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

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  • Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales: June 7, 1970, Matrix, San Francisco, CA (PHANTOM)

    The Jerry Site still doesn’t have any way to keep a list of deleted shows. If one is deleted or its date is changed, the old entry evaporates. So I am trying to keep track of what disappears under this “TJS-deletion” tag. Anyway, TJS has listed a Garcia/Wales show for Sunday, June 7, 1970, probably…

  • JGB: November 17, 1981, Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL

    A couple of quick notes about the Jerry Garcia Band @ Uptown Theatre in Chicago, IL, in late 1981. [note that the Trib appeared to be misspelling it as “Theater” in this timeframe.] First, it appears the show might have originally been scheduled for 10/29/81. That would have made it the first show of the…

  • The mystery of the Jerry Garcia Band 11/28/77 ticket stubs

    I just don’t know what to make of this.   What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, are five unique ticket stubs for a Jerry Garcia show at SUNY Stony Brook (Gym) on November 28, 1977.  There is another stub that used to be linked from the Jerry Site which is distinct from these five.…

  • Phil Lesh pre-GD dates

    Corry once posted about Mickey Hart’s pre-GD days. And while this stuff isn’t of particular interest to me, I have gathered a bit so I thought I might as well spill, too. Perhaps someone will be interested. I am sure it’ll format badly, but, anyway, here’s a list of pre-GD Phil Lesh gigs I have…

  • NRPS: Bear’s Lair, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, August 1, 1969

    update: LIA has posted text from the various goings-on at the Family Dog On The Great Highway this night. Corry at Lost Live Dead has just posted a GD/JG performance list from July-August 1969. I don’t have much to add, but since he mentions the New Riders of the Purple Sage gig(s) from August 1,…

  • Reconstruction: August 10, 1979, Temple Beautiful, San Francisco, CA

    I don’t think I have blogged much about Reconstruction, the jazz-R&B-soul-funk-rock-disco outfit formed by John Kahn that performed in 1979 and that regularly “featured” Jerry Garcia on guitar. This is one of Garcia’s most unusual side trips. It features lots of tunes that he had never done before and would never do again, with my…

  • GD/NRPS: May 28, 1971, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (CANCELED)

    In an earlier post I discussed the infamous May 29, 1971 Grateful Dead show at Winterland at which a large number of people reacted adversely to being dosed. As Corry noted in comments, the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage show scheduled for the night before (May 28, 1971) was canceled due…

  • Garcia on Stephen Stills albums

    Matt Scofield’s discography, at http://www.deaddisc.com/, is one of those incredible community resources that I have vowed never to take for granted. It’s amazing, obviously a labor of love, and it contains a wealth of information about the GD, Garcia, and lots of the related and contemporaneous acts, venues, albums and individuals of interest. Here I’ll…

  • The other Warlocks

    So the story I have preserved in my memory about the Warlocks’ change of name in 1965 says that it was proximately caused by Phil Lesh’s discovery of another local band using the name. I also have it in my head that the existence of these other Warlocks remains mysterious. I would put money on…

  • The New Peanut Butter Sandwich: October 16, 1966, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

    Having just posted about Garcia’s October 1966 sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company, I’ll follow on with what is even more interesting-sounding (though it apparently didn’t come off that well). Mojo Navigator R&R News no. 9 (October 17, 1966) gives a brief account of the evening, which apparently included a configuration (“One Night…