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

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  • Garcia radio program this weekend

    I am just passing along the info, sounds cool. A two-hour public radio special on Jerry Garcia & music and fans of Grateful Dead is airing this July 4th weekend. The name of the radio program is American Routes, which airs over 300 public radio stations nationwide, and this special episode features the host Nick…

  • Insomnia, anxiety, break-ups … musicians on the dark side of touring

    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/25/musicians-touring-psychological-dangers-willis-earl-beal-kate-nash

  • “Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”

    So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…

  • Reading Notes: Dupree 1974

    Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…

  • GD at Gold Rush Festival, Lake Amador, CA, October 4, 1969 – CXL

    “Tribe Pushes Gold,” Berkeley Tribe, September 12-18, 1969, p. 13. “Gold Rush is on – 24 hours of rock-folk-blues on the shores of Lake Amador, a private lake resort miles from anything. ” Scheduled for October 4th, planned acts include Ike and Tina Turner, Sons of Champlin, Taj Mahal, Grateful Dead, John Fahey, Cold Blood,…

  • Ron Polte on the Demise of the Carousel

    Bottom line: A bunch of hippies, a bunch of good people, got together and refused to run a business. And, I’m sorry, you’ve got to live in that world if you’re gonna run a business. On Rakow, in particular: What Ron Rakow did to those people, he chained them to a machine that couldn’t make…

  • Zabriskie Point in Sausalito

    Zabriskie Point (IMDB) played at the Marin Theatre in Sausalito, let’s say around Thursday, April 2, 1970. It had debuted nationally on February 9 (less than three weeks after Garcia recorded his contribution to the soundtrack, the stunning “Love Scene Improvisation”). Maybe it had been playing for awhile already. I want to note that there’s…

  • Tonsorial Undertakings

    http://www.vox.com/2015/6/24/8834319/wikipedias-most-edited-pages Wonder why WWE wrestler the Undertaker is on the list? He may not be as historically significant as Hitler, but his fans’ devotion more than makes up for it (sample edit note: “This is notable in that it was the first time he was seen as the Deadman without his long hair”).

  • Jerry on Jerry

    http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/23/3913570/book-of-jerry-garcia-interviews.html A book of previously unreleased Jerry Garcia interviews is coming out this fall to mark the 20th anniversary of his death and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Grateful Dead. Hachette Book Group imprint Black Dog & Levanthal announced Tuesday that “Jerry on Jerry” will be published in November. The book will…

  • GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton

    Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…