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

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  • JGB: October 27, 1982, Rissmiller’s Club, Reseda, CA

    Photo credit: Karen Verity Tapes have circulated dated October 27, 1982 from Rissmiller’s Club in Reseda, CA. I seem to recall that at ont point such a date was listed at the Jerry Site and that I myself got the idea that it was bogus and deleted it. I can’t remember why. Anyway, the image…

  • Jerry with Merl and/or Martin, ca. 1974, The Sand Dunes

    We know that Jerry Garcia was playing around outside the GD to a varying, but always non-zero, extent throughout the career of his most famous band. We have a sense that this was happening more, and more loosely, in the early days (at least pre-1976) and less, and in a more routinized/institutionalized way after that.…

  • 1969 NRPS: new data

    Just a tip of the hat to Lost Live Dead, which has been doing yeoman’s work unearthing early New Riders gigs based on various sources, but especially on careful digging through late 1969 San Francisco Chronicle (and notably Gleason’s column). Because of their hard work, TJS has recently added inter alia the following dates: Aug…

  • Eyjafjallajökull

    JGMF is stuck in Paris. Anyone know anywhere in town where there might be some rock & roll memorabilia?

  • Teabonics

    Awesome. ht Sully.

  • Garcia, Gravenites, Jules Broussard: ca. 1973, San Quentin Prison

    **update: I have it in my mind that this never happened. I spoke with Nick the Greek once and seem to have come away with that idea** On 4/29/90, Garcia sat in with “Nick Gravenites and Animal Mind” for a Brian Wilson Defense Fund Benefit at the South of Market Cultural Center in San Francisco.…

  • Guitars Unlimited, Menlo Park

    This is a bit beyond my ken, but since I have one Warlocks post, and an early Phil post, and since LLD has a Menlo Park angle, I thought I’d make a note of it. This may well be in the record, but I don’t recall it. This is from a ca. early 1991 interview…

  • The 1974 Garcia/Saunders instrumental previously listed as “Bags’ Groove”

    UPDATE 1/24/2015: Commenter Nick has determined that this is actually “Darben The Redd Foxx“. For fans of Jerry Garcia’s pre-1975 excursions beyond the Grateful Dead, one of the great fun things is to hear Jerry trying on really unusual material, seemingly without much preparation. I think of the instrumental versions of “Day By Day” (from…

  • Jerry Garcia at the Matrix, 1970-1971

    As I noted a little bit ago, Ross Hannan sent some wonderful info on Matrix gigs. In this post I respond to some of his listings with questions, additional or different information, etc. I was just going to email this, but one never knows when someone else might see this and be able to weigh-in.…

  • Mickey and the Hartbeats, October 28, 1968, Matrix, San Francisco, CA

    Deadlists no longer lists (if it ever did) a Hartbeats show at the Matrix on Monday, 10/28/68. It doesn’t appear on the Chicken on a Unicycle Matrix list, either. But what are we to make of this tidbit, from Deadlist’s 10/29/68 Hartbeats entry? On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of Dupree’s Diamond News,…