Thirteen years gone - Jerry Garcia

[bama579]

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Jerry checked out on 8/8/1995.

Thanks for the tunes and the memories, Captain Trips. Seeing the Grateful Dead in Tusaloosa is one of the better recollections.

"Goin' where the wind dont blow so strange,
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
Lost one round but the price wasnt anything,
A knife in the back and more of the same.

Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb,
You know better but I know him.
Like I told you, what I said,
Steal your face right off your head.

Now hes gone, lord hes gone, hes gone.
Like a steam locomotive, rollin down the track
Hes gone, gone, nothins gonna bring him back...hes gone.

Ooh, nothins gonna bring him back."
He's Gone- Garcia, Hunter

[LCN]

	Quote:	bama579
	Jerry checked out on 8/8/1995. Thanks for the tunes and the memories, Captain Trips. Seeing the Grateful Dead in Tusaloosa is one of the better recollections.

How much of it can you actually recall ?

1972 ....

YouTube - Grateful Dead - Truckin'

YouTube - Grateful Dead - Truckin'

[bayoutider]

I remember back in 1967 when the Grateful Dead was the house band at the Carousel Lounge at the end of Market St. in San Francisco. The Carousel was a biker bar the Hell's Angels liked to hang out in but it was a fun place with good music. I was fortunate to be in Frisco during that time and was able to see a majority of rock's legends from Hendrix to Donovan, from Linda Ronstadt to the Mammas and the Pappas, even saw George Harrison solo in Golden Gate Park.

RIP Jerry.

[Jack Bourbon]

wow, bayou

Hard to believe it's been so long since Garcia died.

[PattheCatinSaudi]

Saw the Dead play in DC in 1973 with the Allman Brothers. They were on their way to play at Watkins Glen in NY.

[bayoutider]

	Quote:	PattheCatinSaudi
	Saw the Dead play in DC in 1973 with the Allman Brothers. They were on their way to play at Watkins Glen in NY.

I have another "you ain't gonna believe this" story about Watkins Glen. Back in 1969. I was stationed at NAB Dam Neck Va. with some buddies I had made. I had bought a new '69 Mach One Mustang in July and we were all big race fans. The US Grand Prix was being run at Watkins Glen and we decided to pack a tent and go. I don't remember if we had to get tickets in advance or got them at the gate but we started planning ahead. One of the guys a couple of days later started talking about this concert in Woodstock NY and we also had a lot of music interest but I had already seen almost all those performing so I really wanted to see the Grand Prix which I had never seen besides we all needed to get an extra day off just to go and the CO was only so generous. We ditched the Woodstock idea and stuck to the plan to go to the Grand Prix but read in the paper and saw on TV what we had missed. Just think I could have been there.

[derek4tide]

YouTube - Jerry Garcia Band: Tangled Up in Blue

YouTube - Jerry Garcia Band: Tangled Up in Blue

Jerry Garcia Band "Tangled Up in Blue" - Mt. View, CA on September 1, 1990

[derek4tide]

YouTube - Grateful Dead-Franklin's Tower (3-24-90)

YouTube - Grateful Dead-Franklin's Tower (3-24-90)

Grateful Dead - "Franklin's Tower" (3-24-90)


Saw the Dead in 1987, 1988, 1990 - one of the best live bands, ever. We miss you, Jerry. It's good to know you're still here in the music.

[92tide]

my background music for work

saw the dead many times. my best jerry tale is when i went to visit a friend in san fran in the summer of 1990. The JGB was playing at the greeks, so i convinced my friend that we should go try to get tickets. no such luck. later that week i walked by the warfield and saw he was slated to play that nite. walked right up and bought tickets that day (general admission) and was 20 ft from stage. much more laid back crowd than dead shows or the group hanging out outside the greeks, and the warfield was the coolest venue i've ever been to. the ONLY thing they cared about when they searched you on the way in was glass liquor bottles.

[bayoutider]

A rare thing about the Grateful Dead is they never minded fans taking pictures or recording their concerts. It was very common to see many people, some with pretty exotic mobile recording rigs, taping a Dead concert. Battery powered Nagra, Sony and Nakamichi 550s were everywhere. Try getting one of those past security at a Metallica concert.

[bama579]

	Quote:	bayoutider
	I remember back in 1967 when the Grateful Dead was the house band at the Carousel Lounge at the end of Market St. in San Francisco. . . I was fortunate to be in Frisco during that time and was able to see a majority of rock's legends from Hendrix to Donovan, from Linda Ronstadt to the Mammas and the Pappas, even saw George Harrison solo in Golden Gate Park. RIP Jerry.

Were you able to see Jefferson Airplane during that time period? Wish I could have seen the pre-1975 version of that band.

[92tide]

	Quote:	bayoutider
	A rare thing about the Grateful Dead is they never minded fans taking pictures or recording their concerts. It was very common to see many people, some with pretty exotic mobile recording rigs, taping a Dead concert. Battery powered Nagra, Sony and Nakamichi 550s were everywhere. Try getting one of those past security at a Metallica concert.

they actually encouraged it.

in the later years they sold taper tickets and let the tapers set up near the sound board for optimal sound. lots of folks were able to run direct feeds from the sound boards too. you can find copies of almost every dead show done. its pretty amazing if you think about it.

you can download many of the recordings from archive.org

[92tide]

	Quote:	bama579
	Were you able to see Jefferson Airplane during that time period? Wish I could have seen the pre-1975 version of that band.

same here. they put out some incredible music. and grace slick was smokin hot back then too