I've got all of these Garcia Live's (plus a few other JGB albums) loaded onto a playlist in Spotify and I play it all the time. Put it on shuffle play and groove to it.
I don't think this has been posted already? 2017 interview with Howard Wales: Deadicated: Howard Wales, A Previously Unpublished Interview (On Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Lost Live Tapes)
The river so white, the mountain so red and with the sunshine over my head The honky-tonks are all closed and hushed It looks like Palm Sunday again It looks like Palm Sunday again It looks like Palm Sunday again The river so white - Jesus in his white robe and with the sunshine over my head - riding into Jerusalem on his donkey the mountain so red - the blood Only played twice Stanley Theatre, 03/19/1978 Warner Theater, 03/18/1978 Nice version, Jerry talks quite a bit. From 3/19 -1978. A Sunday. The Sunday before Easter
Is it anymore than just the Saturday/Sunday dichotomy that appears in so many blues and country songs, dating back to the earliest days of the those genres
Just got the email this morning reminding me this is the March album of the month at Garcia provisions- $12.99. If you don't have the CD just go buy it. If you prefer vinyl, well...
Who knows what they will come up with and why. That last vinyl release I could have lived without. I can only assume they thought having Bela Fleck sit in on a few tracks would move the pressing quickly but it's close to being the last one I would have picked.
I love that show, and would have bought it, but I stopped buying large LP sets from concert recordings...
Volume one is perhaps my favorite lp set of all time. It sounds so good you can smell Jerry’s ashtray. That Bela set doesn’t sound much better than the recordings that circulated for free. The content is fine but you have heat wind blowing into the vocal mics. It’s just not a great recording and that’s the first priority of an LP release for me.
The music from the Fillmore West run is great but I am no a huge fan of the way they did the mastering. They are releasing 5/3/72 for RSD so that will be nice. Then they should release the entire E72 run in high resolution.
That's fair, it sounds pretty typical for JGB recordings of that era though, and the performance is dynamite.
After Jeff Norman gets a chance to re-mix it proper, he has stated on record he'd love to fix the mix.
Announcement soon for the next Garcialive? It is about due unless there are more ambitious plans in the making. I am wondering if they may have a 1975 show with Nicky Hopkins in the queu.
I will also mention Reconstruction( again). Three or so shows in a box set would be something very interesting. Technically John’s band so it would be a different process.