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

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  • Fun with Color

    Here is all kinds of color, from one John L. Wasserman column in the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook from August 13, 1972: Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, and Johnny Winter jammed together a few days ago at Keystone Korner. This interests me because I am trying to piece Summer 1972 back together (see…

  • JGMS August 5-6, 1972 Lion’s Share – new to The List

    As the title says, per listing under the North Bay section, center column. Lots of other interesting stuff, by way of color.

  • Summer ’72

    John L. Wasserman item in the Datebook of July 23, 1972, p. 25: “The Grateful Dead and crew are currently mixing down some 60 hours of music from their spring tour of Europe for fall release”. Saw something from Night Times from about that time, with prospective release date of October 5, 1972. I note…

  • This’ll make you crazy

    Jerry Garcia and Merl Saun- are a fragment at the second column of listings.  I guess we’ll find them at the Keystone Korner on 6/30, if that’s what this listing would have been getting at … but we’ll never know.

  • Night Times

    So, I have now gone through all of the Night Times that were held at the San Francisco Public Library. It appears I have not been able to consult the following presumed issues: May 31, – June 13, 1972 July 12-25, 1972 July 26 – August xxx, 1972 August xxx-xxx, 1972 August xxx – September…

  • Early Chez Panisse

    Photog John Humble gets a nice shot of Chez Panisse, not long after it opened. Accompanies a positive review by Hut Landon, entitled “A new French restaurant in an old Berkeley house”,” Night Times, September 15-28, 1971, p. 2.

  • Jamming For The Hell Of It

    Ain’t this pretty paper? Selvin nails the essence of the thing.

  • Merl Saunders, September 7-10, 1972: Black Expo ’72

    Merl Saunders is noted as participating in this big event at the SF Civic Auditorium, known variously as Black Quake or Black Expo ’72. Be neat to see which day(s) he played, with whom, and what! Oh yeah, this is the first time I have seen Night Times spell Merl’s first name correctly – took…

  • Jerry Garcia and David Bromberg, June 1972

    David Bromberg played the Boarding House, 960 Bush Street (San Francisco, CA,94109) June 13-17, 1972. Robert Dunn wrote a nice review in Night Times. This drew my eye because I recalled that Jerry recorded tracks for Demon in Disguise around this time. Indeed, he did: Table xxx. Jerry Garcia and David Bromberg: Demon in Disguise…

  • Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders

    Love this for the Keystone Korner, ca. May 1, 1972, sounds like Selvin to me: “With Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders out of town, not too much happening right now.” (listing: Night Times, May 3-16, 1972, p. 5.) In addition to reinforcing my point about the symbiosis between Jerry and Freddie, how quickly and deeply it…