yes, the sb. jerry moore's aud has been around forever. needless to say I was blown away when the sb came around. that band is still my favorite jg side project. anyone else here beside me see Garcia & wales? also a pretty interesting show but a little disjointed. I saw the nyc show. it was my first time at the academy of music.
Yeah I remember the New Years sit in, but I thought one of the Academy shows was her first as a full-time member. I'll look for that old interview (where she talks about Keith joining before her) when I get home, I don't think it is online.
Way before my time. I had a bootleg of their show in Boston (with Mahavishnu opening) and thought it was awful. Disliked the album, too. My least-favorite Garcia side project by a huge margin. Wales is a total hack, IMO.
Listening to this now, and someone in the left channel plays a nice blues solo on Jelly Roll's first vocal tune. I'm not sure if Fogerty is stepping out or if someone else came onstage for the second set.
Haven't listened to it (thanks for posting, though!) but this comment sums up my impression of Wales pretty well:
Of course if Camp Garcia wants to release a 1971 gem before getting to 1972, I guess I would be OK with that too
OK, I have listened to it now. The first ~8 minutes of "Dark Star" are basically unlistenable, but it smooths out after that. They don't stick too closely to the main "Dark Star" theme, but as long as they're basically following Wales' lead, it's not too bad. OTOH, he doesn't seem willing or able to follow anyone else's musical lead, which is a distinct impediment for someone with limited chops such as his.
Assuming that's the 12/28/72 show, jelly roll brought a friend along on guitar so that's probably who you hear.
Where did you fit into all of this? Donna: "Well, they asked me to sing right away, but somewhere in my ignorant wisdom I said I wanted Keith to do it first, so he did two tours and I stayed home. I really wanted him to get to do it first. So Keith and I went into this as green and as innocent as we could be. I'd never sung before an audience before, really, and Keith had only done very small gigs. We had no idea what joining a band of the magnitude of the Grateful Dead would mean. And the Dead is more than just a regular band, too. It's this whole…extended reality. It's not just a band, but a way of life." Do you remember your first show? Donna: "My first show was at the Academy of Music in New York City, for a Hell's Angels party. The first song I sang with them was How Sweet It Is, which they quit singing right after that. It was so much fun, and it turned out it wasn't intimidating at all."
Yes, and I had tried a few different searches before finally coming up with a couple of articles about the 2008 decision that finally dissolved the initial Jerry Garcia Estate LLC, which had to be formed by an arbitrator in the first place. The case seems to have become somewhat famous as an example of a contentious estate. What I would like to know is, given that the current incarnation of the Garcia website and the Garcia Live series of releases seem to be run by the Garcia Family LLC (the kids plus clifford,) does that mean a rival website or a separate series of releases curated by the Koons camp could come out? Or is she just collecting her cut of their efforts? And if the latter is the case, why not let the entity that is releasing the material have control of the tapes? The will gives the executor (koons)sole authority to sell any portion of the estate, but all the various legal maneuvering seems to have altered that. Anyway, i guess it remains to be seen what will happen, I just hope it doesn't take too long.
I wanted to share this, which was in the comments of the Lost Live Dead article on the Hartbeats at the Family Dog: Terry Nails: 'I remember Jerry being at the California hall gig because of an amusing incident that happened backstage. Neither Bob or I smoked pot, but we always rolled our own cigarettes. We both used to smoke target tobacco. I had just finished hand rolling a cigarette when Bobby came off the stage. I had just lit it when he asked me for a drag of it. ( it was not uncommon to share a cigarette with somebody back in those days)anyway, Jerry stepped up and intercepted it before I could hand it to him and thinking it was a joint took a huge hit off of it. Needless to say he wasn't particularly happy when he found out it wasn't a joint. at the time I felt pretty bad about it, but in hindsight it was pretty funny.' Lost Live Dead: "Hartbeats" Family Dog On The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA August 28, 1969 » (that happened at the 6/11/69 gig, but was on the article for this show. I have to listen to this a couple more times before I form an opinion about the organ playing. It's loud in the mix, but this is definitely an interesting listen. I feel its more compelling than some of the 68 Hartbeats tapes.)
"Jerry Garcia could hear the song in all my bad recordings, the song that was buried there." - Dylan It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (acoustic) – 5:38 Tears of Rage – 8:19 Going, Going, Gone – 18:56
Was this strictly a limited edition, or is it just out of print? All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions - Wikipedia »
Crazy to me that there have been 40 pages of posts on this thread since I first posted in mid July. (of course, that's like a week of the Grateful Thread.) I read through most of the old pages, got a kick out of some of the 'Jerry Who?' posts from before the thread title was changed. Anyhow, I've been listening to a bunch of versions of "the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' to contribute to the 'covers that got the lyrics wrong' thread, and I came across 4-2-1976 from the Capitol Theater in NJ on Youtube. Anyone know who is the male voice singing bass on the chorus? Keith Godchaux maybe? The video stays on Jerry, Donna and Kahn more or less the whole time. This song is also a great example of Kahn's bass playing.
Thanks, I'm hoping it may eventually be re-packaged and re-released like the Buffalo Springfield box, amongst others.
