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

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  • Jerry sitting in with Big Brother, October 1966: which date?

    Lost Live Dead posted about a Garcia sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company on October 15, 1966. Based on the context of an account in Mojo Navigator no. 9 (October 17, 1966), I am going to argue that this is incorrect. According to MN, this all happened on a Sunday, while 10/15 was…

  • JGMS: July 11, 1973, Keystone, Berkeley, CA

    A while back I did a little miniseries linking the July 1973 Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders shows at Keystone Berkeley to the official releases. I did it from the show perspective and from the album perspective. I.e., July 10, 1973: what goes on which albums; Live at Keystone, vol. 1 (CD): which songs come from which…

  • JGMS: January 15, 1972, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

    I have been needing to revisit recordings of the very early Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders stuff, and with a bit of time I thought I’d give this show, from a Saturday in mid-January 1972 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, some attention on its birthday. I am not sure who’s drumming … could have been…

  • Mid-1975 album mixing at Heider’s

    Can you tell I am going through some fragments? Anyway, this little tidbit, from August 1975, has me a bit puzzled. Which album is this? I just don’t recall any Jerry-related work at Heider’s at this time. The Grateful Dead might have been referred to in this way at this time (they had played the…

  • Garcia first solo album, tidbit

    Not sure whatever became of this … am I missing something? The only Douglas Records release with Jerry that I know of is Hooteroll? I don’t recall any direct Commander Cody involvement with Jerry, on-stage or in-studio. File under “maybe was” or something like that, I guess.

  • Wally Heider’s, July 1971

    Of course, we already knew that Jerry was recording Garcia in July of 1971 (though I have never been able to find any precise dates, and Bob Mathews won’t answer my queries). We also already knew that Heider’s was absolutely happening. I keep hoping that someday Steve Silberman will write a book about the Planet…

  • Hartbeats: October “1969” misidentification

    I just briefly posted some time back with an image of the Matrix poster that I bought myself. I have now had it framed and I have to say that it looks wonderful. The nice thing about having obscure taste is that some of the stuff that really interests me (e.g., New Riders) has less…

  • GD: May 16, 1969, Campolindo High School, Moraga, CA

    (From the 1969 Campolindo yearbook — thanks to Marcus Buick for the scan!) —Caveat Lector: the really colorful account that follows seems to be somewhere between partly and wholly fictionalized. It’s still a good read. Please read it as a story of what might have been.– Campolindo High School (Moraga, CA) is my alma mater.…

  • OAITW: September 7, 1973, First Annual Harpers Ferry West Virginia Indian Summer Bluegrass Folk Music Festival, Harpers Ferry, WV (UNCERTAIN)

    Man, what a mouthful some of these bluegrass festival names are. And what’s with the “Indian Summer” thing? Scanning through Muleskinner News, it comes up a lot. An ad in Muleskinner News v4 n8 (August 1973), p. 37, announces the titular festival and lists, among the acts for Friday, September 7 (12 noon to midnight)…

  • OAITW: September 1-2, 1973, Blue Grass Park, Camp Springs (?), North Carolina

    This is why I pick up old copies of Muleskinner News and such whenever I can. It appears based on the image below that Old and in the Way played the “9th Labor Day Weekend Original Blue Grass Music Festival” in Camp Springs (?), North Carolina on September 1-2, 1973. The only thing standing in…