Bay Areaĭeadheads took Garcia Band shows for granted, and if they went at all, John Kahn a few times, and while Lesh's presence was advertised, noĮxplanation was ever proffered for why Kahn was unavailable.
Old drummer came back, or if singers came and went. Made-you just showed up one night at the Keystone Berkeley and there If the band changed drummers, no announcement was People who regularly saw the Garcia Band at, say, the Keystoneīerkeley, could not be bothered to drive an hour to see them at KeystoneĬontemporaneous information about the Jerry Garcia Band was surprisingly Local Deadheads hardly considered a Garcia Band concert a big deal. Interviewers only asked band members about the JGB in passing, and evenĭeadheads shared surprisingly little information about the performances. Vacuum in which they performed: their shows were never reviewed, Yet a peculiar feature of the Jerry Garcia Band was the dark It's no surprise that concerts by the Dead's lead guitarist thrived as Grateful Dead continued to be a more and more popular concert attractionĮach year, even as rock fashions moved away from the Grateful Dead, so The popularity of the Garcia Band was not surprising, as the
Share of concerts at theaters and small halls around the Bay Area as Keystone Berkeley and the other Keystone clubs, but they played their The Jerry Garcia Band were a popular live attraction in NorthernĬalifornia in the second half of the 1970s. The Sebastopol Arts Center, in Sebastopol (Sonoma County), CA, where the Jerry Garcia played on March 22, 1978