Fate Music

  • Imprisoned Impresario Put on the June 5, 1982 Garcia-Kahn Oregon State Penitentiary gig

    I have updated my post on the dating of the Oregon State Penitentiary gig a little bit, having learned that it came to be not (as far as I know) because Garcia was doing a favor to an imprisoned friend or associate, but by the work of imprisoned impresario Steve Stilling.

  • Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, featuring Jerry Garcia

    Here’s a weird one bottom of column 1 to top of column 2: “Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, faturing Jerry Garcia. Performing music from their album Blues From the Rainforest, July 26 at the Great American Music Hall and July 27 at the Cotati Cabaret” Several possibilities. First, perhaps most likely (?), whoever called…

  • “Citizens of Boise – Submit! You Are a Conquered People”

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-02.fob.beyerm160.vlenihan.103181.sbeok.flac16

  • E72 post 18 (final)

    5/26/72 was quite good, but I don’t feel like I have that much to say. Maybe outta gas, like Poor Pig, after the whole tour. I noticed late in the tour that Weir was using more vibrato, sometimes so much as to sound like the Little Onion (the great John Cipollina) himself. I’ll just say…

  • E72 post 17

    The big jam of 5/24/72 didn’t slay me, but I have to apply the normal caveats. I may not have been paying a ton of attention. The Lovelight didn’t go anywhere or do anything. Pig is totally out of gas. He never even tells us ’bout his baby, how come she make him feel so…

  • Scotty’s Jam

    Does anybody have the state-of-the-art understanding of what the “Scotty’s Music Store 5/14/70” / “Jetty’s Music Theater 12/7/71” NRPS jam session really is? TIA. update Looks pretty certain to have been 12/9/71 at Scotty’s Music Store. Here is some info from JGBP (thanks!). Jerry plays a Zane Beck D-10 pedal steel and also Lloyd Green’s…

  • E72 post 16

    Started 5/24/72 today, got through set I and into set II. Neat song selection – opening with oldies Cold Rain and Snow and BIODTL, a rare “Dire Wolf“, a very good China > Rider (not too adorned, but tight and successful), good Playin. Oh yeah, Bob strums the WRS Prelude before MAMU. Set II starts…

  • E72 post 15

    “Promised Land” is fitting for the home stretch. Most of the rest of the first set is a blur because I heard it two weeks ago, an eternity for these kinds of recollections. PITB clocks in at twelve and a half minutes, and I recall liking it very much. SOTOTW is exciting. I have some…

  • Grass Valley Grateful Dead

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-18.138828.FOB.NAK700.DSD.billydee.Sellers.Noel.t-flac24 Why? Don’t ask why, just listen (if you care to). Patched out of Yamaguchi/Poris and a set of modded Nak 700s. Someone speculates in notes whether a 3rd mic is operating, because Phil. And, yes, Straw ambling out, and – Phil. And, drums. Here are the notes, some classic stuff in here: – tapes…

  • Linda Kahn

    Linda is doing an AMA (“ask me anything”, for those not hip with the lingo) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/jgb/comments/6r5ay0/i_am_linda_kahn_wife_of_late_john_kahn_ama/