Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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JGB: November-December 1977 East Coast Tour Rarities
1977 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) was formed in 1975 to be a professional recording and touring band, and in productive years the Band would do a late-year East Coast tour. I’d guess the germ of this tradition formed in 1973, when Garcia and Saunders played the Hell’s Angels Forever gig on the S.S. Bay…
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The John Rich Question: Reply to Corry
Bravo, Corry! The John Rich Question is indeed a great mystery.See Corry’s post for the details of the question. I am sure I’ll have to update this post several times, but I wanted to take the second I have available to get started with a reply. I love this mystery. I agree with Corry that…
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GSCBF6: Doc and Merle Watson, Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 17:00
Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a.…
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Reading Notes: Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35 .
Just figured I’d post my random scribbles about stuff as I read. Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35. This article is based on discussions that appear to have happened in January 1970, since Tom Constanten is present. Recall that there have been various discussions of this timeframe online:…
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GSCBF5: Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys: Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 16:15
Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a.…
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OAITW: Homer’s Warehouse, July 24, 1973
**This is an update to a post originally made 9/19/2010, now updated as of 12/28/2014** In a first draft of this post, I used the occasion of a listen to an Old And In The Way set from Homer’s Warehouse in Palo Alto from Tuesday, July 24, 1973 to drop a few crumbs. I have…
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GSCBF update
I have updated a few GSCBF posts. GSCBF3: I have reframed (and gained confidence in) my argument that the Debbie reels are basically a continuous record of Sunday afternoon. GSCBF4: I have new insight into the circulating “Frank Wakefield” set from this festival, which is actually the Greenbriar Boys from Sunday ca. 15:00
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GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a. “Frank Wakefield”): Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 15:00
updated 9/18/2010 Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule The last…
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Cryptical Developments
Just wanted to shout out a welcome to Cryptical Developments, which I know will be a wonderful addition to this neat little community that seems to be developing around GD-/ SF-related deep history/scholarship. Like the other blogs that I consider part of this group, this one is now in my links to the right.
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GSCBF3: Sunday, April 28, 1974 afternoon schedule
Updated 9/18/2010 Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! I have mentioned that there are several…