The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975;it remained the most important of his various side projects until his death in 1995. The band regularly toured and recorded sporadically throughout its twenty-year existence,generally,but not always,during breaks in the Grateful Dead's schedule.
The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (JGAB) was a band formed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. They played a number of concerts in 1987 and 1988,and subsequently released two live albums.
Almost Acoustic is a live album by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. Held in high esteem by fans for superb sound quality and fine musical selection,it contains songs that were recorded from late November to early December 1987 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. It was released on December 6,1988.
Dick's Picks Volume 4 is the fourth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on February 13 and February 14,1970,at the Fillmore East in New York City,and released in February 1996. It was the first of the Dick's Picks CDs to have three discs. It was also the first Dead album to include the song "Mason's Children".
Pure Jerry:Theatre 1839,San Francisco,July 29 &30,1977 is an album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was the first release in the Pure Jerry series of live recordings by Jerry Garcia and his various solo bands. As the title suggests,it was recorded on July 29 and 30,1977,at Theatre 1839 in San Francisco,California. It was released on June 1,2004.
Melvin Seals is an American musician,best known as a longtime member of the Jerry Garcia Band.
Ragged but Right is the second live album by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. It was recorded in October and December 1987 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City,the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles,and the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. It was released on November 16,2010,twenty-two years after the band's first album,Almost Acoustic.
Sandy Rothman is an American,San Francisco Bay Area bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He plays mandolin,dobro and banjo,and he also sings. Rothman was a friend and colleague of Grateful Dead bandleader Jerry Garcia,and a member of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. He played bluegrass with Garcia and David Nelson as the Black Mountain Boys in 1964,and has played in 1964 with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys,Earl Taylor,Red Allen,Jimmie Skinner,Larry Sparks,the Kentucky Colonels,Country Joe McDonald,Kathy Kallick and Clarence White,among other musicians. He has been described as "one of the chief biscuits when and where bluegrass music is discussed,scribed,or performed in northern California."
Pure Jerry:Lunt-Fontanne,New York City,The Best of the Rest,October 15–30,1987 is a three-CD live album by Jerry Garcia. It features performances by both the Jerry Garcia Band and the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. It contains selections from a series of 18 concerts performed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City in October 1987. The third in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released in November 2004.
Pure Jerry:Keystone Berkeley,September 1,1974 is a three-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band. It contains the complete concert performed at the Keystone in Berkeley,California,on September 1,1974. The fourth in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on December 28,2004.
Pure Jerry:Merriweather Post Pavilion,September 1 &2,1989 is a four-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains two complete concerts,recorded on September 1 and 2,1989,at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia,Maryland. The fifth in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on March 25,2005.
Pure Jerry:Warner Theatre,March 18,1978 is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains two complete concerts –the early and late shows performed on March 18,1978,at the Warner Theatre in Washington,D.C. The sixth in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on August 9,2005.
Pure Jerry:Coliseum,Hampton,VA,November 9,1991 is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains the complete show recorded on November 9,1991,at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton,Virginia. The seventh in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on August 1,2006.
Pure Jerry:Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium,San Rafael,California,February 28,1986 is a live album by Jerry Garcia and John Kahn. As the title suggests,it was recorded at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael,California,on February 28,1986. It contains the entire concert from that date,on one CD. The eighth and penultimate entry in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on March 25,2009.
Pure Jerry:Bay Area 1978 is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains selections from four concerts performed in the San Francisco Bay Area in February and June 1978. The ninth and last entry in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums,it was released on August 31,2009.
Fall 1989:The Long Island Sound is a six-CD live album of performances by two musical acts –the Jerry Garcia Band,and Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman. It contains two complete concerts,recorded on September 5 and 6,1989,at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford,Connecticut and the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale,New York. It was released by ATO Records on December 17,2013.
Garcia Live Volume Four is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains the complete concert recorded at Veteran's Hall in Sebastopol,California on March 22,1978. It was released by ATO Records on July 8,2014.
On Broadway:Act One –October 28th,1987 is a three-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band and the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band,two music groups led by Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia. It contains three complete sets of music,recorded at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City on October 28,1987. It was released by ATO Records on June 23,2015.
Electric on the Eel is a live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains three complete concerts on six CDs. The shows were recorded on August 29,1987,June 10,1989,and August 10,1991 at French's Camp in Piercy,California,near the Eel River. The album was released on March 15,2019.
Garcia Live Volume 14 is an album by Jerry Garcia and John Kahn. It contains the complete concert recorded at The Ritz in Manhattan on January 27,1986. It was released as a CD on July 24,2020,and as a two-disc LP on August 14,2020. Some copies of the CD include a bonus disc containing the complete concert recorded at the same venue on the following night.
