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

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  • Fishing Journal: 20090716, Clark Fork Stanislaus River

    So last year I did the South Fork of the Stanislaus from the bridge in Strawberry. This year I wanted to hit some more remote terrain and so was asking around about access points to the Middle Fork. There was a campground (can’t remember name … bad blogger!) about 8 mi. down from Pinecrest that…

  • JGMS with Jack Casady and Stephen Stills? July 14, 1974 at the Great American Music Hall

    Merl Jr. said that the tape to find would be Garcia/Saunders at the Great American Music Hall on a day that Crosby, Stills and Nash had played a Day on the Green. He says that Jack Casady and Stephen Stills came over after the CSN gig and jammed with Jerry and Merl and that it…

  • Fishing Journal: 20090621 Blue River @ Heeney Road

    Had a great Father’s Day outing here. Flyshop in Silverthorne, Cutthroat Anglers, made it seem like it’d be a tough day. Probably was, but I had some decent action and caught two fish. Was using a 14 or 16 golden stonefly nymph (caught one on that) with a big (probably 10) hot pink San Juan…

  • other fiction read in the last, well, year or so

    Nabokov’s Lolita.Voltaire’s Candide.Adam Fawer’s Improbable.Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.Stephen King’s The Stand.Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818 text).Stephenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (can’t believe I never read this before — incredible!)Several short stories by Joseph Conrad.Escohotado’s A Brief History of Drugs. A bunch of other stuff that I don’t have handy.

  • Riverworld

    Re-reading Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series, which I had read when I was 15 or so. I wanted to see if I enjoyed the philosophical bent more now than I did then. Eh … it’s OK. Neat premise (all 36 billion humans who ever lived resurrected on the banks of a 10-million mile long river,…

  • Blindness

    Read Jose Saramago’s Blindness a month or so ago. It was recommended by a Barnes & Noble guy when I asked for something “dystopic, preferably post-apocalyptic,” and he did a pretty good job for me. Right on, B&N guy! The writing style is haunting and beautiful, the story and characters fascinating.

  • new OAITW

    Seemingly new-to-circ OAITW show via Matt Smith and the Pacific Northwest crew running at Lossless Legs. Fun stuff. Richard Greene is there, which puts it to April-May ’73, in all likelihood. It’s also in a goodish sized hall, not the Keystone or Boarding House or whatever. My own guess is either Santa Barbara 4/12/73 or…

  • Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival

    Gotta whole mess o’ discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff. There’s a four CD version going around, but there’s more material that I’ll try to get moving around. There’s a post at Keep on Truckin‘ with the setlist of the circulating material. edit 8/22/201: now going…

  • Fishing Journal: 200905xx, St. Vrain @ “white gate”

    Got skunked on lots of big heavy wet stuff. View 200905xx-St. Vrain @ White Gate in a larger map

  • Been Awhile

    Was thinking I need to start leaving some notes for myself re: The Book. Example: I’d really like to track down Sara Fulcher. Anyone help? She sang backup on the GD’s Wake of the Flood (sessions would probably have been August ’73?) and sat in with Jerry and Merl a fair amount in early ’73.…