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

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  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 01 of 7: Introduction

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • Eddie Claridge Presents

    ad from the Village Voice, June 27, 1974, p. 67: Eddie Claridge Presents, Capitol Theatre (x49 Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, NY): Friday, July 12 [1974] 9 pm, David Bromberg with very special guest Eric Andersen. I only know of Eddie Claridge as the legendary New York-area taper. Since tapers are my heroes, I try to…

  • ‘And It Stoned Me’ Debut: JGB, The Stone, October 18, 1986

    LN jg1986-10-18.jgb.81mins.sbd-jgmf.112794.flac1648 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 492 Broadway San Francisco, CA October 18, 1986 (Saturday)mono sbd shnid-112794 –set I (6 tracks, 33:58)– s1t01. //Think [#3:52] [0:12] s1t02. And It Stoned Me [5:25] [0:30] s1t03. Run For The Roses [5:21] [0:02] -> s1t04. Let It Rock [4:49] [0:59] s1t05. Forever Young [6:24] -> s1t06. Deal…

  • more on the keyboardist change, ca. 1971

    We have been going around on the various blogs about the engagement of Vince Guaraldi and Howard Wales with the GD/Garcia, and especially about Weir’s recollection that Howard Wales had a tryout as GD keyboardist. LIA has wondered aloud whether some of the 1970 “Hartbeats” gigs, e.g., in late July, were, effectively, the Wales tryouts.…

  • GD19700327-29: March 27-29, 1970, “Winter’s End Festival,” Miami, FL (CANCELED)

    [Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It sounds like a really disastrous episode. Long narrative in the following: Thomas King Forcade, “Winter’s End: free the Rock & Roll Six,” San Diego Free Door, April 23, 1970, pp. 8, 12, accessed…

  • “Can’t you all see how beautiful this is?” GD/NRPS: Saturday, April 24, 1971, Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC

    I am intimately familiar with this show. It was in that first batch of ____________ [fill in blank: 10, 20, however many] great tapes I got from _____________ [fill in name, e.g., “John Smith” or other best description, e.g., “freak I met in the record store in Santa Barbara to whose Lompoc address I mailed…

  • JGB: September 19, 1975, Crabshaw Corner, Sacramento, CA

    Thanks to Corry for answering my query on January 26, 1976 which also included a question about 11/4/78. Before starting my post, I  just want to take a second to recognize Corry’s role in Garcia historiography. He has been not only an essential bridge across different documents (Soto, McNally) and traditions (from handwritten lists to…

  • JGB: January 26, 1976, Keystone, Berkeley, CA (CONFIRMED)

    updated post: I used to wonder if 1/26/76 was an actual Garcia Band show. tl;dr: it was. https://jerrybase.com/events/19760126-01

  • my next read

    Dawson, Julian. 2011. And On Piano … Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock’s Greatest Session Man. Foreword by Klaus Voormann. San Francisco: Backstage Press. Here’s a link to what I think is the publisher. Different press name, but I think they’re under the same imprint somehow. Anyway, I know a little bit about this…

  • Reading Notes: Kahlbacher, Gene. 1974. Aquarian Interview: New Riders of the Purple Sage. Aquarian, January 29 – February 12, 1974, pp. 14, 27, 31.

    NB: I didn’t have the year of this publication, somehow. But from the context of Torbert leaving and Battin just arriving, I believe it is 1974. Kahlbacher 1974, 14: How much of an inspiration has JG been to NRPS, and was he its Founding Father? Spencer Dryden: “Rather than father, I look to Jerry for…