Jerry at his happiest.Ĥ) The 1991 or 1992 release simply titled The Jerry Garcia Band, a live 2 cd now OOP, is easily his best live album with the Melvin Seals edition of the JGB. In all of them Jerry's joy and sense of having fun playing this music shines through. Incredibly soulful and funky stuff.ģ) The 80's Acoustic Band, two live albums plus another 3 cd's worth on the Pure Jerry series (there is some overlap of performances among these). Look for it.Ģ) The 70's live JGB, both the bands with Saunders and the bands with the Godchaux's. From Youtube I was able to record over 6 hours of very good sounding live material (there is no official live Garcia/Grisman release) from 91-92, together with solo acoustic shows. For me, his best guitar playing and singing. My favorite stuff:ġ) The Garcia/Grisman material is all excellent, not a bad album in the bunch. While I came to him later in life via the Grateful Dead (around 1992) and became a deadhead, I now listen almost exclusively to solo Garcia to the exclusion of the Dead when I am in that mood. I find myself surprised that at age 55, being a music nut for 45 years, I end up with Garcia being my favorite singer (not guitarist, not writer, but plain old singer). Such a bittersweet, melancholic and confusingly hopeful, zen-like rondo that closes the album Garcia and that radio program from all those years ago. The Wheel was the outro-theme song for the program ( I Dig Rock And Roll Music by Peter, Paul & Mary was the show's intro-theme song.) The Wheel is/was just such an incredible outro to that program and it left absolute, definite impression upon me. Click to expand.Amazing solo album in that he does actually play all of the instruments (except for the drums, which are handled by Bill Kreutzmann.) This is just about as perfectly a realized psychedelic and post-psychedelic song cycle as you are ever to come across (with the albums four abstract electro-acoustic explorations adding some really creepy and unsettling bridges/atmospheres to the whole trip.)īack in the 1980s when I was living in Newton, Massachusetts (two towns west of Boston) during my teenage years, I would listen to a radio show called Psychedelic Regressions, which was broadcast on the Boston College radio station WZBC every Sunday in the late afternoon.
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