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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1081

Week of June 8, 2009 Part 1 19:44 Introduction Grateful Dead 11/8/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA WEST LA FADEAWAY THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED-> DON’T EASE ME IN Part 2 36:56 Interview: Tom Davis Grateful Dead, Dead Ahead FRANKLIN’S TOWER Interview: Tom Davis Excerpt from Ticket to New Year’s Cooking with Jerry Interview: Tom Davis Grateful Dead 3/24/71 Winterland, San Francisco HARD TO HANDLE Turns out that this is part 2 of a three-part interview with Tom Davis. I’ll have a little more from our conversation in next week’s show. From a May 4 post on this blog:
Tom Davis has a new memoir, Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. Tons of great Grateful Dead stories, including a wonderful description of the 2/9/73 show at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion with its sprung floor! I interviewed the Emmy-winning former Saturday Night Live writer/performer at my house a few weeks ago. You can hear it in its entirety right here (66 minutes).
The Grateful Dead Hour is made possible in part this week by: Rhino Records, announcing the DVD release of Last Days of the Fillmore, with live performances by the Grateful Dead, Santana, Quicksilver, Jefferson Airplane, and others, plus backstage footage of Bill Graham and the musicians during the final week of San Francisco’s legendary music venue. Video clips, ordering information and more at rhino.com The Church of Universal Love and Music, presenting the “Rah Returns” Festival June 19 – 21 in southwest Pennsylvania. Two nights of Particle; Jerry Hannan Band with John Molo & Steve Molitz (of Phil & Friends); Gent Treadly; Hot Buttered Rum; Willie Waldman project with Steve Kimock; Everyone Orchestra; Jim Miller Band; Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing; and more.
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Harvey Lubar remembers Jerry Moore

Harvey Lubar, from private correspondence, posted here with permission:

I don’t know where to even begin.

Jerry and I were very close in college (we both went to Lehman in the Bronx), took courses together, and he was a member of the Hell’s Honkies Tape Club (there were only four of us). I drove Jerry to many of the concerts he taped in 1973 and 1974, and it always drove him nuts that you could hear me briefly talking between songs.

We first met in Oct. 1972 when he answered a notice I taped on a wall in the Student Union at Lehman looking to trade tapes. We hung out at each other’s houses a lot and Jerry was far more aggressive in taping shows than I would ever be. Quite frankly, I was too neurotic and would never enjoy a show I taped.

Jerry eventually got to know Les Kippel and they became close, starting Dead Relix together. I took out an ad in the first few issues and Jerry took out separate ads. Lots of people contacted us and we were off to the races. Pat Lee was one of those who also had a business card for tape trading, and it has been my pleasure to call Pat a friend since 1973 or 74.

I will never forget the expression on Jerry’s face when he first bought the Sony TC 152 in early 1974. Boy, he loved that machine, and Jerry had the knack for finding the sweet spot for the best sound. He particularly loved the first row of the loge or balcony (can’t remember which) of the Academy of Music, later called the Palladium.

After college (June 1975) Jerry and I went our separate ways. I didn’t see him again until the Dead shows in Sept. 1990 at MSG. We spoke for a few minutes and then the show started. We bumped into each other only a few times after that but I will always cherish (and I don’t use that term lightly) those times we spent together in college.

Not too long ago, I misinterpreted something Jerry wrote on Lossless Legs and I thought there was going to be a bit of an online battle. He was a master of the English language and I would have lost that one REAL QUICK. Instead, we hashed things out off-list and the emails were hysterical.

Most people don’t know that Jerry was born in Northern Ireland. I loved to tease him about William of Orange and Orange Day and he would get on my case about being Jewish. It was classic crap between two 19-year-olds and it makes me feel so sad that we didn’t remain closer. We will certainly miss Jerry but his recordings will go on forever, making Jerry immortal. Good for him!

Harvey

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