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

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  • JGB: June 23, 1977: Benefit Concert for the Survival of the Forest Community of Camp Meeker

    On Thursday, June 23, 1977, Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) out-of-pattern early and late shows at Santa Rosa High School. High school gigs were pretty unusual for Garcia at any point (beyond early Grateful Dead), but by the late 1970s it almost always meant that there was some personal connection, somehow, to Garcia. For example, Garcia-Kahn…

  • LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.1p-2p.aud-coplen.20700.shn2flac

    If there were more time, I’d like to talk about “Who Was John?”, elaborate on the racial structure of the music, the unevenness of this period (March-April 1976).  But there’s not time, so just a data dump. Jerry Garcia Band Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University 600 Emerson StreetEvanston, IL 60201 March 12, 1976 (Friday) 55 minute…

  • The McNally-Arnold Jerry Garcia List

    It’s very meta, but I do have a lot to say about The List Tradition which I hope to get to. Let me just point out something that I think is interesting: The Garcia stuff on the typescript McNally-Arnold Jerry Garcia List (McNally and Arnold, ND), which became the Garcia list in Deadbase IX, entered the…

  • JGB in Memphis, March 28, 1976

    **updated** I made this post to ask about this show, which has always been shrouded in some mystery and confusion. It is listed, without comment, on the McNally-Arnold JG List. TJS has had a note, information of unknown provenance, that the show was canceled “due to an illness in the band.” I also had a…

  • ISO Impresarios

    I am hoping to be in touch with folks involved with various Bay Area venues that hosted Garcia. Jerry Garcia’s Brokendown Palaces does a great job on the venues. I am hoping to speak to the people who ran them, worked there, anything. I have been in touch with Michael Considine of the Lion’s Share…

  • The Group In and Around the Sarah Era: Boarding House, 1/24/73

    LN jg1973-01-24.jgms.early-late.sbd-nfagdtrfb.100216.flac1644 update: this post has so  many old links to the evil db.etree – please never use that URL. Substitute etreedb wherever you see db.etree. Thank you. (Man oh man does Blogger’s formatting suck. One can’t compose online, because stuff can get lost [viz my long beautiful post on Wales-Garcia 1/26/72]. One can’t compose…

  • The Merle [sic] Saunders Experience: Boarding House, January 25, 1973

    LN jg1973-01-25.jgms.early-late.sbd.7670.shn2flac1644 Introduction Not long ago I posted a set of notes on JGMS 1/15/73 at the Inn of the Beginning, the second known date (and the earliest circulating tape) of the Garcia-Saunders-Kahn-Vitt group to include singer Sarah Fulcher. The Sarah Era, as I’ll call it, holds lots of appeal: she’s a mysterious figure about…

  • River City, Fairfax

    Was just looking up some gigs at River City, 52 Bolinas Avenue, Fairfax, CA, 94930. Saw that a gent named Ron Barbarita apparently booked it ca. fall 1975, when JGB played there a few times. Immediately went to JGBP, which hasn’t reported on the venue yet, as far as I can tell. The Google yielded…

  • JGMS September 1-2, 1973 Keystone, Berkeley

    This calendar of September 1973 gigs at the Keystone Berkeley shows Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders there on Saturday, September 1, 1973 and Sunday, September 2, 1973. These gigs are new to The List. Note that OAITW was advertised for shows out east on these dates, but that I concluded about a year ago that…

  • JGMS May 6, 1975, Keystone

    The Keystone Berkeley calendar for May 1975 lists quite an astonishing, amazing set of shows. For blog and List purposes, I post to note Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders on Tuesday, May 6, 1975, heretofore unknown to me. I am not sure what to make of the May 23rd listing. There are tapes of Legion…