re: The Greatness of Jerry Garcia is hard to comprehend much less duplicate. TMNS 04/30/77

yeah JGB is strictly Sunday morning coffee music for me.
nothing better in that slot though

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With JGB you don’t get Dark Star, or The Other One, or Playin’ or a lot of other big jam vehicles. Or even Box of Rain or Sugar Magnolia.

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I'm pretty sure seventeen and eighteen minute long versions of Irving Berlin and Rogers and Hart songs would qualify as a big jam vehicle.

I love JGB and chased them around just as much as the Dead. He was like a best kept secret, touring in between Dead tours 2 or 3 times a year, playing the coolest little places. There is a solid argument that 1993 JGB Garcia was playing better than Garcia with the Dead.

All that being said, JGB and Grateful Dead are not even in the same league...not even close. I love John Kahn but Phill>>>>>>>>>>>>Kahn. Drummers? Same sans maybe Ron Tutt. No rhythm guitar, love Bob. You could lobby for Melvin pretty solidly but he’s not better than Brent. But in the end, it’s the interplay between the Grateful Dead members that destroys any notion they are equals. Not Even Close.

Wolf brothers with the wolf pack>>>>>dead and co


Id much rather hear bobby’s slow versions of the songs reinterpreted with wolf bros than the slow pretend to be the grateful dead stuff in dead and co.

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Bobby’s show last nite in vail was amazing.

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That's the show I tried to get tickets to to no avail. However, that failure led to tickets to Dead & Co in The Woodlands so the future is bright!!

As a newbie I am hesitant to comment on JGB vs Jerry in the Dead. I'm partial to the Dead because that where my late life long strange trip of the Dead began.

I do know as a guitar player that I will stick to my original post (despite all the downvotes) Jerry G is other worldly as a "guitarist/maker of music"

Also...a poster earlier said that that a version of a song was his favorite "terrapin". Is terrapin symbolic of an era of their music or symbolic of the cosmic journey their music takes you on?

Is their even an answer to this question??

Saunders was great but I would hardly call it semi-regular. I agree about Brent but I still feel he is better technically.

Back in 91 I was on JGB tour. In Albany Jerry had serious problems with Tiger during the set II opener Lay Down Sally. The band literally played the same thing over and over...they had no idea what to do...until Jerry came back out with Wolf. If that were the Dead you would never know there was a problem just by listening.

Ahhh, no. Talking music being played, not in between tunes.

also billy & the kids plus billy strings just announced red rocks 07/13 show