BOAT TWYDTTYD: JGB, Palladium, November 10, 1981 (late show)

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JGB played The Palladium twice in 1981, 2/11/81 and this night. Richie Stankiewicz taped both nights. Both really good shows and really good tapes.

This one has the best of all time (BOAT, in some circles) Garcia Band version of "The Way You Do The Things You Do", IMO. It's quite good.

I also returned to this after noting the wonderful, well-developed, 22+ minute "Don't Let Go" from 3/27/82, and wanting to check out another DLG from around the era. This one from four months earlier is a spunky 9+ minutes! Big contrast, if also nice and well-played.

These Richie Stankiewicz tapes continue to impress. I have annotated the aforementioned 2/11/81, as well as his 11/15/81 from this tour, Ron Tutt Returns. Also annotated from this tour:

10/31/81: JGB, Halloween 1981
11/3/81: Nothing to Write Home About on a Charlie Miller Birthday Show
11/4/81: Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead
11/10/81b (this post)
11/13/81: Frank Streeter's tape from 11/13/81 (Boston).
11/15/81: Taking care of business.
11/17/81: Two long sets, not early and late shows + Mason Taylor listening notes
11/19/81: Farewell to Ronnie at the Rainbow

It's very good, strong stuff.

Jerry Garcia Band
The Palladium
126 E 14th St
New York, NY 10003
November 10, 1981 (Tuesday) - Late Show
87 min Stanki flac2496 shnid-127293

--set I (4 tracks, 33:54-0:41)--
s1t01. [0:22] The Way You Do the Things You Do [6:11] [0:03] % [0:12]
s1t02. They Love Each Other [6:44] [0:03] % [0:34]
s1t03. Knockin' On Heaven's Door [11:50] [0:19] % [0:02]
s1t04. Mystery Train [6:48] (1) [0:05] % pre-set II [0:41]

--set II (5 tracks, 52:48+0:41)--
s2t01. [+0:41] [0:05] I'll take A Melody [10:53] %% [0:53]
s2t02. Don't Let Go [9:31] [0:08] % [0:13]
s2t03. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [8:34] ->
s2t04. Dear Prudence [10:44] ->
s2t05. Tangled Up In Blue [11:39] [0:08] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #14b
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Jimmy Warren - electric keyboards;
! lineup: Melvin Seals - organ;
! lineup: Ron Tutt - drums;
! lineup: Julie Stafford - vocals;
! lineup: Liz Stires - vocals.

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.

! Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19811110-02

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/10173 (Beyer M160s, possibly same source tape, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/18166 (Ohr Weinberg, early show, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/27760 (Mark Cohen, early show, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/77357 (Nak 300s late show, flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/127293 (this fileset).

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

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/academy-of-music-126-e-14th-street-new.html.

! band: JGB #14b (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html)

! R: field recordist: Richie Stankiewicz

! R: field recording gear: 2x Beyer M-160 > Sony TCD-5m

! R: field recording location: 1st row balcony

! R: transfer: Sony TCKA3ES playback > USBPre 2 by Richie Stankiewicz.

! R: very nice balcony tape.

! R: JGMF rename tracks

! P: TWYDTTYD JG is tearing shit up in the 5-min range. Very hot.

! P: s1t02 TLEO Tutt is just banging right from the start.

! s1t04 (1) JG: "We're gonna take a little break, and we'll be back in a few minutes."

! P: s2t01 ITAM JG playing very well. Nice scaling in the late 8:40s, then more good playing over the 9-min mark. More fanning 9:22ff, scaling down 9:34, pulling. Utterly characteristic Jerry Garcia guitar playing.

! P: s2t02 DLG so I am listening to this right after I heard 3/27/82, same place in the setlist. This one is a totally different beast. Much punchier, but Garcia's playing here, as there, is simply wonderful. That one was patient and deep. This one is burning much hotter, lots of fast scales, e.g., 6-7 mark. It's stunning how abruptly he ends this one, less than ten minutes! Very strange to see such a wide variation in the timing of a song within four months, under ten minutes vs. over twenty-two!

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Nice tape, nice show. Bob Minkin took some nice photos this night, a bunch of tapers nailed it, the band sounds strong. This must have been a great, weird old room.

Jerry Garcia Band
The Palladium
126 E 14th St
New York, NY 10003
February 11, 1981 (Wednesday) - 8 PM
Stanki s1s2p flac2496 shnid-127292

--set I (7 tracks, 60:44)--
s1t01. tuning [1:06]
s1t02. [0:08] How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [6:58] [0:13] % [0:13]
s1t03. [0:14] Catfish John [10:12] [0:08] % [0:13]
s1t04. That's What Love Will Make You Do [9:39] [0:15] % [0:03]
s1t05. Mississippi Moon [12:07] [0:02] %% [0:22]
s1t06. [0:08] Tore Up Over You [9:21] ->
s1t07. Tangled Up In Blue [9:07] (1) [0:14] %

--set II (1 track, 15:25, first song only)
s2t01. [0:42] I'll Take A Melody [14:39] [0:03] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #12b
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-guitar, vocals;
! lineup: Melvin Seals - organ;
! lineup: Jimmy Warren - electric piano;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-bass;
! lineup: Daoud Shaw - 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/19810211-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/127292 (Stanki s1s2p flac2496, this fileset); http://etreedb.org/shn/76341 (Jim Vita flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/120256 (David Dyche flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/19439 (Beyer M160, probably this source tape, shnf; probably deprecated); http://etreedb.org/shn/33741 (Jim Wise flac1644).

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

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/academy-of-music-126-e-14th-street-new.html. It had never really crossed my radar that The Palladium was the same as the Academy of Music, but here we are. Fascinating. Wiki gives capacity 3,000.

! band: JGB #12b (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html)

! R: field recordist: Richie Stankiewicz

! R: field recording location: 1st row balcony center

! R: field recording gear: 2x Beyer M-160 -> Sony TCD-5M

! R: Transfer: Sony TCKA-3es -> USBPre2, transferred by Richie Stankiewicz.

! R: Nice recording. Very full and nice.

! P: s1t04 TWLWMYD Jerry's guitar in the first half of 5-minute mark is very good. Jimmy Warren solos next and he is not terrible.

! P: s1t05 MissMoon they miss the 1 to start, but it's a nice version.

! P: s1t06 TUOY has some terrific guitar playing

! P: s1t07 TUIB the segue is really smooth, and TUIB starts with good energy.

! s1t07 (1) JG: "Thanks. We're gonna take a break for a little while [inaudible]."

! P s2t01 ITAM Jerry great feeling! He is singing with enthusiasm, "what I'm gonna do" with a growl around 4:40 ish. Articulating his consonants ... "feel brand new abouT iT."

Ronnie's Return, Pete's Payoff: JGB in Provy, November 15, 1981

Ticket stub for JGB 11/15/81, contributed by Doc Gillespie to TJS.

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Ron Tutt is a great drummer, but am I biased?

Ron Tutt is a beast. Check out the little one-minute fragment discussed in note #1. No biggie, just fun. Then pick some of the other songs I note and hear him play.

Question: Is my perception of Tutt's greatness here perhaps driven by a subconscious desire that it should be so? From a Garcia-on-the-side perspective, his presence is the most interesting thing about these shows, and this could bias my listening.

Tutt's Return and Garcia's Affairs

After two and a half years and a lot of gigs (I could try to count it, probably will when the time comes), Ron Tutt walked --I have no evidence that he was pushed-- away from the gigging/touring Garcia Band in summer 1977. He seems not to have left on bad terms, or otherwise is such a pro that he kept working with these guys, because I am pretty sure I have him in Club Front in September. I need to check the Cats Under The Stars credits, though my sense is that they won't clarify much. Either way, from, say, Fall 1977 they appear to part ways (except for the occasional joint appearance on a tax lien slapped on the Jerry Garcia Band and the three partners in it - Garcia, Kahn and Tutt).

So The Return of Ron Tutt, as Steve Marcus billed this tour on the Grateful Dead Hotline, wants to feel like a Good Thing to me. Why? I think it represents Jerry starting to get on top of his long-blighted financial affairs. I believe that this tour represents an early step in a multistep process of Garcia getting his business affairs together in the first half of the 80s. This feels like closure for Garcia and Tutt, and that's something that Jerry achieved all-too rarely in his relations with others, personal or professional. His biggest character flaw, if I had to pin it down, was that he lacked the courage/capacity to give people bad news, like "I am leaving you", to their faces. He either just ran away and tried to avoid it or he had Parish do it. Really chickenshit stuff, with folks like Merl Saunders, who deserved better.

But maybe here, in late '81, with Tutt and with presumed (but not confirmed) opener Peter Rowan, Garcia is getting in front of something and trying to make it right. I am not saying he wasn't a kind, generous and righteous dude in all kinds of other respects. He could do crazily random, generous things. But if you had had a relationship with him that he had fled, he usually didn't come clean about it. He was just not emotionally equipped to confront hard interpersonal things.

Is this guilt money? Probably. The late work with Merl (e.g., Blues From The Rainforest) feels for all the world like Garcia leveraging his name to sell some records for his friend. The albums with Grisman clearly reflected their rediscovered joy in playing together and shared love of American music, but they also set Grisman, and his record company Acoustic Disc, in good financial stead. But guilt money is better than the silent treatment, the cold shoulder, not Jerry's, but the decidedly uncuddly Parish's; never mind a steel-toed boot in the ass. It's good to help old friends (à la Rowan opening on this tour, I conjecture). It's good to clean up old loose ends (à la Tutt playing on this tour, I hypothesize).

(Aside: if I am correct, that the "function" of this tour was to generate some paydays not just for Jerry and John, but also for Ron Tutt and Peter Rowan; and, if in turn, that suggests that Garcia is tying up some old unfinished professional business, maybe with some personal feelings involved; then I find the timing amazing. As he descended into opiate addiction he also settled some very unsettled (and unsettling) money and personal matters. Persian is like an institution, a variance-suppressing device, in principle a calming and settling (and, if you like, deadening) force. Marx on religion as the opiate of the masses and all that. Making sure you are on a sound financial footing does take some of the thrill out of life, though the alternative is the kind of ride that'll kill you. Who needs the stress? If the Persian "helped" get his mind around stabilizing his affairs, then that would be a positive, and even a possibly intended, in a very diffuse sense, consequence of his drug use. Of course, that ride'll kill you, too, but then again, they all do, eventually.)

Back to my question, reframed and disposed of

Because this tour might represent a small moral and personal victory for Garcia, with whom I obviously sympathize, I might be hoping, needing to hear musical excellence, giving my listening a kind of valence bias. But I don't think that's what's going on. Two other things seem more likely. First, my interest in the topic generates an attention bias. I am listening to and for Mr. Tutt, and I hear him. And what I hear is freaking outstanding. Second, and I think this explains most of the variance, it could just be that the man could and can play the drums.

Yes, I think that's it. Ronnie Tutt is a monster.

Show and Tapers

Oh yeah, there's a guitar player, and he's pretty good on this night, too. Love his energy, tone, power, articulation on this tour. Excellent playing. There are some newly-emerging vocals limitations, but it's in a place where he can still manage it, and often does so through inventive inflections and so forth. I am not saying his voice is better than it had been earlier in the year, rather that his singing is sometimes more interesting.

Richie Stankiewicz made some really nice tapes. Thank (Tetragrammaton) for the tapers! Tim Friend, Steve Rolfe, and probably others walked into the Providence early morning with great pulls from this show.

A nice tape of a nice show. Check it out.

Jerry Garcia Band
Ocean State Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI 02903
November 15, 1981 (Sunday) - 7:30 PM
Stankiewicz flac2496 shnid-127050

--set I (7 tracks, 67:16-1:15)--
s1t01. crowd [0:32]
s1t02. Sugaree [10:34] [1:46]
s1t03. Catfish John [9:48] [1:52]
s1t04. [0:06] I Second That Emotion [9:41] [0:03] % (1) [1:04]
s1t05. [0:05] Valerie [6:54] [1:10]
s1t06. [0:07] That's What Love Will Make You Do [9:30] [0:24] % [1:02]
s1t07. [0:13] Tangled Up In Blue [11:03] (2) [0:12] % pre-set II [1:15]

--set II (6 tracks, 70:39+1:15)--
s2t01. Mission In The Rain [11:40] % [0:04]
s2t02. The Harder They Come/ [12:11#]
s2t03. [0:49] Russion Lullaby [15:54] [0:27] % [0:27]
s2t04. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [8:30] ->
s2t05. Dear Prudence [13:50] ->
s2t06. Midnight Moonlight ... [6:35#] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #14b
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Jimmy Warren - electric keyboards;
! lineup: Melvin Seals - organ;
! lineup: Ron Tutt - drums;
! lineup: Julie Stafford - vocals;
! lineup: Liz Stires - vocals.

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.

! Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19811115-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/20609 (Steve Rolfe shn); http://etreedb.org/shn/97806 (Tim Friend, flac2496); http://etreedb.org/shn/97807 (Tim Friend, flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/127062 (Stanki flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/127050 (Stanki flac2496, this fileset).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/urA9i

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2013/01/palace-theater-ocean-state-theatre.html. The text file called it "Ocean State Theater", which is how I have it in my head. TJS via JGBP lists "Performing Arts Center". I am using the venue name on the ticket stub.

! band: JGB #14b (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html)

! R: field recordist: Richie Stankiewicz

! R: field recording location: 1st row balcony

! R: field recording gear: 2x Beyer M-88 mics > Sony TCD-5M

! R: Transfer MAC > Sony TCKA-3es and 1st gen > Sony TCKA-3es (s1t01-s1t03, s2t02), by Richie Stankiewicz.

! R: this is a splendid audience recording.

! historical: Lots of tapers (Rolfe, Friend and Stanki known to have walked out with great pulls), so awesome to see Provy represented. I'd bet there were others. Did Peter Rowan open?

! P Like this show a lot.

! P: s1t03 CJ @ 4:30 Jerry gets some really neat tone, again, sharper, 7:50 ff over the 8 min mark.

! P: s1t04 (1) Wow. The first minute of this material is Tutt leisurely pounding the shit out of his kit, doing some nice runs. I am not sure if they're having technical issues, so he's giving them something to work with, or if he's just moved to play. He's incredible, what a player.

! P: s1t05 Valerie not super high energy.

! R: s1t06 TWLWMYD sounds so nice!

! P: s1t06 TWLWMYD has good energy. Vocal limitations newly discovered on "trying hard to 'spress myself, 'cause baby, that's the way I feel". Beautiful liquid picking around 3:15. 3:40 takes another lovely turn, somehow feels rotated sideways, the show biz trick favorite of heavy metal guitarists, axe slung low and horiztonal to the ground. Melvin took a nice solo. JG solo great tone 7:30, some nice insistent playing, another run around 8-min mark, great peaks 8:01ff, some nice tight guitar work, complementing voice.

! P: s1t07 TUIB has some really nice energy in the 10-minute mark. Even John steps up and plays loudly for a while. Ronnie is right on the '1' just over 11-minute mark. Tight.

! s1t07 (2) JG: "We're gonna take a break for a few minutes, we'll be back in a little while."

! P: s2t01 MITR the vocal arrangement, or maybe it's just the delivery, feels a little barren. It's not a bad emotional register for the song, but Jerry sounds rather exposed vocally, which is a little weird to say with a septet.

! P: s2t02 HTC Jerry some very nice playing in the 3-minute mark. 6-min range, maybe some PA problems? Can't hear the keyboards at all. Crowd starts clapping along. Jerry: "Well, guess I'll take a solo." And a nice solo it is. The tempos are a little variable. Late 8, some nice fanning. Tutt is a beast.

! P: s2t03 RL off to a great start! Deep and familial. Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Jerry Garcia. He misses the start of the lyrics, but cuts his losses to "hear him croon". Reaching really high on the frets 5:45, risk-kay. Bass feature over 8. By 11:30 he is still playing, takes an extra turn or two even though Jerry has signaled that he's ready. This is not a bad RL bass feature for ol' John. In fact, the playing is nice. By 12:30 Jerry is quite clearly inviting John to step aside, which he does at 12:40. Long solo for John, about 4:40. Jerry's following solo is nice and high up the register.

! P: s2t05 DP nice work in the 7-min mark, again over the 11min mark. Nice playing.

! R: s2t06 MM fades out

Two Negative Reviews, One Participant Observation of Deadheaddom, Long Island Style: JGB at Stony Brook, February 24, 1980

So much to say, so little time. Eventually the February 1980 tour will have to be written up. Here are some raw materials. Really nice tape, an excellent version of "When I Paint My Masterpiece" , two negative show reviews and one a participant observation study of Deadheaddom, Long Island style, February 1980.

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Jerry Garcia Band
Pritchard Gymnasium, State University of New York (SUNY)
1 Center Drive
Stony Brook, NY 11794
February 24, 1980 (Sunday) 9 PM
Richie Stankiewicz MAC flac2496 shnid-126077

--set I (6 tracks, 57:17)--
s1t01. crowd [1:05]
s1t02. Sugaree [15:15] [0:17]
s1t03. Catfish John [9:40] [0:40]
s1t04. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:44] [0:09] %
s1t05. Sitting Here In Limbo [11:54] [0:56]
s1t06. That's Alright, Mama [8:20] (1) [0:36]

--set II + encore (7 tracks 65:00)--
--set II (6 tracks, 56:40)--
s2t01. crowd [1:47]
s2t02. That's What Love Will Make You Do [9:14] [0:22]
s2t03. When I Paint My Masterpiece [9:01] [0:18] %
s2t04. Tore Up Over You [9:01] [0:14] % 9:15-
s2t05. I'll Take A Melody [12:24] [0:38]
s2t06. The Harder They Come [12:13] (2) [0:17] %
--encore (1 track, 8:19)--
s2t07. [0:38] Midnight Moonlight [7:31] (3) [0:10] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Ozzie Ahlers - keyboards;
! lineup: John D'Fonseca - 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/19800224-03

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8414 (probable Mark Cohen, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/8913 (unattributed, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/18019 (Mark Cohen, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/35140 (Charlie Connor, shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/101725 (Bob Morris, flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/106582 (Bob Morris, 2496); http://etreedb.org/shn/126078 (Richie Stankeiwicz, flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/126077 (Richie Stankiewicz, flac2496, this fileset).

! band: JGB #11a (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/VSBMqxPR5QP2

! venue: JGBP supplies the given street address, though I am uncertain about it.

! personnel: "I believe his name is spelled D'Fonseca. According to ancestry.com, he was born July 30, 1958 and died March 28, 1987. His father, also named John D'Fonseca was born December 3, 1934 and died January 16, 1977. It seems like Jerry chose to hire Johnny for that east coast tour, but wasn't necessarily planning to use him long-term." (Anonymous, URL http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/11/johnny-de-foncesca-jr-drums.html?showComment=1368021211671#c7721560489908964906)

! review: Wald, Richard. 1980. Jerry Garcia: Relic of the Past. Statesman (SUNY Stony Brook), Alternatives section, February 27, 1980, p. 3A. Negative review. Wald describes the concert as an ordeal, and Garcia as unbudging and stagnant.  "Total lack of regard for the audience"  show opened an insensitive 45 minutes late, 30 minute Hunter set, then another 45 minutes for Garcia to come on, so ca. 11 pm.  "No apologies or helloes were offered, just an evident feeling that Garcia would rather be doing more drugs backstage" ouch. "No Dylan being played", so reviewer doesn't know Masterpiece. Almost another hour between sets, then languid and tedious set, then another half hour wait for the encore! Bemoans Jerry's appalling lassitude and insensitivity.

! review: Jaffe, Larry. 1980. Jerry Garcia Drifts Along. Unknown publication. Negative review. Here's the template, as he sees it: "five minutes to tune up, another five to find the right riff; five minutes later, the vocals came, and then jamming with the same guitar leads for five more minutes. It was like the Jerry Garcia Machine: take a classic song, ... drop the record into the slot, and [sic] comes out sounding like the Grateful Dead. ... incredibly repetitive ... great music to fall asleep by." Didn't like the hourlong intermission, bemoans idolatry of the fans, in whose eyes Garcia "can do no wrong". "A mild indulgence of this sort of aimless shuffling is harmless, but addiction to the Grateful Dead, my friends, is a sad sickness."

! review: Corley, Eric. 1980. Being a Deadhead: Unity and Insanity. Stony Brook Press 1, 8 (February 28, 1980), p. 6. Substantially about "the scene", how odd Deadheads are with their long hair, Volkswagens, their tendency to travel en masse, their rapturous worshipful engagement with Garcia. He thinks he has it figured out: "The reason for the loyalty, devotion and insanity of this particular sampling of mankind lies not so much in the music as in the crowd itself. Thousands of people who get together to smoke pot, scream, and sway with the music provide each other with a much-needed sense of unity."  He finds this endearing. 

! tags: JGB, 1980, Pritchard Gymnasium, SUNY, college gigs, tapers, Richie Stankiewicz, John D'Fonseca, listening notes, east coast, tapers, songs-W

! historical: This show resonates as a very "east coast" show. I write about this as a west coaster, which is fraught, so I don't want to go much into it. But Garcia said repeatedly that there was a New York vibe that he, not only a west coaster but a native San Franciscan, recognized and loved. The energy. Can anyone disagree? It's more interpersonally intense, for sure. New York has it all, and it's right out there for you to plug in to. This is example number 9,477 of an ambient recording supplying more information than a line tape. New York, Long Island, no less, in February, two days after the Miracle on Ice? You know what comes next -- fuhgedaboudit. Related, note that no fewer than five audience tapers made it out this night - East Coast tapers, representing.

! R: field recordist: Richie Stankiewicz

! R: field recording equipment: 2x AKG D222E > Nakamichi 550

! R: field recording location: FOB "in the sweet spot"

! R: Transfer: MAC > Nakamichi 1000-II > Sound Devices USB Pre-2 > WAV 2496, by Richie Stankiewicz.

! R: Edits: WAV 2496 > Wavelab > CD-Wave (24bit output) > TLH > FLAC 2496 tagged, by Andrew F. 11/2013.

! R: s2t04 Patch from ID-106582, Tore Up Over You 0:00 > 0:18.

! R: s1t02 a little overloaded on the guitar in Sugaree.

! P: s1t02 tempos are a little uneven, starts too slow but Jerry is trying to pick it up in the 4-5 minute range, to my ears. Crazy fanning in the late 9 minute mark. Yeah, Jer!

! R: s1t03 levels come up around 1:50

! R: s1t05 SHIL more hiss after tape flip

! P: s1t05 SHIL Jerry's voice sounds a little scratchy. Damn coke.

! s1t06 (1) JG "We're gonna take a short break, and we'll be back in a few minutes."

! P: s2t01 JK quotes a famous jazz line, maybe Monk, maybe Epistrophy or something like that?

! P: s2t03 WIPMM Jerry's tone is raunchy as he walks around some very interesting open-sounding guitar work, soloing ca. 1:30-2:30. Now I hear the genius of the tape. Ozzie solos 2:45ff. "Like a rhapsody-y" @ 4:45. Great sustain on his notes this night. He's totally locked in. Jesus he is 100% spot on with his vocals. Extra articulation, big fat bendy notes complementing. Some time in the 7-minute mark a crowd guy gives him a good "Yeah, Jerry!"

! P: s2t04 TUOY now voice sounds a little worn, but hubba hubba the guitar work is top-shelf. Listen to the tone in the 2-minute mark, the sustain. Amazing tone 6:20-6:30 ish, bends a note too far and finds himself off-key (a rare misstep), gets aggressive late 6 over 7-minute mark, some of the most inventive guitar playing that you'll hear. Wow, he is disquisiting now, dissertating, phrases to sentences to paragraphs to pages of flowing creation. Nice. This is a @@ top-shelf version of "When I Paint My Masterpiece".

! P: s2t05 ITAM into some very interesting guitar work 8 minute mark, mid-9 doing some chunka chunka rhythm over the melody. Ozzie is soloing, but he's not very high in the mix, Jerry kind of dominating things.

! P: s2t06 HTC is lightning fast. 7:45 great dissonant tone, raunchy and watery and jangly. 8:15 Johnny D catches Jerry just before he falls, Garcia toes the foothold and launches into another opportunity to chase after shiny sonic objects.

! s2t06 (2) JG: "See ya later."

! s2t07 (3) JG: "Thank you, thank you."