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

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  • Is it possible to love books too much?

    That’s a pic of my copy of Dennis McNally’s Long Strange Trip. It had been taped and glued years ago but we all know how well that keeps a binding together when you are still using the book. I bought a replacement copy (new paperback, just to add my bit to the metadata that matter).…

  • GD19671201-02: December 1-2, 1967, Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston, MA – CXL

    update note 20150517: I find it hard to update posts once I make them, too little time and all that. In any case, I think I have learned the following things. First, the Dead shows advertised for the Psychedelic Supermarket in Boston on December 1-2, 1967 ended up canceled. Is that right? Second, per commenter Bob…

  • Casey Jones Used Cocaine: LN19790613 Reconstruction River Theater Guerneville CA

    jg1979-06-23.reconstruction.late-1.aud-bershaw-GEMS.96235.flac1644 On Wednesday, June 13, 1979, Reconstruction appears to have played the River Theater in Guerneville, CA. As far as I know this gig is only known because of a surviving audience recording made by Alan Bershaw.  update: I now am about 99.9% sure the correct date is 6/23. Reconstruction River Theater 16135 Main Street…

  • 19910810 JGB French’s Camp Piercy CA (Fifth Annual Electric on the Eel)

    Jerry Garcia Band played the Fifth Annual Electric on the Eel event  put on by Bill Graham Presents and the Hogfarm at French’s Camp near Piercy, CA on Saturday, August 10, 1991. I don’t get into the 90s as much, needless to say, but since this just came up elsewhere I thought I’d just lay…

  • LN19810129 JGB Catalyst Santa Cruz

    Jerry Garcia Band, Sunday, January 29, 1981, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA. shnid 111412. So I thought I’d check out an early Melvin Seals JGB show as a reward for having concluded that his public debut with JGB was 1/22/81. Randomly picked this one. Pretty nice tape that puts you FOB, but the show is…

  • When did Melvin Seals begin with JGB?

    Edited 20110216 The Jerry Garcia Band show listed as Saturday, December 20, 1980, Keystone Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, has always struck me odd. I argue here that (1) “12/20/80” is a “phantom” listing, a mislabel of 12/20/79. Along the way (2) I argue that “1/18/81” is also a phantom, a mislabel of 1/18/83. This…

  • Reasonably Good Voice and Superb Guitar: JGB on the Russian River, May 31, 1982

    jg1982-05-31.jgb.all.aud-GEMS.95427.flac1644 So, this show came up a few days ago as one at which Liz Stires and Julie Stafford were probably singing backing vocals. Part of an interesting occasional discussion on personnel issues in which the early 80s JGB backup singers and drummers have been the matter of some focus (see also here on the…

  • The River Theatre (Guerneville, CA) 1982 Liz and Julie Conundrum, Resolved

    In my previous post on the JGB’s early 1980s drummers and backup singers, I grappled with the puzzle of the backup singers on 10/24/82 at the River Theater, 16135 Main Street, Guerneville, CA, 95446-8301: an eyewitness to the 10/24/82 River Theater (Guerneville, CA) show, which we know featured the return of female vocalists after the…

  • When the Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    RIP, Gladys Horton. Lyrics from Alex Allan’s site. Love Horton’s enunciation on the Marvelettes version of this great Smoky Robinson song. Lots of other recordings out there, too!

  • A Monster Don’t Let Go at Hartwick College, December 3, 1977

    LN jg1977-12-03.jgb.90mins.aud-unk-russell.LOSSY.flac1644 update whenever: seems like this material is lossy. One hopes the source tapes can be located and archived at higher resolution (on the sonic plane for sure, but also informationally!). Not a huge amount to say. A show that has been MiA, around which some setlist uncertainty remains. See my overly baroque notes below.…