Songs Jerry Garcia Band Would Have Played Beautifully

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Association - Never My Love (1967)

https://youtu.be/UzgpB9xpyT8

Melvin would have blown the roof off the Warfield with the keyboard solo

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum

https://youtu.be/Mb3iPP-tHdA

...again, Melvin would crush the keyboard solo, lots of psychedelic energy

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Long As I Can See The Light

https://youtu.be/SFP5afPweVI

This would be a fitting song for Jerry to sing

Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You

https://youtu.be/b64jHT4dnqM

1st set opener 

 


Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites" 

https://youtu.be/mxtfdH3-TQ4

Gloria & Jackie would sound really good on this one

Bob Dylan - "Sweetheart Like You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpRKstHl7Y0

I suggested this to him when a friend took me up to Jerry's hotel room after a show at the Tower Theater in December of '83.  He said he had been thinking about it.

 

Roger Miller - King of the Road 

https://youtu.be/WrhAC0dFis0

this would have been epic!

Not Dark Yet-Dylan

>>>>>I suggested this to him when a friend took me up to Jerry's hotel room after a show at the Tower Theater in December of '83.  He said he had been thinking about it.

 

You and Bluelight - gotta drop those names.

Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay 

https://youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug

If he had played this anywhere in San Francisco it would have been pretty special 

While my Guitar Gently Weeps...after seeing Prince just crush the solo at the end years ago at RRHOF, i always thought it woulda been cool to see what Jerry couldve done w it....

I always thought if he could have heard it, he would have considered Dylan's "Things Have Changed" off the Wonder Boys soundtrack. That song would have been perfect for both the lyrics and jams for his band.


The Beatles - Something

https://youtu.be/UelDrZ1aFeY

this would have been really, really good

^ alot of Harrison s work matches up nicely


The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic 

https://youtu.be/JnbfuAcCqpY

I don't know if this is true, but I heard he was working on this song in the summer of '95 and that maybe even the Grateful Dead had sound-checked it, it would have been a great tune for either band, at the end of the song he could have just gone on and on with the lyrics "like I believe, believe, like I believe..."

The "like tryin' to tell a stranger 'bout rock 'n roll" lyric would've been pretty epic

 

I swear once Hornsby was teasin "the boxer" , simon and garfunkle, comin out of space at a show at msg ....cpl of my friends and  I all all heard it...jerry , bobby, and bruce were all looking at each other, we thought for sure they were gonna play it....to no avail , obviously....but, i thought it woulda been fun w whole band, start acoustic, bruce on squeezebox etc...then rock it out...drummers woulda loved it im sure....


The Troggs - Love Is All Around

https://youtu.be/WO6glz0wpmo

I keep saying "at the Warfield"...but at the Warfield the place would just go absolutely ecstatic, pure bliss if he had busted this out deep in the 2nd set


Grateful Dead & Joan Baez - "The Boxer" (Fiesta Hall, 12/12/81)


https://youtu.be/-9H-sYTtQiI

The "Schprockets" theme song.

Wow, thanks Bryen...never saw that

 

Accordin to dead base (yellow cover) jerry not on stage for that, but, still interesting performance--more of A Baez cover than a GD, but again, thanks for link


Simon & Garfunkel - Keep The Customer Satisfied

https://youtu.be/3YNsZLtzF18

 

this would have been great!!!!!

There’s 2 Elton John songs I would have loved to hear him do. Take Me To The Pilot and Burn Down The Mission. 

(Bryen) King of the Roadyes

Curtis Low (Skyny​rd)

City of New Orleans. (Goodman)

Pink House's (Mellencamp)


The Air That I Breath - The Hollies

https://youtu.be/7duPNQCp-w4

I've thought of this particular song as a Jerry Garcia Band song for years because of the lyrics pertaining to a lack of need for just about anything, and the potential for building a musical crescendo, late 2nd set Warfield would have been a sublime moment of consciousness 

As a respite, namaste 

 

keep it beautiful!

 

make way for the positive day!

 

Bob Marley, Santa Barbara 

 

https://youtu.be/imfiY8ZVZ0g

I always wanted to hear the later day Jerry band play Shower the People by James Taylor but the fans would have probably took it literally and gave it the Day Job treatment.

Joe,

 


James Taylor - Shower The People

https://youtu.be/vfWQS5fWxxU

 

Jerry would shower the room with pure love

 

Jerry Garcia Band

Shining Star

https://youtu.be/4L7UPXKx8bI

"What's going on" (Jerry Garcia & Merle Saunders 7/22/74 Keystone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSjzPTruqk

 

Grateful Dead with Darryl Hall and John Oats (MSG 9/24/88, songs starts 36:25)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5wZHikee7M

Drift Away-by Dobie Gray

 

Teach Your Children

Would have been interesting to hear Jerry play six-string solos.

Plus the ladies doing harmony, particularly on the "Can you hear . . ." countermelody.

"Grateful Dead with Darryl Hall and John Oats"

but minus Phil Lesh, which really puzzled me at the time.  I was hoping for a monster jam out of this and shouldn't have been surprised that it didn't happen.  That whole show was a letdown, although the after party was a hoot.

I thought it was pretty cool seeing Jack Cassidy sit in on bass in place of Phil which is what I recall on Good Lovin. The show was a not grate . 

THE DEAL...BEAUTFULLY RIPPIN

Holiday in Cambodia

Ryan Adams- The Rescue Blues.

CCR

Born on the Bayou

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Z4H0T0taE

(Randy Jackson Show)

....all of them....

This would compliment the styles of John, Melvin, Gloria & Jackie...encore song of a particularly beautiful evening, Melvin and Jerry could really stretch out the jam at the end, an American classic.

 


When You Wish Upon A Star - sung by Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards)

https://youtu.be/HKh6XxYbbIc

 

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>>>>Euro-Trash Girl<<<<

 

Cracker covered "Loser" on the same album, as I'm sure you're aware, L Monkey. To their credit, while Cracker's cover appeared around the same time as the album Deadicated, this was before every band and radio show went GD-crazy.

 

In my little college town, I listened to our public radio station for about 18 years, during which time I could count on one hand the number of GD/Jerry songs I heard on the station.

 

The only instances I can actually think of occurred during David Dye's nationally syndicated show World Cafe: album versions of "Reuben and Cherise" and "Sugaree."

 

Now, I hear GD/Jerry on our public radio station all the time. Certain shows almost always include GD or a GD cover.

 

Birthday wishes to Jerry. A Fourth of July GD special, etc. I explained to my girlfriend, whose intro to the GD occurred at Phil's B-day run last year, that radio and other bands weren't always so wild for the GD.

 

To contribute to the actual thread topic, I think Richard and Linda Thompson's "Shady Lies" would have fit well w/ JGB:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83V_B2ueTAY

 

Though JGB's version might have sounded a little more like Ian Matthews's version:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrJnlWfb-M

 

 

 

 


Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is


https://youtu.be/l7T9HKmERv0

 

 


Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans

https://youtu.be/TvMS_ykiLiQ

That Four Non Blondes song or really anything from the Right Said Fred catalog.

Better Days by Citizen King.

E: Morning Train


Al Green    How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?

Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb

https://youtu.be/UgAFcvIw8J4

 

note:  The Brothers Gibb performed this originally, but the Al Green version alludes to the potential of the Jerry Garcia Band, Melvin would play this keyboard solo so intensely they'd need to budget for a structural engineer's report the next day.

>>>> Cracker covered "Loser" on the same album, as I'm sure you're aware, L Monkey. To their credit, while Cracker's cover ....

 

David Lowery has written that Jerry had asked him if he'd mind if he covered Euro-Trash Girl. He didn't specify GD or JGB. Either would have been interesting. This must have been during the Eugene shows Cracker opened for them. He said the first time he ran into Garcia backstage, Jerry had just come out of a port-a-potty and shook his hand.

deep in the 2nd set

 

 

George Harrison    Be Here Now


https://youtu.be/He2yrzwgTtI

 

The Beatles       Hey Jude   

 

note: Jerry may have played this with Merl back in the day, and yes, the Grateful Dead played this tune, but if JGB had jammed this out on Market Street, SF it would have been ecstatic!!!!!

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/A_MjCqQoLLA

 

The Youngbloods - Get Together

https://youtu.be/53XyCbIJGKY

 

Neil Young        Heart of Gold 

 

https://youtu.be/Eh44QPT1mPE

 

Time of the Season       The Zombies 

 

https://youtu.be/wG5R7vyu-mA

 

>>>>David Lowery has written that Jerry had asked him if he'd mind if he covered Euro-Trash Girl.<<<<

 

No kidding?!?

 

I bet Lowery wishes JG woulda had a chance to follow through on that one.

 

I had no clue Cracker ever opened for the Dead, though I bought "Kerosene Hat" back whenever it came out. Listened to it a lot too.

>>>>In my little college town, I listened to our public radio station for about 18 years, during which time I could count on one hand the number of GD/Jerry songs I heard on the station.

The only instances I can actually think of occurred during David Dye's nationally syndicated show World Cafe: album versions of "Reuben and Cherise" and "Sugaree."<<<<

 

I've gotta self-correct just a little.

 

Some of the Jerry bluegrass stuff got played on WKMS's "Music from the Front Porch."

 

Jerry never covered an Edie Brickell tune?

 

Towards the end of the 2nd set...Henry J. Kaiser, late October 

 

Billy Preston     That's the Way God Planned It

 

https://youtu.be/YE97w-MHz3Q

 

 

Jerry never covered an Edie Brickell tune?

 

I may be incorrect about this, which would in and of itself be amusing...but at the time of the "What I Know" tune, somehow I either misunderstood the story, or it was a prank of sorts, but I thought Jerry really played that solo and they just never publicized it.  If that's not the case, it's funny I believed it to be true all these years.

That wasn't Jerry. Just listen to it.

A '72 Ramona would have been sublime.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_I_Am


"The song is highlighted by a guitar solo that emulates the approach of Jerry Garcia including the use of an envelope filter."

I recently heard Little Feats Dixie Chicken on the radio.  I thought the Grateful Dead covering it with Jerry singing would have been a natural!

 

The Temptations       Just My Imagination

 

https://youtu.be/YNn361umypM

 

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

 

 

https://youtu.be/H_a46WJ1viA

keep it real 

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My favorite song of all time

 

 

https://youtu.be/vgyGJl_xm6o

YouTube.

Time Will Tell-Bob Marley & The Wailers

The last song on the "Kaya" album, the lead guitar player uses an envelope filter effect similar to Jerry's tone.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meKhfr_CjQ0

Herbal Dave,

     Respectfully, I don't think Jerry would have sang that one...but if the Jerry Garcia Band busted this out at the Warfield, it would have been a seismic event!

 

Bob Marley and The Wailers - Trenchtown Rock (LIVE!)


https://youtu.be/ziQSNGFzlp4

^ 2nd set opener...can you imagine?  EPIC!!!!

Here's a few possibilities for ya; 

Hello it's me; Todd Rundgren 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE

 

Sign in Stranger; Steely Dan (always loved this laid back version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmRmYaun-4&list=PLetPo10_8EyVoe32fKNwx5...

 

You Can't Beat God Giving; Gospel with Billy Preston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tqM5GJ-tg0

Cat Stevans ...Longer Boats

 

Loggins and Messina ...Vahevela

Hush with Big Melv crushing it on the B3

Or maybe even better with the Rhythm Devils keeping the beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QBhC1uCP4

 

 

 

 

>>>>Trenchtown Rock<<<<

 

Good call, Bryen.

Little Red Riding Hood

 

 

     The Temptations  

     I Wish It Would Rain

     https://youtu.be/BrjJeP1GGxY

 

 

     Melvin shaking the foundation of the Warfield with a B3 solo, Gloria & Jackie singing beautifully...on a rainy night in San Francisco 

 

     At the Warfield...the energy properly psychedelic, Melvin levitating from his piano bench delivering the B-3 solo, pure love in the room!  

 

     George Harrison   

     What Is Life

     https://youtu.be/fiH9edd25Bc

 

     ^ as an aside...George's video is 4 minutes 23 seconds long, there are probably many of us that take a moment when they see those numerals on a digital clock, or a loaf of bread and think of 4:23 am pst on August 9th, 1995.

     I still have the pair of hemp fatigues that split at the knee at the very moment I heard the news and prayed for Jerry.

Maybe you should pray to the shorts

 

     They were full length...hence the ripping of the material [which happens to be the healing herb that will heal the nations]. 

I would have loved to hear Jerry Garcia Band play It Makes No Difference.

 

     It Makes No Difference   

     The Band

     https://youtu.be/rP7r12Rg490

Pray to the pants.

 

     (((Greg)))

     Namaste  

     They're pretty cool...the brand is THC, scored a pair at the Ruch barter fair back in the day

 

     Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 

     https://youtu.be/FnO0pFPd4Mc

     

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     Jimmy Cliff   

     Many Rivers to Cross

     https://youtu.be/SF3IktTk_pQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c

I know, maybe too much for Jerry to sing but love that song.

 

Always thought the GD should have done this song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ

 

I can see Weir getting maniacal on this.


 


     The Platters

     Twilight Time

     https://youtu.be/wvRe_pt9XHo


     ^ The March 1st 1:39 am post would have been epic with Melvin blowing the roof off the Warfield Theatre...Gloria & Jackie singing the high notes, late second set


 

     ...continued from February 5, 2020 07:47 pm - the break @ 2:19 would've been pretty over the top

 

 

     https://youtu.be/fiH9edd25Bc

Happy Birthday

chopsticks


 

 

 

 

     Buffalo Springfield  

     Kind Woman

     https://youtu.be/9Yl8SW5s11s

 

 

 

 

     

One of the saddest songs ever. 

Silvia's Mother 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7LXpnNKNxJI

 

 

White Wedding


 

 

 

 

     MUCH LOVE!!!!!

     The Wind Cries Mary

     Jimi Hendrix 

     https://youtu.be/K2B2nT6pfSE
     

 

 

     


 

 

 

 

     The fun part about being on Jerry Garcia Band Tour was realizing most people hadn't even thought about being on Jerry Garcia Band Tour...which made for interesting energy when looking around and understanding there were about 250 of us.

 

 

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Dire Straits ~ Tunnel of Love, or Once Upon a Time in the West

Bob Dylan ~ If you See Her, Say Hello

Grateful Dead ~ When Push Comes To Shove (I know this one never found it's stuff, really, in GD renditions...but come at it from a JGB sensibility, I think it woulda worked)

 

love her madly....