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

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  • NRPS (formerly The Murdering Punks) – August 7, 1969

    There has long been a tape identified as New Riders Of The Purple Sage (NRPS), Thursday, August 7, 1969 at the Matrix in San Francisco. Corry has found corroborating evidence for the dating, though of course the tape cannot be tied to the Ralph Gleason “On The Town” listing he found, which bills the band…

  • The Common: September 5-6-7 ish, 1969

    Berkeley Tribe, August 8-14, 1969, p. 3. Regular readers will know that I have been chasing the idea of “Jerry and the Jeffersons” in my head for a good long while. It narrates the arc of Garcia’s life as a process of gradual privatization. I started it years ago, have picked it up and put…

  • Say Hey

    Dennis McNally recalls, April 12, 1993 at Candlestick Park, before Garcia, Bob Weir and Vince Welnick sing the National Anthem for the Giants’ home opener: I turn to Willie Mays, who is legendary for being cranky, and I said, “Mr. Mays, can I introduce you to Jerry Garcia? He’s going to be singing the National…

  • Grateful Dead (1967)

    I am listening to the Rhino remaster of this, and it sounds great. I don’t revisit this record that often, but despite the autocritiques of everyone involved, to my ears it sounds totally vital.

  • One of these is not like the others

  • So He Goes Nowhere

    https://archive.org/details/gd1980-06-08.SonyECM250.walker-scotton.miller.88452.sbeok.flac16 This fileset is great – awesome tape by Joani Walker. It also includes a few great tracks from the Warren Zevon set and a post-show interview with Bob Weir. Here’s an interesting little exchange, 24 minutes into the interview, or thereabouts. Bob: “Garcia, who’s really visible for miles … he can’t go anywhere. He…

  • Signpost

    I have started trying to transcribe everything I need out of Signpost to a New Space (Garcia, Reich and Wenner 2003 [1972]). Terrible title on amazing material. It’s going to be quite a process, don’t hold your breath. I hope it doesn’t takes as long as NRPS-Matrix-1970-07, “Jerry and the Jeffersons, part I”, or some…

  • Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.

    Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…

  • Independent Voices

    http://voices.revealdigital.com/voices Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of An Alternative Press I signed up, click browse, did a search on “Grateful Dead” and … wow … check it out. Lots of results. I do not see a way to access the scans, and a subcription link gets me nowhere. If you are interested in that…

  • Institutions and Paper Trails

    Formal institutions, “with their explicit mandates, methods of operation, and extensive paper trails, provide the more ready means for tracking and marking change, as evidence drawn from noninstitutional settings must often rely more heavily on interpretation and conjecture” (Orren and Skowronek 2004, 25; see also p. 79).