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In 1987, Wavy Gravy asked Jerry Garcia to play a benefit concert to raise money for his Hog Farm Collective. Garcia agreed, and brought the Jerry Garcia Band to French’s Camp on the Eel River in Piercy, California, a secluded spot three hours north of San Francisco. Garcia broke out Grateful Dead classics, covers like Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young,” Van Morrison’s “And it Stoned Me” and more.
It began a five-year Labor Day tradition for the Garcia Band, produced by Bill Graham, where Garcia and his string band would play a set followed by a full-band electric show. The half-acoustic, half-electric format that would become legendary when he took Garcia to Broadway later in 1987 for a residency, “Jerry Garcia, Acoustic and Electric,” which captured the full scope of Garcia’s virtuosity.
The electric sets Garcia performed at those special Eel River shows will be released in a six-CD box set, Electric on the Eel. The set highlights the Eel River electric sets – including the celebrated 1991 show including searing takes on Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” and the Band’s “Twilight” – the acoustic August 29, 1987 set will be available to fans who purchase it at some independent record stores.
Electric on the Eel Track List
Disc 1, Set 1
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Forever Young
Get Out Of My Life Woman
Run For The Roses
And It Stoned Me
My Sisters And Brothers
Deal
Disc 2, Set 2
1.The Harder They Come
I Shall Be Released
Think
Evangeline
Gomorrah
Let It Rock
That Lucky Old Sun
Tangled Up In Blue
June 10, 1989
Disc 3, Set 1
I’ll Take A Melody
They Love Each Other
Get Out Of My Life Woman
Run For The Roses
Stop That Train
Mission In The Rain
My Sisters And Brothers
Deal
Disc 4, Set 2
The Harder They Come
Waiting For A Miracle
I Shall Be Released
Think
I Hope It Won’t Be This Way Always
Don’t Let Go
Evangeline
That Lucky Old Sun
Tangled Up In Blue
August 10, 1991
Disc 5, Set 1
The Way You Do The Things You Do
And It Stoned Me
You Never Can Tell (C’est La Vie)
Waiting For A Miracle
Struggling Man
My Sisters And Brothers
Deal
Disc 6, Set 2
Shining Star
Think
Lay Down Sally
Twilight
See What Love Can Do
Lazy Bones
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
