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

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  • JGB at Vassar: it was not meant to be

    It’s tough being Jerry. He won a poll at Vassar about who students would most like to see, but “Garcia … was only available in the middle of the week. It was also rumored that Grateful Dead fans were notorious for destroying concert halls and that the chapel would suffer the same fate. Since the…

  • Palate Cleansers, etc.

    Been soaking in some bluegrass, as research around Jerry but mostly just to listen to it. Cheesy collections that nonetheless bring together some amazing material: Classic Bluegrass Collection (TimeLife, 2006) Stanley Brothers Definitive Collection 1947-1966 (TimeLife, 2007) I’d like to hear more Louvin Brothers, more of everything, of course. I have also been spending time…

  • Jerry: The Movie

    http://www.jerrythemovie.com/ Looks awesome. I will have very high hopes for this!

  • gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648

    https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648 Spinning this now. Oade. Garcia gave an interview to the Boston Globe guy around this time in which he sounds very happy and positive about the Dead. It’s stunningly orthogonal to so much of the other stuff going on in his life around this time. But I love that the big fella could just…

  • Dirty Business

    Jackson, Blair. 2014. Classic Track – New Riders of the Purple Sage, ‘Dirty Business’ Mix Online, January 1, 2014. URL http://mixonline.com/classic-tracks/classic_track_-_new_riders_of_the_purple_sage_dirty_business/, accessed 10/3/2014. I have had this in my “xfer-incoming” folder since it was published, still need to read it. It looks awesome. Note to self.

  • The Demise of the Matrix, 1971

    The Matrix at 3138 Fillmore Street (San Francisco, CA, 94123) [map | JGBP]: it’s daunting to type those words and then imagine adding much to what we know, so meticulously gathered over decades. So I’ll zero in on a relatively blank space: the venue’s demise in 1971. Ross Hannan and Corry Arnold’s Chicken on a…

  • Contradictions Are Fun

    The human spirit … is the favorite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it. José Saramago, All the Names, p. 228 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders were advertised to play the Matrix at 3138 Fillmore on Wednesday, March 3, 1971. But as far as…

  • Nedbase

    http://nedbase.blogspot.com/ Thanks to all of those involved in getting this wonderful resource, bringing loads of heretofore unknown information into the light for the first time. Jerry’s collaboration with Ned Lagin forms a fascinating, little known piece of his musical mosaic. In my dialogue with Corry about Jerry and Merl (among other things), I gave expression…

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Keystone Korner, May 20, 1971 (LN jg1971-05-20.jgms.80mins.sbd-boswell-smith.126365.flac2496)

    Corry heard a lot of this keyboard work as Howard Wales. So did I. I also heard Jerry’s guitar tone as 1968, and the recording as the Matrix. I parsed the tape, which seems correctly identified, we talked it over, and I think we agree that this is some very interesting tape. Speaking for myself,…

  • I am listening to Hooteroll? again

    Something is definitely wrong with me.