Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
| Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , folk rock , country rock |
| founding | 1986 |
| resolution | 1987 |
| Website | http://jerrygarcia.com/intro.html |
| Founding members | |
| Jerry García | |
| John Kahn | |
Guitar, vocals |
David Nelson |
| Sandy Rothman | |
| Guest musician | |
| Kenny Kosek | |
| David Kemper | |
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (JGAB) was a short-lived side project of the Grateful Dead leader Jerry García .
The JGAB was closely related to the Jerry Garcia Band . With both bands Garcia preferred rock music with influences from country , blues , folk and jazz (see Roots Rock ). However, while the JGB played with electric instruments, the JGAB played acoustic versions .
Garcia, Nelson and Rothman had known each other since the early 1960s when they played together in the bluegrass band The Black Mountain Boys . John Kahn was also an acquaintance of Garcia. The band had their first appearance under this name on May 17, 1987 at a benefit concert in the music theater The Fillmore . The band then performed other gigs, sometimes together with the Jerry Garcia Band , so that they always alternated between acoustic and electrical sets.
The band was booked, among other things, for two weeks at the Broadway theater Lunt-Fontanne , further appearances were in the music theater The Warfield in San Francisco , in the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles and in the Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University .
During the time of its existence, the band released the live album "Almost Acoustic" in 1988. In 2004 two more albums came out of archive material.
Discography
- Almost Acoustic , 1988
- Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, NYC, 10/31/87 , 2004
- Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, The Best Of The Rest , 2004