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

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  • Robert Hunter, Idiot’s Delight

    Just came across my scan of the cover, random posting.

  • GSCBF18: whole weekend schedule

    Here is what I believe to have been the running order of the whole weekend. This is pieced together from schedules, tape lists, and all manner of published info (see REFERENCES). I am about 90% confident in the sequencing. The times are mostly made up, though we sometimes to have stuff to go on (one…

  • Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…

  • Darben The Redd Foxx

    Commenter Nick’s encyclopedic discographical resources (vinyl and knowledge) rescue me/us from an error and afford a little glancing blow through American culture that helps us situate Garcia in his world. The song currently understood as “Ptah, the El Daoud” (Alice Coltrane), previously understood “Bag’s Groove” (Milt Jackson), performed by Garcia-Saunders on June 4 and June…

  • Latest Legion Listing

    Funny the things that pop up. Here’s a listing from the Marin Independent-Journal of July 25, 1975 for Legion of Mary at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday, July 30, 1975. Of course, the last known Legion gig having been on July 6th, this listing caught my eye. What does it mean? I don’t…

  • Jerry’s January 1976

    (formatting will almost certainly be a mess – I blame Blogger) I.                    Preface My band is in a state of flux right now. John Kahn and Ron Tutt and I are the main … are the nucleus of it, such as it is. We’re hoping to have a four-piece band that we all like, sometime.…

  • Junco Partners – LN jg1976-01-10.jgb.all.aud-cook.8077.shn2flac

    Down the road, came a junco partner (right now, wow-oh-wow) He was loaded, he was loaded, he was loaded, as loaded as can be Lord, he was knocked-out, knocked-out, knocked-out and loaded And he was singing, he was singing, he was singing this song for me Some great American music in this set, including several…

  • James Booker, Classified

    ‘Cause I know I think I know How everything is classified That ain’t no lie I’m so glad someone told me How everything is classified That ain’t no lie — James Booker, “Classified” Let me pass some light through the social prism of James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 – November 8, 1983) performing…

  • Flight Of The Bumblebee

    LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac More Booker raw materials. Jerry Garcia Band Sophie’s 260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306 January 9, 1976 (Friday) 112 minute sbd Kahn Shriver shnid-8386 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 54:05)– s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:47] (1) [0:54] s1t02. Goodnight Irene [10:35] -> s1t03. Für Elise [0:51] -> s1t04. Slowly But Surely [11:41]…

  • “Gimme some chords, Jerry Garcia, gimme some chords”

    LN jg1976-01-07.jgb-rehearsal.93mins.sbd-tjs.8385.shn2flac I will just post raw listening notes, because I will be sweeping bit and pieces of it up into a larger narrative that I have been working on. (update – see “James Booker, Classified”) Jerry Garcia Band Club Front 20 Front Street San Rafael, CA 94901 January 7, 1976 (Wednesday) – rehearsal 93min…