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

blog

  • GD19710903-4: Harding Theater, SF, CA

    Here’s another one that puzzles me. This scan from the Berkeley Tribe v.6 n.4 (issue #110) (September 3-9, 1971), p. 13 advertises a benefit for Marin County Head Start featuring Grateful Dead, Howard Wales and Shades of Joy on Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, 1971 at the Harding Theater in San Francisco. Why post? A few reasons.…

  • James and the Good Brothers (Courtesy of the Grateful Dead)

    Found this interesting. The New Orleans House ad from the Berkeley Tribe v.3 n.15 (issue 67) (October 16-23, 1970), p. 21 lists “James & The Good Brothers (Courtesy of the Grateful Dead)” for Friday-Saturday, October 13-14, 1970. Corry has said this about the connection between the bands: James and The Good Brothers were a Canadian…

  • Near-Miss with the Rubber Duck Mime Band: June 2-3, 1970, Mandrake’s, Berkeley, CA

    WAS TITLED “NRPS: June 2-3, 1970, Mandrake’s, Berkeley, CA” But Paul Dresher has confirmed that, while Garcia was in the ad, he did not play this night. So, the Mandrake’s ad from the Berkeley Tribe v2 n21 (issue 47) (May 29 – June 5, 1970), p. 16, lists the following for Tuesday & Wednesday, June…

  • GD/NRPS: April 19, 1971, Gymnasium, Hofstra University, West Hempstead, NY (CANCELED)

    Corry and I have been documenting some of the GD’s early 1971 logistical difficulties. GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA GD: March/April 1971, Norther Illinois University, Dekalb, IL GD: March 19, 1971 The Syndrome, Chicago, IL (LLD) GD: April 2, 1971 Kent State University, Kent, OH…

  • Hard Road

    Anyone know anything more about this publication, Hard Road? This is volume 1, no. 1 (July 20, 1970), and it seems to have been planned as a weekly. Not sure there was ever a no. 2 … anyone know? Seemed to be out of Mill Valley. Anyway, just because. The interview contained in the mag…

  • Robert Hunter and Betty Cantor-Jackson photo by dgans

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/535231392/ “Title: Bob and Betty. dgans’s description: Robert Hunter and a bewigged Betty Cantor-Jackson in the parking lot of Club Front in San Rafael CA, November 1977. I think it was Sonny Heard’s bike.” There’s a little more of the story of the wig if you click through. What a fantastic photograph. It’s got the…

  • Punch in, mail it in for 90 minutes, punch out and party some more: JGB at the Cap Passaic, 11/26/77b

    LNjg1977-11-26.jgb.late.anderson.85051.flac1644 Something told me I wanted to listen to something from the Cats Under the Stars– era sextet of Garcia, Kahn, Buzz Buchanan, Keith and Donna Godchaux, and Maria Muldaur, and I wanted it to be a recording I hadn’t made notes on. So, here’s what I found: 11/26/77, late show. psilo.com This is a…

  • GD19680902 – Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair, Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, WA

    Reader Dave T kindly sent along this beautiful scan of an account of the-amazing sounding Sky River Rock Festival, Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, WA, August 31-September 2, 1968 (1). We are very fortunate to have a delightful Charlie Miller board tape of the Grateful Dead’s set, which is pretty freaking ferocious, more the…

  • JGB “1st Northern California Tour”: August 6-8, 1981

    One of the oddest little jaunts you’ll find the in Garcia On The Side histories is one billed as the “1st Northern California Tour”, comprising the following three off-the-beaten-path gigs: Wednesday, August 6, 1981, Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main Street, Salinas, CA Thursday, August 7, 1981, Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA Friday, August 8,…

  • ‘Nice Hat, John’: JGB at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, August 7, 1981

     LN jg1981-08-07.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 JGB’s “First Northern California Tour“, heh heh. Having just posted about the JGB Salinas show on August 6, 1981, here I just drop the raw data on a pretty grungy old tape of what purports to be the next night, Friday, August 7, 1981 at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA. One of…