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

  • another Natalie Merchant: “River”

    From the great, great album Tigerlily:

  • Wales/Hooteroll influence on GD?

    All Hooteroll All The Time (AHATT) is an interesting idea that could be elevable to a core principle, i.e., to the effect that Hooteroll is “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelations 22:13, King James Bible version). 🙂 I won’t go into that here. I will just reproduce…

  • Where I Go

  • Fishing Journal: 20110728: Arkansas River above Buena Vista

    Man oh man, what a great day of fishing. I have never done well on the Arkansas. I had assumed that the flows would be too high to do well this time. Boy was I wrong. The river was totally manageable. My sense, and this is as likely wrong as right, is that the river…

  • Merl Saunders and Friends: May 31 – June 1, 1974, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati

    Here is one of the tantalizing little performances that you come across and really, really want to know more about, while understanding how miraculous it is that you are able to know anything about it at all. The Inn of theBeginning in Cotati hosted Merl Saunders and Friends, including Jerry Garcia, with Paul Pena opening,…

  • OAITW: July 18, 1973, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati

    The McNally-Arnold JG List had listed an Old and in the Way show at the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, CA, 94931, on Wednesday, July 18, 1973. This carried through to Deadbase (Corry Arnold having given a copy of the list to Stu Nixon) and through to The Jerry Site (Ryan…

  • LN jg1973-10-xx.oaitw.partial.sbd.14216.shnf

    Old And In The Way “October 1973” (http://db.etree.org/shn/14216) turns out to be a degraded copy of Boarding House, October 8, 1973. Grisman officially released the whole show in 2008, though all links to download it seem to be dead. Some notes. Old And In The Way “Unknown Location, October xx, 1973” Boarding House October 8,…

  • The New National Anthem of Bluegrass: OAITW, Stinson Beach Community Center, September 30, 1973

     LN jg1973-09-30.oaitw.all.aud.11862.shnf Old And In The Way Community Center 32 Belvedere Avenue Stinson Beach, CA 94970 September 30, 1973 (Sunday) This old fileset (shnid 11862, probably created around September 2002) has always interested me. The format of the info files was very distinctive around a whole big batch of the iffily-lineaged OAITW shows. The material…

  • OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple University-Ambler, Ambler, PA

    This show (OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple Festival Theater, Ambler, PA) will end up being important to me, I think, as I write more about OAITW and the summer of 1973. Can’t wait. For now, I just want to address venue confusion. **update: it was definitely in an amphitheater, not an enclosed theater – thanks…

  • Four Nights at the Boarding House: April 13-16, 1973

    “Scenedrome,” Berkeley Barb, April 13-19, 1973, p. 18 Check out Jerry for these four nights: Friday, 4/13/73: JGMS @ Boarding House. We know from tapes that George Tickner is on rhythm guitar. Update: there is now a show review. See “Friday Night at the Boarding House”. Saturday, 4/14/73: JGMS @ Boarding House. Sarah and George…