The fifth installment of the
Garcialive series collects archival footage of the only New Year's Eve show any incarnation of
the Jerry Garcia Band performed, recorded at the tiny Berkeley, California club the Keystone on the last day of 1975.
Garcia's band of drummer
Greg Errico, bassist
John Kahn, and keyboardist
Nicky Hopkins is joined on the second and third sets by familiar
Grateful Dead members
Bob Weir and
Mickey Hart as well as harmonica player
Matthew Kelly on several tracks. A particularly loose, appropriately celebratory feeling flows through much of the sets as the band includes several instrumental interludes, briefly visiting themes like "God Save the Queen" (the traditional melody, not the
Sex Pistols version still a few years from coming into existence) and
the Beatles' "Mother Nature's Son." When they do get cooking, it's on extended 12-bar blues vamps in the first set like "It Ain't No Use" and "Pig's Boogie," while the second set tends toward laid-back jams like "Catfish John" or shuffling electric blues workouts like "Tore Up Over You." ~ Fred Thomas
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