Oh tidings of comfort and joy

Merry Christmas, Amy. I miss you.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
12/7/91 Warfield Theater, San Francisco

Dawg Music Straight Outta Jersey

By total coincidence, my other musical selection for the day kinda sorta also comes from the great mafia and corruption state of New Jersey... Hackensack this time. I didn't know that Jerry's good friend and Grateful Dead disliker was from Jersey, but low and behold, me and Mr. Grisman are fellow New Jerseyans. I wasn't actually born in NJ but I did grow up there. I'm more Jersey than I am a New Englander. I'm happy to claim both...

and happy to be listening to some DGQ from a little more than a week ago, from some little music festival in Tennessee, Jed, a festival a few people may have hoid of....

David Grisman Quintet June 13, 2009 The Other Tent Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester, Tennessee

James Kerwin - bass
Matt Eakle - flute and bass flute
George Marsh - drums, percussion
Grant Gordy - guitar
* with Eric Robertson on mandolin

Eat My Dust
Bluegrass at the Beach
?
Tracy's Tune
Svingin' with Sven
Acousticity
Pigeon Roost
Grateful Dawg
Dawg's Waltz
16/16
Newly Wedding
Dawg's Rag
Shady Grove*

I really need to be shot or something for not listening to a David Grisman show more often. What a great bunch of tunes this is! The crowd really digs when David mentions that they're going to play something that he did with Jerry. There was a similar crowd reaction when James Kerwin (who played with Garcia-Grisman) was introduced.

Fun stuff throughout. Grisman, at age 64, is still kickin'... maybe just as strong as ever?!

Download The Show Here (320 kbps) DGQ - Part 1: Bonnaroo '09 ♦ Part II: Grisman - 6/13/09 Source & Lineage: C4s>PS2>AD20>iriver>cdwave>soundforge (fades)>flacfrontend (lvl 8)

free mp3 download with setlist 6-13-09 a.k.a. 06-13-09 a.k.a. 6/13/09 a.k.a. 06/13/09 a.k.a. 09-06-13



Some more great pics Here.

85° & Sunny is hardly Windy & Rainy

There's actually a Heat Index for the Lowcountry of South Carolina today. Ceiling fan is on. And even the air-conditioning is on. Disgusting warmth. Ain't no wind and rain 'round these parts... well, ain't no wind and rain except for this:

12-7-91 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco

That's it for Dead content for today.
Downloads shall (hopefully) resume on the morrow.

Hey Now!

Hey how are ya'? Dare I say it? It is starting to feel a little bit like spring this morning. Nice. I am doing much better since my last post. For one thing, I now understand binary! I am not so sure about adding and subtracting in binary, but I understand counting, so that's a start. My instructor is wonderful and I can go to her office hours and ask her. Also, the binary thing is not that important in the big picture of this class. I'm learning to program in Python and that part is challenging and actually kind of fun. So I've been thinking about loops and it occurs to me that sometimes when people just won't stop exchanging insults with people they don't know on the internet it is like an indefinite loop. Rinse and repeat.

It also makes me think of my favorite web comic:


This is from xkcd.

You know what else? I love David Grisman. I really want to go see him play but it looks like he won't be near me any time soon. Maybe I should move to California.

Y'all have a Merry Christmas now

Before the music, let me ask you - need a last minute gift for someone?

Giving a gift of charity is perhaps one of the best presents you can ever give to anyone. It doesn't have to be just about what you get for someone and what someone gets from you, it can also be about doing something for someone in need -- at the very same time.

"Imagine if there was more charity and less materialism in Christmas giving. Think about how much your charitable friends might appreciate a gift to their favorite charity, or how you might appreciate a gift to your favorite charity. Imagine how personalized, easy and meaningful Christmas shopping would be if you gave these charitable gifts online. And consider how great it would be if these gifts were tax deductible."

It's not about reinventing the holiday. It's about changing the way we look at gift giving and receiving. It's taking money we usually spend on obligatory gifts with little meaning, and creating gifts of charity that give in multiple ways, to the receiver, the giver, and people who truly need.

"There is no question we are in the midst of difficult financial times. And if it has you feeling unsure or uncomfortable this holiday season, imagine how purely difficult it's becoming for people who already, or are about to, depend on the generosity of others for the things that only a donation can provide.

As we consider our individual place in this world we can be of help to others with a simple gesture that bestows the gift of charity on those who are in need, on behalf of the ones we care about. If this sounds like a good idea to you, redefine Christmas by giving others donations to their favorite charities, request that others do the same for you, and use this site to share this message with as many people as you can think of. Chances are, you'll like the way it feels."

visit: www.redefine-christmas.org

Thanks!

Enjoy the tunes!!

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
December 8, 1991 - Warfield Theatre
San Francisco, California
setlist & soundboard (SBD) 320 kbps mp3 download
with James Kerwin & Joe Craven

1st Set: Shady Grove, Sitting In Limbo, Rosalie McFall,
So What?, I Ain't Never, The Thrill Is Gone, Dawg's Waltz,
Dreadful Wind And Rain, Arabia

Set 2: Red Rockin' Chair, Trouble In Mind, Take Me Back,
Walkin' Boss, Jack-A-Roe, Friend Of The Devil, Louis Collins,
Grateful Dawg, Russian Lullaby, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Jam

Encore: Ripple

How much is there to say about this show? This was the second and last time I saw Garcia-Grisman, the first time being the night before. It was great living in Salt Lake City, Utah. A short drive to see many shows it certainly wasn't but it was in the general neighborhood of many (heh heh, anything in the West of the Rockies neighborhood was close enough to go see!) The first two nights of this three night stand in early December was yet another Grateful Dead related Bay Area excursion of mine, over the mountains and through the deserts, to see Jerry Garcia we go! When I post the first night someday, I'll tell my travel tale then, for right now I just want to get this up.

What a great show. My favorites in the first set are Sitting In Limbo and So What. Dare I say I'd rather hear Jerry & David do this than Miles Davis? I dig Miles just fine but hey, this is Garcia-Grisman, man! Dreadful Wind And Rain is oh so short but so nice, too!

In Set 2 is the reason I'm posting this at Christmastime -- the God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Jam is outstanding! At 9½ minutes it's over a minute and a half longer than anything else in the set. A perfect set closer.

Jerry's voice is strong throughout the show and with not a single lyric flub to be found? His guitar and banjo has been better, I think, but still the way he and Grisman play together, it's just magical. Here's a musical format where Jerry can just relax and enjoy himself, not that he didn't enjoy himself at this time with the Dead, but, well, there's just less pressure here and he can totally roll with it.

Enjoy!

P.S. Sugarmag gave me a web page she thought would be cool to share with y'all...

Hanging With The Dawg is about someone at the European premiere of the Garcia-Grisman documentary Grateful Dawg. It's pretty cool so check it out!!!

Source: Soundboard> DAT Master> CDR> SHN Audio Quality:	12/8/91 @ Archive.org: As of Dec 24, 2008 there is no Garcia at the Internet Archive.
Download Here Jer-David: Dec 8, '91 - Part 1 Part 2 -- Warfield 12/8/91 12/8/91 -- Part 3

12/8/91 aka 12/08/91 aka 12-8-91 aka 12-08-91 aka 91-12-08

The Most Pressureful Time Of The Year

Hey now it's me, Smag. I have been so busy lately with getting ready for Christmas, getting ready to start graduate school, plus the usual taking care of kids and dog that I have been doing a poor job of responding to comments. I have not listened to nearly as much music as I normally do and I've not been keeping up with the blogs that I normally rely on for entertainment and amusement. Somehow it is very important to me to have a clean house for Christmas, so I am doing weird things like putting away all of my CDs and organizing books. My Christmas gift to myself is that I can now fit my car into my garage. I just have to get the remote door opener working, but that's a whole other story. I don't know why things like that are so hard for me, I'm not mechanical I guess. My dad, however, is an engineer so it's a good thing I have him to help me. He is one of the smartest people I know.

A couple of things from comments I've been meaning to respond to... LSD America, your story about how you turned your life around and lost weight is amazing and inspiring. I laughed out loud that you apologized for the length-I don't think there is any danger of the internet running out of space! Promote your blog over here all you want, we don't mind! I have lost some weight in the last year, too. I have started exercising regularly and I have stopped over eating. These are lifestyle changes that I will have no problem maintaining. Last year at this time I was a size 18, now I am a size 12. I think I am still losing weight but my goal is to be healthy, not a particular size or weight. I want to build muscle and take care of my bones so that I will be able to do things I want to do when I'm 80.

Adam, Zoooma drew my attention to your comment that Deer Creek 91 was your first show-that was my first show too! How cool is that? I had just graduated from high school and turned 18. I went to Buckeye Lake after that (The Violent Femmes opened, I love them!) and I also saw Soldier Field that summer. Deer Creek was one of my favorite venues, it was a nice outdoor amphitheater and also it is about two hours from where I live so lots of my friends were there.

Also Adam, I saw your comment about El Paso missing from the Duke show, I'll see if I can fix it. You know what else? I don't like Duke either. They suck. Go Illinois! ILL...INI!!!!!

I wanted to share a little DAWG Christmas music with you. It's my favorite.

David Grisman - What Child Is This?

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

A Bay Area Bluegrass Bonanza

Halfway through April and the snow has not gone away ... in fact it's not only not all melted and still very much covering the ground -- it was snowing again this morning!! Well, a light snowfall, not even a dusting... but it was 11° (-12 C) when I was makin' coffee earlier around 6 ... and now a couple hours later: -4 (about -20 C.) Seriously? It's dropped 15 degrees?!?! Did I mention that it's mid-April? We all know that, right, that we're now more than halfway to May? This is still winter. But it's technically most definitely not winter. -4° right now!! This is winter. No, it's Spring. Totally it's winter. No, wait... Spring. Winter. Rabbit Season. Duck Season. Rabbit Season. Duck Season. Bluegrass season...

Great American String Band

June 13, 1974

Keystone, Berkeley, California

Jerry Garcia -- banjo, vocals
David Grisman -- mandolin, vocals
David Nichtern -- guitar, vocals
Richard Greene -- fiddle
Buell Neidlinger -- bass



1st Set: Colored Aristocracy, Cedar Hill, I'll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards,
My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid, Moonlight Waltz, Swing '42, Methodist Preacher,
Limehouse Blues

2nd Set: Bud's Bounceª, Dawg's Bull, Russian Lullaby, Virgin's Lamentª,
Swing '42ª, Drink Up And Go Home, Dawg's Rag

ª with Bob Gurland on mouth trumpet

This lineup of musicians is so very similar to the more well-known band who debuted a year and a few months before this -- Old & In The Way. But some changes have been made including John Kahn out and in his place on bass is Buell Neidlinger a.k.a. "Flame Bombadine." Nichtern is in for Peter Rowan on guitar. And lastly Richard Greene is returning to play again with Garcia & Grisman; Greene was the fiddle player for O&ITW for about the first half of their existence before Vassar Clements came in.

There weren't many shows with this bunch of guys, in fact this is just the fifth in less than two months... the fifth and final show for his group calling themselves the Great American String Band.

Colored Aristocracy may be the first song of the night but Grisman's Cedar Hill is definitely the song that gets the people in the Keystone excited for what's to come. I'll Be A Gambler is more of the same, very upbeat and probably makin' a lot of lucky ones on this night want to get up and do some dancin'. Might not be the Grateful Dead... but it still rocks... well, in the way this type of music can.

Now I'm no bluegrass afficionado by any means but as the band works their way through the rest of the set, they are demonstrating all around some beautiful ability to handle these instruments in a way that would make Bill Monroe quite pleased, I'm sure.

Methodist Preacher is my favorite of the first half of the show. For several minutes it's just Greene on fiddle and Grisman on mandolin, working to let the "rhythm generate for awhile." Minutes of that magic goes by before the rest of the band starts in to help finish up the song. Holy Appalachian Stomp, Jed Clampett, the crowd sure gets into this one!!! Whew!!! Oh yeah!

In the second set we finally get to hear Jerry sing. While he's been playin' the heck out of that banjo of his, the few songs with vocals so far have gone to Nichtern. Jerry's in the band but this ain't a Garcia-led show by any means. My ultimate highlight of the show comes compliments of Jerry in his second ever playing of Irving Berlin's Russian Lullaby. Richard Greene helped out on this when it was recorded in the studio for inclusion on Jerry's second studio album -- Compliments -- which had just been released the same month as this show. Twas just twenty-four hours before in the same bar by the same band that the song was debuted and here they are again with "Spud Boy," "Irving Garcia," giving it another go. Second ever playing? Beautiful! And at just over eight minutes it's the longest tune of the night to this point -- finally, a little room to just play... well, then again, considering there have been instrumentals performed, there's been plenty of room to play but, you know, there's just more of it in this song.

Grisman is actually the primary guy here, although Nichtern, sounding beautifully like Jerry on acoustic guitar, has his time to shine as does Greene on fiddle... while Jerry's part is actually not very big at all! Sort of ironic? I mean, Russian Lullaby is on his LP and he'd go on to perform it almost 150 times all the way up into the summer of 1994, and here he is singing it but his banjo playing is never a significant part of the music. One more interesting note about this 2nd ever playing -- it would be more than a year before he'd play it again, not until the show right before the JGB would head east for their big East Coast tour in the Fall of '75. Kind of a long time to sit on the shelf between this playing and all the rest. Neat stuff, huh? Yeah, I knew you'd think so.

Django Reinhardt's Swing '42 sees a return engagement in the 2nd Set, yes, repeated in the same show. The reason for this -- they wanted to do a version with guest Bob Gurland who had appeared on Bud's Bounce to open the set as well as Virgin's Lament right before this. Gurland, when he's out there and playin', adds an interesting horn sound to make the songs he joins in on a bit different than the rest. And while Set 1 was comprised of a bunch of quick numbers, at over ten minutes here we have another rambler, even more so than Russian Lullaby... more space to just play which I'm sure many Deadheads appreciate. I sure do.

Jerry sings once more and leads the way on not quite the last song but Drink Up And Go Home sure woulda been a great tune for the encore. Something else was probably played last, after Dawg's Rag -- the recording quickly fades away with a few notes of tuning heard. Judging from the night before, there most likely was something else to close out the show but odds are it's nowhere to be found in existence today. Oh well. Still, despite the very end probably missing, this is a great listen... and it's the end of an era for Jerry. Unless I'm mistaken there wouldn't be another Garcia-Grisman pairing for over 16 years, not until early December in 1990. Did Jer, in a live setting like this, play the banjo in all that time or did it just lay dormant? Thankfully, eventually, the time came when the two would join together again giving us more tunes both old and new. It took awhile but perhaps that makes this old stuff (and the later years Garcia-Grisman) even more special than if it had been taking place all along.

Source
Master Soundboard ? > ??? > CD
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Sound Quality: hissy during the quiet moments only
(in between songs) but sounds great when the music's a playin'!



Download It Right Here

GASB 6/13/74 Keystone Berkeley - Part 1 · Part 2 - Keystone Berkeley 6/13/74

6-13-74 aka 06-13-74 aka 6/13/74 aka 06/13/74 aka 74-06-13 320 kbps mp3 download and setlist

A Friend of Jerry is a Friend of Mine

"Each time a man or a woman stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy

Pete Sears

with Mimi Farina, Jerry Garcia,

David Grisman, Holly Near

and Friends

Watchfire

1988

Guatemala

The Stream

Sanctuary

Save Something For The Children

Lands End

Nothing Personal

One More Innocent

Rainforest

Let The Dove Fly Free

Blood From The Rose

The quote above from RFK is included within the liner notes insert of this release, and it's a feeling that Pete Sears probably holds very near and dear to his heart. This entire album is a reflection of that. The lyrics of these songs, written by his wife Jeanette, deal with issues pertaining to human rights and the environment making this an album of protest. Interestingly, what's here is well thought out. There is no need to directly slam the U.S. or other governments. There is no name calling in a mean and vile manner meant to demean anyone in particular. No, this is music that'll make you read and act out of the kindness of your heart, not just get mad and call names.

Pete, based in the Bay Area and a former member of the Jefferson Airplane, Starship and Hot Tuna, wrote the music and plays guitar, piano, accordian, keyboards or bass or sings on all the tracks. Holly Near provides vocals for a few while Mimi Farina is on just one, I believe. The music is a beautiful mix of acoustic and electric forming a very organic and earthy and worldly feel throughout, with the occasional whale calls, rainforest sounds and even one song a new wave almost kind of sound.

Also included is Pete's friend Jerry Garcia, good ol' Jer, who sits in on three songs: slide guitar on Nothing Personal, acoustic on Let The Dove Fly Free, and along with Mickey Hart, Babatunde Olatunji & Sikiru Adeposu on drums and percussion, Jerry plays lead guitar on One More Innocent. Another friend, David Grisman on mandolin is prevalent more than absent, playing on almost every tune.

Supposedly Jerry himself requested that Grateful Dead Records re-release this album... and they did in 1993. Had it not been for Jerry, this may not be available to many people at all. So thanks Jerry and thanks Pete for putting this project together.

256 kbps dload
Pete Sears - Watchfire

As an added bonus tonight, I gave another listen to four tunes from the band Moonalice...

Blink Of An Eye
Kick It Open
I'm Glad You Think So
I ain't Ever Satisfied

This is Pete Sears' latest project along with G.E. Smith, Amy McNamee, Roger McNamee, Jimmy Sanchez and Barry Sless... and occassionally, another friend of Jerry, Jack Casady.

Each of these songs the band freely offers up over at their site, so go download 'em, check 'em out! NOW! No, seriously, what are you waiting for?

And go seen 'em live! They were up in Alaska for a string of dates this past summer but Alaska's a purty big territory and they were way down on the other end... but if they come up to Fairbanks, I'm so there... maybe in Anchorage but hopefully they'll come up north!

They'll also be on the road some, now and then through November. As of this writing they've got late September dates scheduled soon in Frisco and Vegas.

And then in October: Golden Gate Park, Portland, Ashland, Salem, Seattle, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus and the Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garretsville, Ohio.

Oh wait, there's more? Allston, Mass in November along with Huntington, New York, Annapolis and kinda close to my former stomping grounds, sorta near where I grew up -- Teaneck, New Jersey where they're playing Kimock's favorite Jersey hangout, Mexicali Blues.

So go see this Bay Area band, dig their sound... they play Stella Blue and Sugaree and GDTRFB and Like A Rolling Stone and Highway 61 Revisisted. Cool lookin' setlists! And Pete played with Jerry!! So go see 'em!