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

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  • GD: August 17, 1970, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

    I am sure this has been gone over many, many times over the years. I imagine that in the days before ubiquitous tapes and information the Playboy article “Grateful Dead I Have Known” by Ed McClanahan (1) was probably scrutinized very closely, like some Rosetta Stone capable of unlocking the 1970-era GD. That it was…

  • June 1969 Community in Musical Efforts (COME) program, Oakland, CA

    I have found two 1969 articles related to Community and (some say “in”) Musical Efforts (COME), a two week series of seminars and workshops in “now” music to be held at Mills College, Oakland, CA, in June of 1969. Teachers were set to include Jerry Garcia, John Handy, Mickey Hart, Roland Kirk, the Tape Music…

  • OAITW: June 6, 1973, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

    update 20230704: I can’t go back and revise this post 13 years later. It’ll show up in Fate Music, believe me. With a LOT more specifics on Tex Logan, Peter Rowan, Boston, John Scher, and so much more! Old and in the Way did a small east coast tour in June of 1973, the band’s…

  • GD: November 11, 1970, 46th Street Rock Palace, Brooklyn, NY

    From a website on forgotten NY places, which links over to setlist.net, I found this really neat recollection of the GD’s November 11, 1970 show at the 46th Street Rock Palace in Brooklyn, NY. This was possibly one of the weirdest shows I ever saw (but enjoyable nevertheless). It took place on a Weds about…

  • Just for Giggles

    On Deadnetcentral (DNC), there used to be ongoing banter between manly lovers of 1977 GD and sissified lovers of 1976. DNC user Chimbley made this up, with apologies to Berkeley Breathed. (http://pages.cthome.net/chimbley/images/76Weenies-b.jpg) IMO, it never gets old, and I wanted to preserve it here for posterity. Thanks for helping me laugh many, many times over…

  • JGMS: the show known variously as 1972-06-30, 1972-09-01, 1971-09-01

    So for a long time I have been wanting to lay down a marker regarding the dating of the wonderful Garcia/Saunders show that circulates variously as June 30, 1972, September 1, 1972, and (less commonly nowadays), September 1, 1971. I’ll concentrate on the former two dates –I have nothing to say about the ’71 possibility–…

  • GD: 11/28/71, Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, CA (CXL)

    “The Grateful Dead will play a benefit [at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium] on Sunday for the benefit of Head Start.” So saith a “Newgrams” in the Pacific Sun, week of Novmeber 25-December 1, 1971, p. 17. update: David Davis found an IJ piece indicating the Marin County supes nixed the gig. Reported by LIA…

  • Possible Jerry Gig? October 15-16, 1971, Keystone Korner, SF, CA

    So, here’s one that caught my eye. Nick the Greek, Merl, Tom Fogerty, Dave Getz (presumably) and John Kahn gigging at the Keystone Korner on a Friday-Saturday night in October, 1971 when Jerry is not known (to me) to have been otherwise occupied. Jerry and Merl were billed at the same place the weekend before.…

  • NRPS: June 12-13, 1971, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

    So, I discovered this ad for New Riders of the Purple Sage at Keystone Korner on June 12-13, 1971 when going through the Berkeley Barb last summer … the old fashioned way … microfilm. Makes my eyes dry up just thinking about it. All well and good. I assume Jerry was there.and have updated my…

  • JGMS: July 10, 1973, Keystone, Berkeley, CA

    I have just parsed out the officially released material by release: Live at Keystone, volume 1 datings; Live at Keystone, volume 2 datings ; Live at Keystone, volume 3 (encores) datings Turning it around, here’s the perspective from the shows. This info based on most complete circulating copies. Key is below. Jerry Garcia and Merl…