Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (sbd)

Low-gen soundboard tape of Thursday, 6/13/74, Keystone, Berkeley (shnid-13768). Note the listing as Great American String Band, though the naming issue is one I am avoiding for now. I'll just go with GASB for this post.

A few analytical points:

1. The setlist issues have been clarified by the Castelli tape, notes on which I'll post before too long. But Limehouse Blues definitely ends set I, and there is indeed a song ("Sweet Georgia Brown") after "Dawg's Rag" cuts out on this tape. The Castelli tape could be used to patch in the start of Colorado Aristocracy, the splice in Swing '42, the end of Dawg's Rag, and all of Sweet Georgia Brown.
2. As the night before, Garcia plays acoustic guitar on Russian Lullaby and a few other tunes. Nick has the skinny.
3. Bob Gurland on the "mouth trumpet" is interesting.
4. I may have noted more of the banter on the Castelli recording.
5. As I noted in my update post on this run of shows, the "Louis Falanga 6/12/74" tape is actually this show, and the same baseline tape as the Castelli aud.

Great American String / Music Band

Keystone

2119 University Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94704

June 13, 1974 (Thursday)

all-1 sbd shnid-13768 shn2flac

--set I (9 tracks, 41:14)--
1t01. //Colored Aristocracy [#3:12] (1) [0:22]
s1t02. Cedar Hill [3:42] [0:17]
s1t03. Band Introductions (2) [3:02]
s1t04. I'll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards [2:30] [1:10]
s1t05. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [3:14] [1:29]
s1t06. Moonlight Waltz [4:22] [1:09]
s1t07. Swing //'42 [5:#50] [2:22]
s1t08. Methodist Preacher [4:17] [0:44]
s1t09. Limehouse Blues [2:58] [0:30]

--set II (7 tracks, 46:09)--
s2ts2t01. //Bud's Bounce [#1:48] [1:44]
s2t02. Dawg's Bull [2:19] [1:41]
s2t03. Russian Lullaby [8:11] [1:50]
s2t04. Maiden's Prayer [6:52] [0:55]
s2t05. Swing '42 [10:20] [2:03]
s2t06. Drink Up And Go Home [3:04] [0:27]
s2t07. Dawg's Rag// [4:32#] [0:18]
[MISSING: s2t10. Sweet Georgia Brown]

! ACT1: Great American String/Music Band

! lineup: David Grisman - mandolin;

! lineup: Richard Greene - fiddle;

! lineup: David Nichtern - acoustic guitar, vocals;

! lineup: Jerry Garcia - banjo, vocals, acoustic guitar (s1t05 Moonlight Waltz, s1t06 Swing '42, s2t05 Russian Lullaby s2t07 Swing '42, s2t10 Sweet Georgia Brown);

! lineup: Buell Neidlinger ("Flame Bombadine") - acoustic bass.

! guest: Bob Gurland - mouth trumpet (s2t02 Bud's Bounce, s2t06 Maiden's Prayer, s2t07 Swing '42, s2t10 Sweet Georgia Brown).

JGMF:

! Recording: symbols: % = recording discontinuity; / = clipped song; // = cut song; ... = fade in/out; # = truncated timing; [x:xx] = 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/19740613-01

! JGC: https://jerrygarcia.com/show/1974-06-13

! db: URL http://etreedb.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=13768 (sbd); URL http://etreedb.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=110663 (Castelli 1644); URL http://etreedb.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=110798 (Castelli 2496); URL http://etreedb.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=83232 (Falanga "6/12/74").

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/LDc43

! JGBP: URL http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/02/keystone-2119-university-avenue.html

! venue: URL http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/12/2119-university-avenue-berkeley-ca.html; URL http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/01/jerry-garcia-and-keystone-shows.html

! ad: Oakland Tribune, June 2, 1974, p. 5-RAP

! ad: San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook 19740602p19

! listing:  [silent] Hayward Daily Review, June 7, 1974, p. 44

! ad: Oakland Tribune, June 9, 1974, p. 4-RAP

! listing: "Rock and Jazz," San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 1974, p. 62

! listing: "Datebook," San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 1974, p. 44

! Nick: "June 1974: Garcia on acoustic guitar," URL https://deadthinking.blogspot.com/2018/01/june-1974-garcia-on-acoustic-guitar.html

! JGMF: "Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (Castelli MAC)," URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/11/listening-notes-gasb-thursday-june-13_26.html

! JGMF: "Listening Notes: GASB, Thursday, June 13, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley (sbd)," URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/11/listening-notes-gasb-thursday-june-13.html

! JGMF: "Great American String Band: June 12-14, 1974 (update)," URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-american-string-band-june-12-14.html

! R: MS? > ? > CD > EAC > SHN. Source CDs from Ryan Shriver; extraction (EAC), .shn encoding (mkwACT), and sector boundary verification (shntool) by jjoops, 12/13/2002. This copy a SHN to FLAC conversion. Two steps using TLH: shn > wav and wav > FLAC8. Done 12/21/2008.

! R: Don't be frightened by the uncertain lineage--this sounds very nice.  I would not be surprised if this turned out to be MSR > cassette > DAT > CD, like the night previous and as this one sometimes circulates.

! R: The Castelli tape could be used to patch the start of Colored Aristocracy, the splice in the set I Swing '42, the start of Bud's Bounce, the end of Dawg's Rag, and all of Sweet Georgia Brown.
! mono recording

! R: s1t01 Colored Aristocracy fades in

! (1) s1t01 DN: "Here's one written by David Grisman, our mandolin player. It's called 'Cedar Hill'." RG: "Say-der Hill." DN: "Say-der Hill, I've just been corrected."

! (2) s1t03 "Can we hear some more mandolin on the monitors? Would that be all right?" Movie talk, band introductions same as from Castelli aud. NB introduction of Flame Bombadine, after previous night when he insists on being called Flame.

! R: s1t07 Swing '42 tiny splice @ 5:41

! s1t09 The Jerry Site has listed Limehouse Blues as starting set II, but I hear continuous applause and tuning from the end of Methodist Preacher into Limehouse Blues, and continuous applause and tuning from Limehouse Blues into the set break announcement.  Also, I would not be surprised if more tunes were played after Dawg's Rag, since it sounds like the band is tuning up for another song. [2010 note: the Castelli tape confirms this: Sweet Georgia Brown closes the show.]

! R: s2t01 Bud's Bounce fades in

! R: s2t01 Bud's Bounce tiny splice @ 1:16

! (3) s2t02 @ 3:01 after Dawg's Bull, DN after being told by JG that they'll do Russian Lullaby: "Oh boy, are you in for a treat." DG: "This is an Irving Berlin number. We're gonna get ... we're gonna get Spudboy to render this one for us. ... He's got this on his latest LP. We helped him out on it."

! s2t03 JG on guitar on Russian Lullaby

! (4) s2t03 RG: "Flame likes to call this tune 'Virgin's Lament'."

! R: s2t07 Dawg's Rag fades out