Last Freddie-ish Gig on Tape: JGB at the Stone, May 28, 1987

update: I can't believe I didn't know that Freddie didn't actually run the Stone and KPA. I knew the Coronas were involved, but Corry informs me in comments that they actually ran the KPA and the Stone, and Freddie really only had the Berkeley club. Learn something new everyday. I will still refer to this as Freddie-affiliated, since the "Keystone Family" as a real concept, whatever its substance. /update

As I just noted, the last Freddie  Herrera-affiliated room, The Stone on Broadway, couldn't hold the post-Touch of Grey Garcia Band. Two and a half weeks after filming the TOG video at Laguna Seca in Monterey, Jerry put a bow on his professional relationship with Freddie -- their friendship continued unaffected, as far as I know -- with four gigs in five nights starting May 27, 1987 and ending on May 31 a pair of midweek gigs on May 27-28, 1987. No tapes circulate for the last two nights, though one imagines they might have been recorded. Consider this a "bleg" for those tapes, because I dream that there was some special energy as the intimate, decade and a half relationship comes to a close.

No special energy is apparent in this May 28th gig. There are some good moments, and it's fine, but there's not much that especially lights me up. I enjoyed the relative rarity "Crazy Love", another Moondance track Jerry added to his post-coma repertoire (along with the much longer-lived "And It Stoned Me"). For my taste, 1987 Jerry Band falls at least a notch below the 1988 and 1989 versions, which I am having a hard time ranking. I need to think more about the decade as a whole, but I guess I do think that the post-coma shows ending 1986 and well into 1987 still find our boy re-establishing his footing.

Listening notes below. John Corley was an amazing taper. If you know how to reach him, please put him in touch with me!

Jerry Garcia Band
The Stone
412 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
May 28, 1987 (Wednesday) - 9 PM
Corley shnid-20587 tagged flacs

--set I (6 tracks, 55:26)--
s1t01. Cats Under The Stars [8:46] [1:19]
s1t02. Mission In The Rain [9:58] [0:26]
s1t03. Think [6:52] [0:57]
s1t04. Let It Rock [06:52] [0:23]
s1t05. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [9:14] % [0:39]
s1t06. Tangled Up In Blue [9:53] [0:08] %

--set II (7 tracks, 59:17)--
s2t01. //I'll Take A Melody [#11:54] [0:56]
s2t02. Stop That Train [8:05] [0:17]
s2t03. I Shall Be Released [6:40] [0:03] % [0:13]
s2t04. Love In The Afternoon [8:01] [0:29]
s2t05. Crazy Love [5:05] [0:19]
s2t06. That Lucky Old Sun [10:20] ->
s2t07. Midnight Moonlight [6:49] [0:07]

! ACT1: JGB #21b (THE Jerry Garcia Band)
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - bass;
! lineup: Melvin Seals - keyboards;
! lineup: David Kemper - drums;
! lineup: Jacklyn LaBranch - backing vocals;
! lineup: Gloria Jones - backing 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/19870528-01

! JGC: jerrygarcia.com/1987-05-28

! db: https://etreedb.org/shn/20587 (this source)

! band: http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/Vr6EBXU6KvA2

! JGBP: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/07/stone-mothers-412-broadway-san.html

! historical: After 16 years of collaboration, from a New Riders gig the night before Thanksgiving 1970 to this four show JGB run May 27-28 and 30-31, 1987, Jerry had to walk away from Freddie Herrera as host of his local side gigs in favor of Bill Graham, who could offer rooms, and especially, eventually, the 3,000 seat Warfield, more commensurate with Garcia's post-In The Dark needs.

! R: field recordist: John Corley

! R: field recording gear: 2x Nakamichi 700 > unknown cassette deck

! R: lineage: MAC > ? > DAT > CDR >  DAE (EAC0.9b4, offset corrected, secure mode) > removal of some silent gaps (SF6) > tracking (cdwav editor) > sector boundaries confirmed (shntool) > SHN(shorten 3.4) via C.Ladner - "another installment of the misSHN in the rain TMNSP offshoot, 11/03".

! R: seeder Comments:  Couple of tape pauses/flips in between some tracks. Thanks to J.Powell for the CDR source."

! R: Flac encoding notes: All processing with Trader's Little Helper; Shn - st5 generated; Shn > Flac (level 8); Flac - st5 generated and matched to Shn st5.

! R: Tagging notes: Show information is embedded within the header of each flac file. It will display on any player capable of directly playing flac files. If converted to wav during processing, all tags will be stripped, however audio data will remain unaffected. If you must transcode to a lossy format, do so directly Flac > Lossy. Use st5 to validate audio integrity. Md5 values will change if tagging is altered. A Mills 12/5/14"

! R: muffled out of the gate.

! P: s1t01 CUTS Garcia some nice grungy guitar tone 5, unusual pulls. JG tries to draw it back to the tune out of the jam late 6, rest of the band needs another measure to get with it, he deftly works it back around. This is a nice version of CUTS.

! P: s1t03 Think very late 2 JG hits some killer blues notes. Very strong.

! P: s1t04 LIR more nice blues sustains late 2.

! R: s2t01 ITAM cuts in

! song: "Crazy Love" (s2t05): Post-coma, Jerry picked up two tunes from Van Morrison's 1970 classic Moondance. "And It Stoned Me" me stuck around until the end, but "Crazy Love" only lasted a year, making 15 appearances between 10/19/86 and 10/31/87. It strained his vocals a little bit, which might have contributed to its demise. It's a nice tune.