Fate Music

  • Fate Music in a Nutshell: JGB at MSG: November 15, 1991

    I just changed the name at the top of the blog from Jerry Garcia’s Middle Finger to reflect the progress I am making on Fate Music: Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead. That subtitle subject to change, that lead title not. The best summary narrative is in my review of Jerry Garcia Band. Garcia…

  • On Accuracy

    The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its performance — June 5, 1982 — rather than on the date given by the old bootleg tape. Because the bootleg was one of the mostly widely held Garcia recordings in…

  • JGB Spring ’93 SoCal

    Preface: JGB in SoCal Little springtime SoCal jaunts became a regular thing for JGB starting in 1983. (OK, that was very late winter, but March is generally pretty springy down there.) Some were one- or two-offs, others were a little more elaborate. Here’s a sketch. 1983: 3/11a and 3/11b in Santa Barbara; 3/12a and 3/12b,…

  • ISO OAITW paper

    ISO OAITW paper

    I am looking, not quite desperately but maybe with some urgency, for some vintage Old And In The Way paper. Could be an Old And In The Way poster, could be an Old And In The Way handbill. I am writing Fate Music, with a credible plan to finish the manuscript this calendar year. The…

  • Byron Berline playing with Old And In The Way, ca. summer 1973

    Byron Berline playing with Old And In The Way, ca. summer 1973

    My previous post (three months ago!) touched on an expost recollection of Doug Sahm sitting in with Garcia-Saunders at the Keystone around December 1972. I love these little fragments, love trying to pin them down. Here’s a similar one: in the August 16. 1973 Village Voice, it is reported by Jerry Leichtling that Byron Berline…

  • Garcia-Saunders with Guest Doug Sahm, ca. December 1972

    Garcia-Saunders with Guest Doug Sahm, ca. December 1972

    Clearing out old paper files of stuff, found this piece by John Swenson about Doug Sahm: Swenson, John. 197305. The Psychedelic Cowboy Makes His Move. Crawdaddy (May): 65-70. After narrating the good time on 11/23/72 in Austin, Sahm continues Then we went back up to Frisco an’ did it up at Keystone with Tom Fogerty…

  • Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)

    Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)

    [note: for a very long time it has been known that John Lennon saw Jerry at the Bottom Line, and various accounts of a meeting, possible sit-in, as well as the date of this encounter have been given over the years. Historian Scott Raile nailed it down as November 5, 1974 in comments to a…

  • JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    Here’s an ad from the Memphis Commercial Appeal billing Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) at the Auditorium Music Hall in Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975. Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), November 2, 1975, p. 5 The show must have been canceled, because I have never seen other record of this *and* the Garcia Band played the Keystone Berkeley this…

  • drive-by: GD 4/15/70 jam: hottest six minutes of the decade?

    I don’t have time to go full chapter-and-verse on this one: what I know is at Jerrybase. I give you what’s laconically labeled Grateful Dead’s “Jam (with Guests)” 4/15/70 at Winterland. https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-15.132734.sbd.reel.latvala-eaton-wise.flac16/t10.flac or https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1970/04/15/jam-with-guests?source=88717

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