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

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  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…

  • Triple-Booked Vassar: October 6, 1973

    My post on Old And In The Way in Santa Cruz on Friday, October 5, 1973 referenced some of the band’s contemporaneous gigs. One of these was a gig the next night in Berkeley. In comments, I then noted that Vassar was advertised with Tut Taylor that same Saturday at the Exit/In in Nashville, whereupon…

  • Maybe someone is headed to Rome

    Nice to see one person (via blogger stats) checking out possibilities for Free Caravaggio!

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • Jerry’s Guitar Style

    Where most rockers tend to push against the beat to build excitement, using a vocabulary of riffs that has come largely from the blues and Chuck Berry, Mr. Garcia constructs lines that float over the top of the rhythm. ! ref: Palmer, Robert. 1977. Dancers Rock to Jerry Garcia. New York Times, November 29, 1977,…

  • Insert Pithy Title Here: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983

    Killer “Don’t Let Go”, and two short sets that foreshadow darker days ahead. Great job on the matrix by AF! update: d’oh! posted a second time about this one. DLG so nice, I had to post it twice. JERRY GARCIA BANDKeystone Palo Alto260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306November 12, 1983 (Saturday)*Matrix* shnid-141451 –set I…

  • Jerry Has Fallen, and He Can’t Get Up

    OK, maybe I am feeling a little bit cranky. I have been doing some late era listening, and it’s not always easy. Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at the Warfield, for example, has a “Don’t Let Go” – which is good! – but it falls into quite a remarkable rut. From 3:22-6:03 of this lovely Vasseur…

  • My First Dead Show

    Now available in all kinds of good sound, including this 24 bit / 96 kHz pure sbd from Charlie Miller. This show was the first time in my life that I felt utterly unjudged by those around me.

  • A Second Triumphant Return: JGB, Halloween ’92

    LN jg1992-10-31.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141463.flac1644 Almost six years to the day after Jerry’s “Triumphant Return” from death’s door with the Garcia Band at the Stone, on October 31, 1992 he made a second comeback from a major health scare, playing with the JGB in the less homey Oakland Coliseum Arena less than three months after collapsing at home…

  • Confused, Trainwreck, Yeesh and Yikes: JGB at the Warfield, August 14, 1994

    jg1994-08-14.jgb.all.sbd-miller.136390.flac1644 The title conveys some of the adjectives and interjections I used in listening to this rare sbd tape of late-era Jerry. He sounds bad – bad, I tell you. Jerry Garcia BandThe Warfield982 Market StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102August 14, 1994 (Sunday)remastered Miller sbd shnid-136390 –set I (7 tracks, 68:22)–s1t01. How Sweet It Is (To…