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

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  • Context: June 1976 BAM Listings

    Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…

  • Context: May 1976 BAM listings

    More color. May 21, 1976, Garcia Band plays Orpheum in San Francisco, while Garcia’s erstwhile bandmate, Merl, is stuck playing Fonzie’s in San Jose, the latter mostly still orchards and low riders rather than silicon and Teslas. And other fun stuff. Oh, and it looks like Mingus didn’t play Keystone Korner in May ’76. I…

  • Context: April 1976 BAM listings

    So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…

  • Context

    As I contemplate writing some of this stuff up for a more general (less maniacal) readership, I see that I am going to have to write plain English in book form and refer back to the blog in endnotes. So I can drop all of the random little tidbits here, which is what I do…

  • JGMS: January 6-7-8, 1972, Keystone Korner

    I had a Friday, January 7, 1972 Garcia-Saunders gig at Keystone Korner based on an ex post discussion by Ken Hunt in the San Francisco Chronicle (1). But a bit of sniffing reveals a Thursday-Saturday run, January 6-8. No TJS, so update your own spreadsheets. (1) Hunt, Dennis. 1972a. Guitarist Jerry Garcia Never Stops. San…

  • Don Dearth Was My Third Grade Teacher, And He Was A Taper: JGB at the Stone, May 12, 1984

     LN jg1984-05-12.jgb.all.aud-dearth.85568.flac1644 Quite a nice performance, quite a nice tape, pulled by my 3rd grade teacher from Burton School (Lafayette, CA), the lovely Don Dearth. I like the Cats and the Knockin’ here. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 May 12, 1984 (Saturday) Dearth shnid-85568 –set I (5 tracks, 51:07)– s1t01.…

  • Richard Loren: High Notes

    Richard Loren is publishing a memoir in November. This I am very much looking forward to! http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/07/29/former-grateful-dead-manager-to-release-memoir Former Grateful Dead manager Richard Loren will release his memoir, High Notes: A Rock Memoir: Working with Rock Legends Jefferson Airplane Through The Doors to the Grateful Dead, in November. The book, which features a forward by David…

  • Positively Garcia

    http://visionsofdylan.blogspot.com/2014/07/positively-garcia-howard-weiners-new.html Jamming in the shadows of the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band thrilled devoted fans for three decades with an alchemist’s brew of blues, rock, jazz, and gospel, as well as Motown and Dylan covers. Positively Garcia is the story of the rise of the Jerry Garcia Band from their early California club gigs…

  • AHATT

    All Hooteroll?, All The Time Image: http://www.matiklarweinart.com/artworkgallery.php. See also http://connecthook.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/pair-of-pentychs/ for a little bit more.

  • Sebastopol Benefit: March 22, 1978

    LN jg1978-03-22.jgb.all.sbd-ladner.19832.shn2flac As a prelude to a review of the off-to-a-great-start GarciaLive 4 release of the Sebastopol 3/22/78 benefit show, here are some fragmentary listening notes from a year ago on the rough circulating sbd copy. It appears that I engaged the question of the pianist on that very date over at Corry’s post (probably…