Jerry Garcia Band
1978-03-17
Eqarly Show
Capitol Theater
Passaic, NJ
FM Broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. DJ talk, Introduction & Tuning
02. How Sweet It Is
03. Catfish John
04. Simple Twist of Fate
05. Second That Emotion
06. Crowd & Tuning
07. They Love Each Other
08. Gomorrah
09. Mystery Train
Encore
01. Cats Under the Stars
JGB 1978 - Back To Back - #1: On March 17, 1978, 44 years ago today, I made my first of many sojourns to the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ to see the Jerry Garcia Band's late show at the Capitol Theater. We'll detail more about that in our 2nd post today. The Capitol was unlike any concert hall in world. Rock and roll venue by night, the Capitol was an x-rated movie theater by day. The theater was owned and run by legendary concert promoter John Scher. In many ways, Scher was to the East Coast what Bill Graham was to the west, though on a bit smaller scale. He was gruff, egotistical and had to appear at every show he promoted, to announce to the crowd upcoming events, all in a nasally voice and tone that grated on the ears. He could get even the largest acts, such as Springsteen, the Who and The Stones, to play the 3200 seat Capitol. No Grateful Dead or JGB show took place on the East Coast with Scher’s involvement. On Dick’s Pick’s 15, you can hear him introduce the Dead at their historic show in Englishtown on September 3, 1977. Scher even bailed Jerry Garcia out of jail when Garcia and Robert Hunter ran were arrested one night in New Jersey for smoking pot! While waiting to head out to the late show that night, my buddies and I listened to WNEW-FM as they aired the early show! Hard to beleive bands would play two shows a night back in the 1970s! In any event, download this FM broadcast recording now and come back at 4 pm for the late show!
1 comments:
I was there too, all the way from Massachusetts. It was a birthday present (next day) and the best I ever had.
But it was not the first trip to the Capitol. That would be for a Blue Oyster Cult show in 1973.
When the lights went down for the second band (the first really sucked), and stayed down for a minute, there was a certain wondering anticipation in the air. Then suddenly the stage lit up with flames and a regional band we'd never heard of left us slack-jawed with their opening.
Welcome to the big time, Kiss!
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