Bands: The Jolly Rogers Band -> The Grandmothers -> Capt. Glasspack & His Magic Mufflers -> Young-Kardo-Black
[Note: Background Colors = blue: rehearsing/recording; = pink: bad event; = lilac: good event] |
1980-82 | ||||
Date | Country | City | Venue | Comments / Sources |
1980 | JCB moves up to Albuquerque to live with Houston, begins working in "Sound Warehouse" | |||
Early in year |
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| Compiling Welcome Back Geronimo Black with Phil. Appelbaum |
Aug | USA | LA | FZ Studios | Recording for You Are What You Is ((Frank Zappa & MOI) |
Sept 1 |
| Albuquerque | 94 Rock | Radio Studio - Live, with Uncle Bill |
Oct? |
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| Recorded and produced with P.Appelbaum song 'Thank You Mr Bill';" just before the ... election" [JCB] |
Oct 12 | Albuquerque | Johnsons Gym | JCB Sings 'Harder Than Your Husband' with Zappa band (Frank Zappa & MOI), Husta in attendance; Ran on KGGM-TV on October 13, 1980 | |
Sound Warehouse | (FZ: They needed a substitute guitar player) JCB: He's a musical genius? Aired post-show | |||
Late Fall |
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| Recorded 'Albuquerque Bound'* and released a single b/w 'Thank You Mr Bill' *read Dawayne Bailey recollection on writing this song for Jimmy here Released the LP 'Welcome Back Geronimo Black' |
Late Fall | In California for photo-shoot for GM Anthology album (to be released) | |||
1981 | ||||
Jolly Rogers Band: |
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| Rehearsing for 50s Rock Show |
Feb 20 | USA | Albuquerque | Four Seasons Motor Inn | "Put together" Fundraising 50s Rock Show for New Heart Foundation with Jolly Rogers band |
Mar? |
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| Recorded and produced Clearly Classic with Jolly Rogers |
Grandmothers: | (JCB, DP, BG, WF, TF, TDuran) | |||
April |
| LA |
| rehearsals for Grandmothers upcoming tour |
Western Tour | ||||
? | USA | Boulder? | Boulder Theater | 1981 or 1982? [Ref: a Poster - original or copy? genuine?] |
Mid-May | Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | Following gigs in this blue - JCB's recollections ["I had the great pleasure of meeting JCB and other Mothers before a Grandmothers show at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom many years back." - Mike K. from Canada 2009] | |
? | Seattle | |||
? | Eugene, Or | Husta meets JCB here and they travel overland together for a week down to LA. | ||
? | Eureka, Cal | |||
? | San Francisco | 2 nights | ||
June 1 | LA | The Roxy | Source: Letter from Rudolph Deistler of 3.12.01; unitedmutations/grandmothers; K7 Recording dated this | |
European Tour #1 | ||||
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| 3 days rehearsal in Copenhagen |
? | Denmark | Copenhagen | Gig - 3rd night after arriving? | |
? | Sweden | Lund | ||
? | Gothenburg | |||
? | Denmark | Copenhagen | In transit? | |
June 14 | Denmark | Odense | K7 Recording dated this; CD Masters | |
? | Norway | Bergen | Here a few days, then flew to Oslo and drove ... | |
June 17 | Hamar via Oslo | drove (30 Swedish miles?) to ...Hamar... for press conference and returned to Oslo the next day, flying onto Stockholm for gig [JCB]; unitedmutations/grandmothers | ||
June 18 | Sweden | Stockholm | Gladjehuset | unitedmutations/grandmothers |
June 19 | Norway | Hamar | Hosbjor | "Hamarfestivalen" unitedmutations/grandmothers |
June 21 | Denmark | Copenhagen | JCB says Rattskeller, he may mean Roskilde, which is 35 km from Copenhagen; Source: Letter from Rudolph Deistler of 3.12.01 | |
( | 2 days off - then by train to Hamburg) | |||
? | Germany | Hamburg | Uncle Pös | Promo gig |
? | Stuttgart | |||
? | Munich | |||
? | Dusseldorf | |||
? | Hanover | |||
June 26 | Hannover | Rotation | unitedmutations/grandmothers; K7 Recording | |
( | night off) | |||
June 21? | Germany | West Berlin | Quartier Latin | unitedmutations/grandmothers |
? | Hamburg | Markthalle | Recorded for German TV? Ref: JCB VHS video library | |
July 08 | Holland | Amsterdam | Paradiso | Source: Letter from Rudolph Deistler of 3.12.01; unitedmutations/grandmothers |
10/7/81 - Live at Ribe | Denmark | Ribe | Minidisc recording; "Ring-Fin"(sic) Festival; 10000 present; K7 Recordings dated this | |
July 14 | Odense | JCB Collection: Bootleg CD | ||
? | Sweden | Stockholm | next day caught plane to Copenhagen with onward connections to NYork [JCB] | |
Eastern Tour | ||||
July | USA | Long Island, NY | Your Father's Place | |
? | New York | "not far from the Village” [JCB] | ||
? | Trenton, NJ | |||
Aug |
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| JCB plays drums on 'Green Weenie' on S.Terrell's Potatoheads for ... Album |
Back in LA | ||||
? | USA | San Francisco | Gigs listed in this blue as per JCB Memoirs | |
? | Monterey | |||
Oct 31? | Hayward California Halloween | Frenchy's | ||
Nov 04 | Santa Cruz | unitedmutations/grandmothers | ||
Nov(Dec) - May(Mar) |
| Cerillo, N. M. | Kludget Sound Studios | The Grandmothers - 1st album studio recordings; Ref. K7 dated Apr 30 1982, which includes tour dates! In 2002, on Liner notes for Eternal Question, JCB says between Nov & May which includes live recordings! |
1982 | ||||
Grandmothers: | (JCB, DP, WF, TF, MMiller,TMorales on drums) | |||
European Tour #2 (Mar 15-28) | Ref: JCB's copy of Tour Schedule that lists all venues, hotels etc. | |||
Mar 15 | Arrive from LA | |||
Mar-16 | Sweden | Stockholm | Club Glaedeshuset | Rehearsal |
Mar-17 | Stockholm | Club Glaedeshuset | Show | |
Mar-18 | Gothenburg | Club Errolds | ||
Mar-19 | Lund | Club Sparta Olympen | ||
Mar-20 | Denmark | Roskilde | Club Paramount | |
Mar-21 | Albertslund | Culturehouse | "Albertslund-huset"; unitedmutations/grandmothers | |
Mar-22 | Odense | Club Pakhuset | ||
Mar-23 | Arhus | Club Stakladen, Arhus University | ||
Mar-24 | Copenhagen | Christiana | The Grey Hall | |
Mar-25 | Germany | Hamburg | Markthalle | Additional Source: Letter from Rudolph Deistler of 3.12.01 |
Mar-26 | Berlin | Club Quartier Latin | ||
Mar-27 | Berlin | Club Quartier Latin | ||
Mar 28 | Return to LA; GMs break up and album doesn't get produced as a result | |||
Captain Glasspack & His Magic Mufflers: | Based in Santa Fe [JCB] [read Dennis Young's short account of events mid '82 - mid '83 here] Formed in June; 6-7 piece group: David Gilliland & George Langston, guitars; Sherman Rubin, keyboards; Mike Waggoner, steel guitar; Tony Young, bass; Jimmy Carl, drums [Source D. Young] | |||
July 27-29 | Santa Fe |
| Source: New Mexican newspaper - "Chatterbox" section (undated cutting) [JCB library]; 1st public performance (K7 - dated); Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| Aug 16 | Santa Fe |  | Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| Aug 21 | Santa Fe |  | Ben's Lounge "was once located downstairs at Inn of the Governors" (D. Young) Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| Aug 30 | Santa Fe |  | Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| Sept 13-14 | Santa Fe |  | Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| Sept 24-25 | Santa Fe |
| Poster [Source D. Young] | |
| ? | Albuquerque | [Source D. Young] | ||
| ? | Angel Fire | [Source D. Young] | ||
| ? | Anthony | Anthony Gap [Source D. Young] | ||
| ? | Silver Springs | [Source D. Young] | ||
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Sept? |
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| Interview for New Mexican newpaper re recent move to Taos and new band - Captain Glasspack and His Magic Mufflers; Husta graduates in Aug. (M.A.) and moves to teaching job in Taos, NM |
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Oct 1-2 | Taos |
| Poster [Source D. Young] | |
Oct 14 | Santa Fe |
| Poster [Source A. Young] | |
Oct 15-16 | Santa Fe |
| Poster [Source D. Young] | |
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Dec 31 | Santa Fe |
| Source: photo - JCB singing at a cabaret in Santa Fe Poster [Source D. Young] | |
late 82/early 83 |
| Taos, NM | KVNM Radio Show | JCB is guest announcer - when JCB was living in Taos |
Young-Kardo-Black: | Three-piece with Kardoriffic on guitar and vocals; played at small venues when not playing with Captain Glasspack and eventually playing more often [Source: D. Young] | |||
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| Los Alamos | Fireside theater | [Source: D. Young] | ||
| Taos | Amizette Inn | [Source: D. Young] | ||
Dec | Taos | Ogilvie's | Christmas Benefit for needy children; Guest: Michael Martin Murphy [Source D. Young] | |
Not accounted for: | I met [Jimmy] at Friars Pub in Abq ... after a gig you played with a bunch of old guys. [Walt, Albuquerque, NM 2008] | |||
