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

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  • Jerry Garcia Band at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, June 4, 1983 late show

    LN jg1983-06-04.jgb.late.aud-vita.78981.flac1644 update: lots of great photos from the EARLY show by Peter Hazou [dead link] 1983, like some other years, was best smack dab in the middle for the Jerry Garcia Band. The JGB’s May 31 show at the Roseland Ballroom on West 52nd Street in New York is one of the best of…

  • LN jg1974-11-10.jgms.all.sbd.98704.flac1644

    Not much to report. The tape has got some issues, but as has been the case in the past, this show mostly doesn’t move me. update: A little tape archaeology. I seem to recall that this tape exists because it was Harvey Lubar’s birthday, and it was spun for him. Talking to him early in…

  • Burnt to a Crisp on Long Island

    LN jg1978-03-12.jgb.all.aud-unknown.82587.flac1644 Sunday, March 12, 1978, the Mystery Cats met up with all kinds of old friends for a party on Long Island. Corry’s got the goods on Hunter, Nelson, Marmaduke and Garcia all finding themselves together this night – it’s great stuff. See also my other posts from this tour: 3/10/78 interview 3/10/78 listening…

  • Grazing

    With a tiny bit of space, I have been doing some good work, reading, noting, cleaning, filing, listening. On this last, I have been in a grazing kind of mode. I have listened to an OAITW (6/5/73), some November ’74 JGMS (11/10/74), a ’78 (3/12/78), 11/17/81, 6/4/83b, a few other things (12/5/84 s2). This batch…

  • Simon and Garfunkel meet Anthem of the Sun

    “Grateful Dead Records,” Rolling Stone, November 23, 1967, p. 4. The Grateful Dead hopes to have some new records out soon, particularly a single in late November and an LP in January. If the group obtains the approval of Warner Brothers, the January release will be a two-record set chock full o’ goodies. Some of…

  • Late Jerry

    On a forum of which I am a part, poster Elliot makes a very interesting observation about our hero in 1995. I suspect he was putting in as much effort as he was capable of. He was definitely serious about that learning [Unbroken Chain]. Before the first night of the May ’95 Seattle shows we…

  • A Conversation With Jerry

    https://youtu.be/2tamQ9Uj1Hk So many data, so little time. One item on my lengthy “to-do” list is to try to process every Garcia interview. It’s finite, naturally enough, and thus in principle do-able. In practice, well, only so many hours. Anyway, this one is a bunch of raw tape for Rolling Stone 20th, 1987 sometime. Some really…

  • LN jg1987-10-28.jgb.early.aud-koucky.80044.flac1644

    Perfectly competent musicianship, but nothing here really lights me up. Good tape with lots of atmosphere. Jerry Garcia Band Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 W. 46th StreetNew York, NY 10036 October 28, 1987 (Wednesday) – Early Show – set II (electric) Koucky MAC shnid-80044 — set II + encore (9 tracks, 69:14)– — set II (8 tracks,…

  • Clio’s Garcia

    “More and different” pithily summarizes what Garcia was pursuing in his Side Trips relative to what he got out of the Grateful Dead. Here are a few snapshots of some over-time trends I find illuminating. “More”: this is a calendar view of Garcia’s out of state tours with the Dead (pink) and his side bands…

  • Quiet Time

    As you might have been able to tell, this is a quiet time for the blog. Lots going on in the real world, will be blogging catch-as-catch-can for a while.