Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Garcia’s Penultimate Sonoma County Gig, and a Great ‘Don’t Let Go’
LN jg1988-02-05.jgb.all.aud-CC.121594.flac2448 My favorite year of the canonical Jerry Garcia Band, i.e., what I mean when I say The Jerry Garcia Band, i.e., Garcia-Kahn-Seals-Kemper-Jones-LaBranch. Jerry’s penultimate show in Sonoma County. Top-three version of “Don’t Let Go“, along with the next night (2/6/88) and 5/19/89 in Irvine. some of my favorite Garcia music of all time.…
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Grandma said, ‘Boy, go and follow your heart’: JGMS at Keystone Berkeley, November 27, 1974
LN jg1974-11-27.jgms.106mins.sbd-GEMS.91343.flac1644 Just a few quick notes. 1) Paul Humphrey drumming. The drummer is fast and great. He is noted in Rex’s handwriting on the box for reel #3. 2) Some of this material is just amazing. “Valdez In The Country” and “Freedom Jazz Dance” should make us very Grateful that Merl was there to…
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New Releases
Not surprisingly, we saw a flurry of Garcia-related releases on August 1, 2012, which would have been Jerry’s 70th birthday. Garcia Grisman – Orignal Hi-Def Master Garcia Grisman Alternate – Orignal Hi-Def Master http://acousticoasis.com/rooms/study/garcia-grisman-alt/garcia-grisman-alt.html Acoustic Oasis has released a “high def master” cut of the original Garcia Grisman album, and a new Garcia Grisman Alternate,…
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JGMS July 10-11, 1973 complete
So, Fantasy is going to release the complete July 10-11, 1973 Keystone shows. Hooray! I’ll be able to check my work on these shows. As a reminder: 7/10/73: what’s on which release 7/11/73: what’s on which release JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 1 datings JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 2 datings JGMS: Live at Keystone,…
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100k
Passed 100k pageviews. Of course, I probably account for 99,000 of those. But thanks to all of you who visit and read and comment.
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JGMS February 7-8, 1975: canceled?
The Jerry Site lists JGMS shows for Friday, February 7, 1975 and Saturday, February 8, 1975, based on listing in Hayward Daily Review, 1/31/75, p. 44. The above are clippings of the Keystone’s weekly ads, I don’t know from which paper from the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, which I lovingly refer to…
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Oakland Times
In at least June and July 1973 a paper called Oakland Times ran some Keystone articles, some Jerry data that are interesting. I have copies of some clippings, but there is no little publication information. Oakland Public Library has a few numbers in 1965: http://encore.oaklandlibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1507575__Soakland+times__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=cobalt. Nothing turns up in any of the following Berkeley Public…
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A Rare Sight
A Jerryless month in Berkeley: April 1975. I’d bet it was a bad month financially for the Keystone.
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Kid Charlemagne
I absolutely love this song. I never knew it was about Owsley et al., roughly.
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JGB at Northwestern: Cahn Auditorium, March 12, 1976 (late show)
LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.late.aud-unk.xxxxx.flac1644 My love of audience tapes is evident to anyone who reads here. The anthropological instinct (and practice) underpinning field recording enthralls me. To me, everybody who ever taped a gig is right there with Alan Lomax and all the rest. Now, sometimes you have to be willing to sacrifice your aesthetics a little…