Happy 76th Birthday Jerry!

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Here's lookin' at you kid!

Yep happy Jerry Day Zonnas

 

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Jerry's 50th Birthday

California Jerry Tour

Jerry Garcia Band
August 1, 1992
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
Irvine, CA

SET 1
1. Cats Under The Stars
2. Mission In The Rain
3. Waiting For A Miracle
4. Mississippi Moon
5. Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox
6. My Sisters And Brothers
7. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
SET 2
1. Shining Star
2. Money Honey
3. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
4. The Maker
5. Don't Let Go
6. Wonderful World

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We bought this poster ^

and some bunk blotter sad in the lot before the show.

Also saw Ventura the night before. Good times!

I just remembered tickets arrived in Ohio after I had departed for the West.

We picked up replacements at will call and returned to unripped tickets in the mail at home.

The ONE time TicketBastard came through.frown

Jerry Garcia Band

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^ I remember Jerry took a super long break between sets, what a beautiful tour that was, we camped at the various beaches throughout Southern California, traveling on the Doodle Bus...we had an amazing crew, good times!  Irvine was a special evening!

Happy 76 Birthday to the fat man. My last special GD show was 8/1/94 at the palace in Detroit. Very special show.

 

Anyone else make it to that one?

As Garcia's impact on western civilization continues and continues and continues throughout the here, the now and the beyond we should all take a moment and realize how unrecognizable America would be if he had not have been...his contribution to humanity is immeasurable, he was a gift of divine providence.

https://youtu.be/kH81zJOPQug

Jerry was such a cute kid! 

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.”

What's the date on that awesome JGB picture above?

It's Hartford, you can see the Whalers logo, that would make it in all likelihood either '91 or '93 based on the lighting setup, the one thing you could sense being on east coast Jerry tour, was you could look around at the maybe 350 people at every show of Jerry Garcia Band tour and think, "this is the hardcore, every Jerry performance crew, the handful of individuals at every show".

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Hartford, Connecticut 

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I don't believe it was 9.5.89, is it possible?  Perhaps...a Whalers fan may be able to tell from the retired jerseys, I know a couple Whalers fans, they're in Ireland, it's mid-morning there, maybe I'll ask, this is the video recording 

 

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I gave Jerry a birthday cake in 1987, he told me to get the rest of the band there to help him eat it.  RIP Jerry.

 

"My last special GD show was 8/1/94 at the palace in Detroit. Very special show.

 

Anyone else make it to that one?"

KK, I remember signing the "birthday card" in the lot before the show.

Jerry's health was clearly declining by that point, but Bobby really carried the band on that tour.