Fate Music

  • Eels

    I am sure you all know this, but all three of Jerry’s gigs at on the Eel River are slated for release. I have written a little about the 6/10/89 and 8/10/91 iterations.

  • Fall ’77 Gig Economics: The Case of SUNY New Paltz (JGB, 11/29/77)

    Handbill for JGB at SUNY New Paltz, 11/29/77. Scan via Mark Cohen. Note that Ron Tutt is erroneously listed among the personnel. The economics of the Garcia Band’s Fall ’77 tour have remained a little out of view for me, since I have never been able to track down itineraries, contracts, box office reports and…

  • Garcia’s College Gigs

    I am fixing to submit research assistance requests to the archives of the various colleges Garcia played. Colleges and universities, bound up as they are with modernity and imbued as they are with a sense of their own importance, document themselves thoroughly. Having sniffed around a few archives already, I am hoping there are some…

  • CXLv003 now posted

    I have posted an updated version of my list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs and list of canceled Jerry Garcia gigs. You can access it via the link from the top-right of the blog, where you can also leave comments. Here is a direct link to the PDF of CXLv003.

  • Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace

    Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…

  • Book on Nightstand at Serenity Knolls

    I thought I remember that one of the big Garcia/GD auctions of some years back offered a copy of the book that was found on Jerry’s nightstand at Serenity Knolls. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Anyone remember what book it was?

  • Good Old Boys at Margarita’s Cantina!

    https://homegrownmusic.net/store/cd/good-old-boys-live-2cd John Cutler taped these shows from February 20-21, 1975, and they are now up for official release. Wow! Cryptdev saw one of these shows. See also: Corry, “The Good Old Boys: Jerry Garcia, Producer (and some banjo)“ My goodness, can’t wait to hear these.

  • Round Reels, Incorporated August 1, 1974

    Round Reels is the company Ron Rakow created for film projects, not least the Grateful Dead Movie. As with many of Rakow’s business activities, it’s really hard to find any solid information about the company. So when the corporate stamp came up for auction over the summer, I was very excited to see it! This…

  • Morse Codes as Light, Sweet and Lyrical: JGB at the Worcester Centrum, November 13, 1991

    LN jg1991-11-13.jgb.all.aud-mutterperl.81368.flac1644 I can’t believe this is my first write-up of a Fall ’91 show. I haven’t really dug into this tour the way I need to. It’s good. Jerry Garcia Band The Centrum 50 Foster St Worcester, MA 01608 November 13, 1991 (Wednesday) Mutterperl MAD flac1644 shnid-81368 — set I (8 tracks, 69:00)– s1t01.…

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1973-end

    This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972. I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to have been canceled, a few other weird things I uncovered. The Examiner was quite a task. If the Chronicle were digitized, that’d be the last frontier for me. At this point, returns are diminishing,…