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

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  • GD: August 30, 1970, “Calebration”

    I always loved the “Calebration” thing dated 8/30/70. My favorite Candyman, a really great Easy Wind. There’s also video out and about that gives a very rare glimpse of the GD of this period (though, I do wonder if that QMS video has made it into the world?). But, I think the set we know…

  • List of John Scher – promoted concerts

    Does anyone know a list of John Scher-promoted concerts? I thought, one day, while I’m at it, why don’t I systematically start coding in PROMOTERs? Yeah, that won’t take long! So, having more or less finished coding Jefferson Airplane through 1969, I have taken to coding promoters for them and all of the Garcia stuff,…

  • New Riders of the Purple Sage and Acoustic Grateful Dead: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, July 30-August 1, 1970

    (This is an updated version of an earlier post, “GD/NRPS19700731-19700801: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA, 4/20/2011.) Some time back, I reported listings for “New Riders of the Purple Sage & Grateful Dead, Lion’s Share, 9 pm” for both July 31, 1970 and August 1, 1970, in the calendar section of the Berkeley Tribe. Here’s the…

  • The List Tradition: Chronicling Infinity

    Beyer, Susanne, and Lothar Gorris. 2009. SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’. Spiegel Online International, November 11, http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/spiegel-interview-with-umberto-eco-we-like-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-a-659577.html, consulted 1/4/2016. I don’t know Eco very well, and there’s a bit of mumbo-jumbo in here, but I think it’s also a lovely little piece of cultural history, very…

  • Digression on Data

    Let’s pause for a minute and reflect on how fortunate we are to have such high quantity and quality of materials to exploit. Posters, handbills, advertisements, previews, blurbs, mentions, reviews, ledgers, contracts, calendars and other sources overwhelm us. (By the way, where are the personal diaries/journals, a la Faren Miller’s amazing chronicles of QMS? If…

  • April 1975 Legion of Mary tapes

    Some brave souls at Lossless Legs are wading into the waters of the April 1975 Legion of Mary tapes. I fear that, like all those who have come before, these tapes will defy our collective ability to pin down what’s what (correct dates and such). Most importantly, this shit seems to have come in bits…

  • November 24, 1968: Jam with Jefferson Airplane, Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI (POSSIBLE)

    In connection with another post that is taking me a long time to finalize, I have been looking at the various crossings of Garcia and the Jefferson Airplane. Among the many sources I have been using is Scott Abbot’s JABase volume 3, available online at http://home.myfairpoint.net/srabbot/airplane/jabase.htm. There, I find a listing for the Airplane doing…

  • Rabbit’s Epistemology: If It Says So, Then It Is So

    Lyrics: A map is not a guess An estimation or a hunch A feeling or a foolish intuition A map is a dependable Unwavering, inarguably accurate Portrayer, of your position Never trust your ears Your nose, your eyes Putting faith in them Is most unwise Here’s a phrase you all Must memorise In the printed…

  • 2012 KPFA GD Marathon

    http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/kpfamarathon_2012

  • Blogger Q: individual comment links

    Am I the only one who no longer sees links to individual comments? I don’t see them here or on any blogs, anymore. So have they killed this useful (no, crucial) piece of functionality, or am I missing something?