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

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  • Rango at the Greek 5/14/83

    What a great pull. https://archive.org/details/gd1983-05-14.fob.sonyecm220t.keshavan.miller.94396.sbeok.flac16

  • LIA’s Call

    “Call for Missing Tapes”, mostly the old stuff that LIA does so well: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-call-for-missing-tapes.html Let me just add that if you have any Jerry tapes that aren’t in circulating, our operators stand ready to aid in the archiving process. If you have any questions about what circulates and not, you can check out, among other…

  • People Make The World Go Round

  • RIP Michael Hunt

    http://www.marinij.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160415/michael-hunt-who-made-marin-rock-history-booking-rock-stars-at-the-lions-share-in-the-1970s-dies-at-73

  • Banjo

    Dubois, Laurent. 2016. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. en route as of 20160417 Keïta, Cheick M. Chérif. 1995. Massa Makkan Diabaté: Un Griot mandingue à la rencontré de l’écriture. Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan. to read

  • The Mecca

    These Dead shows from The Mecca in Milwaukee, WI, from April of 1989 are outstanding. Garcia is burning a hole in the atmosphere in “Little Red Rooster”, of all places. This band is Locked. In.

  • Investing in Marmaduke

    Some notes-to-self. Corry: The Grateful Dead family was interested in turning John Dawson into a recording artist as early as 1968, and willing to spend their own studio time to do it, even though nothing ever came of it, so the New Riders project can be seen as a solution rather than a random idea.…

  • Linda Chicana

    Is the name of the song that has gone on Reconstruction setlists as “Linda”. Here is Cal Tjader doing it:

  • JGB at Freeborn Hall, November 12, 1976

    Sometime in the afternoon or thereabouts of Friday, November 12, 1976, Garcia, John Kahn, Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, probably Richard Loren hopped into sedans being driven by monitor mixer Harry Popick and roadie Bill ‘Kidd’ Candelario to Davis, California, about a hundred miles east of San Francisco on I-80. Thus began a little weekend…

  • JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)

    LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…