Jerry Garcia Band - "Catfish John" - GarciaLive Vol. 17: NorCal '76
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- Jerry Garcia Band performs "Catfish John" from their November 12th, 1976 show at Freeborn Hall, University of California Davis as featured on GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal '76! Learn more + pre-order: smarturl.it/Nor...
GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal ’76 presents highlights from three* stand-out Jerry Garcia Band performances captured over the span of a week. While a myriad of challenges from reel damage to tape loss and other assorted technical difficulties spoil any opportunity to feature the complete performances, what remains of Betty Cantor-Jackson’s original recordings offers some of the finest performances from this iteration of the Jerry Garcia Band.
1976 marked a period of transition for Garcia. Having eschewed the jazz and funk explorations of the early ‘70s in favor of a more “traditional” rock & roll vibe with Nicky Hopkins, Garcia likely found a sense of comfort by welcoming his Grateful Dead bandmates Keith & Donna Jean Godchaux into the fold towards the top of the year. While the band could still light it up with the best of them, as evidenced here by blistering versions of “Mystery Train,” “After Midnight,” and the almost obligatory closer “Mighty High,” tempos often eased to a swamp blues feel while the group pursued more sweet, introspective territory. A review of the Davis performance described the evening as “mellifluous” and continued, “never before have I seen Garcia dance, nor have I ever seen him smile so much.” Look no further than vibrant versions of “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” “Stir It Up,” and “The Way You Do The Things You Do” for evidence of bliss. The sweetness is balanced by more pensive selections including poignant versions of “Catfish John,” bolstered by sublime harmonies from Donna Jean, and Irving Berlin's “Russian Lullaby.” Perhaps no performance better demonstrates the JGB’s power than the opening “Sugaree” which showcases Garcia’s fiery leads and impassioned vocal, Keith’s brilliant, understated accompaniment, and John Kahn & Ron Tutt’s deep pocket groove. It’s enough to put a smile on anyone’s face while giving you a few things to ponder at the same time.
John Kahn in the house.👍🏻Always loved this tune.
Good man he was ,loved his dope playing!And his playing loved his dope,rest mr kahns soul.Jerrys allways got that smile when kahns around.JGB are just a bunch of cool cats.Fuck its crazzzy that jerry nearly played evernight.Rest his beautiful heart and soul love,to the dead family take care its a mad world out there.Im looking forward to JGB volume 17,like a virgin waiting for his mail order bride,haha but yeah im very grateful.
Ron Tutt RIP
Beautiful Catfish John. ❤️JGB
Smooth soul-soothing tunes - what a line-up, killer sound. Stellar year for JGB
100 % brother ,glorious year for jerry and the gang.Volume 17 be here soon,take care brother
Hallelulja
Ahh good
💨Oh ❤️🔥🙏
💆♂️So Good 😊
The version on the After Midnight Kean College 2/28/1980 release that came out in 2004 while i was in high school is the best version of this i have ever heard i think. ozzie ahlers kills it on the keys with the keys made to sound so future funked the hell out different dimension type levels
1980- 02- 08
Excellent.
Thanks for the date.
😎
@TomShyman
Woohoo!!
Holy shit this is good. Keith really bringing the groove-almost percussive its so heavy. rite on!!!!!
Amazing !
Soothing. Saw them do this song at various venues.
To,cool lucky brother.
Excellent, Thank You...🙏🔥
Checking the mail everyday for this piece of perfection, can’t wait 😎
me too- wtf is going on, shit is already on you tube and I paid for it weeks ago and still nothing
My, what a treat it was when the vocals were adequate.
i don't know. I think the sound quality could be a little crisper. Just kidding, just kidding, just kidding.
Until you have seen Jerry with Vasser Clements and David Grismon play live you really have not seen Jerry having a ball
😊💯🔥💘🤘🙏
Dont listen to what mama says
Shining star in Richmond was 24minutes long and nothing else by JGB can match
😎
Typical Jerry brilliance but I'm left trying to figure out who the third singer is; it's either Keith or Ron Tutt, though Keith sang little to no harmony with the Dead that I can remember, and this voice does not sound like Keith in his number on Wake of the Flood.....Whoever it is singing really fills in nicely between Jerry and Donna Jean, and I always thought this song warrants three singers for the refrain; it sometimes suffers without three singers.....And this song reminds me of why I was broken hearted when Keith & Donna left the band. Love this sound, and it's not too much different from how the Dead sounded in '76. But the Dead simply would not stand still. 1968 does not sound like '70, nor does '70 sound like '72, and you can go on. 1974 is different from '72 and '76, and the pattern repeats with '78, and '80. Keith's heyday with the band seemed to be from '74 to '77, and he was great in this timeframe. Lesh was always tremendous as was Jerry, but Jerry reached levels in '78 which were amazing, and Weir got better every year and became a way better guitar player than he gets credit for. So maybe they were so good that they stopped making room for Keith???? If I had my way, Keith & Donna would have stayed on and the Dead would have added a keyboard player, but not one as overpowering as Brent; more like Pigpen style with a voice like Lesh in 1970 to get a high male voice (not like Brent's voice God rest his soul). I never liked what Keith did with the keyboard; I would have kept him on grand piano type sound because you need that, but you also need some nice keyboards sometimes....This present guy Jeff Chimenti is my favorite of the bunch that have played piano for the Dead. That's all I got to say about that...
Don't all you dufas' answer at once- the third singer is Ron Tutt...And to finish my thoughts above, as time went on, the Dead sound just kept getting thicker and more geared up for larger arenas and stadiums rather than smallish theaters, which perhaps didn't suit Keith. And apparently Keith was getting gripless with his drug use in the late 70's???? I tolerated and even liked Brent's keys in the beginning but when he started adding those ELO type keyboards, it didn't sit well with us grand piano aficionados.... And it was also sometimes painful in the 80's to hear Jerry's voice deteriorate from the sweetness of the 70's. But he had his good tours and occasional magical days; often he made up for his lack of range with timing, inflection and soulful singing. For some reason I could tolerate his voice better in the 80's with the Garcia Band, and also when he did Dylan songs. In general I think the Dylan cover songs of the 80's rejuvenated both the Dead and JGB; you could see their enthusiasm for Dylan tunes. Those Dylan covers also served to distinguish the Dead, because though they remain misunderstood and unappreciated by many, the tale of the tape does not lie. Even non Dead fans can't deny their greatness when it comes to the way they covered Dylan.