Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Nina Blackwood Interviews Jerry Garcia for MTV, ca. June 2, 1983
Some classic lines here, like the studio as building a ship in a bottle and playing live like piloting a rowboat in the ocean. I wasn’t super careful about getting everything 100% perfect, especially not where there’s GD talk. I am not 100% certain about the geolocation, but it’s got to be about right. Jerry…
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Reading Notes: McNally 2002
McNally, Dennis. 2002. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. New York: Broadway Books. What a book. This, and Jackson’s Garcia: An American Life have set a bar that I can only see from far below. Yes, my original copy is in six pieces, so well-loved has it been. But you also…
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Reading Notes: basic method
I have my research methods. They are time-consuming, but I think they work well. For long written works, they involve several layers of activity. 1) reading, marginal notes, etc. 2) going back through and a) typing direct quotes, with Author, Year, Page reference [for hard copies], or b) copying and pasting direct quotes, with Author,…
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Killer Sugaree and final DDD: JGB at Country Club, Reseda, May 20, 1984
LN jg1984-05-20.jgb.all.aud-nak300s.79553.flac1644 This Sugaree is in the running for hottest ever, especially in the 6-10 minute range. It opened shows a lot in the 75-77 period, a little less frequently by this time, and it would leave the JGB fold in ’86 to become GD only. But, for my money, the Jerry Band ones from this…
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Unidentified Nicky Hopkins Instrumentals
update: Mark Mattson has identified the number as “Lucky Old Sun” – wow! There may be others, but I am right now pondering two distinct instrumentals that Nicky does out of “Lady Sleeps” with the JGB in the last month or so of his run with the band. 11/23/75: about 1:38:30ff here –> https://ia600902.us.archive.org/9/items/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO.mp3 He announces…
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Did You Ever Notice the 9/18/81 JGB Rehearsal Has Jerry Playing Acoustic?
The spine of Betty’s 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal tape box A beautiful piece of tape: Betty’s reel from the 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal I just revisited this little 20+ minute rehearsal fragment. Thank you Betty! This is the latest piece of Betty Board of interest to me: some of the abortive Brent solo album material came from…
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On Tours and Marketing Records
Over at Jerrybase, we have begun grouping events not only by “runs” (consecutive nights at the same venue), but also “tours”. It turns out that the notion of a tour isn’t quite as crystal clear as one might want it. I wanted it to be at least three out of town gigs in at least…
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All By Myself: Legion of Mary, April 5, 1975 late show at the Cap, Passaic, NJ
LN jg1975-04-05.lom.late.aud-SC.147761.flac1644 Ticket stub for Legion of Mary, April 5, 1975, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 11:30 PM late showNB misspelling of “Capital”. Image courtesy of gdsets.com Very listenable audience tape with everything present. Nice show – I like everything here, even “Sitting In Limbo”, which I don’t always love. “Wicked Messenger” – my goodness, what…
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Old old old notes: JGB at the Leroy Theatre, Pawtucket, RI, March 11, 1978
LN jg1978-03-11.jgb.all.aud-friend.97682.flac1644 I listened to this years ago, was just doing some housecleaning and thought I’d post. Bullets: Really nice tape. Piano sounds especially great .Thank you, Tim Friend! I note that it runs faster than the set II soundboard tape. I also noted that AF’s ITAM patch from shnid-14931 (Tom Dalti aud) sounds pitched differently.…
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Ross Valory “has … jammed with the Jerry Garcia – Mel [sic] Saunders group in Bay Area clubs”
update: David Kramer-Smyth notes in comments that the article was edited, and that it originally said George Tickner had sat in with Jerry and Merl. True enough. I will keep this here for posterity, in any case. Blumenthal, Les. 1975. Music to make your adrenalin [sic] rush. Spokesman-Review, July 6, 1975, Spokane Week section, p. 1.…