tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post2969171897606166917..comments2024-03-28T02:11:12.904-07:00Comments on Hooterollin' Around: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Bands 1969-1994Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-37450523960909928562019-11-21T22:45:40.455-08:002019-11-21T22:45:40.455-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.midnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14582576902164271268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-73286626475193001402019-11-14T18:33:24.587-08:002019-11-14T18:33:24.587-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.midnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14582576902164271268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-38355380192196286782018-06-09T21:30:47.880-07:002018-06-09T21:30:47.880-07:00Thought you may want to add these three shows:
htt...Thought you may want to add these three shows:<br />http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1969-02-19-the-matrix-san-francisco-ca/<br />http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1989-03-22-gift-center-pavilion-san-francisco-ca/<br />https://www.deadheadland.com/2014/12/20/video-jerry-garcia-bob-weir-john-kahn-from-joan-baez-and-friends-a-christmas-concert/Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10000408775807057170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-91048951825369909272014-11-23T20:30:43.778-08:002014-11-23T20:30:43.778-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-12810809889441039552013-10-05T01:40:45.744-07:002013-10-05T01:40:45.744-07:00Per an interview (I think the one with Lisa Robins...Per an interview (I think the one with Lisa Robinson that is available at Wolfgang's Vault), Jerry was unhappy playing acoustic guitar live until the pickup was invented. Once he could plug in his acoustic guitar, instead of having to rely solely on a microphone in front of its strings, he started playing acoustic guitar live much more frequently.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10000408775807057170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-64822083426063764172012-08-18T12:50:36.728-07:002012-08-18T12:50:36.728-07:00LIA, thanks for including the quotes I was alludin...LIA, thanks for including the quotes I was alluding to.<br />Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-40772925123820996602012-08-17T02:23:25.862-07:002012-08-17T02:23:25.862-07:00A short note on the Dead's acoustic sets:
Yo...A short note on the Dead's acoustic sets: <br /><br />You write that "Garcia's most focused acoustic projects were implicitly designed to produce an album." <br />It could be argued that the Dead's 1970 acoustic sets had just this in mind, as many of the Workingman's/American Beauty songs were played live for a while (acoustically) before being recorded. <br />After American Beauty was in the can, the acoustic sets (save for some in Nov '70) stopped. <br /><br />Strangely, the Dead did advertise "acoustic Dead" shows in Dec '70, but seem to have changed their minds about that. A little mystery... <br /><br />Garcia mentioned in the '81 Jackson/Gans interview, "All of that acoustic stuff that we did on that acoustic double set [LP] was the result of about three afternoons of rehearsal. That means the harmonies, the arrangements, everything. We spent such a small amount of time preparing for that, and it yielded an enormous amount of results."<br /><br />I think you're right that the 1980 acoustic sets were intended strictly for the live album. (As in, 'we're already planning to multitrack some shows this fall, why don't we try something different?') <br /><br />In the 1985 Guitar Player interview, Garcia was asked - <br />Q: Why has the Grateful Dead limited its acoustic sets?<br />Garcia: I don’t know. I think Weir doesn’t feel comfortable playing acoustic music. I personally would like to do it more often. Bob doesn’t seem to like to do it very much, so we don’t press it. If anybody feels even a little negative about something, we don’t do it.<br /><br />Q: How did the Grateful Dead’s 1980 acoustic sets come about?<br />Garcia: I just thought it would be a good idea. We tried it, and it was fun. The technology came into place too. That was one of the reasons we didn’t do it for so long — we used to try it with microphones, and it really didn’t work. It’s much easier now that they have made vast improvements in amplified acoustic instruments. The audience liked it a lot... Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-90036443244246749972012-08-12T07:12:18.860-07:002012-08-12T07:12:18.860-07:00Both of your points are good. To respond:
1) It&#...Both of your points are good. To respond:<br /><br />1) It's true that I give really short shrift to the Garcia/Kahn duo, mainly because they don't fit my narrative structure. On some level, I kind of did the Aristotlean thing where you avoid the argument by categorizing them as a separate animal, and then use that as an excuse to ignore the point.<br /><br />Nonetheless, Garcia and Kahn was neither Fish Nor Fowl. It had an ongoing existence parallel to the Garcia Band, yet it was intermittent. It was a financial convenience, but one that Jerry enjoyed. I couldn't find an analytical mechanism for explaining the Garcia/Kahn duo, but I think they are part of the history of the 1980s Jerry Garcia Band. Since this post was already 6000+ words, I had to stop somewhere.<br /><br />2) I forgot about the Bluegrass Reunion album, thanks. Still, I think Grisman was making his own album (with Herb Pedersen et al) and got Garcia to show up for an afternoon and play three songs. That's great, but that's not the album that I (and I think Grisman) wanted: The Jerry Garcia Bluegrass All-Stars, with Carter Stanley, Vassar Clements and Bill Keith, or something on that order.<br /><br />It's still very true that Garcia's participation in the Bluegrass Reunion fits my model of project-oriented sessions.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-22577484788214392722012-08-11T23:00:34.810-07:002012-08-11T23:00:34.810-07:00Very, very nice. Excellent. Thanks!
Two quick poi...Very, very nice. Excellent. Thanks!<br /><br />Two quick points.<br /><br />1) I am not entirely satisfied with the dismissal of Garcia/Kahn as of a different genus that the real projects. I don't disagree with your analysis of how it's different from most of the others you discuss, but rather than trying to sort it out of the primary category of interest, I am more interested in exploring the whole pattern. I don't have an elegant way to do that, but I am not satisfied with your approach here, either.<br /><br />2) Regarding the Grateful Dawg scene, I know it well. It is wonderful evidence of how Jerry was constrained by that point. But I also thought that maybe the Bluegrass Reunion was precisely the album that they mooted in that scene. And so, there was an album attached to it as well, and Grisman ended up making it all happen. Insofar as that's true, it supports a slightly more expansive view of Garcia's constraints in the Grisman era, and puts a slightly more positive gloss on the episode in the movie.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com