Sat, Nov 21
Jerry's Middle Finger (Night 1)
The argument about whether a tribute band can matter gets settled quickly in this particular case, because the music in question was never really about the recordings — it was about a room, a length, and a willingness to go somewhere unplanned. This Los Angeles group plays the Jerry Garcia Band material specifically rather than the larger catalog, which is a narrower and better idea, and the players are good enough that the improvisation is real rather than rehearsed. The audience is a genuine community with its own etiquette, and it travels. Two nights in a high desert saloon at the end of November is the kind of booking people plan a weekend around. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, the first of two. Everybody who comes to both nights ends up knowing everybody else who did, which is the entire tradition being carried forward.
The argument about whether a tribute band can matter gets settled quickly in this particular case, because the music in question was never really about the recordings — it was about a room, a length, and a willingness to go somewhere unplanned. This Los Angeles group plays the Jerry Garcia Band material specifically rather than the larger catalog, which is a narrower and better idea, and the players are good enough that the improvisation is real rather than rehearsed. The audience is a genuine community with its own etiquette, and it travels. Two nights in a high desert saloon at the end of November is the kind of booking people plan a weekend around. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, the first of two. Everybody who comes to both nights ends up knowing everybody else who did, which is the entire tradition being carried forward.
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The argument about whether a tribute band can matter gets settled quickly in this particular case, because the music in question was never really about the recordings — it was about a room, a length, and a willingness to go somewhere unplanned. This Los Angeles group plays the Jerry Garcia Band material specifically rather than the larger catalog, which is a narrower and better idea, and the players are good enough that the improvisation is real rather than rehearsed. The audience is a genuine community with its own etiquette, and it travels. Two nights in a high desert saloon at the end of November is the kind of booking people plan a weekend around. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, the first of two. Everybody who comes to both nights ends up knowing everybody else who did, which is the entire tradition being carried forward.
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