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Jerry Garcia at the Warfield – August 21, 1982??
What a strange thing this is. SFC listing for Jerry Garcia at the Warfield, August 21, 1982. It almost certainly wasn’t JGB: that band had last played June 24 out east, and wouldn’t play again (in a new configuration) until October 13th. It was almost certainly planned to be the Garcia/Kahn acoustic duo, two days…
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GD at Freeborn Hall: Friday, October 28, 1966
This is out of my wheelhouse, but since it brings together two loose ends for me I thought I’d post it here. The Sacramento Bee of 10/23/66 p. W14 has a piece on upcoming homecoming events at Cal Aggie, i.e., UC Davis. The Grateful Dead are scheduled to play Freeborn Hall Friday 10/28/66, Yellow Brick…
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Kean College Tour Closer: JGB, November 15, 1982 (Late Show)
jg1982-11-15.jgb.late-1.aud-vita-minches.78008.flac1644 Pretty standard late ’82 gig to my ears, not the equal to 11/11/82 late or 11/13/82, IMO. Errico’s Gatling Gun start to HTC is awesome. Three little oddities jump out to my pattern-obsessed brain. First, no early show tape. Hm. Second … , both the Vita aud and the soundboard tape are missing the encore. Hm. never…
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Chronicle Pickings
Over the years, when I go to the Bay Area I try to make time to spin the Chronicle microfilm to check out the listings. Corry has done some of this as well, and I don’t think he’ll mind me aggregating a sense of what we have accomplished together. It is relatively painstaking, of course,…
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Second Night Out for Liz and Essra: JGB, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, June 25, 1981
update: the original title of this was “First Night Out”, but I have discovered a warmup gig on 6/24/81 at the Keystone Palo Alto (not in Salinas, as I had elaborately laid out). Liz Stires and Essra Mohawk appear to debut as backing vocalists on the night before this show. There are no singers on the late…
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Deadsources Index
Somehow it had eluded me that LIA was maintaining an index of posts at Deadsources. Wonderful – thanks!
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TDIH 1990 Bird Song
Man, this is a great Bird Song. https://archive.org/details/gd1990-07-21.131538.cmc34.fob.katzeff.mattes.petty.flac16/gd1990-07-21.set1t07.flac
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RIP Bill Vitt
https://jambands.com/news/2019/07/19/drummer-bill-vitt-passes-away/
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Tighten Up
The “Tighten Up” jam has always been a favorite. I am partial to the 1/2/70 and 10/31/71 versions, always wondered where the heck that last one came from since it’s so well-developed while not having been played in well over a year (and never before with Keith, AFAIK). Just here to note that the wonderful…
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Garcia-Hunter Originals
Somehow, I had never pinned down in my mind that Jerry played none of his original tunes before the advent of the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975. Pure covers before then. Hm. You all probably knew this. And at some level I did, too. But it has come into sharper focus for me with this…