Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

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  • How JGAB Ended

    Can’t believe I have never posted about the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (JGAB), a.k.a. the “Black Mountain Boys” (1987 model), a.k.a., in a weird little Bill Graham marketing campaign, “Jerry Garcia: The Band Acoustic”. This is the wonderful band consisting of Jerry (ac-g, vocals), John Kahn (ac-bass), David Nelson (ac-g, vocals), Sandy Rothman (dobro, mandolin,…

  • GSCBF2: Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival: San Rafael, CA, April 26-28, 1974

    I am going to probably do a series of posts on the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival, which was held in San Rafael from April 26-28, 1974. I have become rather obsessed with this festival. It barely gets mentioned in most Dead-/Jerry-ology, but I think it provides a fascinating glimpse into all kinds of things:…

  • Where was Garcia on July 26 or 29, 1973?

    My previous post contemplated where Garcia was on July 4, 1973, based on ads published in a bluegrass magazine. This post does precisely the same thing for July 26 or 29, 1973. As you can see, Jerry Garcia is listed among the acts appearing at the First Annual West Virginia Peace, Love, Blues and Bluesgrass…

  • Where was Garcia on July 4, 1973?

    I don’t really know. I have him with the GD at the Universal Ampitheatre in Universal City, CA on June 29 – July 1, and then at the Lion’s Share on July 5 with Merl. July 4 was a Wednesday, but Garcia seemed like a vaguely patriotic guy (in a U.S. Blues sort of way!)…

  • Fall is Going to be Busy

    I have a strong feeling that this fall is going to be very, very busy from next week through, well, fall. Probably won’t have much time to post, but will try to do so. Here’s hoping!

  • JGMS: “July 21-22,” 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA

    **updated 20111216 2057 GMT** Tony Saunders is the bassist on these two tapes. The Jerry Site has listings for Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at Keystone, Berkeley, on July 21 and July 22, 1974. I doubt both date/venue combinations, for reasons I’ll lay out below. A) “JGMS 7/21/74, Keystone, Berkeley” This first date is so…

  • Jerry Garcia and Round Records

    (Parenthetically, the Grateful Dead Archives at UC Santa Cruz will eventually, hopefully, allow us to get a great close look at some of these hitherto opaque business/economic issues. Go, Nick, Go! But I pregress.) I have just been eyeballing some articles that appeared in the amazing, incredible, Golden Road, edited by Blair Jackson and Regan…

  • GASB/GAMB: mid-June 1974

    update 20140907: June 12 was Lion’s Share, June 13-14 was Keystone Berkeley. This post mostly deals with stuff that has been clarified by Elwood (1974), but there’s still some good analysis of things other than date/venue in the old text /update The Great American String/Music Band is one of my favorite Garcia-involved aggregations. It was…

  • JGMS: October 3, 1971, Frost Ampitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutcherson – Harold Land Quintet. Love that jazz billing. Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few…

  • NRPS: January 19, 1970, Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley

    My Blackberry takes the world’s worst pictures (see below), and there was neither scanner nor photocopier handy as I was going through a handful of Berkeley Tribes from late 1969-early 1970 today. But I found a reference to a NRPS gig on January 19, 1970 at Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley. Scan from Berkeley Tribe, January…