Customer Reviews

Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City - October 31, 1987 (4 CD Set)

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The entire Pure Jerry series has been reissued and is available from the Dead's official website (dead.net), so there's no reason to pay the outrageous prices for "new & used" copies of this show that people are trying to sell here. I'm looking at dead.net right now, and you can buy this show there, brand new, for just $26. OR, you can buy it here on Amazon (at this time), new for $68 or used for $50.

I leave it up to you.

Great show... 4 CDs with the complete acoustic and electric sets from both the matinee and evening shows on 10/31/87. Just be sure to buy it at dead.net and save yourself a bundle, or buy yourself another show with the money you saved on this one!

In 1987, the Jerry Garcia Band played a legendary two week run of shows at the Lunt-Fontanne on Broadway with the last show on Halloween. Each show was opened by the short lived Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band turning in a set and followed by Jerry's Electric Band. There were problems from the start however, as the Fire Chief thought the theatre might be lacking and a near cancellation of shows. John Cutler was recording these shows on DAT and at one point, the management wanted him to destroy the tapes. He palmed the real ones and destroyed blanks. Many people think that Almost Acoustic was recorded at these shows but when it was released, I'm pretty sure that Relix reported that release was recorded at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.

The performances are very good but this gets three stars because the sound quality is below par for the most part although the acoustic sets sound better as far as sound quality. I guess that isn't too surprising as the Acoustic Band was trying to record a live album. There's another release called The Best Of The Rest which features highlights from the shows leading up to this show and I think I like that one a little better. As I said earlier, both releases suffer from less than stellar sound quality so beware.

Some smokin moments but some terrible mixing on some electric stuff. The acoustic sets are ok. Overall, almost acoustic is the jerry disc to own. Plain and simple

I can't believe they decided to release this on cd. The sound quality is really bad.