"Drums"Only the drummers (and their guests) are playing. Some very short drum breaks are not listed, needs to be longer than about 10 sec.

"Space"Typically drummer-less, and completely free-form. This tends to not get listed, if brief (less than a minute), or contained within a song that commonly can include such sections anyways (e.g. Dark Star, Other One, etc.).

"Jam"An improvisation that does not engage a known theme. This tends to not get listed, if brief (less than a minute), or contained within a song that commonly can include such sections anyways (e.g. Dark Star, Other One, etc.).

As a footnote on adjacent or "containing" song

We no longer have songs called XXX Jam (e.g. "Playin' Jam", or "Other One Jam"). Many traditional setlists have these, but we've moved to just calling these "Playing In The Band" or "Other One" or whatever, then having "theme only" as a footnote.

Some jams such as Spanish Jam and Mind Left Body Jam are listed in the sets lists. Others such as "Feelin' Groovy Jam" are not, but are listed in footnotes. This is purely for historical reasons. We try keep our setlists more or less inline with how the community has been doing it for years. But we recognize that it is inconsistent so we may change this in the future.

Jerry was not there.Jerrybase just covers Garcia, so shows where he's not there are not listed. Songs is more nuanced, for GD, all songs will be listed, even if Garcia bails for some reason. For side projects and guest spots, songs where he's absent will just not be listed, or they will be listed in muted text.

Recording is mislabeled.Have a look at our spurious events page, or read the show notes, sometime we talk about common tape mislabels.

We just don't know about it!Please email us! admin@jerrybase.com