Sunday closing nights of a two-night run in this particular tradition are where the long jams happen, because everybody in the building has nowhere to be and the band knows it. The material is specifically the Jerry Garcia Band catalog rather than the larger one, which is a narrower choice and a better one — more soul covers, more space, less obligation to a canon. The players are good enough that the improvisation is genuinely unplanned. A high desert saloon at the end of November, cold outside, a patio with a fire and a crowd that has been together since the night before. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Communities like this one measure a year in weekends like this, and they will all be back for the next one.
Sunday closing nights of a two-night run in this particular tradition are where the long jams happen, because everybody in the building has nowhere to be and the band knows it. The material is specifically the Jerry Garcia Band catalog rather than the larger one, which is a narrower choice and a better one — more soul covers, more space, less obligation to a canon. The players are good enough that the improvisation is genuinely unplanned. A high desert saloon at the end of November, cold outside, a patio with a fire and a crowd that has been together since the night before. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Communities like this one measure a year in weekends like this, and they will all be back for the next one.
Sunday closing nights of a two-night run in this particular tradition are where the long jams happen, because everybody in the building has nowhere to be and the band knows it. The material is specifically the Jerry Garcia Band catalog rather than the larger one, which is a narrower choice and a better one — more soul covers, more space, less obligation to a canon. The players are good enough that the improvisation is genuinely unplanned. A high desert saloon at the end of November, cold outside, a patio with a fire and a crowd that has been together since the night before. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Communities like this one measure a year in weekends like this, and they will all be back for the next one.