Jerry Garcia Band
Ventura Fairgrounds – Ventura, CA
Saturday – May 14th, 1994
Disc 1 – Set 1:
d1t01 – Cats Under The Stars
d1t02 – C’est La Vie
d1t03 – Get Out Of My Life Woman
d1t04 – Like A Road
d1t05 – Lay Down Sally
d1t06 – My Sisters & Brothers
d1t07 – Deal
Disc 2 – Set 2:
d2t01 – Second That Emotion
d2t02 – He Ain’t Give You None
d2t03 – Struggling Man
d2t04 – Money Honey
d2t05 – Don’t Let Go
d2t06 – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
d2t07 – Midnight Moonlight
(FOB) Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D3
DAT Master Transferred Via: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr.
Jerry Garcia – guitar/vocals
John Kahn – bass
Donny Baldwin – drums
Melvin Seals – keyboards
Jaclyn LaBranch – backing vocals
Gloria Jones – backing vocals
OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I was only able to see the Jerry Garcia Band three times, I’m sorry to say, but interestingly enough they were all out doors: Once at Squaw Valley in ’91 and twice at the Ventura Fairgrounds; 1992 and this show in ’94, a day before my 29th birthday. I remember that I didn’t have my own DAT portable yet (I was still using the Sony D6) so my friend Jack in Salt Lake City Fed Ex’d me his Sony TCD-D3 DAT and the Nyquist Omnis, which were a set of custom-loaded microphones in a hat, so I could record this show digitally. I picked up the package at the Fed Ex office at the Santa Maria airport and drove down to the show, taking my other friend Little Jack the dwarf with me. I remember sitting in the cab of my F-150 in the parking lot by the beach trying to figure out how to run the deck before I went into the show because I’d never used the D3 before. There was a guy who walked by, saw me fumbling with the deck and said, ‘Pirate radio at its finest!’. I never forgot that! I went up front and found a good spot to record from and watched a great show. I was DEAD Center, about 25 to 30 feet back from the stage. I remember that there were other tapers there but this isn’t a show that you see listed much. I wonder why? At the end of the first set Jerry said, ‘Try and stay warm out there if you can’, and a guy next to me said, ‘Wow, he Talked! He Never talks!’ (The fog had rolled in and it was getting cold.) I remember that Jerry and Melvin Seals had really good interplay that night and I was thinking how different the Garcia Band sounded compared with the Dead. Jerry really liked the psychedelic Motown sound! Sadly this was the last time that I would see the Jerry Garcia Band. I recorded the Dead about 50 times between 1986 and ’95 but for some reason the money was never there when JGB tickets went on sale. Much sadness. 🙁
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