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

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  • JGB in Phishland: Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT, 12/6/83

    Note that I have started changing all of my info to reflect the presence of DeeDee Dickerson on the bus with the JGB in November-December 1983. 12/6/83a Nice Catfish John, otherwise this early show does not light me up. Jerry Garcia Band Flynn Theater 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 December 6, 1983 (Tuesday) –…

  • A 35 Minute Second Set: JGB at The Stone, March 4, 1984

    LN jg1984-03-04.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.85294.flac1644 Sunday night, 3/4/84, Jerry races out of the building with a 35 minute set II. Maybe he was late for mass. Nothing much else to report. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133 March 4, 1984 (Sunday) sbd GMB flac1644 shnid-85294 –set I (5 tracks, 48:57)– s1t01. //Rhapsody In…

  • James and the Mercedes demos

    The great Stephen Barncard has posted some snippets of 1974 James and Mercedes demos from Weir’s place. I had never heard these before. http://media.barncard.com/audio/history/james-mercedes/ No Garcia Content (NGC). 

  • Garcia’s Creative Accounting, late March 1975

    In late March 1975, Peter Simon interviewed Garcia at the “film house”  (230 Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941), for publication in New Age Journal (Simon 1975). NAJ: You’re also doing a solo album and touring with Merl Saunders. In that you have so many projects at once, how do you channel your energy so…

  • Reading Notes: Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation

    This book has had tremendous impact on me. Single logic of creation comedy, science and art Blurb: “bisociative thinking” – the creative leap which connects previously unconnected frames of reference and makes us experience reality on several planes at once. “there are no frontiers where the realm of science ends and that of art begins,…

  • untitled 19750820b

    UPDATE: researcher David Kramer-Smyth spoke with Hadi al-Saadoon, who identified David Kessner as the composer. David Kessner confirms he wrote it, but is not sure if it had a name. Anyone know the funk-fusion instrumental that ends set I of 8/20/75, Keith and Donna Band at the Great American Music Hall, a week after the…

  • List Tradition

    I just updated my old post noting some of Umberto Eco’s musings on Lists as ways of chronicling infinity. http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2012/02/list-tradition-chronicling-infinity.html

  • The Blogging Hobby

    Blogging is a great hobby – if you have ever thought of just wanting to keep some intellectual interest of yours pinned down a little better than purely in your head, I highly recommend it. Among Blogger’s very limited features – You Get What You Pay For, Corry reminds us, and as a Braudelian he…

  • Friday Night at the Boarding House

    edit: well, this is a first – turns out I had already posted a version of this. Heh heh. Presumably, this one is better. April 13-16, 1973 saw Garcia “Four Nights at the Boarding House”, two with Merl Saunders and The Group (JGMS), two with Old And In The Way (OAITW). So much about these…

  • Benefits Page

    Pursuant to my own query of a year ago, I have posted my own list of Dead and Garcia benefits as a separate Google page at http://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/benefits.html. Additions and all that most welcomed! See also my posts tagged “benefit”. Here’s a quicky time series, if you are interested. Note that this will double count some…