''Garcia Live Volume Five'' is a two-CD live album by the

Jerry Garcia Band The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side projects until his death in 1995. The band regularly tour ...

. It contains the complete concert recorded at the Keystone in

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on December 31, 1975. It was released by

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on October 21, 2014. The lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band for this concert was

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...

on guitar and vocals,

Nicky Hopkins Nicholas Christian Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including on songs recorde ...

on keyboards,

John Kahn John Kahn (June 13, 1947 – May 30, 1996) was an American bassist. From 1970 to 1995, Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead. Biography John Kahn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Adopted at birth by ...

on bass, and

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on drums. The show also featured performances by guest musicians

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead ...

Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

, and

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Recording and production

The back cover of ''Garcia Live Volume Five'' includes a notice which reads in part, "Originally captured to analog reels and later transferred to digital audio tape, the enclosed recordings have been meticulously mastered for release. While certain minor sonic imperfections impervious to even the latest in digital wizardry remain, rest assured this vibrant performance transcends any inherent limitation in fidelity."

Critical reception

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, Fred Thomas said, "A particularly loose, appropriately celebratory feeling flows through much of the sets as the band wanders through seemingly completely unrehearsed instrumental interludes... 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". The band takes some time to truly get in a groove on this date, finally settling into some of the best material near the end of the recording." In ''

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'', Doug Collette wrote, "The fact of the matter is everyone in the group gets their own chance to shine, but these abbreviated solo intervals don't interrupt the seamless flow of the collective interaction.... Kudos to Betty Cantor-Jackson for capturing the goings-on with such clarity, but also to Joe Gastwirt who in both mastering and curating this archive title deserves his co-production credit.... It's no small accomplishment to do perfect justice to the towering figure that is Jerry Garcia, even if the content is as deceptively down-to-earth as ''December 31st, Keystone Berkeley''."

Track listing

;Disc 1 :''First set:'' #" Let It Rock" (

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) – 13:00 #"

Mother Nature's Son "Mother Nature's Son" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album ''The Beatles'' (also known as "the White Album"). The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was ins ...

" (

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) – 2:00 #"It Ain't No Use" ( Jerry Williams,

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, Don Hollinger) – 11:36 #"

God Save the Queen "God Save the King" ("God Save the Queen" when the monarch is female) is '' de facto'' the national anthem of the United Kingdom. It is one of two national anthems of New Zealand and the royal anthem of the Isle of Man, Australia, Canada and ...

" (traditional) – 0:48 #"They Love Each Other" (

, Robert Hunter) – 7:49 #"Pig's Boogie" (

) – 10:41 ;Disc 2 :''Second set:'' #New Year's countdown – 1:51 #"

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" (

Brian Holland Brian Holland (born February 15, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound, and numerous hi ...

Lamont Dozier Lamont Herbert Dozier (; June 16, 1941 – August 8, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Detroit. He co-wrote and produced 14 US '' Billboard'' number-one hits and four number ones in the UK. Career Dozier was a ...

Eddie Holland Edward James Holland Jr. (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is brother to Brian Holland. Holland was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Although he was an early Motown artist who recorde ...

) – 8:25 #" Catfish John" (

Bob McDill Robert Lee McDill (born April 5, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, active from the 1960s until 2000. During his career he wrote or co-wrote 31 number one country hits. His songs were also recorded by popular artists of the 1970s, 1980s ...

Allen Reynolds Allen Reynolds (born August 18, 1938) is an American record producer and songwriter who specializes in country music. He has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Biography Early ...

) – 15:29 #"

Mystery Train "Mystery Train" is a song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Originally performed in the style of a Memphis blues or rhythm and blues tune, it was inspired by earlier songs and later became a popular rockabil ...

" (

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Sam Phillips Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, R ...

) – 7:08 #"Drums" -> "New Year's Jam" (Garcia,

, Hopkins,

) – 13:14 #"Mystery Train" (Parker, Phillips) – 1:48 :''Third set:'' #

"Tore Up over You" (

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) – 10:46 #Tuning – 0:48 #" C.C. Rider" (traditional) – 8:20 #"(I'm a) Road Runner" (Holland, Dozier, Holland) – 9:43

Personnel

;Jerry Garcia Band *

– guitar, vocals *

– keyboards, vocals *

– bass *

– drums ;Additional musicians *

– harmonica, guitar ("It Ain't No Use", "They Love Each Other", "Pig's Boogie", second and third sets) *

– drums (second and third sets) *

– guitar, vocals (second and third sets) ;Production *Produced for release by Marc Allan, Joe Gastwirt *Original recordings produced by Jerry Garcia *Associate producer: Kevin Monty *Recording:

Betty Cantor-Jackson Betty Cantor-Jackson (born September 18, 1948) is an American audio engineer and producer. She is best known for her work recording live concerts for the Grateful Dead from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, including live album '' Cornell 5/8/77' ...

*Mastering: Joe Gastwirt *Liner notes essay:

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*Art direction, design, illustration: Ryan Corey *Photography: Ed Perlstein, Bob Minkin

References

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