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

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  • Alice Kahn Fall 1984 interview annotations

    These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other good nuggets in here. Man, even in the depths of his Rock Bottom period, he sounds engaged and articulate. What a mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Fall 1984 interview by Alice Kahn. Date…

  • A Long Way From Spain: JGB at SUNY Stony Brook, December 9, 1977

    LN jg1977-12-09.jgb.all.aud-matera-fix.137736.flac2488 Not much time to post much detail, so some bulleted observations. 1)  Keith is playing some classical-Spanish sounding thing at the end of s1t01. Then, @ 7:21 of “Lonesome And A Long Way From Home”, I hear John hitting some Spanish stuff, too. Check it out because, while Jerry was Swedish-Irish on his mom’s…

  • Howard Rheingold Interviews Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir

    https://archive.org/details/RheingoldGarciaWeirInterview Not sure I know this one, pinning it here so I can find it again!

  • The Bard on WLIR (Long Island), March 1978

    http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/RobertHunter1978-03WLIRInterviewRoslynNY.html Robert Hunter 1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unknown hotel (Hunter’s room) Interview by Denis McNamara for 92.7 WLIR-FM Garden City, New York (M?-FM) “Sunday At 9:00” radio program -expanded edition- (3 shows/parts) “A Conversation With Robert Hunter” Not sure how close in time this was to the 3/12/78 Long Island show with JGB, NRPS, and…

  • Simple Twist of Fate: JGB #23 at the Kaiser, November 11, 1994

    LN jg1994-11-11.jgb.all.aud-CMC5-mk4.145714.flac1644 Like so many of the late-era shows that I have listened to in the last couple of years, this one pleasantly surprised me. The only thing that troubles me is that it brings me into aesthetic disagreement yet again with Nick, who called this show “bad enough to make you want to give Jerry…

  • New-to-The-List from the Digitized Chronicle

    After spending X hours over X years spinning microfilm to try to find the needles of unListed Garcia gigs in the haystack of the Chronicle, the paper has been digitized. Je ne regrette rien! That said, I was able to find a few listings for The List. At this point, I cannot imagine we are…

  • I actually had to FF: JGB at Portland Meadows, 8/8/93

    LN jg1993-08-08.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.145607.flac1644 Nick thought the titular show was OK, but the vocals were so catastrophically bad that I actually couldn’t really listen to this. The only other show that has revulsed me in the same way was 11/23/72, and that was as much about the recording (overloaded, especially on the vocals) as it was about the…

  • Chieftains Opening for OAITW

    Update 7/22/2022: somehow I got the date wrong by a week, but in any case this Chieftains set is now being released by the Owsley Stanley Foundation! A book by John Glatt entitled The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) describes Chesley Milliken arranging a meeting between Garcia and The Chieftains, who were…

  • What is the Opposite of a Bat Outta Hell? JGB at Keystone, September 10-12, 1976

    I am not a huge fan of the syrupy tempos of 1976 JGB, the ultimate comfort band for Our Hero. There are some great sounding tapes, the occasional killer show (4/3/76b), and some spectacular specific songs (“Right Mighty High”, “Moonlight Mile”, “Who Was John” and others are some of my faves), but the overall vibe…

  • Long Ago and Far Away: JGB at Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME, June 20, 1982

    LN jg1982-06-20.jgb.all.aud-lamarre.139447.flac2496 Great pull by Doug Lamarre, very good JGB from the strong month of June 1982. Bobby Cochran and Bob Weir from Bobby and the Midnites sit in on the encore, which includes the JGB singleton “Johnny B. Goode”. Jerry sounds quite strong.  Two new tunes stand out. “Valerie” holds some serious heavy-metal appeal, and…