JGB songs that you REALLY loved to hear

Midnight Moonlight  https://youtu.be/0dnibCQtdFE

Ride Mighty High - Jerry Garcia Band - Ben Light Gymnasium, Ithaca College (1976-09-18)  https://youtu.be/qSbxDFEoVPI

Waiting For A Miracle....     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAqomtCsOs  ....Throw in a little Clarence Clemons

~Senor~(bob dylan)

~~Don't Let Go ~~

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

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This is my favorite Garcia Band cover, "Throw Out the Lifeline":

https://youtu.be/tHfDCLn9r04

Played twice.

Peace

Mission in the Rain

Nice Lager.. didnt know JGB did that one...  an old church tune! 

I love the JGB versions of TLEO better than the GD versions... but my vote would be "The Maker" if I had to pick only one. 

Valerie

Lonesome And A Long Way From Home

Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox

The Maker

Lay Down Sally 

I'll Take a Melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo1Jrv_UNzc

Mission In The Rain  

https://youtu.be/6YXqqMCVbts

Hunter Gets Captured By the Game

Mississippi Moon

Tough Mama 

Don't Let Go

Ride the Mighty High

Lonesome and a Long Way from Home

Mississippi Moon

Been playing Catfish John and My Sisters & Brothers on guitar pretty much daily for the last two weeks.  

The chromatic stuff on the Catfish John solos is a blast.  How many consecutive notes is too many here?

Learning Sis & Bros was a byproduct of learning Catfish John.   Some of the thumb/bassline stuff I'm doing work equally well in either.

As far as live JGB went, I was always up for Mission, I'll Take A Melody, and Tore Up.

Dear Prudence was a potential piss-break (so imagine how I feel about Bob singing it these days).  

Also love Waiting For A Miracle, but can't sing the bridge in the original key.

Breadbox

Gomorrah

Roadrunner 

Positively 4th Street

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

There were lots...

Sisters and Brothers

Evangeline

Don't Let Go

Harder They Come

Midnight Moonlight

Tough Mama

Way You Do The Things You Do

Tore Up

Second That Emotion

Gomorrah

You Never Can Tell

Shining Star  (that's one I didn't like as much until I saw one version in '94 that for a couple of different reasons just BLEW MY MIND. I've loved it ever since that night)

Yes! Gomorrah! 

I broke the CD player in my rental car in Hawaii or else I would've listened to all of these... but made do w/ the local Hawaiian FM station.

Lonesome & a Long Way From Home

Lonely Avenue

Rueben & Cerise 

Rhapsody In Red 

I only saw Jerry Band once but it was one of the best of the tour..11-5-93 Buffalo

I am also very fond of Lifeline..

I like Way You Do..

Lazy Bones.

Shining Star

rub&cherise

Mission

Maker

I can't think of a song I don't like

Jeez, no one's mentioned "Tangled Up & Blue"?

funny, just listened to that one earlier as it came on automatically after Mission ... always my 2nd favorite version after Dylan's..

>>>Jeez, no one's mentioned "Tangled Up & Blue"<<<

I liked that one, but there was always just a momentary twinge of disappointment when they'd start it because it seemed that if they were playing that one they weren't going to play Midnight Moonlight, which I was happy to hear every single show I saw.

Side note on Tangled Up & Blue: I'm not big on lyrics and for years I thought they were singing, "Tangled up in you".

"Tangled Up & Blue"??

Come on you guys!

Let It Rock was almost always great.

Tough Mama and Senior couldn't be beat.

Struggling Man

Too Many.

<<<<<<. Lifeline, played Twice  >>>>>>

He did it 9 times, I saw 8 of them. Just a great song.

Couldn't get enough JGB. Thankfully I made being there a top priority.

Think

....and actually, isn't the correct title "Tangled up IN blue"?

Best part about JGB?

Next song always a Jerry song.

Like a Road...

You are correct,  LLOLLO.

Any of the Van Morrison  covers.

Bright Side of the Road @ MSG 11/15/91 with Blues Traveler was a highlight of a great show

From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road

Little darlin', come with me
Won't you help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Won't you help me share my load (help me share my load)
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Help me sing my song (help me…

Set 2 with Bright Side>> ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkIoNsIPNZk   Good Quality Audio Source

The Way You Do the Things You Do Waiting For a Miracle Shining Star Ain't No Bread in the Bread Box Don't Let Go That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)>> Bright Side of the Road

Encore:What A Wonderful World

I really enjoyed those versions of Bright Side.. I have an old vhs I got back In 94 from landover 11-7-91..set 2 opener. Jerrys all smiles

I second Let it rock

C'est La Vie

Shining Star

No love for Don't Let Go?

Yes. Much love for it. Those jams went way out there. .

^^^

I was a huge fan of Don't Let Go from Commander Cody's self titled album, great boogie woogie music.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4X2UtzLxHw    

Couple years later I heard JGB completely reconstruct it into a huge jam vehicle.

Isaac Hayes has a Disco version of Don't Let Go on his album of the same name.  It was a little disconcerting the first time I heard it, but it's grown on me.

For the record, my favorite JGB tunes are:

Tangled Up In Blue

Gomorrah

Ridin' Mighty High

Midnight Moonlight

Mission In The Rain

Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox

heard a perfect mission in the rain yesterday

left me in a weepy puddle

might be the pandemic thing, but music is especially hitting me hard lately

^ which one was that jlp?

     East Coast Jerry Tours were the best...you could look around and have an understanding of who the 250 people +/- were that were at every Garcia performance from sea to shining sea.

     [pulled from a prior link....but beautiful!!!!]

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkIoNsIPNZk%C2%A0     

No matter how hard I Fight it...

That's what love will make you do!

whatever was on sirius at the time lol

it sounded "older" ?

slow, sorrowful, hopeful ya know

I know :-)   Hope you are doing ok jlp, stay safe.

     One of the most striking memories Melvin Seals has of Garcia was his generosity—when one of the girls in the band, Gloria Jones, wanted to buy a house, Jerry co-signed for her. “Have you ever heard the term that someone would literally give you the shirt off their back?” he says. “Jerry was that person, he really was. Anything that you needed, he wanted you to have it. People don’t know much about that kind of stuff, but it’s real. He did a lot of things individually for folks as they needed things and was glad to do it.” 

     Every Christmas Seals and the other musicians would go to Garcia’s house for a small gathering. Seals recalls one particular Christmas gathering, “One year I went up there and just kinda sat in Jerry’s chair. He had a big designer cushioned chair. I just sat there all night. I didn’t get up and play the piano or anything. I just sat there until I left.” Garcia said to Seals, “Man you sure do look comfortable,” and Seals replied, “Man, this is a great chair.” According to Seals, that’s all he ever said, “and two days later that chair was delivered to my house. I didn’t ask for it or see that coming. I just said that I enjoyed sitting in it in his house and he had it delivered to me.”

     https://youtu.be/NfjGLR2R4-g     

  ^  Jerry Garcia Band

     The Warfield Theatre   

     San Francisco, California 

     April 24th, 1993

     Complete Show     

     https://youtu.be/NfjGLR2R4-g

Jerry's 50th. 8-1-92

A deeply emotional experience happened to me during this performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fs15d-Nk0

It's a long story I won't go into here.

It may not be the "best" performance, but damn, under the circumstances... suffice to say I fell deeper in love with Jerry that night.

Don't you go away, wanna' be right here where you are, 'till my dying day. 

    ^ Jerry took an extraordinarily long intermission on the occasion of his 50th, then came out and played an epic 2nd set

Jerry Garcia Band 

Irvine Meadows Amphitheater 

Irvine, California 

August 1st, 1992

SET 1

Cats Under The Stars

Mission In The Rain

Waiting For A Miracle

Mississippi Moon

Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox

My Sisters And Brothers

Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

SET 2

Shining Star

Money Honey

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

The Maker

Don't Let Go

Wonderful World

I was at that show Lance and I do remember your story of an illness....

I can relate right now, wife's been away for over a month and I haven't been allowed 

to visit in 2 weeks, so we're looking for all the Shining Stars we can get....

Damn Local, hang in there buddy.

Trying times bring out the truth.

     I hope everyone gets to feeling better...not to be like comparing Shining Stars or anything, but since you mentioned appreciating them, at the end of this particular one, and maybe you've heard it, but the crowd & Jerry serenade each other, it's really beautiful

     Jerry Garcia Band

     Shining Star

     Hampton Coliseum    

     Hampton, Virginia  

     November 19th, 1993*

     https://youtu.be/w5-GzQsXqt0

     * last show of east coast Jerry tour '93

i always loved JGB's Knockin on Heaven's Door-love all the tempo changes

You got that right Lance. "Gotta keep moving Jack"! is my mantra, from a stupid movie.

And the cow ate the cabbage at Universal Ampitheater on 7-29-92, the very first Shining Star singalong.

     [footnote] The story about Jerry giving Melvin his chair was written by Hank Sforzini, 8.20.2012