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

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  • Where Were the GD on December 24, 1970?

    My list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs shows Thursday, December 24, 1970 at City Center, New York, NY. Deadbase listed as canceled, with note “Not possible with Winterland the night before”. Two things. First, I think we are learning that they’d fly for a gig, so I am not 100% sure this is a safe…

  • “Once in a while, …”

    .. you know the rest. Was just processing a 1975 article from Hit Parader, of all things. Yet a few things catch my eye: Gives working title for The Movie, soon-to-be released film There is Nothing Like A Grateful Dead Show.  Maybe this was out there, but I don’t remember seeing this in print like…

  • Reading Notes: Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.

    Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. This wasn’t as bad as I had feared it might be. You can see that I switched half-way through to endnotes. I have been thinking that works best, all things…

  • Reading Notes: Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap

    These are “reading notes” – little stuff I cull when I read. I copy and paste the quotes into thematic documents (e.g., drugs.docx), so all of this has been “processed” out of the book, and up one level, into thematic or other kinds of buckets. You may not find the quotes of greatest interest to…

  • Grateful Dead at New Monk, Berkeley, ca. June-July 1971

    One night I went to hear Jerry play a gig with Merle [sic] Saunders at a small place in Berkeley and one by one, for ‘no reason’, the rest of the Dead showed up too, and eventually they got on the stage and started playing — Charles Reich, Spring 1972 (Reich 2003 [1972], xv). Assuming…

  • LN jg1983-11-30.jgb.all.aud-commander.134251.flac2496

    Jerry Garcia Band The Agora 165 Dexter Avenue West Hartford, CT 06106 November 30, 1983 (Wednesday) Commander MAC flac2496 shnid-134251 –set I (5 tracks, 43:38)– s1t01. [0:13] /I’ll Take A Melody [#13:18] [0:06] % [0:03] s1t02. [0:09] The Way You Do The Things You Do [9:33] [0:03] % s1t03. When I Paint My Masterpiece [7:09]…

  • OGC – Garcia Never Played Here

    1011 The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.Longshaw Card Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 1960, artist unknown [to me]  Look at those orange groves! Obligatory Garcia Content (OGC): I do not know Garcia ever to have set foot in this venue. Here’s a report from the Garciaverse #geo on Pasadena, CA: I love JGBP’s taste: Globalization’s taste, not…

  • Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap – Dates

    I have just finished transcribing the parts of particular interest to me from Signpost to a New Space and the Stoned Sunday Rap (Garcia, Reich and Wenner 2003 [1972]), and I have now posted reading notes. Me being me, I have always wondered about the dates of these sessions. Here is the timeline for what…

  • David Grisman and Peter Rowan at the Freight and Salvage, December 29, 1972

    I wonder what they played?

  • JGMS, July 12, 1972, Town & Country, Ben Lomond

    This has been in my paper files and, looking for something for Corry, I found something else he might be interested in, as we all must be: an ad for a previously unregistered Jerry Garcia – Merle [sic] Saunders – Tom Fogerty – Bill Vitt – and Friends (John Kahn must have counted as two)…