Clearing out old paper files of stuff, found this piece by John Swenson about Doug Sahm:
Swenson, John. 197305. The Psychedelic Cowboy Makes His Move. Crawdaddy (May): 65-70.
After narrating the good time on 11/23/72 in Austin, Sahm continues
Then we went back up to Frisco an’ did it up at Keystone with Tom Fogerty where Jerry does that jam thing. We kinda learned a few tunes an’ said we’ll go see whut this audience loos lahk, makin’ that trip ‘n it was jes that monster same reaction. [He started to sing: “Well, it’s not love …”] Y’know, there’s the Berkeley freaks, they dig it y’know an’ it was weird because ah ain’t played Frisco in years man, ‘sbeen ages (Swenson 1973, 68).
By my reckoning, Tom Fogerty never played with The Group in 1973, though that’s not 100% established. So the likely dates for this event are the following:
- 12/6/72 or 12/7/72 – note that we have some eyewitness recollections from one of these shows of Sarah Fulcher being around. Like Sahm, she was a Texan with plenty of San Antonio time. Not sure that makes Sahm more or less likely (or doesn’t change my estimate) for these nights, but there you go.
- 12/20/72 or 12/21/72 – the only other JGMS Keystone Berkeley gigs in the window.
So, not sure the dates, but wanted to pin these here the best I could.
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Sarah Fulcher: "Doug Sahm sat in with the band one night, I think we were at Keystone, I'm not sure. I knew him from San Antonio. Well, I didn't know him, but I knew of him. And I stood back there talking to him and missed my cue on 'Honey Chile' talking to ol' Doug Sahm. It was a real loose scene. Real loose and real good. It was fabulous."
Source
Jarnow, Jesse. 2019a. Blanks And Postage: Like A Road Leading Home – The Elusive Sarah Fulcher and the Less Elusive Jerry Garcia. Aquarium Drunkard, December 17, 2019, URL https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/12/17/blanks-and-postage-like-a-road-leading-home-the-elusive-sarah-fulcher-and-the-less-elusive-jerry-garcia/.
We already had evidence that Sarah sat in once in December in Berkeley, before the 12/11 Dead shows, as recalled by French visitor Philip Sicard. We have pinned that to 12/6/72 for convenience over the next night. In the post above I wondered whether Sarah and Sahm might have been in the same night. Well now, based on Jesse's interview with Sarah, it seems that they were. So I considered this mystery basically resolved (6th vs. 7th still open). Fun!