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

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  • JGMS 19710920 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, USA. What a fantastic spot, and a review of the calendars and other materials so presciently and conscientiously preserved and generously shared by former employee-then-proprietor Mark Braunstein highlights its importance in the whole thing, *that* whole thing, as well. (I didn’t see any evidence…

  • Rock and Roll Road Map

    I should obviously have been spending more time with Rock and Roll Roadmaps, I guess. Just stumbled across the listing their for Keystone Korner. Oooh, and here’s one for the Cotati Cabaret. All right then, I will try to play around more with this.

  • NRPS 19710820-21: Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning calendar of events, August 1971. Courtesy of Mark Braunstein. The August 1971 calendar of events for the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, shows The New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there on Friday, August 20, 1971 and Saturday, August 21, 1971. These dates are…

  • Welcome to your new home, Vassar Clements: OAITW at the Keystone, 7/21/73

    LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.b-live-all.sbd-PNW.113845.flac1644  updated 20110629-1438 EST updated 20200723 We have here a 94 minute soundboard of Old And In The Way, identified as at the Keystone, 2119 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704 on the evening of Saturday, July 21, 1973. The tape was in the collection of Will Boswell via Jerry Garcia’s own copy, held and…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share (LN jg1973-07-05.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.79032.flac1644)

    update 20230709: the trumpet player is Mike Price. update 201605015: this show has now been officially released as Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). slight update 20110816, as noted below Like 2/16/74, this was a previously uncirculated Betty Board dropped by the mysterious ‘alligator’ into the ether at Lossless Legs,…

  • LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.early.sbd-smith-boswell.113805.flac1644

    ad for Keystone, Berkeley, July 19 – August 1, 1973; Berkeley Barb (7/19/73-8/1/73), p. 21 Let me just make a few points to head up these listening notes for this newly-circulated version of these rehearsals. They are very, very important. First, the provenance of the tape is awesome. Thanks to the Pacific Northwest Crew for…

  • LN jg1973-04-16.oaitw.s1.fm-nfagdtrfb.100404.flac1644

    I have made an updated post on this fileset. This one is deprecated. http://db.etree.org/shn/100404/ Not much time to get very elaborate, but a little more detail on this fileset. OLD AND IN THE WAY The Boarding House 960 Bush Street San Francisco, CA Monday, April 16, 1973 First Set Disc Time 49:35 t01 (1) [0:06]…

  • d’oh

    Had a long post together on the Wales/Garcia 1/26/72 show. In copying and pasting over a piece of it about 80%, Blogger went crazy (user error being out of the question) and copied over everything from there to the top. I probably lost 8 hours of work. D’oh!

  • John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets

    John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets Podcast of interview with John Scher. A minute or so in he tells the story of bailing Garcia and Hunter out for a pot bust in New Jersey. Goes until the 5-minute mark. Given that he is discussing this…

  • Righteousness, and Two Guests: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, February 16, 1974

    LN jg1974-02-16.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.91471.flac1644 A few days ago I posted about an advertised but canceled Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders band gig (Kahn and Kreutzmann rounding things out) scheduled for 2/16/74 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ. I irresponsibly dropped a few notes about the replacement show for the night, and here I follow up on…