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

  • Jerry Garcia Venues

    Harry Angus is soliciting input, anything at all, around the venues in which Garcia played or spoke. Please contribute information if you have it, and circulate this call widely. I use Jerry Garcia’s Brokendown Palaces every day I work on Garcia – it’s a great resource. http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-encyclopedia-of-jerry-garcia-music.html

  • The ubiquity of revolutionary times

    My too-verbose formulation, sometimes used in large freshman lecture. Good little color: “Next year marks a millennium since the sermon given in 1014 by Archbishop Wulfstan in York where he declared that ‘the world is in a rush and is getting close to its end’” (ht http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/12/we-dont-want-to-believe-it-but-things-really-are-getting-better/)

  • RN Peter Simon 1975 New Age Journal

    Simon, Peter. 1975. Making Musical Miracles: An Interview with Jerry Garcia. New Age Journal .5 (May 1975): 52-59. This is a really neat piece, lots of great stuff.  Interview took place at the “film house”  (230 Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941), ca. the last week of March 1975. Love his notion of “tight-loose” forms…

  • RN Sandy Troy’s Captain Trips (1994)

    Reading Notes Troy, Sandy. 1994. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. JG devoted to music Troy 1994, xiii JG was into all kinds of music: folk, bluegrass, country, acid rock, R&B, gospel, jazz. But he never dabbled, he always “plunged in” Troy 1994, xiii Jose Ramon Garcia emigrated from…

  • RN Sandy Troy’s One More Saturday Night (1991)

    Troy, Sandy. 1991. One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Reading Notes “by the fall of 1974 the band’s business ventures began to unravel” (Troy 1991, 27). #business JG and MG moved in together early 1967 (Troy 1991, 68). #women #v-Carousel as described…

  • RN Abbott 1979 Dead Reckoning and Hamburger Metaphysics

    Abbott, Lee. 1979. The Jerry Garcia Feature: Dead Reckoning and Hamburger Metaphysics. Feature (March): 32, 34-37. Also reprinted in Dodd and Spaulding 2000. Reading Notes Tags: 1978, Atlanta, interviews, drugs, Army, why, death, fascism, reading notes, GA Took place in Atlanta 12/18/78, at the Colony Court’s Savannah Suites hotel. Not sure the name address. Jerry,…

  • new snow on top of freezing rain and fog and really poor visibility, just a disaster of a night for travelin’, but we didn’t wanna miss the show

    This ticket stub is an awesome piece of memorabilia – attendee wrote the names of all of his show-going companions. Here are his recollections, posted from Lossless Legs (12/16/2013): I vaguely recall the weather bein’ a combination of new snow on top of freezing rain and fog and really poor visibility, just a disaster of…

  • Two Negative Reviews, One Participant Observation of Deadheaddom, Long Island Style: JGB at Stony Brook, February 24, 1980

    So much to say, so little time. Eventually the February 1980 tour will have to be written up. Here are some raw materials. Really nice tape, an excellent version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” , two negative show reviews and one a participant observation study of Deadheaddom, Long Island style, February 1980. LN jg1980-02-24.jgb.all.aud-stankiewicz.126077.flac2496…

  • Reading Notes: Jon Sievert’s 1978 Guitar Player interview with Jerry Garcia

    Man, this is such a great interview. Sievert always connected well with Jerry. These are my “reading notes”, which just means that I am drawing quotes and dropping them back into context. So, for example, some of the pedal steel talk below has been pasted back into my materials on the pedal steel guitar and…

  • jg1981-02-09.jgb.all.aud-streeter.123532.flac1644

    This show, on this listen, didn’t move me. The tape is nice. Jerry Garcia Band Ocean State Theater 220 Weybosset StreetProvidence, RI 02903 February 9, 1981 (Monday) Frank Streeter complete MAC shnid-123532 –set I (7 tracks, 74:48)– s1t01. tuning [1:03] s1t02. Sugaree [12:27] % [0:13] s1t03. Love In The Afternoon [9:33] % [0:25] s1t04. That’s…