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

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  • New to The List

    I’ll be posting some new-to-The-List dates ad seriatim. JGMS: Wednesday, December 9, 1970, Matrix San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 1970, p. 62.  JGMS: Wednesday, January 6, 1971, Matrix Wasserman, John L. 1971. A Talent Bigger Than Her Name. San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 1971, p. 38. NRPS: Monday, January 11, 1971, Lion’s Share JGMS: Tuesday,…

  • “Strung Between Dreams and Reality”: June 4, 1968, Carousel Ballroom

    Handbill for Jam at Carousel Ballroom, Tuesday, June 4, 1968. The “Tuesday Night Jam” on May 21, 1968 [JB ] shnid-22727] is the uhr moment for Garcia On The Side (GOTS), representing the first time that Garcia was billed under his own name since the birth of the Dead in 1965. The 1968 Side Trips have…

  • Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders – February 22, 1971, Matrix, San Francisco

    Wasserman, John L. 1971. The Big Sound At Lake Tahoe [“Something Else” subhead], San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 1971, p. 40. The Chicken’s Matrix list  doesn’t show a few of these Matrix gigs, so I’ll throw them out there. Monday; February 22, 1971; Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders Tuesday; February 23, 1971; Larry Coryell Wednesday;…

  • Lizless Sextet: JGB at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, June 23, 1982

    LN jg1982-06-23.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 This date interests me because Liz Stires is said to have left the JGB tour after the previous night’s gig (6/22/82). So this would be a show with only one backing vocalist (Julie Stafford), a rare JGB sextet with two keyboards (JGB #14d, I have proposed we catalogue it). Truth is, I can’t…

  • Matrix footage

    https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/210748 KRON-TV News report from February 3rd 1967 at The Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, at 3138 Fillmore Street. Features views of rock band The Only Alternative & His Other Possibillities rehearsing onstage and an interview with new singer Kay and songwriter Tor Olson. They discuss the difficulty of defining their ‘sound’ and the creativity…

  • Legal Aid for Unnamed Angels

    LN jg1973-10-02.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.83809.flac1644 I am sure Blair and McNally and all the other sources go into the obscure story of the Legal Aid Benefit. I just re-read the one source I have at hand, John Wasserman’s very suspicious-sounding piece in the Chronicle a few days later (1). Sounds like some Angels, facilitated by Sam Cutler and…

  • JGMS: January 11-12, 1974, Winterland, SF (CXL)

    Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, Waylon Jennings, and Alice Stuart and Snake were billed at Bill Graham’s Winterland on the weekend of January 11–12, 1974. These bookings have been on The List since forever. Here’s what puzzles me: why are there no attendee recollections anywhere, or am I just missing them? How come no poster?…

  • cannibalized post

    Is there any way to undelete a cannibalized post?

  • After Midnight: JGMS, November 3, 1973, Keystone, Berkeley

    I just call this After Midnight. Tremendous. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 November 3, 1973 (Saturday) 123 minute soundboard -sSet I (7 tracks, 83:05)– s1t01. … After Midnight [7:26] (1) [2:48] s1t02. Expressway (To Your Heart) [10:59] -> s1t03. collective improvisation [15:50] -> s1t04. transition to Merl’s Tune…

  • ‘Secret’ at Paul’s Mall: see p. 27

     LN jg1974-11-13.jgms.late.aud-seaweed.121034.flac1644 LIA just posted some really nice sources (“November 12, 1974: Garcia Plays Boston” and “November 1974: Garcia & Dead Projects“) relating to the November 1974 east coast tour by the Jerry Garcia-Merl Saunders (JGMS) aggregation of Garcia, Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro, and Paul Humphrey. In discussing 11/6/74 I noted that this was…