Not much thought went into that reasoning. The Dead & the JGB were not mainstream and were only respected by the counter culture and other musicians. The man was truly a musician's musician. No one ever played like him and no one ever will. Here is my argument to your absurd statement. Hendrix - AddictClapton - AddictVan Halen - AddictPage - AddictRichards - AddictBeck - AddictSRV - AddictTownshend - AddictAllman - AddictOh wait...All the great Black Blues Players were sober....right?
I got up close a few times and watched him intently. He had learned to use the stump of his middle finger to deaden a string immediately after he played it while he was picking the next string at the same time.. Clearly defined each note played.
I must say... and I say it proudly - I was always a big respecter of the Dead. I got into the modern jam scene around 07/08 when I was about 20. That was 14 or so years ago. In all that time I went through phases with a couple bands, eventually landing on a lot of Phish. I still like Phish. good band. but the Dead never spoke to me in all that time... that was until 2 summers ago when Jerry Band covering Lay Down Sally popped up on one of my shuffles. like I said, that was 2 years ago, and not a day has gone by since where I haven't listened to the Dead or JGB. in fact those bands comprise about 90% of all I listen to these days. as a guitarist myself, Jerry's playing is a well that never runs dry. and I've come to love so many songs I never paid much attention to back in the day, like Row Jimmy and Crazy Fingers.
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Well said he had some Hendrix in him for sure . You can hear Hendrix and Vaughn especially in Positively 4th St. on Jerry does Dylan . Just a pro top 5 player ever. His runs are legendary as well
Well said. Jerry’s genius is the ability to express the potpourri of genre he commands and uses throughout each performance to layer them in as the mood inspires.
Jerry was a master, at times, of subtlety and understatement. This song is a seduction and requires the light touch he gives it. Musical foreplay. Clapton can play the blues, this is something else, something gentle, sexy and beautiful.
It would have been fabulous to see Jerry and EC together. The contrasting styles and both can deliver the goods, although Jerry is certainly my favorite.
I was there, I was 14 years old and we took the train into the city. I had already been to Giant's stadium for the show with Hornsby in June after graduating from 8th grade. Maybe i didn't fully understand at the time, but I knew I had to be a part of what was happening.
He plays like Clapton then in one beat he's fingerpicking like Mark Knophler then he's hybrid picking. And he looks absolutly relaxed. Total master of masters.
Truthfully Jerry was always just on another level when he played with any of the JGB variants. He was always just a little more relaxed not having the weight of the Dead on his shoulders. As for the greatest guitar player ever, I agree, but that's an opinion. It's like licorice, some people like it, some don't, but the ones that like it, really like it......
Truthfully Jerry was always just on another level when he played with any of the JGB variants. He was always just a little more relaxed not having the weight of the Dead on his shoulders. As for the greatest guitar player ever, I agree, but that's an opinion. It's like licorice, some people like it, some don't, but the ones that like it, really like it......
This is hard to say and debatable amongst many others. I love his style and he is top 3 easily for me . Others may beg to differ. Stevie Ray is one☝️Hendrix had he actually lived oh my that would have measured out Better than Carlos Santana himself, I think as a possibility and then some
lots of comments about Jerry's playing here, but the rest of the band deserves props as well, especially Kemper for laying down that rock solid groove on the drums.
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It's not easy to solo over a static chord, never mind for a long period of time. Garcia does it like a champ, developing interesting ideas all along the way. He was an amazing musician.
Let's keep in mind Jerry didn't rehearse. He practiced scales and progressions nonstop, but he wouldn't rehearse songs....... So what you're seeing here is maybe , at the very most, the 50th time he's ever played this song. First public performance 1990. Yeah, he's that good........................
He was great. Glad I caught him acoustic and electric with JGB. This is great playing and melodic as was his ⚡. He's great at soloing over a riff or something complex.. Lots of banjo influence it seems with all the triplet rolls. Genius and this swings... I love how he phrases his lines and that dope tone that sits on top but blends in when it needs to. Check out JGB at Club Casino 84 fyi. 🔥
the best. Jerry had first, the most impeccable rhythm, and his leads were so unique, and distinguishable ( i mean you could hear 1 bar of one of his solos on the radio somewhere and instantly know that was Jerry). Not to mention when he looked over his glasses during a solo, you knew that it was going to get good!
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Bill Graham was not a perfect person, but he sure brought a hell of a lot of happiness to far more humans than I would imagine you have in your lifetime. Not an easy feat.
I don't never comment, and here I go doing it. Lay down Sally is originally Eric Clapton song. Okay. How many times I heard that are Clapton is God. oh no. Eric Clapton is very good, but Jerry is God. And that's it. I love to remember that in 1968 going into the Avalon in San Francisco for dead concert, there was a hand-lettered sign - a big - across the front of the ballroom that read, "they're not the best at what they do/nobody else does what they do.”
they're both guitar players :-) I've lived and worked in Nashville for 27 years...you have no idea how many incredible musicians are out there that you'll never get a sniff of. It's unreal.
This is a cover of the Clapton song. Clapton did the song in the style of the late JJ Cale. His band some of which were from Oklahoma. Not many English guys could do this style. I think Mark Knopfler was another who had JJ Cale as an influence. Jerry Garcia did a good job on this tune as well. Play nice folks some of the posts here are flat out nasty..Thanks for posting this great stuff
I was at this show. I think it was the last time I saw the Garcia Band. And in the last years of the Grateful Dead's existence, the JGB was many times better than The Dead.
I think he used relatively heavy gauge strings and a higher action with a heavy pick which makes this even more incredible especially for finger picking...
The show after this in Milwaukee had a more blusey version and was the best of the three. The third being the final show of the tour in Minneapolis, which by the way had a relatively rare JGB encore which was a beautiful version of Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong not Sam Cooke).
