (1) DG: "[inaudible] send this out to my little boy, Samson Eli, who's four years old today. [inaudible]"

! personnel: I think Stealin' and Jenny Jenkins are done in duet.

! P: s2t12 WB Jerry takes a feature second half of 2 that, to me, has some tempo issues and occasional picking dysfluency. Again late 4 tempo wobbles, and where JG needs to pick and sustain some notes in his dialogue with David, I don't hear the sustain. This version is not as together as the versions from three years earlier.

! P: s2t15 Milestones JG takes first feature 0:45ff. Playing well. Grisman is doing some powerful stuff in the 3 minute range, the crowd responds appropriately @3:10. Just killing! Kerwin features next, building up during 4. Craven percussion feature 5:25ff. 6:15ff Dawg and Jer are sort of trading licks, then 6:35 to the theme.

! P: s2t16 SIL gets off to a rough start, everyone a little out of sync, Jerry garbles the opening verse. Still 3 minutes in, everyone is not together on this. A little better later on in the tune. 7 Jerry digs in a little deeper, does some Caribbean guitar (not inappropriately).

! s2t21 (2) sounds like there's a "thanks a lot"

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LN jg1994-01-13.jgdg.all.aud-Fink.150310.flac1648


Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
January 13, 1994 (Thursday) - 8 PM
Fink MAD shnid-150310

--set I (8 tracks, 35:59-:12)
s1t01. //Shady Grove [#3:05] [0:31]
s1t02. Long Black Veil [5:03] [0:46]
s1t03. Rosa Lee McFall [3:28] 0:33]
s1t04. Dawg's Waltz [5:00] [0:11]
s1t05. Freight Train [4:52] [0:20]
s1t06. Hot Corn, Cold Corn [4:28] [0:18]
s1t07. Red Rocking Chair [3:24] [0:14]
s1t08. Grateful Dawg [3:28] [0:06] % pre-set II [0:12]

--set II (12 tracks, 9 tunes, 70:00+:12-6:01)--
09. Trouble In Mind [4:14] [0:14]
10. Ballad Of Casey Jones [4:34] [0:17]
11. There Ain't No Bugs On Me [4:41]
12. ambience (1) [0:59]
13. So What? [10:04] [0:11]
14. Rockin' Chair [7:31]
15. ambience [1:17]
16. Stealin' [3:50] [0:34]
17. Little Glass Of Wine [3:44] [0:13]
18. Drink Up And Go Home [2:55] [0:11]
19. Arabia [18:31]
20. ambience (2) [6:01]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - acoustic guitar, vocals;
! lineup: David Grisman - mandolin, vocals;
! lineup: Jim Kerwin - acoustic bass;
! lineup: Joe Craven - fiddle, percussion.

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.



! 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: field recordist: Steve Fink

! R: field recording gear: 2x Neumann KM54 > DAP-20

! R: field recording location: drink rail

! R: lineage: DAT Archived and Transferred by Stucco; Mastering by Jamie Waddell 16bit/48kHz FLAC. Originally shared at www.shnflac.net in celebration of the 15th birthday of our website June 25, 2020 **gems** team.

! R: s1t01 Shady Grove cuts in on "wish I had a banjo string"

! R: seeder notes. Set One was recorded much louder, and the crowd cheers clip between songs, but not the music at all. Both Sets of music match volume wise now, I did what I could to unclip the crowd between songs Set One

! P: s1t05 FT he pulls this off just about perfectly. So nice.

! P: s1t08 GD is a fucking killer song, but look at how short this version is! Three and a half minutes?

! s2t12 (1) DG: "The man on the bass - Jim Kerwin. On the fiddle, and on the fiddle case - Joe Craven." JG: "That's David 'Dawg' Grisman playing the mandolin." DG: "Captain Trips here on the guitar [inaudible]."

! s2t20 (2) Some interesting taper talk at the end about a fan who had too much fun
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