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

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  • Jerry and Freddie, mid-March 1972

    Above are the music listings from Night Times, March 8-21, 1972. Check ’em out if you’re interested, of course, but let me be Garciacentric and offer the following tidbit, about the deepening relationship between Jerry Garcia (et al.) and Freddie Herrera: Jerry and Merle [sic] —Night Times misspelled his name without fail through this point,…

  • JGMS January 28-29, 1972 Keystone Korner – CANCELED

    Interesting to see Jerry Garcia and Merle [sic] Saunders billed for Keystone Korner on Friday-Saturday, January 28-29, 1972. Suggests that, as of whenever the deadline for these listings might have been, a second weekend for the Hooteroll? tour had not yet been pinned down. #AHATT. According to listing in the next day’s HDR, Grootna filled…

  • Color: January 12-25, 1972 Night Times listings

    Here are some listings from the Night Times, with a few scattershot thoughts. 1) The Berkeley Night Times is a gem. 2) It’s especially good re: race. The range of clubs it covers exceeds most other sources – you’ve got the country clubs, the rock clubs, the black soul/R&B/gospel clubs, the Latin clubs, a little…

  • The Mission

    “No matter what comes down, the Mission always looks the same”

  • Jerry Garcia Sometime Before Christmas

    Night Times, published out of Berkeley for about a year (as far as I know) in 1971-1972, is a treasure. I found a review of Chez Panisse just shortly after it opened, but it’s loaded with great music, art, etc. content. Anyway, I liked this one, from the December 23, 1971 – January 3, 1972…

  • The Fat Man Is Back – LN jg1987-02-24.jgb.all.aud-pinney-gems.82610.flac1644

    Poster for JGB 2/24/87 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Tuesday, February 24, 1987, image courtesy of Wolfgang’s Vault. Since I gathered an ad and a few listings in Santa Cruz, I gave the 2/24/87 JGB show at the Civic Aud a spin and discovered a great tape (a single one in circulation, thanks…

  • GD September 3, 1972, Folsom Field, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

    I have posted on this show once, but only to link these breathtaking photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34917706@N07/sets/72157622061027813 Photos, I gather, by Joe Calvin. I have always thought there’s a dissertation or book to do about music at colleges and universities. Corry has hipped me to their importance in economy, among other things. The Dead in Boulder is…

  • More Carousel

    Chicken: http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Carousel%20Shows.htm 20 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company, Fleetwood Mac, Dr John The Night Tripper23 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company24 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company But this ad has it June 21-22-23. Again, I am sure this is all well established, but since…

  • GD at Carousel, May-June 1968

    Since I am on the subject, the ad below (published 5/30/68) lists the GD at Carousel on Friday May 31, Saturday June 1, and Sunday June 2, 1968. The Chicken lists Thursday (5/30) through Saturday (6/1). Sorry if this has all been gone over, but I don’t see any notes in my own files on…

  • GD April 5, 1968 (Friday), Carousel – never happened

    Updated: the SFC Datebook of April 5, 1968 (p. 47) shows John Lee Hooker, Loading Zone, Mother Earth. Given the two conflicting pieces of print, I’ll prefer the later-published one (SFC) to the earlier-published one (Express Times issue of ca. 4/3/68) (lex posterior derogat priori). Corry’s tour itinerary shows an open Friday night for GD/Garcia…