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

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  • JGMS: July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

    Heitman, Dianne. 1973. Merle [sic] & Jerry soar at Music Hall – so does audience. San Francisco Phoenix v.1 n.24 (August 10), p. 8. Positive review of Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA. The Great American Music Hall, at 859 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco, CA,…

  • Matrix Tapes

    I was just reminded that I had posted a long list of one source of “Matrix Tapes” in comments on the “High Country 2/19/69” show at Lost Live Dead in 2009. I reproduce it here. I’d love to concatenate the various lists and fill in as much sourcing information as I can. Perhaps I’ll give…

  • Vassar Clements Discography

    Vassar Clements Discography at deaddisc: http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Vassar_Clements.htm

  • GD: September 3, 1972, Folsom Field, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34917706@N07/sets/72157622061027813

  • Workingman’s Tracker’s JGMS and LOM Project

    Update: thanks to the good folks at WT, the forum posts are now public. Thank you! There is a Garcia/Saunders and Legion of Mary Project going on at Workingman’s Tracker, organized by user SteveSw. He’s posting great reviews of about one recording per day, using only the best sources from ’71-’75. The project is scheduled…

  • NRPS 19710121 Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA

    My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong. California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. Here’s…

  • GD 19670106

    “Big Mama to aid in raising of the dead,” California Aggie, January 6, 1967, p. 5. Grateful Dead played at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA on January 6, 1967. The above preview article is from that day’s California Aggie, p. 5. What intrigues me is the line that says that the last time they…

  • OAITW 19730424 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Tuesday, April 24, 1973: Old And In the Way featuring David Diadem (Grisman), Jerry Garcia and Peter Rowan played the Inn of the Beginning at 8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, CA, 94931. George Edwards opened. This was billed as a “Special Show” (as 3/5/73 had been) and the $2.50 ticket price was just about the…

  • OAITW 19730305 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Sharp-eyed readers who checked out the March 1973 Inn of the Beginning flyer in my post about Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders 1/15/73 and Sarah Fulcher may have looked to the top-left, and seen this: Here we have listings for two Monday, March 5, 1973 shows (9pm and 11 pm) by Old And In The Way (OAITW)…

  • JGMS 19730114-19730115 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    We know of the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders show at the Inn of the Beginning on Monday, January 15, 1973 from the circulating tapes (http://db.etree.org/shn/9573), which are Betty Boards rescued by Rob Eaton from the muck and filth of God-knows-what-or-where (listening notes). There are severe problems with the recording, especially with the start of…