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

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  • The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    My first working title for Fate Music was The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game. The THGCBTG framing, as I lovingly acronymized it, reflected a slightly darker view of Garcia’s side trips than I presently hold, one in which his damned Midas Touch tainted even his silly bar band, which eventually had to play boomy…

  • Nothing to Write Home About on a Charlie Miller Birthday Show

    LN jg1981-11-03.jgb.all.aud-composite.138177.flac1644 November 3rd is Charlie Miller’s birthday, among other people. Now you know. This ’81 show has a good DLG, some interesting playing in Dear Prudence, but didn’t light me up. Maybe it’s because the tapes just aren’t that great. I also listened to DLG via the set II matrix (shnid-138159), and it was…

  • Find Someone Who Looks at You the Way John Looks at Jerry

    VN jg1977-07-09.jgb.late.voodoonola Jerry Garcia Band Convention Hall 1300 Ocean Avenue Asbury Park, NJ 07712 July 9, 1977 (Saturday) –Late Show 10 PM complete (128:25) B&W proshot video via Music Vault, URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glq7yzbfy-o re-do the time markers 0:00:00 – [0:47 The Harder They Come 0:48-15:04 -15:06 0:15:07 – Stage Noise 0:17:42 – They Love Each Other…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1972

    I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local No. 6 in San Francisco. San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972 There is nothing representative about these – I have information on stuff that is…

  • Alone and Together

    I have always liked this image.

  • Picture of the Murdering Punks at the Inn

    A little piece in the from the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat on the tenth anniversary of the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati notes that “A picture spread in the Pacific Sun featured Jerry Garcia and the New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there in their early days”. Great – now I *have* to track…

  • How great is 9/28/72’s Other One?

    My goodness.

  • Bottom Line Archive

    The Bottom Line Archive contains over 1000 shows recorded during the club’s 30-year run, from 1974-2004. Anyone know whether, say, certain guitar hero’s 1974 and 1975 gigs might be among these tapes? Asking for a friend.

  • Cotati Cabaret magazine

    Just read that the Cotati Cabaret was doing a magazine (much as its Cotati plaza neighbor, the Inn of the Beginning, had done) in 1979 that was getting a print run of 15k. If anyone has a stash of these somewhere, I would love to consult them. ! ref: Mason, Clark. 19790413a. Life is a…

  • a great matrix

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-10.139379.mtx.seamons.ht112.flac16 My goodness, what a great sounding recording! Garcia is on fire for the whole first set (all I have heard so far). He sounds amazing. The guitar playing is fluent and fiery, the vocals are lucid and not dreadfully junky-sounding. The whole band sounds good. Lots of train references in the first set, even…