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The acoustic set was Jerry, David Nelson, John Kahn and Sandy Rothman...First time played for The Ballad Of John Henry, Trouble In Mind and I'm Trouble..."It was a girl I was dating who brought me way, way northern
California for this Jerry
show. I was in L.A. She was living in Eugene. We both loved Jerry and the
Dead.
This was a no-brainer. My buddy Jeff Barth was game for the trip. The
weather was
going to be nice, so we left the hard top off my Jeep Wrangler and off we
went. Up
I-5 we made as good a time as we could in an open topped Jeep.
In these days before the internet, we weren't really sure which way we
should go to
get out to the coast north of Sacramento. We had a map and picked a route
so we
could avoid Friday afternoon traffic in the Bay Area. Little did we know
until we were
well past the point of no return that we were going to be on a logging road
for a good
50 miles on our quest to reach Highway 1.
To say it was a hairy trip out to the coast would be an understatement,
with 18 wheel
trucks carrying tens of thousands of pounds of logs around every corner of
the snaky
road. We couldn't get to the 1 soon enough. Our first destination was a
beautiful little
town called Trinidad, an hour or so from the venue, but home to a friend of
Nani's and
whose place we could use for the night. A lovely lobster dinner that night
lead to a very
well deserved and restful snooze.
We got up the next morning bright and early and got on the road to Piercy, a
hamlet
south of the town of Garberville, about 3 hours south of the Oregon border.
We got to
the venue relatively early because we wanted to get a good blanket placement
and
get a pre-show swim in the river. Good blanket placement this day was
literally right
in front of Jerry, maybe 15 feet away.
Not only was it an all Jerry show, it was *three* sets, including the debut
of the Jerry
Garcia Acoustic Band, followed by two electric sets of JGB.
The poster shown says "Jerry and John Kahn for a second acoustic set", but
for the
record, there was no second acoustic set. It was a pretty insane show, just
pure bliss
on a beautiful, not too hot a day, with river dips in between sets and some
of the best
greenery (both the scenery and the *other* kind, wink wink, nudge nudge ;^)
I've ever
seen (or had). The venue and the show were just pure magic. I was the
pictures could
show that the stage was set up on a bend in the river with a sheer
rock cliff on the west
bank that naked people were jumping off into a deep eddy in the Eel.
Jerry was on fire the whole show, not missing a note or dropping a single
lyric the whole
show." -Eric Burns
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No known videos, but if you know of any please let us know!
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| Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band |
| Jerry Garcia |
guitar, vocals |
| David Nelson |
guitar, vocals |
| John Kahn |
bass |
| Sandy Rothman |
mandolin, dobro, banjo, vocals |
| Kenny Kosek |
fiddle |
| David Kemper |
drums |
| Jerry Garcia Band |
| Jerry Garcia |
guitar, vocals |
| John Kahn |
bass |
| Melvin Seals |
keyboards |
| Jaclyn LaBranch |
backing vocals |
| Gloria Jones |
backing vocals |
| David Kemper |
drums |
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Feb 3, 2012 -
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