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

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  • I sing the blues, where has it led?

    LN jg1983-05-31.jgb.all.aud-vita.76578.flac1644 On Tuesday, May 31, 1983, the Jerry Garcia Band (#15c) lit up an SRO West 52nd Street institution, the venerable Roseland Ballroom, with one of the finest shows of the 1980s.  On any given night, Jerry Garcia could deliver the fucking goods, and this is the fucking goods. Everything crackles. I have titled…

  • working without TJS

    By now, anyone reading this knows that The Jerry Site (TJS) is no more.There’s lots to say about that, and more to do, but not right now. How do we replace TJS in engaging Garcia on The Side? Short answer, we don’t. It had some functionality that is not replaceable by any current resource. http://jerrygarcia.com/…

  • Loose Lucy

    Jerry looking happy and energetic bringing “Loose Lucy” out of mothballs on 3/14/90.

  • John Kahn video, December 1971

  • Fun With Ngrams: Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1995

    Here’s the bigram relevant to evaluating some hypotheses I ventured in my“Garcia and Marley” post.  Figure xxx. Google Bigram: “Grateful Dead” and “Jerry Garcia”, 1965-1995 In that post, I hypothesized that “Jerry Garcia” and “Grateful Dead” would show an uptick 1986. On visual inspection the GD claim looks rightish: the 1986-1995 slope should be statistically…

  • The Jerry Site

    http://www.thejerrysite.com/ Wow. Tip o’ the hat to the amazing Ryan Shriver, for everything. 

  • Garcia and Marley

    At some point I will write up Garcia’s engagements with reggae. It’s an interesting story, really revelatory. In the meantime, on a lark, I played with Google Ngram for these two. Ngrams are a very neat tool. Figure xxx. Google Bigram: Bob Marley and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1981 The vertical is the percentage of all consecutive…

  • We’re Having a Reasonably Good Time Here

    LN jg1989-01-28.jgb.all.sbd-goetz-retracked.28352.shn2flac Love this show. Two snaps up. A few bullets. First, I had a cryptic note-to-self in the 1/27/89 listening notes to elaborate on the “a year too late” thesis. In a nutshell, it’s my argument that when JGB recorded itself in 1990 at the Warfield for what would become the eponymous 1991 double-live…

  • Chalk Jerry

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  • GarciaLive volume 4: March 22, 1978

    http://www.musictap.net/2014/05/29/tapsheet-release-notes-05292014-us-report/ ATO Records will release Garcia Live, Volume 4: March 22nd, 1978 Veteran’s featuring Jerry Garcia Band. The set will be released on 2CD on July 8. This is great news! I hope the liner notes are informative, and I can’t wait to hear it. The only circulating tape (shnid-19832) has pretty significant issues. Naturally,…