Garcia

Jerry Week -Day 4

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Today I’m going to set you up with some streaming music.

This is one of my all-time favorite Jerry Garcia Band shows.

March 18, 1978
Late Show
Warner Theater Music Hall
Washington D.C.

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
John Kahn – Bass
Keith Godchaux – Piano
Ron Tutt – Drums
Donna Jean Godchaux & Maria Mulduar – Vocals

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Disc I (67:20)

1. Harder They Come
2. Mission in the Rain
3. Simple Twist of Fate
4. Midnight Moonlight
5. Gomorrah
6. Cats Down under the Stars
7. I’ll be with Thee

Disc II (22:59)

1. Lonesome and Long Way from Home >
2. Jam >
3. Lonesome and Long Way from Home

Encore:
4.Palm Sunday

* Notes: Doug Oade performed the DSP on the transferred wav files using Waves REQ, RCL, and C4 plug ins. Dithering via Waves IDR at 16bit. Original source info is unknown. Track cuts, WAV > SHN conversion & verification done by dwonk. First BitTorrent Seeding hosted by macdaddy 8/03.

Note the date…
The encore was performed after midnight; in the wee hours of Palm Sunday. It was only performed once more, on the evening of the 19th. (the photo accompanying this post was taken during that show.)

Oh, and if you dig this show, you can actually buy it here: jerrygarcia.com.

Streaming by Sugarmegs.

A Chat with Jerry

Yesterday I gave a little peak into a corner of Jerry Garcia’s musical life outside the Grateful Dead. Today, I’m going to link you to one of the more interesting interviews ever given by the man. This 1972 Interview with Charles Reich and Jan Wenner has some fairly heavy content and ranges far and wide. Here’s an excerpt:

Reich: I have a question right off one of the evening talk shows, and that is, “Dr. Garcia, how do you stay high?”

I smoke a lot of dope.

Reich: Do you think that’s . . .

Would you like some?

Reich: Do you think that that’s it?

Well, in reality I don’t really stay that high, although I get high a lot, smoking a lot of pot, is what I’m trying to say. That’s what it comes down to, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m high. A certain amount of seeming to be high has to do with my being more or less well rehearsed in the role of Jerry Garcia, ’cause it’s kinda been laid on me. In reality, I’m like lots more worthless than any of that would make it appear.

Reich: Among the different things the kids say about you, one is “Mr. Good Vibes.”

Yeah, but that always is part-true bullshit, because my old lady can tell you about how often I’m on a bummer. Really, I’m just like everybody else and it’s just that I really love those times when I’m high, so my trip has always been to make them count as much as possible.

Reich: What I’m trying to get at is that you believe in being high, and many other people not only don’t believe in it but think it’s dangerous and hateful.

Well, you know, I . . . everybody’s . . . one man’s poison is another man’s dope.
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Garcia/Grisman

In the early 90’s, longtime friends Jerry Garcia & mandolin virtuoso, David Grisman rekindled their relationship and began playing music together both in the studio and onstage. Weaving their two styles together and finding common ground at every turn, they forged a new music both simple and stunningly elaborate.

I’ll let the tunes do the talking. Here’s the video(!) for B.B. King’s The Thrill is Gone:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvDtWeyO5c[/youtube]

Pretty sweet, right? There is an excellent film that describes their history and collaboration. It’s called Grateful Dawg. Now, here’s a clip that positively blows my mind every time: Arabia.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNksE5pHEvQ[/youtube]

Want more? You can pick up the cds directly from Grisman’s label, Acoustic Disc or download them (legally) at LiveDownloads.