Find Someone Who Looks at You the Way John Looks at Jerry

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Jerry Garcia Band

Convention Hall

1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
July 9, 1977 (Saturday) –Late Show 10 PM

complete (128:25) B&W proshot video via Music Vault, URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glq7yzbfy-o

re-do the time markers

0:00:00 – [0:47 The Harder They Come 0:48-15:04 -15:06

0:15:07 - Stage Noise

0:17:42 - They Love Each Other -25:42

0:25:46 - Stage Noise

0:30:05 - Midnight Moonlight

0:40:13 - Stage Noise

0:43:38 - Russian Lullaby (incomplete)

! R: RL splice @ 58:05, not much missing

0:58:57 – noodling

1:00:51 - Tore Up Over You

1:14:06 - crowd noise

1:14:54 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

1:31:32 - Stage Noise

1:33:51 - Tangled Up in Blue

1:45:46 - crowd noise

1:51:00 - Not Fade Away (Incomplete)

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band

! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g, vocals;

! lineup: John Kahn – el-b;

! lineup: Keith Godchaux – el-piano (Polymoog keyboard), ac-piano;

! lineup: Ron Tutt – drums.

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/19770709-04

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8659 (Mattson early and late shows shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/76441 (Mattson early and late shows flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/124426 (Steve Strange late show flac1644).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/tfwJJ

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/convention-hall-1300-ocean-ave-asbury.html

! band: JGB #xxx. Notice that neither Donna Jean Godchaux nor Maria Muldaur is present.

! JGMF: see also "Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away: July 9, 1977," http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2013/12/ln-jg1977-07-09jgblate-2aud-strange.html.

! ad: Asbury Park Press, June 26, 1977, p. 14.

! expost: "Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts," Asbury Park Press, July 11, 1977, p. unk.

! historical: "More than 30 persons, most of them from North Jersey and New York, were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday morning" after the Garcia Band shows ("Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts"). 22 police. Crowd of 250-300 (per police) gather at Bradley Park, across Ocean Avenue from Convention Hall, about 6:30 pm. Drinking. Cops announce they're gonna bust the drinking, etc. over the bullhorn. Crowd mostly dispersed 7:30, when JGB scheduled to start. Arrests begin at 10:30 pm, after the early show. "Police arrested people as they came off the Boardwalk and were visibly intoxicated. The arrests continued until about 1:25 am [text not clear]". Most was possession of alcohol, maybe 28? That'd be a summons or $100 bail. Nine for possession of marijuana or LSD, $500 bail. One Prince Charming got three charges and $5,000 bail: possession of a large knife, assault and battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest. (Your mother will love him!) Wage: $20,557. Only 120 tickets shy of a sellout (3,776 of 3,896).

! R: seeder notes: Thanks to BGA LLC.

! R: Original audio from video mastered using Adobe Audition

! R: audio patch in NFA from shnid 76441 taped by Mark Mattson

! R: audio and video editing by Voodoonola

! R: the video and audio quality are breathtaking.

! P: HTC catch Tutt do a great run around 3:15. Keith's electric keyboard is clearly shown 7:15ish. Watching JG play 8:30 is wonderful. At 10:10 he looks at John with such love. The admiration is so great. Swaying and smiling 10:25 as the crowd cheers. So, so, so nice.

! P: TLEO Tutt doing some harmonies visibly @ 20:10. Keith now on acoustic piano.

! P: MM KG has baritone and Tutt has high parts. KG's voice is unfortunate. Nice solo over 30, Kahn hitting some nice fat stuff and there's a crowd shot of a dude right upfront reacting to it, probably same look I had on my face. Wow. Late 30 Jerry takes another turn, he wasn't satisfied with the first one (it's true he hit a bad note in there), now he has his eyes closed and that helps, sometimes.

! P: RL wow. We know that Jerry, John and Keith, sometimes just Jerry and Keith (!), played some Hot Club stuff at Club Front in mid-1978. The love that Jerry and John share for each other is palpable. Over 43 John is practically cooing at Jerry, playing with him like a kitten, and Jerry is using that to get off. It's potent. At 45, John steps in front of Jerry and is ready to jump on a feature, but Keith steps up and plays a beautiful little thing. Jerry sways with pleasure and smiles at Keith, comping with his eyes on Keith. If Garcia's comping and looking at you and urging you to play, you play, by God. 46 Keith picks up his tempo a little bit. He's playing very well-controlled piano here, not so heavily percussive on the left hand. Now John feature 47:15 ff. At 48:45 you are getting a perfect view of John's fingers. It is very nice to see this, but I don't think this bass solo holds a candle to what some of John's contemporaries could do. Garcia is having a smoke and watching John, so it's a little trio configuration of John leading, Keith and Ronnie just holding the beat. Jerry comes back 50:35, crowd gives John a nice hand. But it also knows, or many of its members do, that Garcia's about to play his guitar.

! P: TUOY John was playing something very interesting around 70 min mark, but the seeder had already tracked KOHD. I think he was noodling something else, and then the transition to KOHD sounded abrupt. But maybe I just wasn't playing close enough attention.

Jersey Shore, Jerry and Scher (VN jg1977-07-09.jgb.early)

In July 1977, the Jerry Garcia Band went out east for a few big paydays playing for John Scher in Hempstead, NY and two shows on the Jersey Shore, at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park. I have reported on the first night (7/8) and on the 7/9 late show from an audience tape.  Lots of interesting stuff here – the Garcia-Scher partnership (a Don Law-promoted show up Cape Cod was scheduled for the 10^th, but canceled for reasons unknown to me), money, hooliganism (between shows on the second night) and some interesting performances ("Tough Mama", from Dylan's Planet Waves, shows up the first night in the middle of a seven-year absence, and the late show second night ends with the only known JGB performance of "Not Fade Away").

Here's how it might have looked financially for the night of the 9^th:

As noted, a big payday all around, about $200,000 in 2013 dollars.

Now, into the world drops video of many John Scher promoted Garcia Band shows, including material from both 7/9/77 shows. I have now viewed the early show video, and it's nothing short of amazing. Stunning. Unbelievable. I can't believe I get to watch this. My deepest gratitude goes out to all those who have made it possible for this stuff to be seen. Wow.

See my viewing notes below. A few tiny points. First, neither Donna Jean Godchaux nor Maria Muldaur is present. Second, John Scher says at the end that folks can use their ticket stubs to go see the Grateful Dead Movie. This makes me think that there is some cross-promotion happening between the Garcia Band gigs and The Movie. No big deal, but interesting. (update: of course, John Scher's business partnership with the Dead included a chunk of change around The Movie, specifically the distribution. So these Garcia Band shows and The GD Movie are bound together in some pretty essential ways, it seems to me.) We know that fucker was a monkey on Garcia's back – maybe the band and John Scher and all the rest of them are celebrating together their shared midsummer fortune with a payday, some partying, some music. I wonder where John Belushi was this night?

Jerry Garcia Band

Convention Hall

1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
July 9, 1977 (Saturday) – Early Show 7 PM

partial (41:34) B&W video

--end early show + encore--

[0:04] Sitting Here In Limbo :05-12:29 -15:49

Mystery Train 15:50-27:19 (1) -30:09

--encore--

tuning 30:10-31:59

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 32:00-40:36 –(2) 41:34 %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band

! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g, vocals;

! lineup: John Kahn – el-b;

! lineup: Keith Godchaux – piano;

! lineup: Ron Tutt – drums.

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.

! TJS: http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1325

! db: http://db.etree.org/shn/8659 (Mattson early and late shows shnf); http://db.etree.org/shn/76441 (Mattson early and late shows flac1644).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/tfwJJ

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/convention-hall-1300-ocean-ave-asbury.html

! band: JGB #xxx. Notice that neither Donna Jean Godchaux nor Maria Muldaur is present.

! historical: when this show ended, around 10:30 p.m., police started arresting visibly intoxicated people along the Boardwalk, a couple dozen in all (“Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts”).

! R: Both the audio and video quality of this recording are quite stunning. The video is a black and white multicam from the Monarch Entertainment screen feeds. They had this pretty locked in. The lighting is good. This is not a heavily generated copy. Tracking is clean. Pro quality. Some static late 36 minute mark.

! P: SHIL botches the first lyrics, and his voice is already betraying him. And this is the early show? Gonna be a slog vocally for awhile, I predict. Garcia looks skinny in the arms, heavy lidded, bouncing 2:25 to get himself warmed up. Tutt hitting the shit out of it. Keith short sleeves and mid-tint shades. 4:08 Jerry is really warming up already, a beautiful run @ 4:20, I was totally wrong. He is still futzing with his gear, but his guitar voice is fluid and expressive. John is beautifully mixed and he sounds good. Tutt visibly deeply in the groove 5:36. @ 5:50 ish Jerry is playing to Keith, looking over to him as he plays percussively and a little rough, asking him to soften it up. Keith is staring lost down at the ground to 3 o’clock, but he hears Jerry and starts with some more melodious stuff, warming up to a feature in the second half of 6-minute mark that is very nice. Around 7:30 Jerry is comping melodiously behind, almost like his “Day By Day” feel. Keith still getting warmed up, but this is pretty good. @ 8:45 Garcia is beautifully filmed, looking very much like Ed Perlstein’s blue snap of Garcia from ?2/22/76? on the cover of Don’t Let Go, frizzy haloed hair. Keith is noodling something, maybe Epistrophy, something jazzy, e.g., 14:15. Fascinating. Kahn is doing some ditty now late 14 over 15. Not just scales, I don’t think, but maybe. Can hear the stage talk 15:45 ish.

! MT @ 18:22 see Harry Popick dancing in the background. Garcia isn’t real secure on the vocals, so he steps back like he means to stay back for awhile late in the 18 minute mark. Not in a hurry, clearly warming himself up. Tutt is a metronome, lots of high-hat, e.g., 19:30ish. 23-24 Jerry picks up his pace a little, gets John’s attention. Things had been a little sluggish, they are a little peppier now. Nice shot of the white Travis Bean 24:30ish. He’s smiling a little now, strumming, John is roostering, getting real close to Jerry, signals a little thing to him around 25 turn. Jerry now down reel close on the neck, comes back confidently 25:51 because he strums his way to the mic. Kahn swings around behind him? Jerry sings the station master part with such gusto that he knocks his glasses down the end of his nose, big dig 25:35. Big dig.

! @ 27:35 (1) It looks like they are going to stay on for another song, no-one’s leaving, then Jerry leans over, whispers something, in John’s ear, and steps to the mic, pulling off his guitar: “Thanks a lot, we’ll see ya later.” That is odd that he waited 15 seconds to call it. It’s possible that Scher told them to shut it down, Big Steve relayed it to Jerry, and so they are shutting it down. But maybe it was Jerry saying “Hey John, let’s go get high, we’ll do a last one as an encore.” Or, perhaps he knows that later they plan to drop the half-hour singleton “Not Fade Away”, he knows they’ll need the time, and so he’s just planning responsibly. These and many other inferences are observationally equivalent. Maybe it’s everything at once. Sometimes it is. Tutt returns @ 30:10. This was one of those perfunctory encore calls, band and audience both knew they were coming back. 30:55 Kahn is playing a classical tune I should know, Fur Mathilde or something like that.

! P: HSII Jerry is very bouncy, obviously found some energy during the three minutes he was off stage. Note there are harmony vocals. If my analysis of the 4/2/76 early show video is correct, that would be Tutt on high harmonies, since Keith sings baritone parts. Jerry enthusiastic, rocking and looking back at Tutt, affirming his harmonies, some strong chords 37 minute mark. Nice closeup of some nice guitar soloing around 38:40. Back to “open my eyes at night”. Late Keith joins in on vocals, so all three are singing.

! @ 41:20 (2) John Scher: “Thank you very much, and good night. Those of you that want to be reminded, with you ticket stubs you can go see the Dead Movie for a half a buck less. Again: thanks, and good night. We’ll see you next time.” Wow. That little piece explains this mini-tour to me: It was about the GD Movie!

Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away: July 9, 1977

 LN jg1977-07-09.jgb.late-2.aud-strange-miller.124426.flac1644

Not a whole ton to say, not a ton of time, so I'll just bullet.

1. Donna is absent. I wonder why? I need to document her 1977 absences, because there was a good number.
2. "Not Fade Away" is a JGB singleton, and is very interesting. Jerry is super-fired up for it and does a really good Buddy Holly. On this listen, the band's performance doesn't light me up.
3. Trouble on the Boardwalk in between shows, lots of arrests and such. See note below.
4. Weird little mini-tour. Pretty good paydays all around, certainly over $30k for JGB, perhaps considerably more. John Scher probably did very, very well, too. Two nights work, four shows: July 8 at the Calderone Concert Hall, two shows, and this night, two shows, all for John Scher. A Don Law show at Cape Cod Coliseum, scheduled for 7/10/77, was canceled. So, again, a nice little payday for leaving Thursday noon-ish and returning Sunday noon-ish

Jerry Garcia Band
Convention Hall
1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
July 9, 1977 (Saturday) Late Show 10 PM
85 min Steve Strange late-2 shnid-124426

--late show (7 tracks, 85:27, missing first two songs)--
[MISSING: The Harder They Come]
[MISSING: They Love Each Other]
--late show main set (6 tracks, 63:53)--
t01. tuning [1:20]
t02. Midnight Moonlight [9:37] %
t03. //Russian Lullaby [#13:21] [0:33] %
t04. //Tore Up Over You [#10:09] ]0:03] % [0:36]
t05. Knockin' On //Heaven's Door [16:#00] [0:18] %
t06. Tangled Up In Blue [11:36] [0:20] %
--encore (1 track, 21:33)--
t07. Not Fade Away// [21:33#]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Keith Godchaux - keyboards, vocals;
! lineup: Ron Tutt - drums, 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.

! Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19770709-04

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8659 (Mattson early and late shows shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/76441 (Mattson early and late shows flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/124426 (this fileset).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/tfwJJ
 
! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/convention-hall-1300-ocean-ave-asbury.html

! ad: Asbury Park Press, June 26, 1977, p. 14.

! expost: "Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts," Asbury Park Press, July 11, 1977, p. unk.

! band: This is a very rare Garcia-Kahn-Godchaux-Tutt quartet show, which only took place when Donna and Maria were both absent (naturally). Donna Jean never missed a show in 1976, as far as I can tell. I have to double-check for 1977, but it seems to me that it was more frequent.

! JGMF: see also video notes at "Find Someone Who Looks at You the Way John Looks at Jerry," http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2017/11/find-someone-who-looks-at-you-way-john.html.

! R: field recordist: Steve Strange

! R: field gear: hand-held recorder with built-in mics > cassette master

! R: Transfer Info: Cassette Master (Sony TC-K677ES) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/48k) -> Adobe Audition v3.0 -> Samplitude Professional v11.2.1 -> FLAC/16 (2 Discs Audio / 1 Disc FLAC). All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller, charliemiller87@earthlink.net, April 15, 2013.

! R: "Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction"

! R: t03 RL cuts in on "somewhere there may be", then another splice near the beginning.

! P: t03 RL has a long bass solo

! R: t04 TUOY clips in

! P: t06 KOHD Keith has an electric piano, glockenspiel feel

! personnel: no backing vocalists?

! R: t05 KOHD splice @ 11:20

! R: doesn't sound like same source for TUIB?

! P: t07 NFA fascinating hearing Jerry sing this. Much more rockabilly, Buddy Holly than you'd ever hear Jerry, in just about any context.

! P: t07 NFA unbelievable how enthusiastic Jerry sounds here. He is singing in a pretty high register with good power and energy. Some real nice guitar fanning in the 2-minute mark, then a hot solo @2:08, long sustained runs, WOW! @@ sustaining all the way to the 3 minute mark, then he takes another job, boundless energy and fluidity. I have to say, though, that the rest of the players (let's say, John and Keith in this context) just don't offer very much. So, much as Jerry tries, it just doesn't hit a memorable peak.

! R: t07 NFA end cuts

! historical: "More than 30 persons, most of them from North Jersey and New York, were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday morning" after the Garcia Band shows ("Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts"). 22 police. Crowd of 250-300 (per police) gather at Bradley Park, across Ocean Avenue from Convention Hall, about 6:30 pm. Drinking. Cops announce they're gonna bust the drinking, etc. over the bullhorn. Crowd mostly dispersed 7:30, when JGB scheduled to start. Arrests begin at 10:30 pm, after the early show. "Police arrested people as they came off the Boardwalk and were visibly intoxicated. The arrests continued until about 1:25 am [text not clear]". Most was possession of alcohol, maybe 28? That'd be a summons or $100 bail. Nine for possession of marijuana or LSD, $500 bail. One Prince Charming got three charges and $5,000 bail: possession of a large knife, assault and battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest. (Your mother will love him!) Wage: $20,557. Only 120 tickets shy of a sellout (3,776 of 3,896).

List of John Scher - promoted concerts

Does anyone know a list of John Scher-promoted concerts?

I thought, one day, while I'm at it, why don't I systematically start coding in PROMOTERs? Yeah, that won't take long!

So, having more or less finished coding Jefferson Airplane through 1969, I have taken to coding promoters for them and all of the Garcia stuff, at least i nthe Bay Area. All of this to check a point about the comparison of GD and JA business crossings with Helms/FD and Bill Graham (think of a 2x2 table ... I want the frequencies in the cells, and basically want to do a t-test.)

Thanks to Ross, I have been able to code Bill Graham in, in a rough way. The Family Dog stuff is easy enough, as will be the Herrera stuff.

So, while I am at it, I thought another day, why don't I code Scher? Be good prosopographical practice, says I.

So, I need a list of all John Scher -promoted concerts, at least those involving GD/Garcia. Preferably in Excel format. :)

Moyssi's site, besides containing a huge number of terrific scans of program covers, has a "Complete list of Capitol Concerts 1971-1984 — Compiled by John Goodfellow. Great work, and thank you, gentlemen! (A complete set of Garcia/GD-relevant programs for my archive/museum would be gratefully received!)

And, for our enjoyment, here's a non-Capitol program cover, from the JGB show 7/26/80 at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ, a "John Scher Presents on the Boardwalk" promotion:

"John Scher Presents on the Boardwalk"
Jerry Garcia Band, Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ, July 26, 1980.
Image courtesy of Moyssi (moyssi.com).

Anyway, I need that, but all of his venues, and all of his dates (at least through 1995).


Anyone?