Garcia Peoples with Mike Bones at the Bur Oak in Madison on October 17, 2021

In October 2021, Garcia Peoples came to the Bur Oak in Madison to perform with Weak Signal opening. For their final piece they invited the legendary guitarist of Weak Signal, Mike Bones, on the stage for a 20-minute jam. It's a really excellent thundering performance that I have enjoyed listening to many times since.

Unfortunately, onstage equipment issues on prompted a member of the band to request that the rest of my recording of the GP's performance be withheld from circulation, so this is what we have to enjoy.

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Recording information:

GARCIA PEOPLES with MIKE BONES

2021-10-17

Madison, WI

The Bur Oak

Mike Bones: guitar 

Tom Malach: guitar and voice

Danny Arakaki: guitar and voice

Andy Cush: bass

Pat Gubler keyboards

Cesar Arakaki: drums

Tracklist:

01 Mike Bones Jam (20:14)

Total time = 20:14

Recorded by Richard Hayes with permission

Microphone: Beyerdynamic MC 930 in ORTF

Additional source: mono SBD feed

Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6

Software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

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Garcia Peoples at Judson and Moore in Chicago on April 8, 2023

Garcia Peoples and Chris Forsyth co-headlined a short tour in April 2023 which brought them to (among other cities) Chicago (for two nights), Milwaukee, and Madison. The first night of their Chicago residency is presented here.

The band's name of course brings up associations with a very well known jam band, but I consider the group to be more of a psychedelic rock group with some elements of jamming, which I define as increasingly complicated variations of relative simple chord progressions and melodies. The point of a jam band is the jamming. The Garcia Peoples songs themselves, however, are high quality enough to stand o their own merit.

Purchase their music here.

Recording information:

Garcia Peoples

2023-04-08

Chicago, IL

Judson and Moore Distillery

Danny Arakaki: guitar, vocal

Tom Malach: guitar, vocal

Derek Spaldo: guitar, vocals  

Andy Cush: bass 

Cesar Arakaki: drums

Setlist:

01 Cashing Out - Sigh of Relief (5:06)

02 High Noon Violence (5:57)

03 Fire of the Now (9:02)

04 A Reckoning (11:19)

05 Total Yang (5:34)

06 One at a Time (8:08)

07 Show Your Troubles Out (5:45)

Total time = 50:51

Recorded with permission by Richard Hayes

Microphones: Beyerdynamic MC930 in NOS

Additional source: mono soundboard feed

Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6ii

Software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

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video of the band in Philadelphia a few weeks after this set:

Garcia Peoples at Colectivo Back Room in Milwaukee on January 17, 2020

 In January 2020, the Garcia Peoples had embarked on the midwest leg of a tour to promote One Step Behind, their third album released in the previous year and a half.  Already there were reports coming out of China about lockdowns and Emergency Rooms being filled with sick patients. It would be a few more weeks before these issues became more apparent in the US, leading to concert cancellations and lockdowns.

 

After performing shows in Chicago and Grand Rapids, the Garcias came to Milwaukee to record a session for Hear Here Presents and to play at Colectivo Back Room. This show finds them in good spirits and running like a well-oiled machine during an 85-minute set.

Purchase their most recent album here.

Recording information:

GARCIA PEOPLES
2020-01-17
Milwaukee, WI
Colectivo Coffee Back Room

Tom Malach: guitar and voice
Danny Arakaki: guitar and voice
Andy Cush: bass
Derek Spaldo: bass
Cesar Arakaki:drums

Setlist:
01 Jam > High Noon Violence (13:06)
02 Gliding Through (5:50)
03 Jam > Feel So Great > Heart and Soul (24:27)
04 Total Yang > Hourglass (13:49)
05 One Step Behind > Hanging On (21:42)
06 Show Your Troubles Out (6:17)

Total time = 85:11

microphones: Beyerdynamic MC 930 in ORTF
recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-6
software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

With special thanks to Eric Pier-Hocking and the staff of Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records for helping to remove access obstacles.

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Garcia Peoples at the Milwaukee Psych Fest April 13, 2019

Garcia Peoples is a New Jersey-based band who came to the 7th Milwaukee Psych Fest touring on the strength of their recently-released LP on Beyond Is Beyond Records, "Natural Facts." 

In the meantime they have released another LP, "One Step Behind" -- which makes three full-length LPs in the past year and a half.

They will be touring the midwest again in mid-January 2020 with stops including Grand Rapids, MI, Milwaukee, and Chicago.

I don't have any photos from their set (which conflicted with either the Elkhorn or Dire Wolves set outside in the tent). So here are some random shots of the light show by the crazy wizards at Mad Alchemy.

Setlist:
01 Track One
02 Track Two
03 Track Three
04 Track Four
05 Track Five

Danny Arakaki - guitar
Tom Malach - guitar
Derek Spaldo - bass
Cesar Arakaki - drums

microphones: stereo pair of Audio-technica AT853c
preamp: Church UBB
recorder: Roland R-07 at 16/44 
software: Audacity, xAct

https://garciapeoples.bandcamp.com/album/natural-facts
https://garciapeoples.bandcamp.com
https://beyondbeyondisbeyond.com/garcia-peoples

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