Electric On The Eel

Did he play one set or two at these gigs? 

I looked up the setlists on sugarmegs and I'm listening to the first show on YouTube. 

Pass. 

I don't dig Gospel Jerry. 

Enjoy

^Classic

I sprung for it. Lots of favorites

I was there in '87 and '89. Great shows!

I did 89 and 91. Will be picking this up.  Got my tix from the hogfarmers.   In 91 Jerry DID smile at me and DID make my day. Oh and I made Jackie laugh by blowing kisses at her.  For realz.

The weed was terrible, not.

I went to one or two.  All I remember is how freaking hot it was. 

Hot and HOT.  I took a dip.

ALL Jerry is Gospel Jerry, IMSBO

Very cool!

smh, slacker, smh...

I think I went to Mex in 89..

91 for sure. 

This looks like a killer box.

Slacker, Jerry...band...on a river...in Humboldt...with trees...and hippies.

Ordered! 

Just my luck that I moved to Humboldt in '93.  I guess Jerry wasn't up to it by then?

Ordered  

Set List:

August 29, 1987 

Disc 1 // Set 1
1. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
2. Forever Young
3. Get Out Of My Life Woman
4. Run For The Roses
5. And It Stoned Me
6. My Sisters And Brothers
7. Deal 

Disc 2 // Set 2
1.The Harder They Come
2. I Shall Be Released
3. Think
4. Evangeline
5. Gomorrah
6. Let It Rock
7. That Lucky Old Sun
8. Tangled Up In Blue

June 10, 1989 

Disc 3 // Set 1
1. I’ll Take A Melody
2. They Love Each Other
3. Get Out Of My Life Woman
4. Run For The Roses
5. Stop That Train
6. Mission In The Rain
7. My Sisters And Brothers
8. Deal 

Disc 4 // Set 2
1. The Harder They Come 
2. Waiting For A Miracle
3. I Shall Be Released
4. Think
5. I Hope It Won’t Be This Way Always
6. Don’t Let Go
7. Evangeline
8. That Lucky Old Sun
9. Tangled Up In Blue

August 10, 1991 

Disc 5 // Set 1
1. The Way You Do The Things You Do
2. And It Stoned Me
3. You Never Can Tell (C’est La Vie)
4. Waiting For A Miracle
5. Struggling Man
6. My Sisters And Brothers
7. Deal 

Disc 6 // Set 2
1. Shining Star 
2. Think
3. Lay Down Sally
4. Twilight
5. See What Love Can Do
6. Lazy Bones
7. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

Does David Nelson play with Jerry acoustic set on 8/29/87? 

I would assume so.

The Deal set closers always ripped -- especially the ones from '89.

>Does David Nelson play with Jerry acoustic set on 8/29/87? <

yes

https://jerrygarcia.com/show/1987-08-29-frenchs-camp-on-the-eel-river-pi...

I can get behind this, pre-ordered with a dreamsticker.  Thanks for the heads up bustywinds.

Might as well have a reference a few miles down river of the Electric on the EEL/ Reggae site /Not far from murder mountain!  .Locals have soundboards of most of this. I have some pictures around somewhere ?

Cool poster Zooey!  And presale gets you that acoustic JGB with Dave Nelson, nice bonus. 

Pretty sure the Jerry and John acoustic duo didn't happen as advertised on that handbill

for the '87 show.

I moved to Humboldt in '88, saw Hot Tuna and Commander Cody there at the end of summer, billed as "Eclectic on the Eel."

When the JGB played there in '89, I had to be back on the east coast for a few weeks and had to miss it.

Finally, when they were going to play there on 7-13-91, I was set. Bought the tickets right when they went on sale; My friends and I had a couple of cabins reserved at the place next to the venue, right on the river, walking distance. We were ready.

Anyway, Garcia gets sick and they "postpone" the Eel show and the Frost show that was supposed to be the next

day, 7/14. (Of course, the Frost show was never rescheduled and Jerry never played there again. Major bummer.)

To add to that disappointment, they reschedule the Eel for the time I Again have to go to the fucking east coast!

No way out of it, though Lord knows I tried. That was one of the major fails of my years of seeing the Dead/JGB.

Of course my wife went to all three of them; yesterday she goes "l'll buy that, those were a lot of fun! I forgot you missed them."

Real cute honey.

The 91 show was supposed to be in July with Taj Mahal but got rescheduled to August due to Jerry's rehab, 2 days before GD Cal Expo/Shoreline run, with Paul Kantner opening.

Such a great show, I scored a tape of it in '92. I was unfamiliar with several of the closing songs but they were all powerful that day.

The 91 show was 1 week after Reggae on the River .We shared a lot of equipment with the Hog Farm for both shows So we just left a lot of the site up and we were good to go . The exception was in town. Garberville and Redway became shakedown street for a week and it was a little crazy in town between shows. We had friends camped all over the property .Good times in them there hills

One of the few photos of me at a show - 91 Eel River

<<<The 91 show was 1 week after Reggae on the River >>

If I recall a couple of the shows were the weekend after the Biker run, so the site and equipment was ready. And there were lots of ribs being BBQd

It's about 4 hrs from SF to French's Camp and a lot of tour heads from the Bay area  didn't make the trip up in 87. Too far. Too remote. You even had to run a gauntlet of cops in Hopland who randomly pulled over cars. So it pretty much felt like a local show. (30 years ago, Humbolt was even more remote than it seems today. Old time families and loggers outnumbered the hippies, who kept a much lower profile than today. There was a real mom and pop homesteader outlaw mentality permeating the Redway / Garbeville area, as the Feds and the local cops and (most of) the ranchers were not keen on weed, and CAMP was out in force. Medical marijuana was still a pipedream.)

I'd been seeing Jerry shows for a dozen years before this, but this was something else... old time hippies, Deadheads, naked chicks --- all by a beautiful river under the redwoods. The weed being shared at the show was outrageously tasty -- what is called top-shelf boutique weed today. Security was guys we knew. Walk right up to the stage. Jerry seemed happy. When people reminisce and type the words, "Good times" at the end of a paragraph... this was one of those.

And one year, I think there was a Jerry show the next day at the Greek or somewhere -- I remember hippy caravans filling 101, headed south. 

And in '87 going from the Eel to the Greek to hear JGB with Bonnie Raitt the next day. That was sweet.

edit: was writing this as you were posting, Alan.

"The 91 show was supposed to be in July with Taj Mahal but got rescheduled to August due to Jerry's rehab"

Rehab or just sick?  I was not aware that he did a rehab in '91.

Damn, I was at the GD Angel's Camp shows just days prior to the August 29  Eel River show and could've stopped by the Eel River on the way back north... how did I not hear about this at Angel's Camp? 

The bonus acoustic disk is good.

I'm in on this one and the price ain't bad.

Three Deals!

i saw jerrry break 3 strings on a deal. stopped me dead in my tracks trying to piss before the crowd...

Worth the price right there Slack.

He could set the place ablaze during Deal.

Let It Rock is too fast. 

89 feels a little canned except for Don't Let Go.

>Rehab or just sick?  I was not aware that he did a rehab in '91.

Yeah there was a band intervention after the summer 91 tour and Jerry did the rehab/methadone thing for a while but that prob didn't last long

     they "postponed" the Eel show...

     I hitchhiked from the '91 Vermont Rainbow Gathering to this show only to have it postponed.  I left the gathering with a Hare Krishna group, then I saw a Volkswagen bus with a California license plate during a torrential downpour and insisted to the driver of the bus to be let out...because it was a weather event they were hesitant to let me go...I was thinking at the time that a Volkswagen bus with California plates was surely beautiful people leaving the gathering driving to the Jerry show in Humboldt.

     So I left the Krishna Bus in the middle of a rainstorm, walked towards the Volkswagen parked at the gas station...the closer I got to the Volkswagen the more I realized it wasn't hippies from the gathering, a very large gentleman walked out of the gas station towards the VW bus, so I said "I noticed your California license plate, I'm trying to get there...are you headed that way?  He replied "Sure, hop in."

     I said "My name's Bryen...thanks for the lift!"  He said his name was Sal.  I explained I was headed to California to see Jerry Garcia in Humboldt County, then I asked "Where are you coming from?".  "Rikers Island, I was just released", he said...at that point I asked "what were you in for?"...he looked me straight in the eye and said "racketeering".

     Anyways...it was kind of an intense experience, at one point I bailed out in Utah, Sal went back east a few miles to fix a tire, then hours later I'm still on the side of I-80, Sal pulls up, I hop in and we're off to Nevada...then Sal ends up losing his shirt at Blackjack and I catch a lift the rest of the way rendezvousing with another VW bus at the next gas station with girls headed to the concert.

     We were all disappointed to hear the show was postponed, but it was a very special time in Northern California.

Here's a good tidbit of info on that 87 French's Camp show. There were no rehearsals for that acoustic set. That unit first played together onstage at this gig. The enjoyment of the set led to the idea for Broadway run by Bill Graham.

     At one point I think I lost a girlfriend because I heard "Twilight" on the stereo from one of these shows and a tear rolled down my cheek, I could tell she was a bit suspect.

Thanks for the heads up, totally buying this one. 

Here is a preview 

https://youtu.be/UhrSr_p9AJs

LOL Byren, that's classic

The 91 show is better than the 89 show.

That was a good Cali run for me in '91. Reggae on the River > Jerry on the Eel > GD at Cal Expo > Shoreline > Garcia/Grisman at Squaw Valley.

Jerry at the Eel had nude swimming and a guy camped by the river selling hash & oil with a constant lineup. Also remember the actual fire on the mountain after the show. Good times.

#jerry 

An elephant?

Silly Mark, it's an eel!

I'm in thanks.

And thanks everyone for the Tales From The Golden Road

They always warm the heart

Im kinda digging the poster. Much better than expected.

The eel came by and I got on!  I only listened to the acoustic cd so far and loving it.  Is that David Nelson singing Diamond Joe?

Yes, C-R, that is David Nelson, 32 years younger ❤️

Very cool, thanks Zooey  :-)

C-R, you should come out for the April 25-26 DNB shows at TXR, tourist for a week, and finish up with the JGB show (with Nelson acoustic trio opener) at the Warfield on May 4!  Nice time of year....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTELZI1fF4g

Springtime in California

Zooey, I love your travel idea for C-R, LOL. Wish I could come down for that run.... 

Llollo, you’re close enough to do one weekend or the other! Hope to see you soon...

I would love to do that but vacation is a precious thing that I always have in short supply.  Hope to make it to west coast this year but not in April.  

The "Twilight" alone makes this worth the price of admission.

Been listening to the 91 show too. Man the mix is good. I can hear everyone perfectly. Jerry in strong voice and sounding happy. I forgot how good this version of the JGB was. Love the "needs somebody to love"

I kinda thought the mix was off on the 1991 show but I didn't expect it to be perfect, all Melvin era Jerry boards are a bit wonky. The ladies vocals are too loud and Jerry's could be louder as could his guitar. Can always listen to the audience recording for a proper mix 

Going to see Melvin tonight near Philadelphia.  Been awhile. Anyone else seen him recently?

lay down sally is tight. 

that electric fuzz sound effect is so cool. melvin i believe.