Melvin Seals and JGB will recreate two classic Jerry Garcia Band performances from 1990 at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on March 8th and 9th. The shows originally took place at The Warfield on June 12th and 13th. Seals was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band at the time of those classic gigs.  Tickets for both shows go on sale tomorrow, January 25th, at noon ET.

In other news about The Cap, Two of our favorite bands from Connecticut – Kung Fu and Deep Banana Blackout – will team up to play the Port Chester venue on March 2nd.

Ever since YouTube upped the time limit for videos you can upload to its site, more full shows from a wide variety of artists have appeared on the video portal. There’s plenty of full Phish and Grateful Dead performances on YouTube, but today we wanted to point you in the direction of JGB. On November 13, 1991, the Jerry Garcia Band rolled into Worcester’s Centrum during a tour that found Garcia laying down some of his best work of the era. YouTuber HappyCalif has uploaded over two glorious hours worth of footage from that night, put together by Less Than Face Productions, including transcendent versions of Dear Prudence, Shining Star and Midnight Moonlight. Take a look…

Jerry Garcia Band – November 13, 1991 Entire Show

Setlist:

Set One: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, They Love Each Other, When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, Dear Prudence, Like a Road, Money Honey, Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power), Deal

Set Two: The The Way You Do The Things You Do , You Never Can Tell (C’est La Vie), Waiting For A Miracle, Shining Star, Ain’t No Bread In The Breadbox, My Sisters And Brothers, Midnight Moonlight

Band:

Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, David Kemper, Melvin Seals, Gloria Jones, Jackie La Branch

Source Info:

Courtesy of Less Than Face Productions
Video: Two Camera Mix 720 x 480, NTSC, cbr: 7 m/s
Source 1: Panasonic 3240 (tripod) — JVCS20U — Master VHS — canopus ADVC1394 — avi — Vegas 5.0 –Architect 2.0 ; Source 2: JVCGXN8U (tripod) — JVCS20U — Master VHS –canopus ADVC1394 –avi — Vegas 5.0 –Architect 2.0.
Audio Source: LPCM 1536 k/s FOB Schoeps CMC 44 blue dot cards with 90 degree capsule offsets — 6′ Monster M1000 cable — Oade PS– 1′ Monster M1000 — Oade mod’d Panasonic Sv-255.

This week, Hidden Track featured columnist, Brian Bavosa, sits down with JGB lead guitarist, Stu Allen to chat about life, love, this weekend’s Brooklyn Bowl sell-out shows, and of course, all things Jerry…

As the saying goes, “Seeing The Grateful Dead was like going to the circus. But, going to see the Jerry Garcia Band was like going to church.” Nothing could be closer to the truth in my eyes. And thanks to the “Keepers of the Flame,” the JGB, we have a chance to receive the sacrament often, as witnessed this past weekend at Brooklyn Bowl for two, sell-outs shows, and a nice chat with lead guitarist/vocalist, Stu Allen.

Allen was gracious enough to sit down with me on President’s Day over a few casual drinks to talk about the JGB’s shows this past weekend, about what makes him and the band tick, while addressing the most difficult of questions of what it’s like to be compared to the almighty – all answered in his slow, humble way - a fierce contrast to his inspired, emotional and flat-out rocking style of playing that surely channels Garcia, but trust me, he makes all his own. “Everyone’s got their own take on what Jerry and the Dead were doing. Even inside of that, everyone in the band has their own take on what they are doing,” he says. “With us (the JGB), we want to convey that vibe, but I don’t mind stepping outside of that and kind of pushing the envelope outside of that, depending on the crowd or whatever.”

For anyone that has ever loved or been inspired by Jerry Garcia, it’s been tough to get your true fill over the past 16 years. There has seemingly been an overwhelming branching off of bands to cover his music, whether it be your local Dead cover band, or Dark Star Orchestra, who are historically accurate in the renditions of shows, to the Bob Weir and Phil Lesh incarnations and collaborations such as the current touring Furthur. And then there is the JGB, which was founded by Garcia Band alumni and keyboardist, Melvin Seals, shortly after Jerry’s death in 1995.

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