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

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  • Walkin’ One and Only: JGMS backing Maria Muldaur, BCT, October 12, 1974

    updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review Well, well, well … just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, October 12, 1974 in the Berkeley Barb (Wikarska 1974). Maria worked with three bands this night. 1) David Nichtern (I presume “and the Nocturnes”): Nichtern, Hank DeVito on steel, Larry Jones on…

  • Reading Notes: Goodman 1989

    Goodman, Fred. 1989. Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview. Rolling Stone no. 566 (November 30, 1989): 66-68, 73-74, 118 Garcia says he has “vacillated furiously” over the years as to whether he wanted to stay with the Dead or not (Goodman 1989, 68). “The most cogent example of how my life is changing is that…

  • Reading Notes: Henke 1991

    I wasn’t paying attention at the time, but my sense is that these September 1991 interviews (I think there might have been some separate remarks in the Boston Globe) caused a good deal of consternation in Deadlandia – and why not? The golden-egg-laying-goose sounds like he’d love to leave the reservation at this point. Lots…

  • San Francisco Sessions

    Quick reminder (or introduction, if you are new here) about the work I put in this summer documenting San Francisco Sessions in a way not just limited to (though definitely strongly oriented toward) the Garciaverse: San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972 …

  • Money Money

    Grateful Dead Touring Revenues, 1965-1995, via David Davis’s Grateful Seconds blog. The musical accompaniment is great, even if it prevents me from navigating away. 😉  Davis has just provided me with a beautiful gift – an estimate of annual Grateful Dead touring revenue, also with the component data. Wow. While I have posed some questions…

  • Heresy Alert

    Avert your eyes if you are sensitive to this sort of thing. Great tapes, but 2/2/80 set I does nothing for me. Discuss. Further hypothesis: it exhibits the “Cornell Effect”, whereby great sounding tape produces systematic and massive overestimation of performance quality. UPDATE: In March 2021 I revisited this show, and found it to be…

  • “Beneficent, Raptured”: JGB 4/4/76 Page Auditorium

    **update: see Corry, of course. This show has long been AWOL among collectors, but a nice 1st gen copy of an undetermined master audience tape has just come into the light (shnid-134922). Thanks to Alan Richman and dminches for getting it out there! I decided to post a little miscellanea, maybe a few notes. Listing…

  • Geocoding

    I have been busy geocoding my Garciavents. Since I do this stuff by hand, it’s rather laborious. But I am excited about the possbilities the work will create! With Clio and Geo (so to speak), animated maps should be a snap.

  • More traffic

    Stats show some folks reading “James Booker, Classified”. Check that and “Jerry’s January 1976” out to get ready for the month. Hopefully your January is better than 1976 Jerry’s!

  • GD Stinson Beach Rehearsal Space 1973

    Somewhere LIA was leaving notes and discussion of the Dead’s “Stinson Beach rehearsal space” ca. 1973. Can someone point me to that thread?