Garcialive Vol13

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9-16-89

The Big Man & The Fat Man...

listen now sounds great

here's preview:

https://www.facebook.com/jerrygarciaofficial/videos/635470167008604/

I was at this one. Great show.

Bob and Rob opened.

Should be arriving today.

Not a big fan of Clarence's style outside of the E Street Band but wanted to have this in the collection.

I was at Greatwoods for JGB when The Big Man played the whole show, I forget the year but it was one of the best nights ever.

^9/9-10/89

https://ia800706.us.archive.org/17/items/jgb1989-09-09/jgb1989-09-09.mp3...

9/9/89 Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 
I: How Sweet It Is, Stop That Train, Second That Emotion, Forever Young, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Deal
II: The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Waiting For A Miracle, Think, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Don't Let Go, Lonesome And A Long Way From Home
(Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman opened; w/Clarence Clemons for whole show)

 

https://ia800304.us.archive.org/15/items/jgb1989-09-10/jgb1989-09-10.mp3...

9/10/89 Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 
I: Cats Under The Stars, They Love Each Other, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Run For The Roses, Mississippi Moon, Hope It Won't Be This Way, Deal
II: Second That Emotion, And It Stoned Me, Simple Twist Of Fate, Waiting For A Miracle, Evangeline, That Lucky Old Sun, Tangled Up In Blue
(Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman opened; w/Clarence Clemons for whole show)

 

I was at both, decent shows but I remember being "not psyched" to see JGB in such a big place.  After moving to MA in the mid 80s, great woods was like the playground but, this is when the JGB started to gain in popularity and the places got to big in my view.  Used to see them at the Caldarone, or Tower Theater or the Capitol is Passaic and JGB was meant for more intimate environments.

^ Me too. I saw them at 1000 seater clubs and the move to arenas was not right for the JGB music imo which I always thought of as a bar band. They just couldn't IMO keep up the energy in a 20,000 seater. I only went to the 10/31/93 arena show. Never saw them before in such a huge place and never saw JGB again after that.. I think the time before that 10/31/93 show was Jerry on Broadway in 87. Would have loved to see those Warfield shows but was 3000 mile away.

My first Garcia/Saunders show in November of '74 was at the Tower but after moving to SF in the fall of '76 I got used to seeing him at the Keystone, so when he started playing places like the Spectrum it was a huge letdown.

I agree on JBG arena shows, not a good fit. The exception possibly being the 10-31-92 Oakland Arena gig. Felt right that night.