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

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  • Good Old Boys at Keystone: June 14, 1974

    I  just want to pin down some details of the Good Old Boys sets from June 13 and June 14, 1974, opening for Great American String Band. These come from tape that I have been able to audition but that is not supposed to circulate. Sometimes, a “hush-hush” approach is necessary to protect the innocent.…

  • Good Old Boys at Keystone: June 13, 1974

    I  just want to pin down some details of the Good Old Boys sets from June 13-14, 1974, opening for Great American String Band. These come from tape that I have been able to audition but that is not supposed to circulate. Sometimes, a “hush-hush” approach is necessary to protect the innocent. That’s not the…

  • Linked Jazz –> Linked Jerry (a.k.a., the Side Trips Social Network)

    Something like this will form the centerpiece image (I will pay for color) of Fate Music. I presented a brutally rudimentary glimpse of such a thing like ten years ago at the GD Studies caucus meeting in ABQ, calling it “The Side Trips Social Network”. https://linkedjazz.org/network/ https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/linked-jazz.html WOW

  • Darlin’ Cory

    What an amazing song. Obviously a (continuously, spontaneously, organically evolving) folk song, and working under many different titles, but here are the lyrics at Wikipedia: Wake up, wake up darlin coryTell me what makes you sleep so soundThe revenue officers are cominGonna tear your still house down [Chorus] Dig a hole, dig a hole in…

  • Notes from Dawson 2011 re Nicky Hopkins

     

  • August 1971 Crosby super session / double album project to end the Vietnam War?

    update: Never Trust A Prankster 🙂 via GIPHY Bruce Rostenstein was an ouststanding rock columnist for the American University Eagle in the early 1970s. That paper has been digitized, and like so many other college papers, offers up all kinds of goodness for the intrepid researcher. His October 29, 1971 column brings forth something I have…

  • Dating the September 1971 Lion’s Share Gigs

    Consider this a throwback post, in that it does what the blog started out doing, and that’s just trying to correct and fill out metadata around Garciavents. Here, I argue that the material we know from circulating tapes as 9/24/71 is actually from the next night, 9/25/71, also at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo. The…

  • tuning ditty identification request

    Can anyone identify the little ditty or ditties Jerry noodles in this mp3? TIA! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9dDbbvXg9d7w5kikobYCvcgpTStjPPD/view?usp=sharing update: commenter WWHS Clear Vision informs us that it is “The English Country Garden” – “it’s an English folk song that was popularized by Percy Grainger.” Thank you!

  • Odd Pair at the Old Waldorf: JGB, Monday, January 11, 1982 and Wednesday, January 13, 1982

    LN jg1982-01-11.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.84012.flac1644 | LNjg1982-01-13.jgb.all.aud-GEMS.98706.flac1644 What a weird little pair of shows – an early year Monday-Wednesday pairing at the Old Waldorf. Also an interesting pair of tapes. The 11th is represented by one of the uber-clean early 80s soundboard cassette tapes, which the old rumor had it marched out of “official” possession powered by a Peruvian…

  • Jerry Band SoCal ’89

    LN jg1989-05-19.jgb.all.aud-tfh.24537.flac1644 LN jg1989-05-20.jgb.all.sbd-miller.20679.shn2flac LN jg1989-05-22.jgb.all.aud-ebay-liberation.150868.flac2448 The Jerry Band in SoCal After the Jerry Band started in 1975, SoCal trips were mostly one, two- and few-offs – no real tours as we define them at Jerrybase. Starting in spring 1983, the band started doing what were called “tours” in-house, but were typically just a couple days, couple…