On the first disc, a string of selections from September 19 properly should be considered a 54-minute medley of "Playing in the Band/Ship of Fools/Playing in the Band/Uncle John's Band/Let It Grow/Jam," and, similarly, a stretch of the second disc taken from September 20 is really an hour-long continuous set of "Jam/Dark Star/Playing in the Band/Dark Star/Throwing Stones/Touch of Grey." It wasn't unusual for the Grateful Dead to segue from a song into an improvisation in these shows, they reversed that, basically playing lengthy improvisations from which songs occasionally emerged. In fact, although the CDs are given sequencing numbers, most of the songs here earn the "greater than" symbol that Deadheads like to use on their set lists, indicating that one song just blends into the next. By this point, Welnick and Hornsby had managed to find their places and both were proving to be exploratory instrumentalists.
JERRY GARCIA BAND 9 1 90 SERIES
Here, the Road Trips series assembles a two-disc set primarily out of the September 19 and 20 performances. 9, which chronicled the September 16 show. The Grateful Dead's archivists sampled this run of shows previously on 1997's Dick's Picks, Vol. So, when the group arrived at Madison Square Garden in New York for a series of shows in mid-September, the sound was beefed up considerably, and so was the musical approach, as the new members brought different musical ideas into the mix. After the Grateful Dead's third keyboardist, Brent Mydland, died on July 26, 1990, the band replaced him with Vince Welnick and also brought in pianist Bruce Hornsby on a part-time, temporary basis.