GarciaLive 7: JGB from Sophie's, 11/8/76

Fresh tape.

Tracklist, via Nick: http://www.jambase.com/article/donna-jean-godchaux-find-leads-garcialive-volume-seven
Sneak preview of one track via David Browne: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-jerry-garcia-bands-jubliant-live-mighty-high-from-1976-w431440.

At dead.net. a commenter says

In today's Relix magazine they interview Donna Jean who found some more tapes in a box in one of the Godchaux houses. It's a Betty board. This is November 8th 1976 at Sophie's in Palo Alto. Band was Jerry, Keith & Donna, John Kahn and Ron Tutt. Comes out August 19th. Not seeing it on www.jerrygarcia.com or amazon as advertised. Songs include 'Ride Mighty High' and 'Mission In The Rain'

http://www.dead.net/store/1970s/daves-picks-volume-19#comment-851376

Very cool - looking forward to it.

Junco Partners - LN jg1976-01-10.jgb.all.aud-cook.8077.shn2flac

Down the road, came a junco partner (right now, wow-oh-wow)
He was loaded, he was loaded, he was loaded, as loaded as can be
Lord, he was knocked-out, knocked-out, knocked-out and loaded
And he was singing, he was singing, he was singing this song for me

Some great American music in this set, including several Garciaverse singletons and other rarities, but things never really achieve escape velocity to my ears. James sounds generally rather subdued, though the tape isn't picking him up well for whatever reason, and though he sounds open and hopeful toward the end:

I came way out here to California to tell you all how much I love ya. I'm gonna show ya how much I love ya. All the things that I looked forward to last year, for kicks, is just a thing of the past. All for you. So you can - slowly but surely - get it back together. Will you promise me that you'll do that? And love me? Do I hear 'Yeah'!?

Mostly posted as raw materials.

Jerry Garcia Band
Sophie's
260 S. California Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
January 10, 1976 (Saturday)
David Cook aud shnid-8077 shn2flac

--set I (8 tracks, 62:47)--
s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:54] [0:09]
s1t02. (1)  Classified [2:08] ->
s1t03. Right Place Wrong Time [5:20] ->
s1t04. United Our Thing Will Stand [15:15] ->
s1t05. You Are My Sunshine [11:38] [0:02]
s1t06. Junco Partner [4:42] [0:02]
s1t07. Drown In My Own Tears [4:40] [0:05]
s1t08. Tore Up Over You [10:45] [0:06]

--set II (5 tracks, 61:27)--
s2t01. //It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry [8:34#] [0:24]
s2t02. //Goodnight Irene [9:35#] [0:04]
s2t03. Let It Rock [11:11] [0:07]
s2t04. //Slowly But Surely [17:27#] [0:27]
s2t05. (I'm A) Roadrunner [13:22] [0:14]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #2
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: James Booker - piano, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Ron Tutt - drums.

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/19760110-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8077 (this fileset); https://etreedb.org/shn/151418 (s2p horrifying sbd, deprecated); http://etreedb.org/shn/155518 (MSC).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/A20r6

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/11/keystone-sophies-260-s-california-ave.html

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

! seealso: For more around this period, see JGMF, "Jerry's January 1976" (on 1/76 as *the* pivotal moment in Garcia's side projects), "James Booker, Classified" (general on Booker), "'Gimme Some Chords, Jerry Garcia, Gimme Some Chords!'" (1/7/76 rehearsal tape), "Flight Of The Bumblebee" (on the 1/9/76 gig tape), as well as Corry's "January 9-10, 1976: Sophie's, Palo Alto, CA: The Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker".

! R: field recordist: David Cook

! R: field recording gear: unknown mics > Sony TC-110 cassette?

! R: I used to call this a terrible tape, but it's not a terrible tape. It's a flawed tape, for sure, though how much is PA and how much is the challenge of encoding sound on oxide as it comes at you is an open question. All the vocals, Booker's and Jerry's, are too low, the piano is a little buried in the mix, and the crowd is superchatty around the mic. But the guitar, drums and bass sound clear, and good within the ample room feel the tape provides. We are lucky to have this tape to study.

! R: s1t01 All By Myself cuts in, not much missing

! P: s1t01 ABM of course it's nice to hear Jerry play ABM with the guy who, if he didn't lay down its original boogie-woogie Nawlins swing piano (he might have), ended up perfecting it.

! s1t02 (1) JG introduces James Booker, though I can't really make out what he says.

! s1t04 UOTWS "I wrote this song in the New Orleans Parish Prison".

! song: "You Are My Sunshine" (s1t05): #singleton, an American classic, associated especially with former Louisiana governor Jimmie Hood.

1 song: "Junco Partner" (s2t06): a classic American road, drug and prison song.

! song: "Drown In My Own Tears" (s1t07): This was previously unidentified, and it's true that the lyrics are devilishly hard to make out on this tape. But this is definitely what it is. Ray Charles made a Billboard R&B #1 hit out of it for Atlantic in 1956. #singleton

! R: s2t01 ITALTL, ITATTC cuts in, not much missing

! R: s2t02 Goodnight Irene cuts in, not much missing

! P: s2t03 LIR is somnambulent, I am 4 minutes in and I want it to end.

! R: s2t04 Slowly But Surely cuts in, not much missing

! P: s2t04 SBS 4 Jerry playing some nice stuff. James sounds really subdued this night. 9 Jerry is going minor key, and we are entering a stickier, deeper space, the improvisational room in the JGB-Booker show structure. These people chatting near the taper need to STFU and listen to what Booker is playing, as a few other audience members were doing; they yelp, fittingly, in 11 as Booker's strike-and-rebound fingering, finely tuned percussion, sounds through the space - wow. Around 11:30 he quotes "Flight Of The Bumblebee", and Garcia responds with some low, swarming, unmistakeably beelike buzzing notes - excellent. @ 14 James works the crowd: "All right. I know it might be kind of late to say it, but it come from the bottom of my heart: Happy New Year! Aww yeah! Swinging first. Frantic first and all that jazz. I came way out here to California to tell you all how much I love ya. I'm gonna show ya how much I love ya. All the things that I looked forward to last year, for kicks, is just a thing of the past. All for you. So you can - slowly but surely - get it back together. Will you promise me that you'll do that? And love me? Do I hear 'Yeah'!? Will you do it for me? Yeah! Everybody say yeah!"

Flight Of The Bumblebee

LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac

More Booker raw materials.

Jerry Garcia Band
Sophie's
260 S. California Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
January 9, 1976 (Friday)
112 minute sbd Kahn Shriver shnid-8386 shn2flac

--set I (7 tracks, 54:05)--
s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:47] (1) [0:54]
s1t02. Goodnight Irene [10:35] ->
s1t03. Für Elise [0:51] ->
s1t04. Slowly But Surely [11:41] ->
s1t05. Please Send Me Someone To Love [10:31] (2) [1:01]
s1t06. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry// [4:31#]
s1t07. //Tore Up Over You [#5:24] (3) [0:40] % dead air [0:09]

--set II (7 tracks, 67:22)--
s2t01. //Neighbor Neighbor [#2:05] [1:20]
s2t02. United Our Thing Will Stand [11:40] ->
s2t03. Classified [8:35] ->
s2t04. Baby Won't You Please Come Home [10:16] [0:39]
s2t05. Tico // Tico [6:22#] [0:14] % [0:07]
s2t06. Let It Rock [12:18] [1:59]
s2t07. (I’m A) Road Runner [11:29] (4) [0:16]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #2
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: James Booker - piano, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! 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/19760109-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8386 (this fileset)

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/A20r6

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/11/keystone-sophies-260-s-california-ave.html

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

! ref: Arnold, Corry. 2012. January 9-10, 1976: Sophie's, Palo Alto, CA: The Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker. Lost Live Dead, May 24, 2012, URL http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/05/january-9-10-1976-sophies-palo-alto-ca.html, consulted 12/31/2013. 

! seealso: JGMF, "'Gimme Some Chords, Jerry Garcia, Gimme Some Chords!'" (1/7/76 rehearsal)

! seealso: JGMF, "Junco Partners" (1/10/76)

! seealso: JGMF, "Jerry's January 1976" (discussing 1/76 as *the* GOTS pivot)

! R: MSR > ? > 1C > 1D > 1CD > EAC > SHN. This version, via Ryan Shriver, is more complete than the previously circulating version. Extraction using EAC, tracking using CD Wave, .shn encoding using mkwACT, and proper sector boundary verification using shntool.

! R: shn2flac JGMF 1/10/2015

! R: seeder note: "A very light, intermittent clicking reoccurs throughout the recording, though it is primarily audible during tuning breaks." The mix is all over the place.

! R: s1t01 All By Myself fades in, not much missing; light pops @ 0:02, 0:05, 0:07; mix/level fluctuations first 0:20.

! P: s1t01 ABM @ 5 James starts singing, but his mic is out. 5:35 Garcia was going to solo, but Booker does the equivalent of another verse. More singing, but no mic, over 6. I wish I could hear these vocals. Garcia just playing the basics, while Booker is grooving, switching keys, etc. 6:35 Jerry provides some good guitar, James vocalizes with him for half a measure, and then it's Garcia leading. The mix is super wonky, only guitar, drums and Garcia vocals, very little piano, no bass or Booker vocals. So Jerry pulls the rip cord at 7:31.

! s1t01 (1) JG: "This is James Booker playing the piano. [inaudible]" Some joker calls out "White Rabbit" at 8:22.

! R: s1t02 Goodnight Irene painful static and mix fluctuations, ca. 1:30, but this is the mix starting to settle in with Mr. James Booker, the mix settling in.

! P: s1t02 "This song was written by a dude called Leadbelly - whoop-whoop!" Continued monologuing by James, steps up to the song 1:18. By 2:45 Booker is swangin' and sangin', he sounds great.

! P: s1t04 SBS what a great song. James is playing something that sounds more like a Wurlitzer at 4. 4:53-5:07 "Flight Of The Bumblebee" (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alxBofd_eQ). 9 Garcia is playing some great, soaring guitar. The recording buries it (bass is badly overloading now). John is playing some interesting stuff right around 11, he tries to tie on a knot in it, Tutt hears him, but it takes awhile, and 25 seconds later Booker calls a close to it.

! s1t05 (2) JB: "Thank you very much. This is my first appearance here, and I must say I feel flattered in being so well rec-- --accepted. I love you all from A to Z - I love you that much, and further beyond. As a matter of fact, I'd like to do a song I wrote, that contains those lyrics, named 'So Swell When You're Well' This song was recorded by Aretha Franklin and Fats Domino." Stage talk. Booker: "Oh, we'll come back to that [laughs sheepishly]." Sounds to me like they've got a setlist written out, maybe? They roll into Train To Cry.

! R: s1t06 Train to Cry cuts out

! R: s1t07 Tore Up cuts in; static

! s1t07 (3) JG: "Thank you. It's great to have everybody dancing - it's nice - real nice. I think we're gonna take a break and try to figure out what else to play. We'll be back in a little while. Thank you."

! R: s2t01 Neighbor Neighbor fades in

! P: s2t01 NN enters on James Booker playing this one real, real blue - doesn't sound like they are totally together on the arrangement, but Booker has this way down deep in the "House Of The Rising Sun" groove, as it should be. Man prolly knew him some nosy neighbors. Jerry trying to end it, James just playing real loud for a bit, he notices and then shut it down. Can't wait to hear more Booker coming up!

! R: s2t02 UOTWS vocals low in the mix.

! P: s2t02 UOTWS no real comments.

! P: s2t03 My God, at late 7 things melts into dissonance, led by James Booker and Jerry Garcia, melts into Booker doing lounge blues.

! s2t04 BWYPCH: "I'd like to dedicate this whole set to one of my stronger influences, Mr. Ray Charles." After the song, can hear Jerry call "Hey Booker!" and say something.

! setlist: s2t05 was labeled "Fandango", but "Tico Tico" is how it is labeled in the rehearsals, and it certainly sounds a good deal like TT (though I am not 100% about this).

! R: s2t05 Tico Tico cut/splice @ 0:35, unknown missing. I note a tape discontinuity later in the track, after the song, but I don't think there's anything really missing there, very nearly a real-time little splice.

! P: s2t06 LIR no comment.

! s2t07 (4) JG: "Thank you. See y'all later on."