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

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  • I came for the Johnny Too Bad, I Stayed for the Don’t Let Go

    LN jg1994-09-01.jgb.all.aud-neumann.12024.shn2flac Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 September 1, 1994 (Thursday) – 8 PM Neumann KM-140 shnid-12024 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 70:18)– s1t01. [0:43] How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [6:51] [0:31] s1t02. Get Out Of My Life Woman s1t03. Run For The Roses…

  • Il lui manque du souffle

    LN jg1995-04-15.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.94692.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 15, 1995 (Saturday) Vasseur flac1644 shnid-94692 –set I (5 tracks, 47:32)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars s1t02. And It Stoned Me s1t03. He Ain’t Give You None s1t04. Dear Prudence s1t05. My Sisters And Brothers –set II (7 tracks, 68:03)–…

  • Never Get Yo Cornbread Made

    LN jg1995-01-13.jgb.all.aud-vasseur-ladner.21484.shn2flac I almost never listen to 1995. I mean to. And then I did. But then, it turns out that I had already listened to the second set of this show, so the novelty factor was reduced by half. On the flip side, the “study in contrasts” possibilities are wide; in this case, it…

  • Catholics listing the Legion

    The very Catholic USF Foghorn mentioning the LOM gig 3/14/75: “yes, that’s the Legion of Mary“. http://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15129coll8/id/7748 ! mention: San Francisco Foghorn (University of San Francisco), March 14, 1975, p. 8. ! seealso: “By the Grace of the Lord: Legion of Mary at the Masonic Temple, Scranton, April 12, 1975” h/t Yellow Shark

  • “Remember that time you pre-gamed it too hard before the show?”

    “Remember that time you pre-gamed it too hard before the show? Then you spent the whole concert with your head down in the stall? If yes, then this tape will be a trip down memory lane ..” So says the great AF in seeding a “For Completists Only” copy of 4/15/90 (heretofore never circulated digital…

  • I stand corrected: it is that bad

    The pithy title I gave to a set of 8/24/84 listening notes (s1 only) was “It’s not that bad, given how much Persian he was doing.” I stand corrected. Yes, yes it is. It is *that bad*. Here are notes on the three consecutive tracks of s2: ! P: s2t01 HTC … these vocals are…

  • The Roving Gambler: JGJK, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, February 2, 1986

    Nine days after kicking off a lucrative little acoustic tour with the D.A.R. in D.C., Garcia and Kahn closed things off at the Orpheum in Boston. The main point of interest is “The Roving Gambler”, which makes its only known public appearance in the GOTS era (what some might call the Grateful Dead era) of…

  • On a related note,

    I just posted a second visualization of “Garciaverse Musics” – have at it.

  • Black Roots about Native Americans?

    I am thinking about Native American musical influences on Garcia. As far as I can tell, they are mediated by whites: Hank Williams’s “Kaw-Liga,” Bill Monroe’s “Cheyenne,”Peter Rowan’s “Land Of The Navajo” (which the latter inspired). Is there any black traditional music with Native American narrative or musical themes? Like, any old banjo tunes about…

  • Jerry Garcia and John Lennon, summarized by Dennis McNally

    On December 8, Garcia was at Front Street working on Dead Set when get got a call that told him of the assassination of John Lennon. Work was impossible. He sat down at Keith Godchaux‘s old Steinway (more pain: Keith had died in a car accident that summer) and noodled for many hours, lost in…