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.

Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away: July 9, 1977

 LN jg1977-07-09.jgb.late-2.aud-strange-miller.124426.flac1644

Not a whole ton to say, not a ton of time, so I'll just bullet.

1. Donna is absent. I wonder why? I need to document her 1977 absences, because there was a good number.
2. "Not Fade Away" is a JGB singleton, and is very interesting. Jerry is super-fired up for it and does a really good Buddy Holly. On this listen, the band's performance doesn't light me up.
3. Trouble on the Boardwalk in between shows, lots of arrests and such. See note below.
4. Weird little mini-tour. Pretty good paydays all around, certainly over $30k for JGB, perhaps considerably more. John Scher probably did very, very well, too. Two nights work, four shows: July 8 at the Calderone Concert Hall, two shows, and this night, two shows, all for John Scher. A Don Law show at Cape Cod Coliseum, scheduled for 7/10/77, was canceled. So, again, a nice little payday for leaving Thursday noon-ish and returning Sunday noon-ish

Jerry Garcia Band
Convention Hall
1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
July 9, 1977 (Saturday) Late Show 10 PM
85 min Steve Strange late-2 shnid-124426

--late show (7 tracks, 85:27, missing first two songs)--
[MISSING: The Harder They Come]
[MISSING: They Love Each Other]
--late show main set (6 tracks, 63:53)--
t01. tuning [1:20]
t02. Midnight Moonlight [9:37] %
t03. //Russian Lullaby [#13:21] [0:33] %
t04. //Tore Up Over You [#10:09] ]0:03] % [0:36]
t05. Knockin' On //Heaven's Door [16:#00] [0:18] %
t06. Tangled Up In Blue [11:36] [0:20] %
--encore (1 track, 21:33)--
t07. Not Fade Away// [21:33#]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b;
! lineup: Keith Godchaux - keyboards, vocals;
! lineup: Ron Tutt - drums, 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/19770709-04

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/8659 (Mattson early and late shows shnf); http://etreedb.org/shn/76441 (Mattson early and late shows flac1644); http://etreedb.org/shn/124426 (this fileset).

! map: https://goo.gl/maps/tfwJJ
 
! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/convention-hall-1300-ocean-ave-asbury.html

! ad: Asbury Park Press, June 26, 1977, p. 14.

! expost: "Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts," Asbury Park Press, July 11, 1977, p. unk.

! band: This is a very rare Garcia-Kahn-Godchaux-Tutt quartet show, which only took place when Donna and Maria were both absent (naturally). Donna Jean never missed a show in 1976, as far as I can tell. I have to double-check for 1977, but it seems to me that it was more frequent.

! JGMF: see also video notes at "Find Someone Who Looks at You the Way John Looks at Jerry," http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2017/11/find-someone-who-looks-at-you-way-john.html.

! R: field recordist: Steve Strange

! R: field gear: hand-held recorder with built-in mics > cassette master

! R: Transfer Info: Cassette Master (Sony TC-K677ES) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/48k) -> Adobe Audition v3.0 -> Samplitude Professional v11.2.1 -> FLAC/16 (2 Discs Audio / 1 Disc FLAC). All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller, charliemiller87@earthlink.net, April 15, 2013.

! R: "Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction"

! R: t03 RL cuts in on "somewhere there may be", then another splice near the beginning.

! P: t03 RL has a long bass solo

! R: t04 TUOY clips in

! P: t06 KOHD Keith has an electric piano, glockenspiel feel

! personnel: no backing vocalists?

! R: t05 KOHD splice @ 11:20

! R: doesn't sound like same source for TUIB?

! P: t07 NFA fascinating hearing Jerry sing this. Much more rockabilly, Buddy Holly than you'd ever hear Jerry, in just about any context.

! P: t07 NFA unbelievable how enthusiastic Jerry sounds here. He is singing in a pretty high register with good power and energy. Some real nice guitar fanning in the 2-minute mark, then a hot solo @2:08, long sustained runs, WOW! @@ sustaining all the way to the 3 minute mark, then he takes another job, boundless energy and fluidity. I have to say, though, that the rest of the players (let's say, John and Keith in this context) just don't offer very much. So, much as Jerry tries, it just doesn't hit a memorable peak.

! R: t07 NFA end cuts

! historical: "More than 30 persons, most of them from North Jersey and New York, were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday morning" after the Garcia Band shows ("Arrests Follow 2 Rock Concerts"). 22 police. Crowd of 250-300 (per police) gather at Bradley Park, across Ocean Avenue from Convention Hall, about 6:30 pm. Drinking. Cops announce they're gonna bust the drinking, etc. over the bullhorn. Crowd mostly dispersed 7:30, when JGB scheduled to start. Arrests begin at 10:30 pm, after the early show. "Police arrested people as they came off the Boardwalk and were visibly intoxicated. The arrests continued until about 1:25 am [text not clear]". Most was possession of alcohol, maybe 28? That'd be a summons or $100 bail. Nine for possession of marijuana or LSD, $500 bail. One Prince Charming got three charges and $5,000 bail: possession of a large knife, assault and battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest. (Your mother will love him!) Wage: $20,557. Only 120 tickets shy of a sellout (3,776 of 3,896).

Finally Busting out Cats at the End of the Cats Tour: JGB at the Philly Spectrum, March 16, 1978

 LN jg1978-03-16.jgb.all.aud-petrunis.124066.flac1644

Jerry Garcia Band
Spectrum Theater
3601 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
March 16, 1978 (Thursday)
Petrunis aud shnid-124066

--complete show (10 tracks, 87:45)--
t01. The Harder They Come [10:36] % [-0:02]
t02. [+0:02] /Mission In The Rain [10:40] %
t03. /That's What Love Will Make You Do [10:25] %
t04. /Gomorrah [#7:15] %
t05. //Tore Up Over //You [#7:#48] %
t06. /Love In The Afternoon [#10:44] %
t07. //I'll Be With Thee [5:25] %
t08. //Cats Under The Stars [#7:14] [0:02] %
t09. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [9:11] %
t10. /Midnight Moonlight// [#8:23#]

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #4a
! Member: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! Member: John Kahn - el-b;
! Member: Keith Godchaux - piano;
! Member: Buzz Buchanan - drums;
! Member: Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals;
! Member: Maria Muldaur - vocals.

JGMF:

! R: 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/19780316-01

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/28790 (unattributed aud, possibly this source); http://etreedb.org/shn/124066 (this fileset).

! map: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=3601+S.+Broad+Street,+Philadelphia,+PA&hl=en&sll=38.997934,-105.550567&sspn=7.587664,16.907959&t=h&hnear=3601+S+Broad+St,+Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania+19148&z=17

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/06/spectrum-and-spectrum-theatre-3601-s.html

! review: Matt Damsker, "Garcia Offers Some Homespun Folk-Rock," Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia), March 17, 1978, p 34. The band's "affection for casual variety was well received by approximately 6,600 fervent followers of the Dead." His basic characterization: positive about their "homespun folk-rock".

! see also: Mike Grosswald and Glen Blavat, "Jerry Garcia’s Band Under the Stars," Happytimes (Philadelphia), March 31, 1978, p. 15. See notes at http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-grosswald-mike-and-glen.html.

! R: field recordist: Rich Petrunis

! R: field recording gear: Sony handheld recorder

! R: field recording media: 1x Lafayette low bias cassette, no NR

! R: transfer: nak dragon > tascam hd-p2 24/96 > pc > adobe audition 2.0  > cd wave > tlh flac, transfer & seed by Rob Berger march 2013.

! R: notes: "thanks to LL's powrtoch for loaning me his Dad's masters. great sound for a hand held and a classic Mystery Cats set." There is some nice color, including folks near the taper, perhaps the folks he was with, struggling with folks standing in front of them.

! P: t01 HTC Garcia's guitar work in 5-6 minute range is potent, aggressive, exploratory. Very, very nice.

! R: t01-t02 tracking maybe a bit off. MITR cuts in.

! P: t02 MITR vocals sound OK at this point, relatively speaking. Having had the day before, two of the last three, off seems to have helped. I love the way Jerry is singing MITR here. This song wore well (thematically, if not vocally) as he suffered his travails. And I love the harmony arrangements with Donna Jean and Maria, the one's "white gospel heartiness" with the other's "white  blues sultriness" (Damsker 1978). A little madonna-whore thing going there, but whatever.

! R: t03 TWLWMYD I suspect taper might have stood up, because a minute or two in, the hi-hat is much more present. Or maybe the PA was still settling in. The Damsker review notes the below-GD-par sound quality.

! R: t03 TWLWMYD clips in

! R: t04 Gomorrah clips in

! R: t05 TUOY cuts in, splice @ 4:18

! P: t05 TUOY never really takes off, to my ears.

! R: t06 LITA clips in.

! song: Cats Under The Stars (t08): This is the first time played on this tour. Funny to be "touring behind" (really, because they were catastrophically late, "touring in front of") an album named Cats Under The Stars, and not breaking out the title tune, which I gather Jerry hoped would garner some airplay, until midway through. I suspect they finalized (and possibly began working on!) a serious live arrangement for the song on the off-day (the day before). The two known versions from '77 (11/21 and 12/2) were definitely at the "work in progress" stage.

! setlist: It is impossible to tell from this recording whether HSII and MM, or just MM, or neither, represented an encore. I would guess that MM was the encore, but I can't really tell for sure.

! P: t10 MM sounds to me like JG and BB are not on the same tempo to start, but it could be the boominess of the room and all the ambient clapping. This is a nice energetic version of MM. But Jerry is losing steam at the end.

! R: t10 SQ change, slightly more muffled, @ 3:45. Maybe had to put mics down, or someone stood in front of taper? Opens back up @ 8:02. Straight bad tape cut on the back-end, but by this time it's just as well -- not that much missing, I would guess.

! itinerary: Fly out Wednesday, March 8th (all but Tutt: United #72, DC8, SFO 9:45 a.m., arrive Cleveland 5:05 p.m.; Tutt: United #78, LAX 11:30 a.m. - Cleveland 6:40 p.m.) to start tour in Cleveland on the 9th. Shows 9-10-11-12, Monday 3/13 off. Show Tues. 14th in Boston, another day off, then this show in Philly. Staying at the Hilton, 10th & Packer, "across the street" from the venue (http://goo.gl/maps/NyEhx). This is hardly a downtown location, but it's right across from the gig and probably much better than the next night's digs, at the HoJo's in Clifton, NJ. Levon Helm and His R.C.O. All Stars opened, scheduled to go on at 7 pm, JGB on at 9 with an 11 pm closing. Five shows the three nights following, then home sweet home on TWA #25 on Monday 3/20.

Late for Supper: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, October 7, 1978

LN jg1978-10-07.jgb.all.aud-angus-hart.105024.flac2496

Jerry Garcia Band
Keystone Palo Alto
260 South California Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
October 7, 1978 (Saturday)
Angus-Hart complete aud flac2496 shind-105024

--set I (6 tracks, 56:11)--
s1t01. tuning [0:20]
s1t02. I Second That Emotion [12:40] [0:08] %
s1t03. It Ain't No Use [8:31] [0:02] % (1) [1:00]
s1t04. Knockin' On Heaven's Door [14:47] [0:04] % [0:06]
s1t05. Mystery Train/ [9:18#]
s1t06. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [9:11] (1) [0:03] %

--set II (7 tracks, 51:27)--
s2t01. tuning [0:12]
s2t02. Tore Up Over You [8:53] [0:02] % [0:10]
s2t03. Let Me Roll It [10:42] [0:03] % [0:10]
s2t04. Gomorrah [6:19: [0:02] % [0:19]
s2t05. Love In The Afternoon  [10:03] [0:01] % [0:24]
s2t06. I'll Be With Thee [5:21] [0:02] % 5:24-
s2t07. Rhapsody In Red [7:53] [0:03] %

! ACT1: Jerry Garcia Band #4a
! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! lineup: John Kahn - el-b, vocals;
! lineup: Keith Godchaux - ac-piano;
! lineup: Buzz Buchanan - drums;
! lineup: Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals;
! lineup: Maria Muldaur - 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/19781007-02

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/105024 (this fileset), http://etreedb.org/shn/104978 (this transfer, flac1644), http://etreedb.org/shn/14112 (deprecated shn fileset).

! map: http://goo.gl/maps/Zx14m

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

! band: JGB #4

! R: field recordist: John Angus and Scott Hart;

! R: field recording gear: Sony ECM-99 microphone > Sony TC-158 cassette deck

! R: transfer and FLAC encoding by David Minches: Master played back on Nakamichi Dragon > Grace Lunatec V3 (24/96) > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe > Adobe Audition 2.0 > FLAC encoding. Pitch Correction by Joe B. Jones. Thanks to Harry Angus for providing the master tapes. This is the 24/96 version.

! R: This is a pretty nice waayyy up-front audience recording. Which means that the vocals are a little low, the bass is a little indistinct, but the percussion (drums and piano) is, well, percussive. The guitar is well captured.

! P: Overall, meh. Keith is a little wobbly in set I, I think, and the song selection doesn't knock me out. On its face, only KOHD really draws my eye. The second set has a much more attractive setlist, but IMO the show never achieves liftoff. I was really looking forward to "Let Me Roll It", but it's a shadow of the killer version from 6/18/78. They never played it again, as far as is known. The deep Cats numbers are fine, but you want them to tear your eyeballs out with "Rhapsody In Red" to close the show, and they just never do. Second set setlist > second set performance. Overall performance, again, not great.

! historical: Garcia, Keith and Donna (GD) were working at Club Front on Shakedown Street during the day, gigging with JGB at night. They just booked up a bunch of shows with Freddie Herrera, five out of six nights (7-8, 10-11-12) at his clubs in Palo Alto and Berkeley. This booking (weekend through the week) strikes me as uncommon and possibly noteworthy. Maybe trying to get Keith and Donna some paydays before they shove off?

! R: t02 level flux in 2TE

! P: s1t02 ISTE @ 2:30 Keith does a beautiful little run, but it's fleeting. I see what Buzzy meant when he said that Keith was so heavily percussive ... he's really upfront on this tape. @ 4:28 Jerry is doing some really nice bending, trying some stuff out. Again, around 6:15 KG is playing well. And now 6:30 he is soloing. He feels a little tentative to start, then he moves to higher register and gets a little more fluid. They let things get really, really soft early in the 9-min mark, almost like Jerry is stepping back to let Keith go where he's comfortable, which right now is more delicate picking at the keys, it's soft and, frankly lovely. I don't recall ever hearing them hit this space ... hell, maybe it's just a fucked up tempo problem! They return to the verse around 10-, and it doesn't sound quite together. Again: I think of what BB said about tempo problems, combined with Keith's raw power, have everyone swinging in the breeze a little bit.

! P: s1t03 IANU nice blues, Jerry, playing really nicely to start the song. He probably have started the vocals, but he takes another turn around the dancefloor, gets it together, brings first verse around 1:20. @ 6:55 JG fanning. Doesn't end very successfully. NB had not been played since 12/31/75.

! s1t03 (1) some joker calls out "Late For Supper" around 9-min mark.

! R: s1t05 MT end clips, not much missing

! s1t06 (1) "We're gonna trake a break for a little while. We'll see you a little later//"

Video from The Stone?

Anyone ever heard of any video circulating from Freddie Herrera and Bobby Corona's The Stone (412 Broadway, San Francisco, CA, 94111)? Apparently video was shot there.

JGB at Queens College, October 30, 1975

LN jg1975-10-30.jgb.all.aud-cooper.124251.flac2496

Have barely had time to write a word about the Hopkins-era JGB these last 4+ years of blogging and hiatuses. That remains true, so the writeup will be short. Bottom line is that I think Nicky sounds really good (i.e., reasonably sober). I sort of figure that the day off the day before had done everyone some good. The tempos are upbeat. Pretty good tape of a pretty good show.

Jerry Garcia Band

Colden Auditorium, Queens College

Kissena Blvd.

Flushing, NY 11367

October 30, 1975 (Thursday)

Cooper MAC 2496 shnid-124251

--set I (8 tracks, 85:02)--

s1t01. / Let It Rock [10:38] %

s1t02. Sugaree [8:09] [0:02] % 8-12-9:29

s1t03. That's Alright Mama [11:35] [0:03] % [0:45] % [0:25]

s1t04. Catfish John [10:39] %

s1t05. /Pig's Boogie [#6:54] % [0:23]

s1t06. I'll Take A Melody [12:21] % [0:55]

s1t07. Money Honey [8:48] [0:02] %

s1t08. [0:23] (I'm A) Roadrunner [10:51] %

--set II (10 tracks, 98:15)--

s2t01. //It Ain't No Use [9:54] [0:02] % [0:27]

s2t02. Russian Lullaby [8:36] % [0:10]

s2t03. That's What Love Will Make You Do [10:47] [0:02] % (1) [0:59]

s2t04. Friend Of The Devil [5:38] % [0:15]

s2t05. Lady Sleeps [5:09] [0:03] %

s2t06. [0:56] Mission In The Rain [5:49] [0:04] % [0:01]

s2t07. Mystery Train [13:01] [0:02] %

s2t08. [1:08] The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [9:11] [0:05] % [0:03]

s2t09. Let's Spend The Night Together [18:26+0:17] ->

s2t10. [-0:17] Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder [7:02] (2) [0:03]

! Band: Jerry Garcia Band

! lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;

! lineup: Nicky Hopkins - piano;

! 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/19751030-01

! band: Jerry Garcia Band #1 (http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-1975-1995.html).

! db: http://etreedb.org/shn/124251 (this fileset), http://etreedb.org/shn/124248 (1644 fileset, same source), http://etreedb.org/shn/92780 (Gerry Moskal aud).

! map: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Colden+Auditorium,+Queens+College,+65-30+Kissena+Blvd.,+Flushing,+NY+&hl=en&sll=38.997934,-105.550567&sspn=7.374835,16.907959&t=h&hq=Colden+Auditorium,&hnear=Queens+College,+65-30+Kissena+Blvd,+Flushing,+New+York+11367&z=16&iwloc=A. As of this date (11/9/2013), Google Maps locates Colden Auditorium on Reeves Avenue. The [hard contemporary evidence] says "Kissena Blvd." (no number). JGBP gives street number 65-30, but I don't quite know, so I am sticking with the hardest contemporary evidence, for as far as it will go.

! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/09/colden-auditorium-queens-college-65-30.html

! R: field recordist: Jim Cooper

! R: field gear: Sony ECM-22P > Hitachi TRQ-232, Maxel UD-C90, no NR

! R: transfer: Nakamichi Dragon > benchmark ADC1 24/96 > pc > adobe audition 2.0 > cd wave > flac. Transfer & seeded by Rob Berger 3/13.

! R: seeder notes: “brilliant!”

! R: running slow? Reporting now during TWLWMYD, and it sounds just fine.

! historical: $9,000 guarantee plus $1,500 lights and sound. Staying 5 nights at the St. Moritz on Central Park South, so this was just a drive to Flushing from Manhattan. Candace doing the lights.

! seealso: JGMF, "Bloody Hell," http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2014/01/bloody-hell.html.

! P: s1t01 LIR Nicky some really nice runs at the start of the song

! P: s1t02 Sugaree JG pretty nice solo over the 6-mark.

! P: s1t03 TAM sounds like After Midnight to start. Nicky sounds great.

! R: s1t05 PB clips in

! P: s1t07 MH @ 5:30- JG guitar solo, starts off low and a little fuzzy, then 5:45 he sharpens up with a jagged run that's very, very, nice. A little faster run 6:10-6:23, they pick up the energy a little bit, swinging more now. Jerry playing very well. Fanning @ 6:45, Nicky errs late in the 6-min mark, not letting the solo play, then he's gone for awhile, until Jerry settles back into the swooping hook that is really the trademark of "Money Honey". Still not hearing Nicky much until late in the 7-min mark. Maybe he was cleaning his mirror?

! P: s1t08 IARR Jerry never quite settled on how he wanted to present Roadrunner in terms of key, tempo, etc. In every iteration, it reflects the idiosyncrasies of its human and pharmacological context. A temporal cipher. In early '74, it was young Jerry running a little too hot (e.g., 2/9/74), with tons of color from Merl's organ. With JGMS and LOM it really benefited from Martin's saxophone as well in terms of the overall palette. The Garcia-Hopkins JGB was a lot more stripped down, of course. Especially on a tape (night?) like this, where Nicky is really hard to hear, things are just too percussive, or something. Nicky solos in the 5-min mark, the rest of the guys chugging behind him. Sounds like Jerry practically had to write him an engraved invitation to take a run. With that said, the Garcia-Hopkins tempos are generally pretty good, still some juice like earlier, but not the swampy dirges of 1976-1978. So, this is a pretty good tempo for IARR, even though I don't find this version to be very good. It just never really cooks.

! R: s2t01 IANU cuts in, not much missing

! P: s2t02 Russian Lullaby: Love this tempo! Very upbeat. Such great Hot Club swing, Nicky providing some really nice saloon groove. Coffee or whisky? Why not both? Jerry's attack in the 2:30 mark is really inventive, like he's skipping two notes down instead of a more continuous scale. In the late-5 over 6 minute mark Jerry has almost a Midi sound, very interesting. It's rather trumpet-like, his playing here. Nicky another solo late-6 over 7 minute mark. NB that RL did not have the bass solo at this point.

! s2t03 (1) After John runs through the chord progressions for FOTD, knowledgeable fans call it out. Good call!

! P: s2t04 Crowd clapping enthusiastically to the familiar (because played by the GD) "Friend Of The Devil". This tempo is great, very upbeat. Nicky's playing shows lucidity that was too rare during his time with JGB. Jerry takes a fine solo over the 4-minute mark, compact but reasonably dextrous. He's getting warmed up, I hope.

! song: "Friend Of The Devil" (s2t04) [Jerrybase]: One of the rare tunes Jerry played inside and outside of the GD with any regularity, this one, like other switch-hitters such as "Sugaree" and "Deal", a Garcia-Hunter joint that Jerry just seemed to love.

! setlist: s2t05 was listed in this info file as "Waltzing Matilda", but it is "Lady Sleeps".

! song: "Lady Sleeps" (s2t05) [Jerrybase]: Nicky wrote and performed this pretty piano instrumental as a solo, spotlight piece during his time with the JGB. In most live JGB renditions he segued it into the unfortunate "No Time", a forgettable nasal lament which also appeared on Nicky's 1975 release No More Changes (Mercury SRM 11028). Here it stands on its own, and nicely, a velvety soft, gentle feel sharpened by Nicky's clean strokes.

! P: s2t06 MITR: These early versions of MITR are so great. There was only really a brief window when he could truly handle the vocals, including the opening lines. Here he flubs some lyrics in the mid-3 range.

! P: s2t09 LSTNT some nice fanning over the 10-minute mark. Late in the 14-minute mark there appears to be some discord, not sure who contradicts whom, but Jerry and Nicky don't seem on the same page as one of them returns hard to the LSTNT theme, the other stiff-arms. Now to mid-15 minute mark they are dueling vigorously, late 15-minute mark Tutt picks up the tempo, and they get into a very tasty romp, a little bit to the tempo of "Caution" for the GD fans, Jerry running around now, building to some nice fanning @ 17:15, back to LSTNT theme 17:30, Tutt banging like an animal late in the 17-minute mark, some great drumming, Jerry rises in response late 17-minute mark, now everyone digging in real deep, Jerry more theme then winds down into Edward.

! R: s2t09 LSTNT a brief splice @ 16:46?

! P: s2t10 Edward is a tremendously exciting piece of music, getting Jerry to sound like John Cipollina and David Gilmour in one song is no mean feat. Tip o’ the cap to ya, Session Man.

! s2t10 (2) JG: "Thank you. See y'all later on."

! Staying at St. Moritz, 30 Central Park South, New York, NY, 10019 (http://goo.gl/maps/gQOgv), five nights. Jerry's the only one of the traveling party with a double room, so I presume he's with Deborah Koons or another woman not named Mountain Girl. Players Nicky Hopkins, John Kahn and Ron Tutt, manager Richard Loren, and drivers/'quippies Steve Brown, Kidd Candelario, Steve Parish, and B. Zachary all get single rooms. The band members had hit the road on Tuesday the 21st, the drivers probably a few days earlier, so everyone's a week or more on the road. Nine shows in seven consecutive nights, Wednesday (10/29) off in NYC, then, starting this night, six shows on four consecutive evenings, flying home the next day (Monday, November 3rd). "You've 'ad yer fun ... now pay fer it!" Back to the old salt mines. Hop in the limo, dozen mile ride to Queens, and play this long-ass gig.

JGB April 2, 1976 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

Wow. Earliest known JGB video. Wonderful.



Hopefully there's more video from the Cap yet to emerge!

Thanks to whomever unearthed and shared this. Great, great stuff.

Reminder: Date Index

Just a little reminder that I try to keep a reasonably complete list of dates I have discussed at any length at a db.etree list, http://db.etree.org/jgmf. Happy hunting!

Fishing Reports: Fall 2011

I was going through some old posts, trying to update tags, and somehow this must have only been a draft. So it was posted in 2013, two years after the fact.

I don't have time to do this up right, and I know these are just notes-to-self, but let me just lay them down anyway.

10/28/2011, 1000-1300: St. Vrain from the white gate.

Started lower than in 2009, while river still on the right. Water is low, shop guys said 3 weight and small bugs would be good. Suggested nymphing earlier in the day, maybe weighting down an ant underneath. Also underwater: Rainbow Warriors, a blue tungsten bug. Small, 22 ish. 6x line-leader-tippet.

Ca. 10 am - ca 1 pm, sunny, probably got into 50s in the sun in the canyon. Banks are still super-snowy. Water looks great.

I put a caddis fly up top as a strike indicator and started with the rainbow warrior down low for some flash (mostly shady on the water). Caught a couple of small browns. Switched to the blue tungsten underneath, caught a few more small browns.

Walked up to where the road runs to right of the river, a hundred yards maybe and fished up for awhile. Caught one decent-sized (by which I mean maybe 10") rainbow on the rainbow warrior.

Last time (only other time) I got skunked, so 5-6 fish in 3 hours isn't terrible. But it wasn't in any way obvious. There are some great pools and lots of nice channels, but I mostly caught stuff when I could swing my wet fly underneath an underwater rock shelf. They mostly came out of crevices, not much happening out in the open.

10/24/2011, 0900-1300: South Boulder Creek, El Dorado Canyon

Parked right down and off to the right inside the park and fished the lower section of the river. I almost never go here, just because the fish are so obvious (cf. the St. Vrain, 10/28/2011), so visible in the high-traffic areas of the park (the bridge, the little path along the water for a few hundred yards or whatever it is), so accessible that I figure they get hardware thrown at them constantly and are gonna be curmudgeonly. But with traffic to the park down from the summer season, and the water coming down, I have been eyeing it and decided to try it.

Good times. Not trivially easy to catch fish, and they're bigger down here than in the middle section I usually fish (from 60 yds down from the Rattlesnake Gulch trailhead, up to the big pool or the upper bridge). So I am so used to this water that I was pretty well able to find the fish and persaude them to say hello. I think it was BWOs that were killing, on a slightly overcast day. Dry only, 3-weight rod, 6x line/leader/tippet.

10/21/2011, 0700-1200, Big Thompson River, b/w mile markers 70 and 71 on Highway 34

Came out way too early, but I had insomnia so what better was I gonna do? It was chilly in the morning, boy, but it warmed up to 50s by early afternoon.

Already having a hard time remembering what I was doing this day ... 5 weight I think (first time with the new reel), 5x line/leader/tippet. I probably caught a half-dozen fish, mostly browns and one rainbow. I can't really remember. It was nice, but not ridiculously better than what I can get a lot closer to home. Not as good as when I want at this same time of year in 2009.

ca. mid-October 2011, South Boulder Creek (1) west of highway 36, and (2) between South Boulder Road and Highway 36.

I have commuted past South Boulder Creek on highway 36 hundreds of times, but I have only fished the water you can see from the road once, and to my recollection only very briefly. Having been riding my bike to work, I have been watching the progress and regress of the fly shops located in the Table Mesa Shopping Center. While Rocky Mountain Anglers continues to thrive (I hope) because of its amazing people, gear and knowledge, "the other shop" on Table Mesa has had a bunch of turnover. Anyway, this shop had a sign in the window saying that Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) was creating some habitat in this flat area of the creek, at least the bits on either side of Highway 36.

Alligator

I didn't mean to publish this drafty fragment. It published itself. IIWII.

anonymous comment: 

Russian River connection might have to do with them spending time at the Warnecke Ranch out on Chalk Hill Rd in Healdsburg. Alligator was supposed to be written there.

7/16/67 interview Garcia says they are looking to move to the Southwest, with specific mention of New Mexico. I would be stunned if this were not connected with Hunter.

Here's what The Bard says in Box of Rain (1):

This was one of my first lyrics recorded by the Dead. I got paid two hundred fifty dollars from the record advance for Anthem of the Sun with which I bought a used car and headed north to Seattle, where I tried to make a living restringing beads from Goodwill for a friend's boutique. I made about five dollars at this occupation. The car broke down, which was okay, since I couldn't afford gas for it, so I hitchhiked back to S.F. and decided to hang out there with the Dead.

Dodd (2) doesn't say much about the near origins of the song (i.e., through any Hunter biography), but has characteristically brilliant and fascinating analysis of its various historical progenitors and other relatives.

REFERENCE:

(1) Hunter, Robert. 1990. A Box of Rain: Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter. New York: Viking Press (s.v. "Alligator", pp. 6-7).

(2) Dodd, David, ed. 2005. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, annotations by David Dodd, Foreword by Robert Hunter. New York: Free Press (s.v. "Alligator", pp. 36-38).

LN Reconstruction May 19, 1979 Old Waldorf, set II

Corry attended the Reconstruction show at the Old Waldorf on May 19, 1979, and has written it up very nicely from all of the angles that matter. He saw the 1st set. The second set, probably most of it, circulates from a very nice but unattributed audience recording. It's not the best Reconstruction set around, but I like it OK. This material has circulated as set I, but it's set II.

Garcia was clearly trying not to have attention drawn to himself in Reconstruction. He seemed to want to efface himself in the band, stand back in the shadows. Many of the show advertisements listed him as a featured player, in part because Reconstruction seems to have played some shows with Jerry Miller on guitar, and in part, well, to sell tickets. Garcia was always the goose that laid the golden egg in his side projects. Or, he was Midas, even for middling, disco-inspired funk, soul and disco outfits like Reconstruction. As David Grisman would say in another context, "Jerry kind of takes care of the profitable part" (or something like that).

My main reason for queueing this up is that it has some banter up front that I have always found revealing. Saxman Ron Stallings handled the emcee duties for Reconstruction. After the first few songs on this tape (shnid-14804), we hear the following exchange:

"Jerry Garcia on the guitar. On guitar, Jerry Garcia. Our guitar player, Jerry Garcia."

[Crowd getting louder and louder, cheering more each time he says Jerry's name.]

Crowd member: "Hey, who's on the saxophone?" Another: "Take it, Merl!" They ask again: "Who's on the saxophone?" Stallings: "That's a very good question."

Someone in the back: "Who's on guitar?" Stallings: "Guitar? Jerry Garcia." Crowd: "Who? Who?"

No big deal, right? I know. But it is interesting to hear the slightly uncomfortable evidence of Garcia's stardom and fawning fan-base, even in the presence of badass players like Reverend Ron Stallings and drummer Gaylord Birch. Everyone who ever played a paid gig with Jerry had to reconcile himself or herself to the fact that Garcia was going to get all the attention, Garcia was probably going to bring in dollars, etc. One had to just deal with some over-the-top fans.

For the rest of the gig, Stallings makes a big deal of repeating the players' names over and over. But I think he's just compensating for the awkwardness of this earlier exchange. I can imagine Garcia being a little bit mortified by all of this. Revisiting the 6/23/79 show in Guerneville, I hear Garcia and Kahn trying to start up Dear Prudence before Jerry could be announced from stage. I swear, that's what I hear. And here I hear him cringeing a little bit for his fans and for himself. Just part of the "Burden of Being Jerry" (see also ca. 4/12/73 with Old And In The Way).

Listening notes follow.

Review of Legion of Mary 12/15/74 EMU Ballroom

With the release of this show, thought I'd post the review that I have in my collection. The release sounds fantastic, and I am loving it so far. If I had time to blog, I'd analyze the liner notes and the music and the gigs and all that. But, no time. Deaddisc has an entry up.

Darryl Norsen wrote the liner notes, a version of which appears online at http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/10/15/legion-of-mary-december-14-15-1974-northwest-tour/. The booklet looks nice, but the liner notes are horrifically edited, with numerous grammatical errors. Oh well.

Anyway, here's the review:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7TAYus5LRzuelZJUmhORzNmYUk/edit?usp=sharing

Lee, Greg. 1975. One of the best shows ever. Oregon Daily Emerald, January 9, 1975, p. 9.