There is a great story about this. Booker was kind of down and out in this period and John Kahn was the connection to Booker and I remember reading somewhere where Kahn tells the story of the rehearsal and the gig. Like Booker called him from a Deli or Liquor store or something when he was in San Rafael and said he was here for the gig
Jerry seemed to be a very generous soul who wasn't selfish and gave generously. Money wasn't important That's why I love him and for his music obviously.
To add to the story, these gigs came up after Booker had some gigs canceled in LA, so he got the call to come North for some work, and did not really understand that he was not hired as the headliner for the gigs until he showed up for rehearsal... but both did what they could do, at the time, under the(ir respective) circumstances, with little rehearsal, and the results are definitely worth a careful listen, at least, IMO.
Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker Sophie's; Palo Alto, CA 1/10/76 A:C>?>CD Recorded by David Cook with unknown mics into a Sony TC-110? Disc One 62:47 Set I 1. //All By Myself [7:54#] [0:09] 2. Classified [2:08] -> 3. Right Place Wrong Time [5:20] -> 4. United, Our Thing Will Stand [15:15] -> 5. You Are My Sunshine [11:38] [0:02] 6. Junco Partner [4:42] [0:02] 7. Unknown Song [4:40] [0:05] 8. Tore Up [10:45] [0:06] Disc Two 61:27 Set II 1. //It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [8:34#] [0:24] 2. //Goodnight Irene [9:35#] [0:04] 3. Let it Rock [11:11] [0:07] 4. //Right Back Together [17:27#] [0:27] 5. Roadrunner [13:22] [0:14] Notes d1t01 All By Myself cuts in, not much missing d2t01 Train to Cry cuts in, not much missing d2t02 Goodnight Irene cuts in, not much missing d2t04 Right Back Together cuts in, not much missing
Rehearsal from 1/7.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfU--IXdJXc..... Tico Tico, Don't Try to be Your Brother's Keeper, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Goodnight Irene, United, Our Thing will Stand, Cassified, Right Back Together SBD Copy
Diligent scholars of Jerry Garcia know that Jerry Garcia, John Kahn and Ron Tutt played two shows at Sophie's in Palo Alto with keyboardist James Booker on January 9 and 10, 1976. Tapes endure of both shows, along with rehearsal at Club Front two days earlier. The music on the tapes is ragged, and James Booker is fairly obscure, so most Deadheads have paid little attention to the shows. However, I have reflected for some time on the fact that the two Palo Alto shows with Booker were between Nicky Hopkins' departure from the Jerry Garcia Band and the beginning of Keith and Donna Godchaux's tenure with the band. Having heard and learned a little more about James Booker, I now think the brief experiment with Booker was a critical turning point in Garcia's solo career.
Booker was a certifiable musical genius, one of the few keyboard players who could transcend the great Nicky Hopkins, and so he would have seemed to be an ideal replacement. Yet after a brief fling with Booker, Garcia and Kahn took the prudent road with the talented but safe Keith Godchaux on piano, and the path for the Garcia Band was set for the next two decades. The reasons were probably as much commercial as musical, but the two shows with James Booker illustrate the ways in which Jerry Garcia's professional priorities had evolved by 1976.
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There is a great story about
There is a great story about this. Booker was kind of down and out in this period and John Kahn was the connection to Booker and I remember reading somewhere where Kahn tells the story of the rehearsal and the gig. Like Booker called him from a Deli or Liquor store or something when he was in San Rafael and said he was here for the gig
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Jerry seemed to be a very
Jerry seemed to be a very generous soul who wasn't selfish and gave generously. Money wasn't important That's why I love him and for his music obviously.
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To add to the story, these
To add to the story, these gigs came up after Booker had some gigs canceled in LA, so he got the call to come North for some work, and did not really understand that he was not hired as the headliner for the gigs until he showed up for rehearsal... but both did what they could do, at the time, under the(ir respective) circumstances, with little rehearsal, and the results are definitely worth a careful listen, at least, IMO.
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Jerry Garcia Band with James
Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker
Sophie's; Palo Alto, CA
1/9/76
MSR > ? > 1C > 1D > 1CD > EAC > SHN
This version, via Ryan Shriver, is more
complete than the previously circulating version.
Extraction using EAC, tracking using CD Wave,
.shn encoding using mkwACT, and proper sector
boundary verification using shntool.
Disc One
Set I
1. //All By Myself [7:47#] [0:54]
2. Goodnight Irene [10:35] ->
3. Fur Elise [0:51] ->
4. Right Back Together [11:41] ->
5. Send Me Someone To Love [10:31] [1:01]
6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry// [4:31#]
7. //Tore Up Over You [5:24#] [0:49]
Total Time 54:05
Disc Two
Set II
1. //Neighbor Neighbor [2:05#] [1:20]
2. United Our Thing Will Stand [11:40] ->
3. Classified [8:35] ->
4. Please Come Home [10:16] [0:39]
5. Fand//ango [6:22#] [0:21]
6. Let it Rock [12:18] [1:59]
7. Roadrunner [11:29] [0:16]
Total Time 67:22
Notes
A very light, intermittent clicking reoccurs throughout the
recording, though it is primarily audible during tuning breaks.
d1t01 All By Myself fades in, not much missing
d1t01 All By Myself very light pops @ 0:02, 0:05, 0:07
d1t01 All By Myself mix/level fluctuations first 0:20
d1t02 Goodnight Irene painful static and mix fluctuations, ca. 1:30
d1t06 Train to Cry cuts out
d1t07 Tore Up cuts in
d1t07 Tore Up static
d2t01 Neighbor Neighbor fades in
d2t05 Fandango cut/splice @ 0:35, unknown missing
http://www.archive.org/serve/jgb1976-01-09/jgb1976-01-09.mp3
Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker Sophie's; Palo Alto, CA 1/10/76 A:C>?>CD Recorded by David Cook with unknown mics into a Sony TC-110? Disc One 62:47 Set I 1. //All By Myself [7:54#] [0:09] 2. Classified [2:08] -> 3. Right Place Wrong Time [5:20] -> 4. United, Our Thing Will Stand [15:15] -> 5. You Are My Sunshine [11:38] [0:02] 6. Junco Partner [4:42] [0:02] 7. Unknown Song [4:40] [0:05] 8. Tore Up [10:45] [0:06] Disc Two 61:27 Set II 1. //It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [8:34#] [0:24] 2. //Goodnight Irene [9:35#] [0:04] 3. Let it Rock [11:11] [0:07] 4. //Right Back Together [17:27#] [0:27] 5. Roadrunner [13:22] [0:14] Notes d1t01 All By Myself cuts in, not much missing d2t01 Train to Cry cuts in, not much missing d2t02 Goodnight Irene cuts in, not much missing d2t04 Right Back Together cuts in, not much missing
http://www.archive.org/serve/jgb1976-01-10/jgb1976-01-10.mp3
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Rehearsal from 1/7.....https:
Rehearsal from 1/7.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfU--IXdJXc..... Tico Tico, Don't Try to be Your Brother's Keeper, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Goodnight Irene, United, Our Thing will Stand, Cassified, Right Back Together SBD Copy
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/05/january-9-10-1976-sophies-palo-... **Long story, 1st 2 paragraphs**
Diligent scholars of Jerry Garcia know that Jerry Garcia, John Kahn and Ron Tutt played two shows at Sophie's in Palo Alto with keyboardist James Booker on January 9 and 10, 1976. Tapes endure of both shows, along with rehearsal at Club Front two days earlier. The music on the tapes is ragged, and James Booker is fairly obscure, so most Deadheads have paid little attention to the shows. However, I have reflected for some time on the fact that the two Palo Alto shows with Booker were between Nicky Hopkins' departure from the Jerry Garcia Band and the beginning of Keith and Donna Godchaux's tenure with the band. Having heard and learned a little more about James Booker, I now think the brief experiment with Booker was a critical turning point in Garcia's solo career.
Booker was a certifiable musical genius, one of the few keyboard players who could transcend the great Nicky Hopkins, and so he would have seemed to be an ideal replacement. Yet after a brief fling with Booker, Garcia and Kahn took the prudent road with the talented but safe Keith Godchaux on piano, and the path for the Garcia Band was set for the next two decades. The reasons were probably as much commercial as musical, but the two shows with James Booker illustrate the ways in which Jerry Garcia's professional priorities had evolved by 1976.