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

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  • Fieldwork Pictures

    A small sampling. I have many more. I was looking for a pic of the Marin County Clerk and Recorder’s office, but couldn’t find it. I think I took pix of the Inn of the Beginning and the Cabaret in Cotati. Definitely have one of Macky around here somewhere. I have posted a few snaps…

  • JGB 10/27/78 pix [update: and saga] [update2: and listening notes]

    Jerry Garcia Band at Washington State College, Cheney, WA, October 27, 1978 Ben Upham‘s wonderful shot of Jerry Garcia at Washington State College, 10/27/78 Updates Since I already have a post on this show specifically, let me accompany Upham’s beautiful pix with some less beautiful details about how this thing went down. This, from a…

  • Keystone Berkeley’s Smitty

  • Garcia Talks Locally, Fall 1972

    Staska, Kathie, and George Mangrum. 1972. Rock Talk by KG: Jerry Garcia discusses Grateful Dead, albums. Hayward Daily Review, October 12, 1972, p. 42. It’s a marvel to study Garcia interviews over the years in all kinds of ways. The man could talk as knowledgeably, engagingly, expansively, and articulately as he played the guitar, which…

  • Merl Saunders – May 28, 1972

    Corry has done more than anyone to probe into the relative blank spot that is summer 1972 for the Jerry Garcia – Merl Saunders live aggregation. http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/10/john-kahn-live-performance-history-1972.html (general) http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2013/03/summer-1972-pierce-street-annex-san.html (Garcia with Guaraldi at Pierce Street Annex As Corry says in the latter post, linking to the former: “there were almost no Garcia-Saunders shows in 1972,…

  • Harpur College NRPS set

    “Enough about the Dead, how was the New Riders’ set?” – one guy, once Any Deadhead worth her salt knows the Harpur College gig from May 2, 1970. It’s a monster, one of the Dead’s best, and long-circulating from FM tapes; it has blown a lot of minds. I don’t remember hearing much about the…

  • DeeDee Dickerson Discography

    I recently posted a little bit of information from the John Scher Presents program for JGB 5/31/83. It included a little bio on the various band members. In comments, nick picked up on Dee Dee Dickerson’s work with Pharoah Sanders, and posted link to Donna Dickerson at discogs.I had not known her name was Donna.…

  • GD and Garcia video on youtube

    An index – wow! http://danb.altervista.org/videovault.htm I didn’t initially see the name, so tip o’ the hat to Dan Bryant. Thanks!

  • Accounting the JGB: October 8, 1975

    Since we are having fun with a few provisions around how the JGB was billed and advertised for the October 8, 1975 (Wednesday!) shows at the Del Mar Theatre in Santa Cruz [JB 7:30 PM | JB 10:30 PM | map | JGBP venue, but ‘Theatre’ is correct], why don’t we look at this in…

  • Billing the JGB: October 8, 1975

    Billing shall be as follows without deviation: JERRY GARCIA BAND 100% size type Featuring 25% size type Nicky Hopkins 75% size type John Kahn 75% size type Ron Tutt 75% size type The names of each band member shall appear below “JERRY GARCIA BAND” in any and all forms of advertising in the order listed…