Fate Music

  • Last Time in Irvine: JGB at Irvine Meadows, May 15, 1994

    I forewarned a few posts back that I had some backlogged listening notes, and have been posting them this weekend. They were backlogged, in many cases, because I just didn’t have that much to say. I often check the date index for the blog in picking something to listen to, looking for gaps or inflection…

  • Last Freddie-ish Gig on Tape: JGB at the Stone, May 28, 1987

    update: I can’t believe I didn’t know that Freddie didn’t actually run the Stone and KPA. I knew the Coronas were involved, but Corry informs me in comments that they actually ran the KPA and the Stone, and Freddie really only had the Berkeley club. Learn something new everyday. I will still refer to this…

  • At Wolfgang’s Orpheum: JGB with Clarence Clemons, March 3, 1989

    The success of the Dead’s Touch of Grey didn’t only limit that band’s venue (and even city) options. It also impacted ol’ Midas’s bar band. Freddie Herrera’s last remaining club, the 700-seat Stone on Broadway, didn’t stand a chance, and a four-night Garcia Band run on May 27-28 and 30-31, 1987 brought the curtain down on Jerry and…

  • The Shortest Two-Set Electric Show? JGB at the Stone, Sunday, September 16, 1984

    LN jg1984-09-16.jgb.all.aud-jjoops.97573.flac1644 A little dive into the Rock Bottom period yields this pearl of an electric JGB show – two four-tune sets clocking in around a half-hour of music each. I don’t really note anything much about the performance, other than its brevity and Garcia’s unsurprising vocal limitations. I don’t want to be mean. I am…

  • RIP, Freddie

    Just back onto the grid and I see that Freddie Herrera has passed on. Rest in peace, Freddie. I am sure he and Sandi are thrilled to be back together again. Has anyone seen an obituary? Here is link to my Freddie Herrera tag: http://jgmf.blogspot.com/search/label/Freddie%20Herrera I had the chance to sit with Sandi and Freddie some…

  • Jerry Garcia playing bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins: Fillmore Aud, 10/23/66

    In the Fillmore Poster Appreciation Society group page on Facebook, eyewitness comments under the poster for the Bill Graham shows on the weekend of 10/21-23-/66 indicate that Jerry Garcia played bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins. I don’t think I knew that. Did you? This would be Jerry’s third non-GD performance within a week: 10/16/66 sit-in with…

  • BS Pass – JGB – Fall 1993 – Slack Tour

    A while back I posted the crew tour book for the fall 1993 JGB tour, the band’s last. Since I love the look of these, I thought I’d add them to the mix. No idea who coined this the “Slack Tour”, but the Paul Mavrides image is great and these are just good clean fun.

  • Last Show at Alpine Valley: JGB, September 15, 1989

    Jerry smiling at Clarence Clemons, Alpine Valley, 9/15/89. Photo credit: Todd Darrow. The Dead played this space all (and very often well) throughout the 80s. Garcia played it once, and it was his last time there. There must have been plenty of room to boogie on this night, as the place was half-full, but Jerry…

  • Random Posts Widget added

    I got to meet the amazing David Davis of Grateful Seconds yesterday. So much fun! A random outcome is that I have replaced the top posts widget along the right side of the blog with a “random posts” widget. It pained me that I was creating a feedback loop for more and more people to…

  • RIP, Gloria Jones

    Bob Minkin just posted on Facebook that Gloria Jones has passed away. May she rest in peace.