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

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  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 3 (encores) datings

    Keystone Encores Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release : 1988 Fantasy FCD 7703-2 *Hi-Heel Sneakers (Robert Higgenbotham) [7/10/73] *It’s Too Late (She’s Gone) (Chuck Willis) [7/10/73] *I Second That Emotion (William Robinson / Al Cleveland) [7/10/73] *One Kind Favor (Traditional) [7/11/73] *Money Honey (Jesse Stone) [unknown, presumed to…

  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 2 datings

    Live at the Keystone, Volume 2 Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release : 1988 Fantasy FCD 7702-2 * That’s Alright Mama (Arthur Crudup) [7/11/73, album comes in @ 5:19] * My Funny Valentine (Rodgers / Hart) [7/11/73] * Someday Baby (Sam Hopkins) [7/10/73] * Like A Road Leading…

  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 1 datings

    Seeing a new torrent for 1973-07-10 at Lossless Legs reminds me that deaddisc.com has not included the information on dates from which the different performances derive. So I will post them. Here’s volume one (CD release). Live at the Keystone, Volume 1 Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release…

  • JGMS, August 24, 1974, venue confusion

    August 1974 is one of Jerry’s greatest months. Between the killer GD shows at the star of the month and all of the incredible Garcia/Saunders shows (8/31/74 is right at the top of my desert island list), it really is incredible. But I am confused about a few of the details from this month. I’ll…

  • ‘On the floor like dying fish’ – and NRPS w/o Jerry (5/29/71)

    May 29, 1971 is infamous for the fact that lots of people had an adverse reaction to the liquid refreshments, which were apparently distributed from a 35-gallon trash container set onto the concert floor during an intermission. 35 people were sent to the hospital “with all of the symptoms of bad trips” (“Winterland on Probation”))…

  • Garcia’s unidentified guests

    Unidentified guests on Garcia shows. Updated 12/27/2019. LLD’s post on flute players with the GD got me thinking to the vexing question of the unidentified trumpet player on the Pure Jerry vol. 4 release (Keystone, “9/1/74”), which got me thinking to other unidentified guests on Jerry (non-GD) shows. So I figured I’d post a list…

  • GD: September 15-16, 1972, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (CANCELED)

    Security & related concerns among the citizenry led to the cancellation of these shows in late August. Advanced ticket sales had already been underway, with ca. 4,000 ducats sold. GD would end up at Boston Music Hall for these dates … not a bad landing, though presumably much, much smaller. REFERENCES Red Wildy, “SPAC Postponing…

  • GD: March/April 1971, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (CANCELED)

    More early ’71 scheduling stuff: “The Grateful Dead pulled a last-minute cancellation at Northern Illinois University a few weeks ago.” This was in an article published on May 7, 1971 (1). So depending on the meaning of “a few weeks”, it could have been in March, when the GD were in Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, canceled…

  • GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (CANCELED)

    Not much to say here, just another monkey wrench in the early ’71 touring works for the GD. A student committee agreed in November 1970 to try to bring the GD out for January 31, 1971. Somewhere along the line a Jefferson Airplane concert took place that offended the University administration’s sensibilities. It seems that…

  • GD: July 3-4, 1970, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago (CANCELED)

    Grateful Dead Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL July 3-4, 1970 CANCELED The Aragon Ballroom, at 1106 Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, was reportedly leased by American Tribal Productions in spring 1970 in order to put on “monster rock shows” (1). A mention is made of restoring the venue to its “pre-Cheetah” condition, leading me to wonder if this…