tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post1854521828564136381..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: The Debut of the Last Quartet: The Catalyst, 10/13/82Fate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-76102060259605226222010-12-28T23:22:17.593-07:002010-12-28T23:22:17.593-07:00I garbled the Comment a bit. Daoud Shaw and Essra ...I garbled the Comment a bit. Daoud Shaw and Essra Mohawk left JGB after the Aug 25 81 show, not Jun 24 '82. Whoops.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-49105352045639837032010-12-28T17:01:50.325-07:002010-12-28T17:01:50.325-07:00David (Daoud) Shaw was the drummer for the Jerry G...David (Daoud) Shaw was the drummer for the Jerry Garcia Band starting in January '81, and he remained the drummer through Aug 23 '81. Shaw was a Woodstock guy, and he had been Van Morrison's drummer for the Band And Street Choir album. He was also Essra Mohawk's husband. Both Mohawk and Shaw left the Jerry Garcia Band at the same time (after the June 24 '82 show).<br /><br />The next JGB show was Sep 7 '81 at Concord Pavilion. Bill Kreutzmann played drums, and very well I might add, since I was there. He seemed to just be a fill-in, however.<br /><br />For the three other Sept JGB shows (Sep 18 Keystone Berkeley, Sep 19-20 The Stone), Ron Tutt played drums. Tutt also played drums on the tour that started in Palo Alto on Oct 25 and headed East from Oct 31 (Philadelphia) through Nov 19 (Denver). On the Grateful Dead hotline, the tour was billed as "The Return Of Ron Tutt."<br /><br />Bill Kreutzmann returned to the drum chair on Dec 17 '81 at Keystone Berkeley and seems to have held it through Jun '24 82. I have not absolutely confirmed that, however, and it's possible that there were subs at some show (Gregg Errico, Gaylord Birch, etc) or that someone else took over the drums entirely. I do know that Kreutzmann generally played drums at Bay Area shows during this period, because I asked anyone who went to a show.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-38659653137326448612010-12-28T16:53:37.074-07:002010-12-28T16:53:37.074-07:00I just looked at the Jerry Site for the 81-82 peri...I just looked at the Jerry Site for the 81-82 period and it's somewhat misleading with respect to personnel. Essra Mohawk and Liz Stires were the vocalists from June 25 '81 (Santa Cruz) through Aug 25 '81 (Keystone PA).<br /><br />Julie Stafford replaced Essra Mohawk starting on September 7, 1981 (Concord Pavilion). Stafford and Stiles were the singers through June 24 '82 (Capitol Theater, Passaic).<br /><br />Scuttlebutt at the time was that Julie and Liz were sisters. I have no idea if that was true. In the dark, from a distance, they kind of looked similar, so it was the sort of thing Deadheads would imagine to be true, even if it wasn't.<br /><br />Liz Stires is still a musician, Julie Stafford appears to be a real estate agent.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-34206083025122079592010-12-28T16:08:17.909-07:002010-12-28T16:08:17.909-07:00I hadn't thought about this interlude in quite...I hadn't thought about this interlude in quite some time. The first thing that comes to mind is actually that Jimmy Warren was out of the band. Do you know anything about Jimmy Warren? Where he came from, what he did before, whether he ever did anything after? I don't. <br /><br />Warren wasn't a guest star, he was in the JGB for 18 months and played dozens of shows. One of the biographers (Blair?) said "he had problems," but who knows what that meant. You and I are the most focused on unearthing Garcia Band mysteries, and Jimmy Warren remains the biggest one.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.com