Need Help Finding A Show——Garcia/Kahn 2-2-86 Boston
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I would love to get a CD of this show but if that's not possible a working link would be great too.
I didn't realize this is the only known time he played The Roving Gambler live. (Save for '62 with the Hart Valley Drifters).
Was fortunate to see Dylan open a bunch of shows with this, which I thought was excellent, and it seemed like half the
times I saw him do it we were in a casino in Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City.......
Anyway, great traditional folk song, and it is curious why Garcia broke it out only once on that night.
Must not have felt right for him. Then again, Garcia and Kahn only played twice more as a duo after this, 2-28-86 and 11-14-86,
both at Marin Veterans Aud.
Weird how things like that go. I think the JGAB and or Garcia/Grisman could have done it justice.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
Thank you kindly.
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I can't help with that, but I
I can't help with that, but I've been thinking about you and your wife a lot - wondering how you both are. If you don't want to discuss it here, might you write to me at [email protected] ?
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http://tela.sugarmegs.org/
It's an MP3, but better than nothing. http://www.archive.org/serve/jgb1986-02-02OrpheumTheaterBostonMA/jgb1986...
Jerry Garcia and John Kahn
02/02/1986
Orpheum Theater
Boston, MA
Source: Orchestra Sennhieser 441 > D5 Maxell MX-S Master out of Steve Adleman�s Mikes & D-5
Taper: B. Koucky
playback on Nakamichi DR2 > Presonus Firebox > firewire/PC XP Pro > Wavelab 5.0,
recorded as 24 bit/96 KHz PCM WAV > Waves L3 Multimaxmizer
(threshold -3.5, ceiling -0.1, type I dither, ultra shaping) >
16 bit/44.1 KHz PCM WAV > CDWAV 1.9 > FLAC (level 8).
Transfer/mastering by C.Ladner.
Disc 1 33:42
Early Show :
01 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
02 Friend Of The Devil
03 I've Been All Around This World
04 The Roving Gambler
05 Valerie
06 Run For The Roses
Disc 2 50:25
Late Show
01 Tuning
02 Deep Elem Blues
03 Spike Driver Blues
04 Jack-A-Roe
05 Gomorrah
06 Bird Song
07 Ripple
Encore:
08 Goodnight Irene
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My first Dead related show
My first Dead related show was the night before. Yee haw!
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Those are solid set lists. I
Those are solid set lists. I saw Jerry & John twice on that tour, at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. and at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Saw a couple of stellar Bird Song's.
Roving Gambler would have been cool, and would have fit right into a JGAB set or an Old & In The Way set. Peter Rowan has a nice recording of it.
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Thanks Judit that's very nice of you. I talked to her a little while ago; 10 weeks away from home; it's been a lot tougher on her than me but it's been rough.
She just wants to get back to the cat, the beach, and me. (Ok, mainly her cat, who has been pining without his mom around all the time).
Brian K., thanks a bunch for coming up with that so fast. (I don't know why the fuck I can't find stuff like that on archive anymore).
Great you went to your first the night before; I'll be revisiting this thread to comment on the Roving Gambler. I found it very interesting.
Thanks again for finding and posting; I think it sounds great.
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It's not on Archive, at least
It's not on Archive, at least not that can find. The link is on www.sugarmegs.org. There's a ton of Garcia up on there. I knew that show was there because I've listened to it a bunch.
If you've never checked out Sugarmegs, you really should. You name an artist and there are live shows, from Benny Goodman to Springsteen to the Go-Go's. It's a trove.
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Here’s senator robert byrd’s
Here’s senator robert byrd’s version, with Doyle Lawson. From his 1978 album Mountain Fiddler.
https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/359882
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Here’s senator robert byrd’s
I’ve seen David Allan Coe cover this song too
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This site is much better and
This site is much better and easier than Sugarmegs for finding all shows regarding GD related shows. Garcia, Weir, Hunter eg. Click on setlists and then go from there. Has probably every Jerry and GD show ever recorded?
https://gdsets.com/gdsets.htm
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This is a 2 set show, not
This is a 2 set show, not early & late, 35 & 55 minutes.
Nice find.
4 other '86 shows, April and May, 2 @ The Stone, Orpheum & BCT(4 songs for Wavy's 50th) then 11/86, last duo performance..
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Thanks for that link, Doctor.
Thanks for that link, Doctor. Turns out that the 2 Jerry & John shows I saw were earlier, January 31, 1986 (the second show, after me and a friend made a last second decision to drive up from Charlottesville) in Passaic and November 20, 1984 in D.C. with Robert Hunter opening. All these little years later, it's a little blurry.
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I made this one. Phenomenal
I made this one, the show not the recording. Pretty phenomenal sound.
Jerry Garcia & John Kahn - Bushnell Hall, Hartford CT - 11.26.84 SBD" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/uGX7R7RTBUY
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Great to hear this Roving
Great to hear this Roving Gambler. Right when he started I could see why it was one and done. His acoustic style at this time did not lend itself to the way he wanted to play it, i.e. banjo style. I think if he had tried it like the example posted by Mice by Robert Byrd it would have worked better. (Pretty much the same as Dylan would end up doing it).
I was looking forward to hearing him sing the final verse:
"Well now I'm in the jailhouse, got a number for a name.
Warden said as he closed the door you've gambled your last game, gambled your last game."
(That would have been a good one for the Oregon State Prison show).
Dave, good call on Old and in the Way playing this, it clearly would have been perfect for them.