1979-06-23 [Sat] Early

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River Theatre, Guerneville, CA

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Jerry Garcia - electric guitar, vocals
John Kahn - electric bass
Merl Saunders - keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Ron Stallings - saxophone, vocals
Gaylord Birch - drums, vocals
Ed Neumeister - trombone
Partial Show:
Do I Move You , The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game [1] , Don't It Make It Better

[1] Final known performance (by Reconstruction)
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Notes
  • Garcia noodles around with "The English Country Garden" for a bit after getting captured by the game. I wonder if it was a fox?
  • The tunes we list derive from a tape fragment on Alan Bershaw's 2nd gen reel, which primarily includes the late show. Only Hunter Gets Captured and Make It Better are on the tape, but the start of the tape finds Ron Stallings acknowleding Merl for "Do I Move You". This appears to be the end of the early show. Alan's reel was labeled 6/13/79, but that is incorrect. We are now 100% certain that the late show material he circulated dates from 6/23/79, and this makes us about 98% certain that the associated early show material is the same. It would have been very easy for the '2' to be replaced by a '1' somewhere along the generational chain.
  • The various advertisements include among the players Merle [sic] Saunders and Kow [sic] Stallings.
  • Ad: Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), June 21, 1979, p. 10B: Bummer for Jerry, trying to stay back as a sideman: his picture is on the ad!
  • Preview: "Reconstruction Rocks at the River," Argus-Courier (Petaluma, CA), June 22, 1979, p. 3B: “Saturday’s concert is expected to be one of the last Sonoma County appearances for the group, as Garcia will soon be going into the recording studio to begin working on a new Grateful Dead album”.
  • Listing: Argus-Courier (Petaluma, CA), June 22, 1979, p. 5B
  • JGMF: Quicky: I think Reconstruction 6/13/79 at the River Theater in Guerneville should be dated 6/23/79
    • Mislabeled As
    1979-06-13
    Torrents for Date
    Weather
    High: 98.0 °F
    Low: 55.1 °F
    Feels Like High: 94.2 °F
    Feels Like Low: 55.1 °F
    Wind Speed: 10.3 mph
    Humidity: 45.7 %
    Moonphase: 0.97
    Clear conditions throughout the day.
    Time
    7:30 PM
    Ticket Price
    $5.50 / $6.50