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

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  • JGMS in San Diego 11/18/73 probably rained out

    The List has long given Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Aztec Bowl, San Diego State College (I think it was still this C and not a U at the time), November 18, 1973. Because Garcia and Saunders had barely played out of the Bay Area by that time (Ash Grove in LA 5/29-30/73,…

  • How Sweet It Is

  • Risk and Challenge in the 1970s

    Here’s a back-of-the-napkin sketch, my subjective assessment, of the musical risks and challenges associated with Garcia’s 1970s bands (qua personnel and repertoire) playing black and race-fusion music. So, this includes Wales-Garcia, all of the Jerry and Merl outfits, and all of the JGBs. It excludes NRPS, OAITW, GAMB/GASB (playing mostly white roots music), and the…

  • Reconstruction Pix by Chris Stone

    Some rare, amazing Reconstruction pix from 4/23/79 and 5/18/79 by Chris Stone. This one Gaylord Birch at the Old Waldorf, May 18, 1979. Major shoutout to the photographer, 1) for getting some stunning shots, and 2) for posting these freely to share. Please be sure to credit him if you archive a copy of this…

  • UMass ‘Master of the Fretboard’: JGB, February 20, 1980 (late show)

    LN jg1980-02-20.jgb.late.aud-Sony_23F-Nak_550.131018.flac2448 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB #11a) played 22 shows in the 29 days of February 1980, warming up locally and then touring college and off-campus theaters, reportedly to help pay for the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titan”. I have all kinds of information about John and Jerry’s quest for those…

  • Daily Collegians

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22daily%20collegian%22%20AND%20collection%3Aamericana That’ll get you to scans of the Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). I gathered up the stuff around 2/20/80, which I have also listened to. The search function seems a little slow – these are some pretty huge files. The pdf of 1979-1980 weighs in at 2GB. Beautiful images, and the scrolling interface…

  • Grateful Dead Studies

    So Many Roads : The World in the Grateful Dead, A Conference & Symposium; Date: November 5-8, 2014; Location: SJSU Student Union. Krieger, Lisa M. 2014. Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup. San Jose Mercury-News, November 7, 2014, URL http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26894788/grateful-dead-an-early-silicon-valley-startup, accessed 11/9/2014. Sounds like a great event. Congratulations to Michael Parrish, Nicholas Meriwether, and…

  • Dead in the Panhandle – Sunday, April 9, 1967

    Video! (Reminder: Jerrybase benefits from the work of Gordon the Drummer, who maintains the state-of-the-art list of GD and JG videos for us. Thank you, GTD!) http://stock.mrfootage.com/pages/assets_clip/popup_play.php?session_numb=80572&language_numb=1&business_numb=1004&shot_numb=407764 http://vimeo.com/97755921 http://vimeo.com/97755927 The 921 link has two minutes of pure gold, starting with the Grateful Dead playing “Caution”, high quality color and sound, a bit distant (but correspondingly…

  • Prosopography

    “the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors inhistory by means of a collective study of their lives” (Stone, 1971: 46). Stone, L. (1971). “Prosopography,” Daedalus 100(1): 46–79.

  • Jerry’s New Year’s Eve – LN jg1975-12-31.jgb.all.aud-Falanga-Menke-8664-retrack.noshnid.shn2flac

    GarciaLive 5 GarciaLive, volume 5, December 31st 1975 Keystone Berkeley (2014) is out, available via jerrygarcia.com. Let me start by expressing gratitude for these GarciaLive releases. Having been a massive outlier in my interest in Garcia on the side, having often expressed frustration at the paucity of Jerry shows released under the old regime, I…