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

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  • Documenting the Dead

    Nicholas Meriwether’s Documenting the Dead is an amazing resource for all of us. Check it out, and make a donation to support the building of a great and true-blue American Archive at UC Santa Cruz. Meanwhile, I’ll be over here “Documenting the JGB” (also in Santa Cruz)!

  • Deadthinking

    http://deadthinking.blogspot.com/ Check it out.

  • Sole Star at Paul’s Mall

    For the JGMS gigs November 12-13-14, 1974, Paul’s Mall in Boston, two shows a night booked by one Fred Taylor. MERL SAUNDERS AND JERRY GARCIA CONTRACT RIDER 3. MERL SAUNDERS & JERRY GARCIA shall receive 100% sole star billing in any and all advertising and publicity, including marquee … Does this mean that things should…

  • RIP B.B. King

    About whom I have posted exactly once.

  • LN jg1974-11-09.jgms.late.aud-slabicky.8661.shnf

    I guess I’d say I see that as a rather loose and very good show, maybe above average for the time. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Capitol Theatre 326 Monroe Street Passaic, NJ 07055 November 9, 1974 – 11 PM Late Show Slabicky shnid-8661 shn2flac –(9 tracks, 85:20)– l-t01. band introduction (1) [0:26] l-t02. Harder…

  • Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead

    I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…

  • Carl Lockett and the Side Trips Social Network

    Preface: Reconstruction #2 Jerry Garcia’s commitment to Reconstruction never seemed total, a big problem if you’re John Kahn, first, and then Merl Saunders, looking to reboot the lucrative Garcia-Saunders-Kahn Fantasy Records franchise. It’s no good if the G is wobbly, because “multiracial dance and jazz band with a rotating cast of Bay Area guitarists, including…

  • Horses, cocaine and, 231

    So many books. Took my Kreutzmann 2015, no time to really engage it, but wanted to commune with it a little bit, form some expectations. Glad there is an index, just opened to the back and my eye drew to the entry “horses, cocaine and, 231”. “hotels, destruction at, 314” sounds promising, too. Sounds like…

  • Deal

    Kreutzmann 2015 has landed. When will I be able to give it the time? Not sure, but at some point (if the FSM wills it). I haven’t even opened it, because no time. I don’t know if I expect it to enter The Canon (Jackson 1999, McNally 2002, Lesh 2006, Richardson 2015, Arnold ongoing-A, ongoing-B,…

  • Lossless Legs Garcia Lists

    Lossless Legs Garcia Lists http://www.shnflac.net/jerrysources.php I just wanted to point out how essential the Lossless Legs Garcia Lists have become to me lately. Tip o’ the cap, as always, to everyone involved in bringing such lovely resources together.