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

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  • Recently added to TJS, Saunders images

    I am sure everyone who reads here knows one can follow changes at The Jerry Site (there’s also an RSS feed). TJS admin slip_not has been adding some nice data from poster and handbill images shared at the Merl Saunders Facebook page. Since these photos are shared intentionally downloadable from Facebook, and acting on the…

  • GSCBF12: Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys: Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 21:15

    Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Click the link to see the posts in this series. Now I see why I only had a draft of this post for a long time.…

  • August 9, 1974 is probably August 10, 1974: a fine show either way

    LN jg1974-08-09.jgms.s1s2p.aud-falanga.8073.shnf More listening around August 1974, as with 8/11/74 and a mention of 8/15/74. I have some doubts about the date. The always-excellent “Rock Talk by KG” column (by Kathie Staska and George Mangrum) in the Hayward Daily Review (August 9, 1974, p. 40), says “Clifton Chenier does Keystone Berkeley tonight and Jerry Garcia…

  • Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)

    LN jg1974-08-11.jgms.all.aud-falanga.6382.shnf I wanted to listen around August 1974 a bit more, to see if there was anything else like the mystery trumpet player on “8/15/74”. So I checked out 8/11. This strikes me as one of the weaker shows of this great month, though it’s been so long since I listened to most of…

  • The Group with George Tickner: Keystone, March 7, 1973

    LN jg1973-03-07.jgms.s2p-48mins.sbd-alligator.31501.flac1644 Update 4/22/2012: The second guitarist is George Tickner. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA March 7, 1973 (Wednesday) –Set II (3 tracks, 48:42, partial set)– t01. untitled 19730307 [19:59] [0:08] % [0:06] t02. Merl’s Tune [14:18] -> t03. Georgia On My Mind [13:44] (1) [0:27] ! ACT1: Jerry…

  • Reading Notes: Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35.

    Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35. A FEW POINTS TO EXTRACT: First, I believe the interview material and show observations are from March 13, 1973 at the Keystone in Berkeley. He only mentions it as a quartet, so I doubt there was a fiddle player there. Here are setlist…

  • Another Mystery Trumpeter: JGMS, August 14, 1974

    There’s a trumpeter playing on “Roadrunner”, the last song of set I of the show previously known as “August 15, 1974, Great American Music Hall”, now corrected as 8/14/74. Listen to the first five minutes of the Falanga-Menke tape. Guy (presumably) is pretty good.

  • Fishing Journal: 20110822 Cache la Poudre River

    Had a great day fishing the Poudre on Monday. The water was nice, the holes were attractive, weather was spectacular, natch. Can’t say the fishing was easy, however. Probably caught 5-6 fish, a couple of browns and a few wild rainbows. Morning found us down low, not far from the entrance to the canyon, nymphing.…

  • Legion of Mary: earliest mention?

    **update: March 1, 1975 was probably the formal Bay Area debut of the name. In addition to the materials here, Todd Tolces had a piece in the 3/1/75 Melody Maker talking about the new name. It is now my estimation that the name Legion of Mary, with Ron Tutt drumming, dates to December 6, 1974.…

  • Aunt Monk: June 1, 1975, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    May 1975 Inn of the Beginning calendar, courtesy Mark Braunstein What a great piece of art, first of all. I am afraid I neglected to note the name of the artist/artists on the IOTB fliers. Mea culpa! Anyway, bottom right tells me that on Sunday, June 1, 1975, Jerry Garcia played with Aunt Monk (comprising…