It's great to hear Jerry singing and playing with so much strength, emotion and clarity. The recording quality is more than acceptable (remember this was 1980, but all the analog hiss and noise has been digitally removed to great effect) and the performance is energetic and fluid. Easily the best live Jerry since 1991's Jerry Garcia Band Live. "Yahoo! After 30-odd Dick's Picks and Vault releases we finally get some Jerry. The sound quality is tremendous, and as Hunter further notes, Jerry even remembered all the words, no small task some nights for Captain Trips! I have all the Jerry Garcia Band commercial live releases and this one is the clear winner (so far), not to say the others aren't good, but this one absolutely smokes, no nonsense, no frills, just Jerry and band playing well into the night, where everything just clicked, and you can hear the crowd enjoying every note, glad to be part of one incredibly magical musical evening! The Jerry Garcia Band goes to college, and comes out with an A+! Get this one, you won't be sorry." Fortunately for us this was one of those brilliant nights, from the opening chords of Sugaree to an incredible Eleanor Rigby and back thru Tore Up Over You to the closing Midnight Moonlight, Jerry and the tight 4 piece band pulled out all the stops in a show that must have gone well into the morning hours judging by the starting time of 10:30 for opening act Rachel Sweet, probably the reason for the title, "After Midnight"!! As longtime lyricist Robert Hunter alludes to in the liner notes (he is also featured on 2 cuts) this is a pared down Jerry Garcia Band, with Jerry, Ozzie Ahlers on keys, John Kahn providing the bass, and Johnny De Foncesca on drums, allowing an incredible tightness and a very solid sound to this 1980 concert. Let's face it Jerry was a brilliant, fluid, mesmerizing guitarist on his good nights, and on the nights where he wasn't his best he could be down right awful. "Simply one of the finest releases to come out of the Garcia archives since his passing.
Rhino is also getting better, not merey recycling old releases but generating impressive material that has never been presented before. One of the best vintage rock releases of 2004 - bar none.
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He knew how to make people happy, and in this release that's exactly what he and his gifted engineers achieve. He had so many failings, but musically was so imaginative and generous. I recognize this may really anger some listeners, but all I can say is- just listen and then: you tell me. In general, Jerry's band had less status than the Dead, but musically they could equal their musical ancestors. This album is SO good, in its dynamic range, in its choice of material, in the performances and Garcia's state-of-mind - and in the extraordinary value you get for such a beautiful package, it is quite frankly, better than half the Dick's Picks releases I own and as good as the Dead's best live recorded performances. The recording is widely considered to be one of the best from the early 1980s that the Jerry Garcia Band played."Garcia gave to the Dead, and the band's members gave back so much to him in their choice of material, delivery and a style of jamming that has rarely been equaled. Some copies of After Midnight included a bonus disc, Way After Midnight, with tracks recorded on February 29 at Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, New York and on March 1 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. It was recorded in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, at Kean College on February 28, 1980, and released in 2004. Release producer - Christopher Sabec, Peter McQuaid, Hale MilgrimĪ&R supervision - James Austin, Jimmy EdwardsĪrt direction, design - Hugh Brown, Katherine DelaneyĪfter Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80 is a live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. Robert Hunter - guitar, harmonica, vocals "Promontory Rider" (featuring Robert Hunter on vocals) 4:31 "Tiger Rose" (featuring Robert Hunter on vocals) 3:42Ħ. "That's What Love Will Make You Do" 10:04ĥ. Jerry Garcia Band - After Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80 (2004)ģ.
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