Fate Music

  • Palm Sunday

    I know today is Easter, but JGBP tipped me off to a reddit AMA with Donna Jean the other day, and she provided this great memory from the Cats Under the Stars sessions: It was about 4 o’clock in the morning, and Jerry and I were singing the duet on Palm Sunday, and we had…

  • A Second Hooteroll?

    In reporting that Epic/Columbia Custom Records and Douglas Records had re-upped on their distribution deal in spring 1972, Cash Box noted that one expected piece of product was “an encore of the collaboration between Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and keyboard man Howard Wales”. News to me. ! ref: “Col, Douglas Dist. Renewal,” Cash Box,…

  • Keystone Hardware, ca. 1976

    For the gearheads out there. Billboard, March 13, 1976, p. SF-19, via http://americanradiohistory.com/. Oh yeah, the idea of a 15 minute drive from the City to Berkeley, at anything other than the dead of night, sure sounds quaint!

  • Unscary Jerry: Halloween ’88

    Just another good, clean ’88 Garcia Band show. By my count, the “Band Electric” only played 16 gigs the whole of the year, which is a shame, because Garcia’s clean, relaxed vibe suits it perfectly. “Werewolves” is fun, as always, Cats is fine, Forever Young and Stop That Train are both way above average, Think…

  • Probably gonna be slow for awhile

    So, so much to do.

  • Here Now

  • Just Like Wolfman Jack

    Man, the Dead’s 3/26/73 show in Baltimore is the cat’s meow. Hearing Garcia grin behind his beard during Ramble on Rose, after Wolman Jack had just come out on stage and done his thing, is worth the price of admission — which, due to the miracle of Deadhead ingenuity and the internet happens to be…

  • Nick on GASB

    Check out Nick’s awesome post on GASB in June ’74, emphasizing Garcia’s work on acoustic guitar – great work, Nick!

  • Acoustic Sing-Along at the Stone: Garcia and Kahn, September 27, 1985

    I don’t have a ton to say about this – it’s about what you’d expect. Two sets below the 45-minute Minnelli Line, voice bad to start and shot by the end. But, besides the fact that this was taped by the lovely Don Dearth, who was my third grade teacher, the best part about this…

  • GD-GOTS Shared Venues

    For a long time, for no particular reason, I have been wanting to dive into the venues that Jerry played with the Dead and on his own. In general, we’d expect the Dead to play a room first and whatever side project to play it second, the Garcia Band (for example) eventually growing big enough…