Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Melvin in the House: JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, January 22, 1981
LN jg1981-01-22.jgb.partial.aud-latvala.97266.flac1644 Corry listened to this and said he didn’t hear two keyboards (in comments to his main post on Jimmy Warren). I don’t think I do, either, but I’d love for someone to check the 2-minute mark of I’ll Take a Melody and the 6-minute mark of Like a Road. I have a much…
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The April 1975 Legion of Mary Tour
LN jg1975-04-10.lom.early.aud-moore.117250.flac2496 In April 1975, Legion of Mary (Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Martin Fierro, John Kahn and Ronnie Tutt) went on its only tour, performing, by my count, twenty-five shows in the seventeen days between April 4th and April 20th (inclusive). They started in Brooklyn, spent a bunch of time in the core Northeast (New…
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Merl’s Birthday Generosity: Aunt Monk, February 14, 1975
LN jg1975-02-14.aunt-monk.142mins.aud-castelli-motb-0149.108896.flac1644 Thought I’d throw in my 2/14/75 notes too, having just done 5/9/75. MOTB Release: 0149 16/44.1 Release Date: 2010-07-10 Band: Legion of Mary Date: 1975-02-14 (Friday) Venue: The Generosity Location: San Francisco, CA Analog Audience Source: FOB Master Cassettes (MAC) Medium Stock Brands: MAC = 2 x Maxell UD C120’s Analog Lineage: Sony…
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Odes to Joy: Aunt Monk at the Generosity, May 9, 1975
LN jg1975-05-09.aunt-monk.84mins.aud-castelli-motb-0144.107829.flac1644 For a couple of years, the good people at Mouth of the Beast (MOTB) were dropping some ridiculously great and important listening material on the masses. Most important, from the perspective of Garcia on the Side (GOTS) were the Robert Castelli tapes, a handful of recordings made by the gentleman of that name…
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NRPS were best when Marmaduke was focused and sober (LN jg1971-10-27.nrps.all.fm-weiner.18357.shnf)
The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead for most or all of its October-December 1971 touring. Happily, a lot of the shows were broadcast and there are pretty good tapes. This one, from the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, NY on October 27, 1971 is an above-average tape of a…
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What else, today?
http://www.archive.org/details/gd67-11-10.sbd.sacks.1612.sbeok.shnf I love the Archive’s This Day in History feature. And on November 10, it’s ’67 that comes up first. This here is the fire-breathing psychedlic 12-armed beast version of the Grateful Dead. Play it loud!
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An Echo at Reconstruction’s Ending
JG19790929: Reconstruction: Saturday, September 29, 1979, Keystone Palo Alto (UNCERTAIN) Listing for Reconstruction at Keystone Palo Alto, 9/29/79, from BAM no. 63 (September 1, 1979), p. 14. Like lots of us, I have been really busy. I’ll resist temptation to say a whole lot about this, but will try hard to just put it out…
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Acoustic Disc
Looks like Grisman lost acousticdisc.com, despite the fact that there are still lots of links from http://www.dawgnet.com/. Odd.
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Updated LN jg1973-04-16.oaitw.a.fm-nfagdtrfb.100404.flac1644
Man, I have been busy. Anyway, some time ago I did a half-assed “listening notes” on the circulating set (set I) of OAITW 4/16/73. This is one of the “Four Nights at the Boarding House” that seem so incredibly, richly evocative of what a relatively healthy, happy, loose and jamming Garcia wanted out of his…
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Venues
Oh my goodness. Check out this masterpiece of a blog! Jerry’s Brokendown Palaces Wow. Between this and Rock Archaeology, I think I know where to go to learn about venues. Thanks to all of my colleagues doing hard work in and around this area of scholarship. It’s a pleasure.