Warfield—28 Years ago Today—-TONIGHTS SHOW IS ON!
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Ok, I'm a shitty photographer but you get the idea, and I know some of you were there. (Photo by LocalCountyLine, 5-2-92, SF, CA)
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Ok, I'm a shitty photographer but you get the idea, and I know some of you were there. (Photo by LocalCountyLine, 5-2-92, SF, CA)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
It's not a bad photo.
It's not a bad photo.
I love that marquee. I've seen many great names on it over the years, and I took this photo of it myself a couple of years earlier...
It was all so long ago.
Or just a minute ago, depending on how you look at it.
Anyway, GO JERRY!!! GO NINERS!!!
Carry on.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
what year did the blues
what year did the blues travelers open for jerry?
he played well that night
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Next door looks more
Next door looks more interesting! XXX
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Was 1991 turtle
Was 1991 turtle
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
thanks! seems about right.
thanks! seems about right.
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Who the hell were the
Who the hell were the Affordables?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline
Vince's band Dave.
Vince's band Dave.
They opened for JGB at least three times.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline
It was 6-13-90 Turtle.
It was 6-13-90 Turtle.
They were the only 2 Warfield shows I missed that year. (JGB played on 6-12 but I don't think Blues Traveler opened both shows).
Show was also with Clarence.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
thanks local!
thanks local!
i know i did see a clarence show or 2? that must have been it. and 90 makes a bit more sense, i guess.
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Thanks local county line!
Thanks local county line! Wonderful memories from the beginning of my 8 years in San Francisco.!
I have some of those flyers "somewhere" too.
I don't think Blues Traveler opened for JGB that was a different date.
'The Affordables' got their name when they agreed to open for JGB at The Kaiser for no pay.
As a newbie to SF , CA in 1991 it blew my mind that you could go to a JGB show on a weekday and get your Tix at the Box Office! Unheard of on the East Coast, it woulda been sold out!
I remember there was a JGB show my 1st night in town on a Thursday. Bill Graham was chatting in the lobby with people, and behind him I saw a poster for Garcia/Grisman on the wall. I marveled at it, thinking it must've been 15 years old , cuz those two hadn't played together since the mid-seventies. When I looked at rhe dates it was Feb 1 & 2 , 1991 ~ 2 days away!!! Man, I knew then that I made the right move by moving to San Francisco at that time! It was JGB / Garcia Grisman / Zero / Merl Saunders & The Good O'l Grateful Dead for the next 4 years and boy, did I love it!!!
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I was there!
I was there! I was at every JGB Warfleld show played........
As a newbie to SF , CA in 1991 it blew my mind that you could go to a JGB show on a weekday and get your Tix at the Box Office! Unheard of on the East Coast, it woulda been sold out!
I moved to the Bay Area in the 80's and one of the first couple of days I was in town I saw an ad in the paper for Jerry at the Stone and I walked down there strainght down Broadway past all the strip clubs and bought a ticket for $8.50 at the dor. It was a paper carnival ticket that said "Admit One" and that was it. Killer show. I learned he was playing at the Keystone in Palo Alto the next night and in Berkeley after that. Went to all three LOL! I had the same thought about the East Coast!
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>>As a newbie to SF , CA in
>>As a newbie to SF , CA in 1991 it blew my mind that you could go to a JGB show on a weekday and get your Tix at the Box Office!
Sam year for me and same story. Also found it strange they advertised Dead shows in the paper.
>>>Next door looks more interesting! XXX
Crazy Horse strip club. When Phil and Friends did his five night "closing of the Warfield" they wanted GoGo dancers for the Golden Road and went next store to see if anyone wanted to dance on stage. Or so the story goes.
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They did
They did
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what year did the blues
what year did the blues travelers open for jerry?
'91?
I remember being surprised. Wasn't on the tickets.
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Back in the early 90's I
Back in the early 90's I exhibited a trade show every May at the Moscone Center and without fail JGB was always playing that week at the Warfield. My father used to joke how I was able to arrange the timing. I was at the show that the Blues Traveler opened. Being from the East Coast we knew who they were, but many heard them for the first time. If I am not mistaken , Bill Graham's son was managing them at the time.
I was also at the show when the Rodney King riots broke out and they actually wouldn't let us leave the theater until it was safe.
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Bill Graham's son was
Bill Graham's son was managing them at the time.
That is correct and how they got the gig opening for Jerry and later the ABB that summer. They opened for Jerry at Cal Expo too.
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I think Graham's son
I think Graham's son discovered them at the Wetlands in NYC if I'm not mistaken.
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If this was the Video Daily
If this was the Video Daily Double on Jeopardy, I'd go with "What are Hookers and Blow?"
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The strip club looks to have
The strip club looks to have a bigger Marquee and entrance.
I was at the GD last Warfield show in 83. My only Warfield show. Don't remember the XXX club. Do remember XXX type civilians in the area! Kind of a skid row scene.
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Above photo by
Above photo by LocalCountyLine.
I took this photo from this angle to make sure people knew our beautiful Warfield Theatre was directly next to one of the Mitchell Brothers porn
movie places, the Electric Theatre. A year before, Jim Mitchell killed his brother Artie, and the next day the JGB was starting a three night run. They had a small memorial in front of the theatre and it was closed. It's weird to me because later I would meet a man who grew up with the Mitchell boys in and was Jim's roommate in the Haight when they started their porn empire. My friend Bob ended up being a cameraman on many films and his stories were great, of course.
These 10 nights at the Warfield were something else. Still not quite sure how I pulled that off, but most of us have gone through that......
By the way Woz, I think you're leaving out the Warfield JGB show in '81 where Phil sat in for Kahn? ;) Either way, you knew how the cow ate the cabbage, and where to be, every night. I had to miss some shows. That sucked, because they were so fun.
Oh and the JGB only played Cal-Expo once, 7-24-92, first show of the JGB California Tour, and Burnt Toast opened, not Blues Traveler.
I remember. We were on the rail. Burnt Toast was not what anyone needed when it was over 100 degrees....
Fun times in Sacramento in July!
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And note on the bottom left
And note on the bottom left of the Warfield marquee it says Garcia Grisman Tix still on sale.
Hahaha! 5 nights of this in a 2,000 seat theatre on the East Coast? Instant sell out.
As noted by posters above, and I'm included, it was mind blowing that Garcia could play an iconic theatre in
San Francisco from '90-'95 with very little fanfare.
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Poor marketing?
Poor marketing?
or perhaps his preference
maybe he became larger than life after death?
and btw most youall are deadheads
west coast mellower? The dead were natives Californians and all
golden shore
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline
Poor marketing? Come on LLTD.
Poor marketing? Come on LLTD. It was the best. They advertised every single Warfield show in the pink pages,
it's not like he was hiding, they Wanted to sell tickets!
It was just so great for us "transplants" to come to the Bay Area and see a lack of frenzy.
I moved to Calif. in fall '88 and right away saw the JGB at the Kaiser, in the small showroom in Lake Tahoe, just over the border,
where cops were literally hauling people out of the show and arresting them for smoking pot. (We went under the table),
and the Orpheum in SF.
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Good call Doolittle
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Might As Well
Might As Well
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
Poor marketing?
Poor marketing?
If you consider flooding the market poor marketing, then yes.
Jerry played so often in the BA in those years it became a regular thing, and while there were never as many crazed dead heads in the Bay Area as the eastern seaboard, if Jerry had played that often in NYC it might have leveled off some as well.
But don't mistake, virtually all BA Jerry shows sold out, just not on the first day, and when he was doing 4 - 8 shows a month every other month maybe not the first week.
But they still sold out.
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Yeah I saw the first ever
Yeah I saw the first ever Irvine show and on a whim hitchhicked up for that last Warfield show a few days later. Got a ticket outside. Don't remember how I got home?? I think I took a Greyhound and he left me off at the exit at Topanga Canyon Blvd. on 101 and I walked from there.
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I worked at the Bay Guardian
I worked at the Bay Guardian and Warfield spent plenty on promoting JGB shows. We would take some of the payment in trade that I got to use to go to shows that included a bar tab. My favorite spot was by the bar on the right side of the floor. Best job I ever had.
But you have to rememberer SF at the time was kind of embarrassed by the continued interest in the Dead. The entire music staff at the Bay Guardian were all Sleater-Kinney all the time. The SF Chronicle covered the dead more than the alt-weeklies did.
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"poor marketing "
"poor marketing "
Tongue in cheek team, jeez chill out no need to be "defensive"
(yes Jerry is a deity - I'm good with that)
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in the small showroom in Lake
in the small showroom in Lake Tahoe
That was so fun! They didn't know wjat to do with deadheads at the casino!
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Oh forgot that before that
Oh forgot that before that Irvine show on Sunday 3/27/83 I saw the Dinosaurs that Friday when the GD were in Tempe so all the heads were in Arizona. and there were only like 50 people at the Country Club in Reseda,Ca. which holds 1000. I saw Jerry and Bobby and the Midnites a bunch of times there in the early 80's. Surprised the show wasn't cancelled for lack of ticket sales. Still have my stub.
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When I moved in SF in '92, I
When I moved in SF in '92, I was surprised how painless it was to get JGB Warfield tickets. You certainly had to keep an eye out for on-sale dates and not completely slack but overall refreshingly easy compared to the gladiator environment that had encompassed the east coast.