Jerry was a truly kind man and I met him on 3 / 21 /1971, in Providence Rhode Island. He was sitting on the edge of the stage and I walked up to say how much I loved the band and his playing. He smiled and we shook hands. So as he started to stand up to start the show, I asked him if I could sit behind the amps and he said go ahead and turned to Ramrod and said to let me get behind the amps and he pushed aside a drum case and let me climb up. So after the show started I noticed the guy who was the sound man was dropping a liquid from a murine bottle on the back of people's hand and then they licked it off. I stuck my hand out and he put 3 drops on it and I licked it off. I was Bear himself and I got to know his people really well, that's an other story. I ended up sitting right behind Pigpen, who was still playing. So Jerry himself let me get on the bus and the king of making acid dosed me. That's was all I needed to know I had found something special and I still go to shows almost every year. They never let me down and I made some really good friends over the years. If you had a better first show, lets hear about it. Love to all my sisters and brothers,still here and to those who are gone, but not forgotten.⚡️🎸⚡️🖖🏽⚡️🎸⚡️
This is without a doubt the absolutely best version of Knocking on heaven's door that I have heard in my more than my thirty years of listening to Jerry. If you want to know Jerry just watch the way smiles throughout the song. He very rarely smiles like that if ever or moves LOL. You can feel the message of peace and love flowing from his very being. The song leaves me a sobbing emotional wreck everytime I hear it and sing-along with it while at the same time giving me so much hope that we may someday learn the lesson that Jerry was so desperately trying to teach us. Learn well my brothers and sisters....
That was a crazy week of shows. Two nights of Jerry at Great Woods, then the next night Tom Tom Club at The Paradise, then Jerry at Hartford Civic Center. Youth is a wonderful thing!🍀
A Huge Thanks to whoever made this video possible, from someone who just got on the bus about a year ago in my late 30s sadly I can never see Jerry, but I got to see Melvin Seals 4 times this year have met him and spent some time talking to him at a festival in PA this summer at my daughters first festival, couldnt ask for a nicer man security came to tell us we needed to leave that area bc we werent artists and melvin told the guy its ok he just came out to introduce his daughter, even before i met him it amazed me i would catch him looking out over the crowd seeing people dancing enjoying what they were doing with a huge grin on his face
Been almost 30 years. Still sounds so good. Jerry operated in a realm all his own. He had technical prowess, but his playing wasn't about that. With one note, he could change a listener's entire mood for the better. I never saw Jerry play with this version of his band (with or without Clemons), but I did see JGB after Jerry's passing. RIP Gloria Jones; she and Jacky LaBranch provided harmonies that made you feel almost like you were in church. Clemons sat in with the Grateful Dead as well. IMO, he fit in much better with JGB's more traditional approach than with the Dead's collective improvisation.
I've been skipping through a few hours of new2Me Jerry Band shows this morning, and felt like a minor who'd been panning hard but only found enough flour to pay for supplies to pan another day; but then I found this fat nugget! Thanks guys and gals!!!..., would have loved to have been on my feet dancin or just listening in the clouds at this show. Next best, (listening to this vid), is pretty nice for sure going to d-load it. Listening to Mississippi moon as I finish writing this...My mom's going to bve buried in the Mississippi delta in a couple hours. I am many hundreds of miles from there trying my bedst to keedp the living family safe from covid19. Sorry Mom, has to be this way, but we'll get together once things get calmer on the germ front. My mother was way far from being a dead head, but I reckon she'd like some of this musical gold/best I could find Mom;RIP, Carolyn.
Check out 5/31/83 if you want to hear some amazing guitar work from Jerry . It's an AUD but the sounds is quite good and Jerry is turned up loud in the mix !
Waiting for a Miracle gets me emotional nearly every time I listen to it. This version is not an exception, thinking about how much damn soul Jer and Clarence are putting into the melodies, and their absence from the scene now only makes me appreciate this video that much more!!
The Deal, one of my favorite songs, on this show, may be the best version I have heard to date. It's pure Garcia.There will only be one Jerry Garcia, R.I.P. His great music lives on.
√ Set 1 0:00:00 0:00:53 ~ Cats Under The Stars 0:11:55 ~ They Love Each Other 0:21:00 ~ Knockin' On Heaven's Door 0:35:25 ~ Run For The Roses 0:41:54 ~ Mississippi Moon 0:51:40 ~ Hope It Won't Be This Way 0:56:29 ~ Deal 1:05:05 ::: // End of first set √√ Set 2 1:05:33 // back on stage 1:05:41 ~ Second That Emotion 1:14:05 ~ And It Stoned Me 1:22:44 ~ A Simple Twist of Fate 1:35:08 ~ Waiting For A Miracle 1:42:29 ~ Evangeline 1:47:20 ~ That Lucky Old Sun >>> 1:54:30 °°°∆ Melvin Seals on Hammond B3 1:58:40 ~ Tangled Up In Blue @Evan *"#^°÷∆π√ thanks Jerry Garcia Band _ 9 10 89
Sorry screwed up! This one is up there at the top, the place reserved for the ones that are the very very best of the best! Thank you for doing an awesome job of putting this all together. When I turn young people onto Jerry Garcia this is one of the concerts I will be giving them! Turn young people on too far superior music than anything they've ever heard.
Lucy Old Sun and Seals are rockin'!!! I LOVE Seals band, today - more than any of the other ones, Seals got it down and his keyboards are outasite! Thumbs up to Melvin Seals!!!
When Shakyamuni Buddha taught in this world he spoke on the 3 types of Buddhas that are hoped for to appear in this world: 1) those that liberate by word 2) those that liberate by art and music and 3) those that liberate by creating a sacred space for beings to come into and experience their true nature. Garcia obviously is all 3 types of Buddha at once. What an appearance.
Thanks for this! Both stellar shows that weekend and the first of the run with, "The Big Man" Clarence Clemmons on sax. Had a great but challenging time the first night. Jerry saved me with, "Lonesome and a Long Way From Home,..... somebody help me, somebody help me!" Then this beautiful show to follow. This Heaven's Door is seared in to my DNA! Also the night I was turned on to the great Bruce Cockburn via JGB and a college friend.
I was at this show and it was awesome!! One of my best friends was there and almost lost his mind during Deal; I thought we were going to have to take him to the (loony) bin (he was not tripping).
Clarence Clemmons was good with JGB. One the first of a handful of appearances with JGB and the Dead. Massachusetts is a really nice place to be in September, these two shows were the only outdoor appearances on this tour, they were added late and went on sale last minute.
Dennis Campbell old orchard? Was outside no. And I agree with the sentiment, impossible to find JGB 95 Warfield, as shining star Johnny to bad shining star, cannot find a good recording for the life of me. Yeah for some reason tickets were pretty hard for this tour, for some reason, that reason being Jerry but I remember just being so happy getting the old orchard tickets. Pretty upset I didn’t make this as well, but couldn’t get away to both unfortunately. Anyway I love you tube. Thankfully someone made a lot of great videos of a lot of great bands, and especially Jerry. Pretty sweet a dead show a day or Jerry show a day keeps the doctor away. But yeah there was a time when you could be flying out to California on spring break in 1987 and find out Jerry was playing in LA, and be surprised. Nowadays everything is known before it even happens. And that’s cool but just makes everything a lot more expensive when it comes to the concert business. But there’s paper view as well so two sides to everything. Anyway I love these videos I love you tube. Let’s hope they never get weird with the rock ‘n’ roll shows, as I think a lot of people have come to depend on them in good times and in bad. I wrote Pete Townshend the other day that rock ‘n’ roll has already save the world. What else brings such joy to people? Anyway I love the way Clemens is not afraid to play loud, as if you’re gonna play play baby. And Jerry loves it. Probably inspired him to start playing more and more himself with the midi. And then go on to answer a question about if he wish he followed in his father‘s footsteps and was a great horn player, and he paused and then answered I am a great horn player. Damn straight
One of the Best days of my life. First show but obviously not my last. Moved to Colorado 10 days later. I would say more but I just booted up:) Thanks Scooter!!!
"And It Stoned Me" always makes me think of when I hitchhiked with a friend to a swimming hole in Maine in the summer of '68. Even if I hear the song a million times, it brings back a great memory.
this Cats is my favorite cats. Whoadude you have made my life so full and joyful. Thank you for the music. I love it and am so grateful to you what you sent. Youre a grate hero of mine and could never repay you
I wasn't out of high school yet and wasn't hip yet... I was about to be, but wasn't lucky enough to catch this amazing show. This was a day after my seventeenth birthday and have still haven't had, and sadly never will, the luxury of a Jerry birthday. Still hoping for a birthday filled with live Grateful Dead music though! "People tell me it's a sin to know and feel too much within..."
I was at both shows,how about them checking tix on the way in the parking lot!Opening trunks to make sure there were no stowaways.Reminded me of an old drive-in theatre! I could hardly believe he actually played there.I MISS THIS MAN MORE THAN ANYONE!
Great to see this on here. If I remember correctly Bob & Rob opened the show. Pretty sure they opened with "Twilight Time". What a beautiful night it was. Still remember driving home and singing "Ant it Stoned Me" the whole way.
That second set proves Garcia was a most perfectly devoted loving husband to his muse. Unreal that love there. He was a perfect example of love. A perfect human being. Perfect show start to finish. Can't beat it.
Had the amazing fortune to be front row and center for the Tangled at the end. Great video and audio....thank you for posting. Forgot what an awesome evening this was....may be one of my favorite Jerry shows ever!!!
Total tear jerker of a show for me. Mississippi Moon, Simple Twist of Fate, Waiting for a Miracle and Lucky Old Sun? My tear ducts never stood a chance.
Was there that night, down in front. Amazing show, and what a way to start! An incredible version of Cats. Some used to say that Jerry played better with Garcia Band than with the Dead. This was one of those nights. He certainly looked happier with JGB, but then... we all love our own projects. It gave him the chance to play a lot of blues, folk, Motown and even some reggae... and the Dead didn't do some of that (or not well, at least.) I always felt that John Kahn gave Jerry a more comfortable groove to work with than Phil... but Phil also challenged Jerry more. And he didn't shoot up with him, either.
SJ Cohn jerry didnt shoot up as you say.. He smoked his heroin, chased the dragon. Before you open your mouth to spread stigma make sure you got your facts straight. Whatever got him through the night is what I say. Who are you or I to judge him? Or anyone for that matter. End the drug war and end stigmatizing of drug takers........ Time to grow up.....
I was at this show, though I can't say that I remember it, other than a vague recollection of Cats. I wish I did. It was obviously a hell of a night. I can only make a couple of observations about that period. The late 80s were great for Jerry. He was lucid-- sober, I think, or at least he didn't "hit the harder stuff"-- and his playing showed it. He took his technique to new levels, though he was never a technical player. His intonation and tone were at their best. He was confident when he stepped up for a solo. My impression was that he really loved playing with JGB. It wasn't just that it was his own project, but also that it really fit his style of playing (at its heart) better than the Dead. The Dead stretched him to explore that "out" psychedelic side, but JGB provided him that groove that his country, blues and R&B playing needed. Plus, he didn't have that popcorn machine (Hart and Kreutzmann), as he put it, behind him. Sometimes, he even seemed a bit happier when touring with this project. Occasionally, I wondered if he was going to leave the Dead and just focus on this project, but it would've been hard for him to do that, with the "family" and the fans and whatnot. Sadly, from what I understand, John Kahn (despite being a fantastic bassist) ultimately wasn't the greatest influence on him. There were many times that I enjoyed Garcia Band much more than the Dead. You could count on JGB putting on a good show, where the Dead... not so much. Two different flavors... both great. I may not remember much about 9/10/89, but I know that I loved it as much as the summer Dead shows that I saw (e.g., 7/4/89, 7/7/89), and those were pretty epic.
I was in the middle of a recording session w/my little band,when my bass player sez,I got tix to the j.g show(he didn't really dig this music,he just wanted to kick deadhead out of his seat..they were front row!,he wasn't very nice..)...an awesome show,didn't get there till harder they come..but it was a total hoot hearing Clarence going free form in the improvs..
Absolutely fucking incredible and holy first set. There's your gate slammer right there. He shuts the big door to lower realms in a big way. All beings up and out. Be happy. He gave his life to serve your happiness and liberate you to heaven.
If you look at images of Shakyamuni Buddha historically he has two highest arhats on either side of him. Very high archangels or mahabodhisattva Buddhas incarnate. That would be Kahn and Clemmons for real. Both so winged it's difficult to count just how many wings. More light feathers each than pieces of sand in this world. Incredible to have them both there.
Powerhouse show. Any other band you'd say at the end of the first set "the band didn't take a set real and played one long set". This is a marathon. It's incredible, too. Clemmons is so so great.
Thanks guys really, I can't believe this exists, I have never seen it. JGB vids were wicked rare from this time period. These were truly special shows.
dennis campbell Very cool for you!! Isn't that GREAT I wz first row, 4th seat at MSG, on a $20 scalper ticket, I stood in front of Garcia and held out my joint to him. He stared a bit, then gave a sharp nod of his head, like, "Ok, thaz enuf!" You Tube way cut down my comment lmao
I think I remember this show, but in my mind it was during the day. Perhaps there was a daytime show the next day. At any rate, how cool is it that Jerry is playing with Clarence Clemens, his old room mate. I think I recall that Bob Weir and Bob Wasserman opened this show. I could be wrong, but that's how I remember it. I also remember looking around and wondering why the show was so sparsely attended.
Was this show ever put to disc officially? I've collected quite a few of JGB shows but not this. The soul, the blues, the organ, the horn makes me feel like I'm in church in the deep south amazing! I miss Jerry and The Dead a lot
The 1991 shows up the East Coast are OUTASITE! I dunno why in particular. Shows from 1989 and up (JGB) are forkin' superb! They're not readily available, either. Lucky Old Sun hits me right where it hurts, right in my solar plexus. 1:56:05 organ is too much! I also don't know why I was surprised at how damn good the East Coast shows are up 'till '94 Probably '95, also but I jut havn't been able to go there. VA shows... the shows start getting HOT, Rhode Island and Maine are always shows I try to find from '89 - '94. Absolutely 1991. The shows with The Grateful Dead are outrageous to start with! Then Garcias' guitar with The JGB can't be topped. The Entire JGB is tight and together and working! How great does Clarence Clemens sax work? Percussion is outasite. WOW!!! I put them on clip converter and then to disc. Apparently NOT fast enough because two shows on my playlist have been deleted & I screwed up my clip converter, it can't find where to save the file. I use Clip Converter a lot for putting stuff on disc. 2:07:06 Garcia is smoking and Garcia's cookin' in all these shows up the East Coast!! They are not readily available?? and they blow my mind. Put 'em on disc quick!
Lizzie Sangi yup SAW LOTS OF east coast GD shows 79-87 I personally recommend Augusta p[Portland Lewiston and oxford Maine lots on archive.orgsaw jgb in Seattle in 91 great stuff
onthebus11 Thank you! Ya, zip files are cool. dwnld a stream? I believe I tried and it went to chrome HTML format There is a concert sharing site (LL) and I was DYING! It has JGB shows from RI, '95, the set lists are, a MA zing! but the shows can't be played. I'm dying over the set lists!
+Lizzie Sangi The east coast shows had a higher energy level that was brought by the crowd more so than back home. East Coast people can get pretty excitable around New York and New England. Philly too. Demographics. South of Philly, things mellow right out.
Jerry was a truly kind man and I met him on 3 / 21 /1971, in Providence Rhode Island. He was sitting on the edge of the stage and I walked up to say how much I loved the band and his playing. He smiled and we shook hands. So as he started to stand up to start the show, I asked him if I could sit behind the amps and he said go ahead and turned to Ramrod and said to let me get behind the amps and he pushed aside a drum case and let me climb up. So after the show started I noticed the guy who was the sound man was dropping a liquid from a murine bottle on the back of people's hand and then they licked it off. I stuck my hand out and he put 3 drops on it and I licked it off. I was Bear himself and I got to know his people really well, that's an other story. I ended up sitting right behind Pigpen, who was still playing. So Jerry himself let me get on the bus and the king of making acid dosed me. That's was all I needed to know I had found something special and I still go to shows almost every year. They never let me down and I made some really good friends over the years. If you had a better first show, lets hear about it. Love to all my sisters and brothers,still here and to those who are gone, but not forgotten.⚡️🎸⚡️🖖🏽⚡️🎸⚡️
Stephen Marksberry lolo ! Not me !! You win
Hands down you win !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and the rest is history - glad you told that story - we all dreamed that could be us ! (~);}
Jerry ❤is pure love he’s only human and well he’s really cool !
This is without a doubt the absolutely best version of Knocking on heaven's door that I have heard in my more than my thirty years of listening to Jerry. If you want to know Jerry just watch the way smiles throughout the song. He very rarely smiles like that if ever or moves LOL. You can feel the message of peace and love flowing from his very being. The song leaves me a sobbing emotional wreck everytime I hear it and sing-along with it while at the same time giving me so much hope that we may someday learn the lesson that Jerry was so desperately trying to teach us. Learn well my brothers and sisters....
Jerry Garcia is the defender of the magical fairies that live in his hair.
This is full on Barrister Wig Jerry here. Holding court and finding the audience guilty of being heady.
Merle,s spiritual keys make this into Jerrys healing Church. I ve felt reborn after Santana concerts and jerrys got ít as well. Way well. Great.
That was a crazy week of shows. Two nights of Jerry at Great Woods, then the next night Tom Tom Club at The Paradise, then Jerry at Hartford Civic Center. Youth is a wonderful thing!🍀
I was at this show im still with the same little hippie chick and were still spinning HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERRY
I WAS AT THIS SHOW. IT WAS GREAT, BUT A COUPLE OF DOSES MADE IT A HELL OF A NIGHT.
I doubt those Ancient Greek Mystery Cult secret initiations would be able to hold a candle to a good JGB show.
August 1st... same as Robert cray Jah herb 🌿Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert
The world needs more of this. Thank you Mr Garcia.
Did the entire tour, never a dull night. Jerry was having fun, and the Big Man was a bonus at most of the shows. So tight...
My first JGB shows were on that tour. Alpine and Poplar Creek.
A world without Clarence and Jerry. is sad. They made it brighter, though.
Was there, but didn't realize what a rippin' show it was until watching this. I mean, I remember it being good, but....
All I know is this: I'm 59 years old, and I love this show.
A Huge Thanks to whoever made this video possible, from someone who just got on the bus about a year ago in my late 30s sadly I can never see Jerry, but I got to see Melvin Seals 4 times this year have met him and spent some time talking to him at a festival in PA this summer at my daughters first festival, couldnt ask for a nicer man security came to tell us we needed to leave that area bc we werent artists and melvin told the guy its ok he just came out to introduce his daughter, even before i met him it amazed me i would catch him looking out over the crowd seeing people dancing enjoying what they were doing with a huge grin on his face
The Chad it’s never too late to get on the bus!!
Was that the Peach Music festival? ??
John, no it was at a small festival in PA
My one and only Jerry show. Thank you for this video.
Honestly crazy tbh such a great show I can't imagine
Been almost 30 years. Still sounds so good. Jerry operated in a realm all his own. He had technical prowess, but his playing wasn't about that. With one note, he could change a listener's entire mood for the better. I never saw Jerry play with this version of his band (with or without Clemons), but I did see JGB after Jerry's passing. RIP Gloria Jones; she and Jacky LaBranch provided harmonies that made you feel almost like you were in church. Clemons sat in with the Grateful Dead as well. IMO, he fit in much better with JGB's more traditional approach than with the Dead's collective improvisation.
I've been skipping through a few hours of new2Me Jerry Band shows this morning, and felt like a minor who'd been panning hard but only found enough flour to pay for supplies to pan another day; but then I found this fat nugget! Thanks guys and gals!!!..., would have loved to have been on my feet dancin or just listening in the clouds at this show. Next best, (listening to this vid), is pretty nice for sure going to d-load it. Listening to Mississippi moon as I finish writing this...My mom's going to bve buried in the Mississippi delta in a couple hours. I am many hundreds of miles from there trying my bedst to keedp the living family safe from covid19. Sorry Mom, has to be this way, but we'll get together once things get calmer on the germ front. My mother was way far from being a dead head, but I reckon she'd like some of this musical gold/best I could find Mom;RIP, Carolyn.
Check out 5/31/83 if you want to hear some amazing guitar work from Jerry . It's an AUD but the sounds is quite good and Jerry is turned up loud in the mix !
Waiting for a Miracle gets me emotional nearly every time I listen to it. This version is not an exception, thinking about how much damn soul Jer and Clarence are putting into the melodies, and their absence from the scene now only makes me appreciate this video that much more!!
The Deal, one of my favorite songs, on this show, may be the best version I have heard to date. It's pure Garcia.There will only be one Jerry Garcia, R.I.P. His great music lives on.
√ Set 1
0:00:00
0:00:53 ~ Cats Under The Stars
0:11:55 ~ They Love Each Other
0:21:00 ~ Knockin' On Heaven's Door
0:35:25 ~ Run For The Roses
0:41:54 ~ Mississippi Moon
0:51:40 ~ Hope It Won't Be This Way
0:56:29 ~ Deal
1:05:05 ::: // End of first set
√√ Set 2
1:05:33 // back on stage
1:05:41 ~ Second That Emotion
1:14:05 ~ And It Stoned Me
1:22:44 ~ A Simple Twist of Fate
1:35:08 ~ Waiting For A Miracle
1:42:29 ~ Evangeline
1:47:20 ~ That Lucky Old Sun
>>> 1:54:30 °°°∆ Melvin Seals on Hammond B3
1:58:40 ~ Tangled Up In Blue
@Evan *"#^°÷∆π√ thanks
Jerry Garcia Band _ 9 10 89
good job.
This concert is over the top! At 65 years old and a lifetime of listening to Jerry.
Sorry screwed up! This one is up there at the top, the place reserved for the ones that are the very very best of the best! Thank you for doing an awesome job of putting this all together. When I turn young people onto Jerry Garcia this is one of the concerts I will be giving them! Turn young people on too far superior music than anything they've ever heard.
Lucy Old Sun and Seals are rockin'!!! I LOVE Seals band, today - more than any of the other ones, Seals got it down and his keyboards are outasite! Thumbs up to Melvin Seals!!!
Melvin is killer! Seen him 4 or 5 times in the last year and a half! That band is super tight!
Melvin is the man for sure!
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What a lovely solo Jerry plays in 'And It Stoned Me'!
This is like finding an OZ on the ground!!!! I saw my only JGB show a few days after this at Alpine Valley....RIP Jerry, John K., Clarence & Gloria!!
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And who have believed that the incredible Melvin Seals would still be making that B3 scream. God bless Melvin
I was at both of these. Security outside was lame but the shows were special for sure. Rumors were already flying about the upcoming Warlocks shows.
When Shakyamuni Buddha taught in this world he spoke on the 3 types of Buddhas that are hoped for to appear in this world: 1) those that liberate by word 2) those that liberate by art and music and 3) those that liberate by creating a sacred space for beings to come into and experience their true nature. Garcia obviously is all 3 types of Buddha at once. What an appearance.
Vee K. We are so lucky to have been alive during this time. To have witnessed the rennaisance of the 1960's up til the 90s just blows my mind.
It was a SPIRITUAL experience....always!!!!
I was at this show and have cassettes kicking around someplace with this show on it....
Such a talented and humble performer.
Strom Thurmond said to Jerry, I hear you are a rock star. Jerry said I try.
Thanks for this! Both stellar shows that weekend and the first of the run with, "The Big Man" Clarence Clemmons on sax. Had a great but challenging time the first night. Jerry saved me with, "Lonesome and a Long Way From Home,..... somebody help me, somebody help me!" Then this beautiful show to follow. This Heaven's Door is seared in to my DNA! Also the night I was turned on to the great Bruce Cockburn via JGB and a college friend.
I was there, I knew every song he played that night thanks to my Dad.
Thank you for this . This was a special night in my life❤😊
I was at this show and it was awesome!! One of my best friends was there and almost lost his mind during Deal; I thought we were going to have to take him to the (loony) bin (he was not tripping).
What a gem! The late great Clarence Clemons playing' in the band. Great share!
Clarence Clemmons was good with JGB. One the first of a handful of appearances with JGB and the Dead. Massachusetts is a really nice place to be in September, these two shows were the only outdoor appearances on this tour, they were added late and went on sale last minute.
Only time I saw the dead was September of 94 at the old Garden. Was just a junior high kid, shaped a lot of my perspective on life really
FortWarren This music stays with you. I still listen to the Dead almost every day.
Was there truly epic
Dennis Campbell old orchard? Was outside no. And I agree with the sentiment, impossible to find JGB 95 Warfield, as shining star Johnny to bad shining star, cannot find a good recording for the life of me. Yeah for some reason tickets were pretty hard for this tour, for some reason, that reason being Jerry but I remember just being so happy getting the old orchard tickets. Pretty upset I didn’t make this as well, but couldn’t get away to both unfortunately. Anyway I love you tube. Thankfully someone made a lot of great videos of a lot of great bands, and especially Jerry. Pretty sweet a dead show a day or Jerry show a day keeps the doctor away. But yeah there was a time when you could be flying out to California on spring break in 1987 and find out Jerry was playing in LA, and be surprised. Nowadays everything is known before it even happens. And that’s cool but just makes everything a lot more expensive when it comes to the concert business. But there’s paper view as well so two sides to everything. Anyway I love these videos I love you tube. Let’s hope they never get weird with the rock ‘n’ roll shows, as I think a lot of people have come to depend on them in good times and in bad. I wrote Pete Townshend the other day that rock ‘n’ roll has already save the world. What else brings such joy to people? Anyway I love the way Clemens is not afraid to play loud, as if you’re gonna play play baby. And Jerry loves it. Probably inspired him to start playing more and more himself with the midi. And then go on to answer a question about if he wish he followed in his father‘s footsteps and was a great horn player, and he paused and then answered I am a great horn player. Damn straight
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I was there. GREAT WOODS...❤😊
One of the Best days of my life. First show but obviously not my last. Moved to Colorado 10 days later. I would say more but I just booted up:)
Thanks Scooter!!!
Sounds as good as I remember. Jerry's last great period imo. Beautiful place to see JGB.
Agreed on last Great Period - I will take not so good either - These Jerry show were great, I was in Minnesota but went the Mid-west shows
Happy to say I was there!
"And It Stoned Me" always makes me think of when I hitchhiked with a friend to a swimming hole in Maine in the summer of '68. Even if I hear the song a million times, it brings back a great memory.
Sarah C. Stoned me too. Would had loved them to cover St. Dominick’s Preview also.
Gotta love that B3, first with Knockin' On Heaven's Door then on That Lucky Old Sun ...
Geoff Wible heck yeah bro! Awesome on DEAL too!
I second that emotion...😊
this Cats is my favorite cats. Whoadude you have made my life so full and joyful. Thank you for the music. I love it and am so grateful to you what you sent. Youre a grate hero of mine and could never repay you
I wasn't out of high school yet and wasn't hip yet... I was about to be, but wasn't lucky enough to catch this amazing show. This was a day after my seventeenth birthday and have still haven't had, and sadly never will, the luxury of a Jerry birthday. Still hoping for a birthday filled with live Grateful Dead music though! "People tell me it's a sin to know and feel too much within..."
Other worldly "Lucky Old Sun", I felt the tear ducts jerkin...so much soul
And continue to thanks to recordings such as these!
I was at both shows,how about them checking tix on the way in the parking lot!Opening trunks to make sure there were no stowaways.Reminded me of an old drive-in theatre! I could hardly believe he actually played there.I MISS THIS MAN MORE THAN ANYONE!
I remembered there was a full moon that night at Great woods amphitheater. Love those soulful backup singers...sweet sounds to fill the air
Spectacular Stoned Me.
Great to see this on here. If I remember correctly Bob & Rob opened the show. Pretty sure they opened with "Twilight Time". What a beautiful night it was. Still remember driving home and singing "Ant it Stoned Me" the whole way.
I love Jerry Garcia!
This is amazing sounding, thanks Whoa dude !!
That second set proves Garcia was a most perfectly devoted loving husband to his muse. Unreal that love there. He was a perfect example of love. A perfect human being. Perfect show start to finish. Can't beat it.
Had the amazing fortune to be front row and center for the Tangled at the end. Great video and audio....thank you for posting. Forgot what an awesome evening this was....may be one of my favorite Jerry shows ever!!!
Total tear jerker of a show for me. Mississippi Moon, Simple Twist of Fate, Waiting for a Miracle and Lucky Old Sun? My tear ducts never stood a chance.
JUST GREAT. WOW
Another great vid! Got us grooving nice here during Sunday breakfast. Hoping to be snowshooin to the watershed by the 2nd set. Jerry lives
Schuylker Please check out the LessThanFace Productions website. Many, many great videos, all from my video master recordings.
Was there that night, down in front. Amazing show, and what a way to start! An incredible version of Cats. Some used to say that Jerry played better with Garcia Band than with the Dead. This was one of those nights.
He certainly looked happier with JGB, but then... we all love our own projects. It gave him the chance to play a lot of blues, folk, Motown and even some reggae... and the Dead didn't do some of that (or not well, at least.) I always felt that John Kahn gave Jerry a more comfortable groove to work with than Phil... but Phil also challenged Jerry more.
And he didn't shoot up with him, either.
SJ Cohn jerry didnt shoot up as you say.. He smoked his heroin, chased the dragon. Before you open your mouth to spread stigma make sure you got your facts straight. Whatever got him through the night is what I say. Who are you or I to judge him? Or anyone for that matter. End the drug war and end stigmatizing of drug takers........ Time to grow up.....
I was at this show! This tour was the first time I saw the JGB, but my first JGB show was several nights earlier in Hartford.
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I was at this show, though I can't say that I remember it, other than a vague recollection of Cats. I wish I did. It was obviously a hell of a night.
I can only make a couple of observations about that period. The late 80s were great for Jerry. He was lucid-- sober, I think, or at least he didn't "hit the harder stuff"-- and his playing showed it. He took his technique to new levels, though he was never a technical player. His intonation and tone were at their best. He was confident when he stepped up for a solo. My impression was that he really loved playing with JGB. It wasn't just that it was his own project, but also that it really fit his style of playing (at its heart) better than the Dead. The Dead stretched him to explore that "out" psychedelic side, but JGB provided him that groove that his country, blues and R&B playing needed. Plus, he didn't have that popcorn machine (Hart and Kreutzmann), as he put it, behind him. Sometimes, he even seemed a bit happier when touring with this project. Occasionally, I wondered if he was going to leave the Dead and just focus on this project, but it would've been hard for him to do that, with the "family" and the fans and whatnot. Sadly, from what I understand, John Kahn (despite being a fantastic bassist) ultimately wasn't the greatest influence on him.
There were many times that I enjoyed Garcia Band much more than the Dead. You could count on JGB putting on a good show, where the Dead... not so much. Two different flavors... both great. I may not remember much about 9/10/89, but I know that I loved it as much as the summer Dead shows that I saw (e.g., 7/4/89, 7/7/89), and those were pretty epic.
I was fortunate enuf to see many jerry shows..
I preferred them over the dead...
more spiritual, soulful, and funkier,
and smaller scale...
I was in the middle of a recording session w/my little band,when my bass player sez,I got tix to the j.g show(he didn't really dig this music,he just wanted to kick deadhead out of his seat..they were front row!,he wasn't very nice..)...an awesome show,didn't get there till harder they come..but it was a total hoot hearing Clarence going free form in the improvs..
I was there! Thank for posting
What an awesome show...I am jealous
I love you Jerry!
Really ain't nothing like the East Coast shows starting 1985 and all the way. Every one was a smoker.
What a great show and the video and sound are great.
Jerry really enjoyed playing with a tight Stax/Muscle Shoals type rhythm section.
Thank you Less Than Face!
Absolutely fucking incredible and holy first set. There's your gate slammer right there. He shuts the big door to lower realms in a big way. All beings up and out. Be happy. He gave his life to serve your happiness and liberate you to heaven.
If you look at images of Shakyamuni Buddha historically he has two highest arhats on either side of him. Very high archangels or mahabodhisattva Buddhas incarnate. That would be Kahn and Clemmons for real. Both so winged it's difficult to count just how many wings. More light feathers each than pieces of sand in this world. Incredible to have them both there.
Yeah,,, time to berry my head in the pillow good night and good morning and I love you
Holy crow 😊 32 years ago...OMG
They loved each other & we loved Jerry and his krewe!
Powerhouse show. Any other band you'd say at the end of the first set "the band didn't take a set real and played one long set". This is a marathon. It's incredible, too. Clemmons is so so great.
Jerry ❤
Was there, Was GREAT, Would do it again (~);}
Good ol'Jerry
6 minutes in and i'm sold
Majestic Jerry
Best wishes to all from Less Than Face Productions from whom this video came.
Thanks guys really, I can't believe this exists, I have never seen it. JGB vids were wicked rare from this time period. These were truly special shows.
dennis campbell The vids from this time ARE wicked rare!!
This was my first JGB show, my seats were cozy, 10th row on Jerry's mike.
dennis campbell Very cool for you!! Isn't that GREAT I wz first row, 4th seat at MSG, on a $20 scalper ticket, I stood in front of Garcia and held out my joint to him. He stared a bit, then gave a sharp nod of his head, like, "Ok, thaz enuf!"
You Tube way cut down my comment lmao
MSG was great! The staff there was great to me.
Wow!!!!
Mississippi moon sweet one of my favorite
Was there had front row seats
Jamming Jerry on a beautiful 🌖🌜
I think I remember this show, but in my mind it was during the day. Perhaps there was a daytime show the next day. At any rate, how cool is it that Jerry is playing with Clarence Clemens, his old room mate. I think I recall that Bob Weir and Bob Wasserman opened this show. I could be wrong, but that's how I remember it. I also remember looking around and wondering why the show was so sparsely attended.
Saw this show then went old Orchard Park Maine to see Jer the next night they played
This is great, its like Bob who and Phil what? who needed em anyways.
Melvin Seals. Love you man !!
García es múy macho gúítarísta yer the notes flow so meliflu
ously.
Paradise
The best Simple Twist of Fate
hardongear simple twist of bass. Great stuff.
Fucking gold!!!!!!!
BEST CATS UNDER THE STARS EVERRRRRR
"Go for it John" Jerry @ 1:31:09
Mississippi moon gets me everytime
So good that’s all
This is some smokin Jerry Band at the peak !
Was this show ever put to disc officially? I've collected quite a few of JGB shows but not this. The soul, the blues, the organ, the horn makes me feel like I'm in church in the deep south amazing! I miss Jerry and The Dead a lot
28:35 thank you, Melvin, for the out of body experience
So fire
🔥🔥💥💥
O Yea,Clarence!!!!!#!!!!!
The 1991 shows up the East Coast are OUTASITE! I dunno why in particular. Shows from 1989 and up (JGB) are forkin' superb! They're not readily available, either. Lucky Old Sun hits me right where it hurts, right in my solar plexus. 1:56:05 organ is too much! I also don't know why I was surprised at how damn good the East Coast shows are up 'till '94 Probably '95, also but I jut havn't been able to go there. VA shows... the shows start getting HOT, Rhode Island and Maine are always shows I try to find from '89 - '94. Absolutely 1991. The shows with The Grateful Dead are outrageous to start with! Then Garcias' guitar with The JGB can't be topped. The Entire JGB is tight and together and working! How great does Clarence Clemens sax work? Percussion is outasite. WOW!!!
I put them on clip converter and then to disc. Apparently NOT fast enough because two shows on my playlist have been deleted & I screwed up my clip converter, it can't find where to save the file. I use Clip Converter a lot for putting stuff on disc. 2:07:06 Garcia is smoking and Garcia's cookin' in all these shows up the East Coast!! They are not readily available?? and they blow my mind. Put 'em on disc quick!
Lizzie Sangi yup SAW LOTS OF east coast GD shows 79-87 I personally recommend Augusta p[Portland Lewiston and oxford Maine lots on archive.orgsaw jgb in Seattle in 91 great stuff
onthebus11 just, archives.org? Thas it?
yes you can download alot in zip files some are stream only always check for other cop[ies enjoy
onthebus11 Thank you! Ya, zip files are cool. dwnld a stream? I believe I tried and it went to chrome HTML format
There is a concert sharing site (LL) and I was DYING! It has JGB shows from RI, '95, the set lists are, a MA zing! but the shows can't be played. I'm dying over the set lists!
+Lizzie Sangi The east coast shows had a higher energy level that was brought by the crowd more so than back home. East Coast people can get pretty excitable around New York and New England. Philly too. Demographics. South of Philly, things mellow right out.
among other things this night Melvin soloing in Miss Moon is really pretty. gotta say. this is one of those perfect shows
Best regards to all from Less Than Face Productions from whom this video came.
I was there.
Steve Laredo nice
can u give us any details of the day?
I've seen many shows, many legends, and a lot of Phish at GW
...any memories?
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Yo dude this is great, Jerry was on his A game fo' sho' can we get the 🔥 Alpine and Poplar Creek shows the nights' prior in this quality?!'