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

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  • Hey Merl, you wanna do that tune in ‘G’? Get spaced out a little? LN jg1971-05-11.jgms.partial.aud.28784.flac1644

    Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Matrix 3138 Fillmore StreetSan Francisco, CA 94123 May 11, 1971 (Tuesday) 20 min flac1644 shnid-28784 –(2 tracks, 19:58)– t01. talk and tuning (1, 2) [1:03] t02. Save Mother Earth [18:44] [0:10] ! ACT1: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders ! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g; ! lineup: Merl Saunders – keyboards,…

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix – A Dialogue

    [ed: Corry sent me an email about Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix, which turned into a rather elaborate exchange on the subject. One piece of our correspondence involved the tape traveling as 5/20/71. This is some of Garcia’s finest playing on tape in any context. I highly recommend that you check it…

  • “JGMS 5/20/71” is probably really JGMS 5/20/71

    The tape traveling as Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (a.k.a. xx/xx/71 and 5/xx/71) probably really is Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (750 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94133) [map | JGC | JGBP | shnid-93137 | shnid-100855 | shnid-126365 |shnid-126389 and listening notes] The most…

  • JGMS September 9, 1971 – Harding Theater – New to The List

    A few years ago we had a good time talking around some putative Dead shows at the Harding Theater, 616  Divisadero, on September 3-4, 1971. These shows have never been known from anything other than the listing I found, and they may not have happened. I mentioned there the odd cluster of September 1971 Garciavents…

  • NRPS w/o Jerry, pre-Buddy?

    I had found some listings from June that had NRPS playing at a time when Garcia was known to be unavailable, June 21, 1971. I wondered what they did for pedal steel, but the question became moot when I scrolled ahead a day and found a cancellation notice. Questions, answers, questions: I have found another…

  • Szabo’s Santana Sit-In, or, Santana’s Jubilant Jam

    I didn’t see this listed at the great Santanamigos site (1971), so I thought I’d post it here: Santana sitting in with Gabor Szabo at the Concord [Jazz?] Festival, Sunday, August 15, 1971.

  • NRPS: July 24-25, 1971, New Monk – New to The List

    listing: “Rock, Jazz This Week in Bay Area,” SFC, July 23, 1971, p. 45. New Riders are scheduled to play Freddie Herrera’s New Monk Saturday-Sunday, July 24-25, 1971. Commander Cody slated to open. New to The List.

  • “Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders & Tom Fogerty Sat-Sun, New Monk”

    SFC 7/2/71 p. 52 Last year I spun some 1970 and early 1971 microfilm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and found seven new-to-The-List shows in a three-month span. If you follow the blog or scroll down a bit chronologically, you’ll see that I have continued to discover more in the 1971-1972 period, and even as…

  • Tom Fogerty, Merl Saunders and Friends – June 25, 1971 Keystone Korner

    The title gives a listing found in “The Music Scene–Complete Listings,” SFC, June 25, 1971, p. 43. Further down the same listing is Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders and Tom Fogerty at New Monk on Saturday-Sunday (June 26-27, 1971). I certainly do wonder if Jerry was a “Friend” at the Friday show in the City. Perhaps…

  • NRPS June 21-23, 1971 Boarding House – CANCELED

    San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1971, p. 47. Here’s an interesting one that I don’t quite know what to do with – NRPS and Rowan Bothers playing the Boarding House June 21-23, 1971. Of course, Garcia was in France on 6/21, and even gaining back 7 or 8 hours he probably couldn’t have been back…