Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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San Francisco Sessions, 1971
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…
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Reaching for the Gold Ring
Uncle Bobo comes on about three minutes in, introduces the band, and they drop into a sublime “Crazy Fingers”, one of my favorite songs.
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The Final “After Midnight”: JGB, March 7, 1983, The Stone
Garcia played J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” a bunch –by my count, 96 times starting 6/30/72– with a number of different personnel configurations, for about ten years. But then, after Monday March 7, 1983, he just dropped it. A new fileset of 3/7/83 shows me some killer guitar work in “After Midnight”, “Catfish John”, and “Tore…
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in lieu of new content
Let me point you to the JGMF date index at http://db.etree.org/jgmf. Any show that I have addressed explicitly at any length is indexed there, more or less. Anyway, take a spin and leave a comment!
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Half a mil
Somewhere along the line JGMF crossed over half a million pageviews. Thank you!
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Green Green Grass Of Home
This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…
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The real dates of the “September 1, 1974” material
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band, Pure Jerry 4: Keystone, Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (Jerry Made JGCD0004, 2004). We always knew that this was a hodgepodge of dates (there are several set/end-of-show announcements, in weird spots if we have a continuous show from 9/1/74). But what little evidence we have suggests that things are more…
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The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991
https://archive.org/details/davidwnivenjazz Wow.
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Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share
I see that 7/5/73 is slated for official release as (per B&N) Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/garcialive-6-july-5-1973-lions-share/29919624;jsessionid=D74E41C2738E4500EC4D90119172BE33.prodny_store01-atgap05?ean=0880882255220 http://www.amazon.com/Garcialive-July-1973-Lions-Share/dp/B01F73YZZ0 See my post now titled “Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share” if you want to learn more about the very interesting songs, the great performance, the mysterious trumpet…