37 Years ago tonight - SOLO GARCIA (no Kahn)

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This was simply a sublime solo Garcia experience that I remember well and that's a strong memory considering it was 35 years ago!​

4/10/82 
Early Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0porNQswwU

Late Show (2 sets):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNJaFjU5nc

This was simply a sublime solo Garcia experience that I remember well and that's a strong memory considering it was 35 years ago!

Polaroid Pictures with you, ticket stub and Garcia or it could be just a figment of your creative side.

That R and C is the most high. 

That week in April 1982, I was attending a writing conference at Asilomar Confrence Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. In the hallway of our Lodge a bunch of us formed a real line for an imaginary Jerry show. Rumor was he was going to play the Lodge that night at either the room known as the Lizard Lounge or the room called the Penguin Hutch, Jerry having just flown in that day from Tierra del Fuego.

I had great seats to this show.

Jerry Garcia at the Capitol 4101982 stubs resize_0.jpg

I had great seats to this show.>>>>>>

 

Sweeeeeet!  

 

Polaroid?

image_74.jpeg35 years ago. KK you should have gone. 

I was there.  The drive down from the upstate NY shoe the night before (Syracuse or Rochester, I forget which) was Savage (bad weather, on the winding Route 17).  I had a good tix for the early shoe only, the group I was with (we did the 1st part of the tour from Norfolk thru Nassau - it was spring break week & a blizzard had hit the east coast) had a scattering of tix for either 1 or the other, but no one had both.  After the early shoe, a few of us were hanging out @ this really crappy bar that was blaring really bad hard rock from the jukebox (Van Halen, Kiss, Foreigner, etc), at that point I said "fuck it" & went back out on the street, scored a $10 tix just as the late shoe started, it was the very last seat in the theatre, back right corner, I actually fell asleep thru the several slow songs in a row midway thru the set, but I was the only one who got into both shoes.  The next 2 nights @ Nassau Col (for Jerry he had to perform 5 nights in a row) felt really "flat"/"paint by numbers", I think Jerry really spent his wad this night . . .

IWT ~ Great night!!!

I was at both shows (I recall Dr. John on solo piano opening?) and then the next night as well when Khan flew in to rescue Jerry from the solo experience.  Gosh, where does the time goe--37 years, yikes!  I miss the Capitol.  What a great shithole and saw so many shows there

I don't know how it is now, but the NJ boys couldn't hold their liqueur and would often vomit inside this theater leaving large areas uninhabitable.

Seth, the next night was the GD at Nassau.

Bob, if you count the Letterman show, Jerry did 8 nights in a row. (Syracuse-Providence).

Yikes.  Did Jerry not do one night solo at the Capitol and then the next night with him and Khan or am a losing it?

I was at the early show as well-rumored Jerry needed some quick cash and that's why he played solo?!

I never understood the attraction to these shows.  IMO these were the "need quick cash to support the drug habit" tours.  Musically they were just sub par at best and his guitar sounded terrible.  Tony Rice could carry a show solo acoustic.  Jerry, not so much.  But by this point there were a lot of people who would accept anything.

Opinions are like assholes....

These three sets featured some very rare material: Acoustic Going Going Gone, Stagger Lee, The Ballad of Casey Jones and It Takes a Lot to Laugh.

If you weren't there - you have a right to your opinion even if it is douchey as fuck.

For me it was amazing.


4/10/82 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ  
(Early) Deep Elem Blues, Freight Train-> Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie, Gomorrah, Dire Wolf, Little Sadie, Stagger Lee, Valerie, I've Been All Around This World, To Lay Me Down, Run For The Roses, Ripple, E: Rubin And Cherise 
(Late) I: Jack-A-Roe, Going Going Gone, Dire Wolf, Gomorrah, Run For The Roses, Friend Of The Devil, Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie, Rosalie McFall, Sing Me Back Home, Deep Elem Blues II: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Ballad Of Casey Jones, China Doll, Ripple E: Rubin And Cherise 
(Jerry solo acoustic) 

Don't forget the Sing Me Back Home bust-out, first performance since 73.

Right Greg!

It looks like after Dead spring tour finishes in Baltimore,  Garcia heads back to NYC Beacon Theater for early/late shows for the very first Garcia/Kahn acoustic sets. Anyone remember this? It must have went over well because a few weeks later Garcia/Kahn play a set at Oregon State Prison followed by a weekend  up In Oregon In June. Then seven date mini east coast Garcia/Kahn acoustic tour late June 82.

I remember the Palladium shows that were benefits for Sandy Alexander of the Hells Angels

The Palladium show started very late, I think they had another act earlier in the evening.

Jerry & John did about 6 songs, Bo Diddley was on the bill, Robert Gordon was the final act after Garcia's set, well after midnight, and played while the building was quickly emptying out.

 

That's about right.

Palladium Show Stubs resize.jpg

Garcia And Friends was a horror. Thankfully The Marshall Tucker Band played that same night in The Palladium and were awesome. 

 

I remember seeing Garcia solo at The Beacon I thought it was 83 but coulda been 82. I really liked it and to hear him sing Sing Me Back Home was worth the price of admission 

Love the fact so many of you were there! Nice thread

So when was the show with Kahn; and Dr. John opening?

May of that year?

 

Caught that one.  Don't remember if it was early or late.

The first Jerry & John was either Tuesday or Wednesday at the Beacon after Baltimore ended the Spring Tour on a Monday.

The encore was with Dr John and played Good Night Irene, played for the first time since 1976 or 77 with JGB, probably the only time Garcia and the Dr shared a stage.

Baltimore was Monday, Beacon was Wednesday. 

Jimmy Booker sang Goodnight Irene when Jerry Band played it in 76., so im thinking 4-21-82 was the first with Jerry on vocals. 

I'm kinda glad Thom's around as it makes me NOT the most Curmudgeonly old Fart on the Zone . . .

Beacon Set List Late Show, nice stuff here..

Set 1

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Stagger Lee

Dire Wolf

Valerie

Run For The Roses

I've Been All Around This World

Friend Of The Devil

Deep Elem Blues

Set 2

Jack-A-Roe

Sing Me Back Home

Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie

Gomorrah

Going, Going, Gone

Ripple

Reuben And Cherise

Encore

Goodnight Irene