Calderone Valentine: JGB in Hempstead, NY, February 14, 1981

LN jg1981-02-14.jgb.all.aud-hance.155565.flac2496

Just did the previous night, and I had just listened to this one to get a load of the fresh transfer from John Jay Hance's master. I hear plenty of stuff to like, don't go into much detail. The "Like A Road" feels really sweet.

Quicky listening notes.

Jerry Garcia Band

Calderone Concert Hall

145 N. Franklin Street

Hempstead, NY 11550

February 14, 1981

Hance MAC shnid-155565

--set I (5 tracks, 53:33)--

s1t01. [0:37] Sugaree [14:38] % [0:09]

s1t02. They Love Each Other [8:14] [0:03] % [1:13]

s1t03. When I Paint My Masterpiece [9:26] % [0:41]

s1t04. Love In The Afternoon [7:44] [0:05] % [0:16]

s1t05. Tangled up in Blue [10:20] (1) [0:04]

--set II (5 tracks, 62:05)--

s2t01. Tore Up Over You [9:10] % [0:03]

s2t02. Like A Road Leading Home [13:31] % [0:44]

s2t03. Harder They Come [15:46] % [1:21]

s2t04. Dear Prudence [13:19] ->

s2t05. Midnight Moonlight [8:11] (2) [0:03]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #12b
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Jimmy Warren - el-piano;
! lineup: Melvin Seals - organ;
! 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/19810214-01

! db: https://etreedb.org/shn/14079 (Ohr 2x Sony ECM-23f + 1x Nakamichi DM-500, shnf); https://etreedb.org/shn/24070 (same specs as Hance, possibly his, shnf); https://etreedb.org/shn/155565 (this fileset).

! JGBP: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/calderone-music-hall-145-n-franklin-st.html

! historical: Sue: capacity 2,800. $10k guarantee plus 90% gross receipts over $26,499 after taxes plus 100% difference between estimated non-variable expenses and $24,090 and actual expenses, plus $4,000 production fee and $1,000 hospitality.

! R: field recordist: John Hay Hance

! R: field recording gear: 2x Sennheiser 421 > Sony D5M (no Dolby) > Technics 686

! R: field recording location: balcony rail, 6' spread

! R: field recording media: 2x Maxell UDXLII-C90

! R: Transfer: Nakamichi 582Z > Korg MR2000S (DFF@5.6) Audiogate > 24/96 Wave > Wavelab6 > Ozone Rx7A > Ozone 5 Advance > Ozone Rx7A > CDwave > Flac24

! P: s1t01 Sugaree Jerry digs in at like 4:15 for something, and it just sounds so great.

! P: s1t05 TUIB I love how Shaw drums them into the groove to start this tune. He sounds perfectly awesome.

! R: s1t05 TUIB cut end, patched with shnid-14079 (Taped by Ohr Weinberg, Sony ECM 23-f's w/Nak DM-500 blend > Nak 550)

! s1t05 (1) JG: "We're gonna take a break for a little while. We'll back [a little bit later]."

! P: s2t02 LARLH is really sweet.

 

! P: s2t04 DP KILLER sustain waily tone late 6. Yeah!!! Feedback, great work. Burning metallic. Which brings us to tin foil.

! R: s2t05 Mid Moon glitch @ 5:42

! s2t05 (2) JG: "Thanks a lot. See ya later on."

No Donna Tough Mama

LN jg1977-07-08.jgb.early.aud-moore-minches.21478.shn2flac

I like this show a lot.

Donna Jean is not present. Who sings harmonies?

Jerry Garcia Band
Calderone Concert Hall
145 N. Franklin Street
Hempstead, NY 11550
July 8, 1977 (Friday) - Early Show (scheduled 8 PM)
definitive Moore shnid-21478 shn2flac

--(8 tracks, 92:34)--
t01. [0:12] Sugaree [15:28] [3:00]
t02. Stop That Train [13:00] [0:11] % [2:57]
t03. Simple Twist Of Fate [13:48] [0:15] % [0:10] %
t04. crowd % and % tuning [1:18]
t05. That's What Love Will Make You Do [12:25] [0:25] % [0:09]
t06. Mystery Train [10:18] [0:16] % [0:14] % [1:26]
t07. Friend Of The Devil [8:43] [0:29] % [0:28]
t08. Tough Mama [8:00] [0:23] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #3a
! Lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! Lineup: John Kahn - el-bass;
! Lineup: Keith Godchaux - piano, organ, vocals;
! Lineup: Ron Tutt - drums, ?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/19770708-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/21478 (this fileset); http://etreedb.org/shn/17054 (deprecated). Since the Jerry Moore tape is the only one ever to have surfaced, all other versions are deprecated by this fileset.

! map: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=145+N.+Franklin+Street+Hempstead,+NY+11550&num=100&client=firefox-a&hnear=145+N+Franklin+St,+Hempstead,+New+York+11550&gl=us&t=h&z=16

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/calderone-music-hall-145-n-franklin-st.html

! band: JGB #3a (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html). This is the basic 1976-77 Keith and Donna version of the JGB, except that Donna Jean Godchaux does not appear to be present. There are some high harmonies during Stop That Train and Friend of the Devil that I thought were her, but now I don't think so. I think Keith Godchaux and Ron Tutt are covering the harmonies.

! historical: Sue: Wage for the two shows: $12,500 guarantee plus 60% total gross receipts over $32,500, with gross potential $38,400. TJS historical listing said The Persuasions opened. Variety (July 13, 1977, p. 54) reports gross of $42,496 and SRO for the two shows.

! R: recorded by Jerry Moore (RIP), 2x Sony ECM-33P > Sony TC-152 (master cassettes, unnoted media); cassette > cdigital: Nakamichi Dragon playback > ART DI/O > Waveterminal 2496 sound card > Hard Drive Tracking in Cool Edit 2000 > master CD Burned with Feurio Error > undetermined extraction, checked with SHNTOOL > mkwACT (wav > shn compression), by David Minches; shn > flac, notation and tagging by jgmf, 2012.

! R: Among the many amazing things about a Jerry Moore tape is that we can engage the show almost in real time.

! P: t02 Stop That Train starts with Keith's vocals (or is that Tutt?) very prominently upfront as they do the chorus at the start of the song. I don't think Keith wants it that way, but there it is, and he makes the best of it. He is quavery, clearly lacking confidence, but his heart is in it and I love him for his singing here. Donna comes in a little bit, but barely audible. Again on the subsequent choruses, Keith is quite present and Donna is absent. Keith is playing organ during Stop That Train, whereas he had been playing piano during Sugaree.

! P: t03 STOF Keith is playing organ, very interesting.

! P: t03 STOF Jerry is a little bit all over the register vocally, like he just can't decide which key works best.

! R: t03 STOF splice @ 13:19, very brief.

! t04 @ 0:52 some dude says, clear as a bell, "'That's What Love Will Make You Do', Jerry" and he's the guy who called it and is probably soaking up the formation of his legend as TWLWMYD unwinds itself.

! P: t05 TWLWMYD reminds us that we're not necessarily in a rush. Lay back and groove a little bit. This version operates right in your midsection, deeply settled in right from the get-go. @ 3 minutes in, Garcia's guitar has almost a synthesizer sound to it. Keith is back on piano for a little solo late in the six-minute mark. @ 7:15: Hello, Mr. Tutt, I am well, thank you.
! song: That's What Love Will Make You Do (t05):

! P: t06 Mystery Train: You have to admit, it's pretty freaking cool to see Garcia doing Mystery Train with Elvis's drummer.  And holy moley, within the first two and a half minutes John Kahn has hit some positively huge pulls. Keep listening to him into the 3-minute mark, my friends. The man could play bass. He sounds like Jellyroll Troy here a little bit.

! P: t07 FOTD there's a crowd cheer, maybe Donna coming on? She has been offstage all night. I wonder if Jerry called her out to be his friend, as it were. Or maybe it's Mr. Tutt doing the high singing? John Kahn does another good and long bass run @ ca. 3:40.

! song: "Tough Mama" (t08): [Allan | deaddisc | JB]. Jerry played it a million times in 1974-1975 (in JGMS, LOM and the Hopkins JGB), and twice in early 1976 with Keith and Donna, and then shelved it for five years with one random appearance, on July 8, 1977. Twice in summer 1981, twice in fall 1982, five times in 1990, and that’s it. This is a very unusual pattern, suggestive of a song that Jerry absolutely loved, since he kept trying it with many different personnel configurations across a long period of time. The fact that it never stuck suggests that there’s just something that didn’t quite work. Dylan’s Planet Waves (1974) is so brilliant, and Robbie Robertson’s guitar so urgent and compelling across the album, it’s sometimes hard to hear this material any other way, I guess, though some of Jerry’s versions are really, really nice.

! P: t08 Tough Mama again pulling out some big sounds in the 2-3 minute range, while Keith runs with a really nice piano solo. John is hammering deep, more pulls and upward runs.

! historical: Four shows in two days for John Scher, two this night, two the next night on the Boardwalk, head home. For these July 8 shows, Looks like $12,500 guarantee plus 60% over $32,500, with gross potential of $38,400. So it'd be about $15k for a sellout.