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

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  • “The Little Cash Cow” – JGB, Early 1980

    Last weekend’s post “On the Bus with the Garcia Band” looked at the November-December 1983 JGB tour’s extensive ground travel – everything was by bus, 3,000 miles on the road in a few weeks in the eastern time zone. Commenter Nick asked a great question comparing that tour with earlier ones, pointing out Ozzie Ahlers’s…

  • On the Bus with the Garcia Band

    I was going through the tour documents for the Jerry Garcia Band’s November-December 1983 tour, which was unusually long. I haven’t compared the various JGB tours, but this one and/or the late ’77 tour are the two longest I can think of, without double checking. I have more documents from the 70s than the 80s,…

  • New blog: Mickey’s Gong

    https://mickeysgong.wordpress.com/  the idea is i listen to every single recording of the grateful dead’s 1970 performances and then write about every single one Sounds like a winner!

  • Sound Storm Echoes

    The Grateful Dead played a legendary gig at the Sound Storm festival on Mrs. Irene York’s farm near Poynette, Wisconsin on April 26, 1970. As ever, Corry is on the case, as is LIA over at Deadsources. I have a couple of obscure followups. First, three years after the fact, a program called “Studio None”…

  • Nick on the Dead’s July ’76 Orpheum shows

    http://deadthinking.blogspot.com/2016/01/orpheum-theatre-july-1976.html Great write up, wet your whistle for the forthcoming Dave’s Pick.

  • Alex Bennett interviews the Dead, September 16, 1970

    Bennett, Alex, “Alex Bennett with the Grateful Dead. Interview broadcast on WMCA in New York City in 1970 [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed August 2, 2015, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/378659. Nothing here is verbatim, but hopefully this can provide some markers if anyone else wants to go check this out. A few things of interest. First,…

  • Bill Cooper Interviews Jerry Garcia, May 1982

    Here’s a nice companion piece that really resonates with “Bob Coburn Interviews Jerry Garcia, November 8, 1982″. My notes/transcriptions are little sketchy, but here’s what jumps out to me. On Run for the Roses, with some anti-marketing: I’ve been working on it for quite a long time. I’ve had to squeeze it in amongst and…

  • California Earthquake

    Garcia was endeavoring to bring Rodney Crowell’s contemporary “California Earthquake” to the Dead just a little bit before the Loma Prieta quake struck. That is really weird. ! ref: Morse, Steve. 1989. Man with a Mission: Garcia is Back from the Dead, Back with the Dead. Boston Globe, October 29, B1.

  • Great American String Band – May 5, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley

    Sunday, May 5, 1974 found Garcia at the Keystone (typical), but in the background, picking some banjo in the Great American String Band behind its featured front line of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), and David Nichtern (guitar and vocals). Rather remarkably, we know a fair bit of very interesting stuff about this gig,…

  • Jerry and Merl in the studio, 1975

    Found this item in the LA Free Press (June 27 – July 3, 1975, p. 14): “Danny [sic] Selwell [sic] has been buzzing ’round the studio scene, putting time in with Art Garfunkle [sic], Steve Marriott … Jerry Garcia and Merle [sic] Saunders”. Having found nothing on Danny “Selwell”, I wrote So interesting. Jerry and…