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Recent Closet Call Results
http://db.etree.org/shnlist.php?year=Recent&artist=&artist_group_key=4 That link displays recent lossless filesets (shnids) entered at the etree database. The discerning Garcia fan will recognize that Andrew F. is working on two distinct cassette collections which contain some number of previously uncirculated pieces, especially from the 1980s, not already losslessly circulating. This includes the Closet Call tapes that wk has made…
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Bleg for Tolces on Garcia, Kahn and Reflections
Tolces, Todd. 1975. Deadlines: Dead Lines: Jerry Garcia’s been in the studio, fighting the clock and other hazards. Melody Maker, ca. September-October 1975. I have a partial copy of this, but I am looking for the whole thing. Anyone have a scan to share? Your List Gets Mine.
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Joe and Ruth Garcia: Directory Samples
1935: no trace of Joe and Ruth Garcia 1940: Jos R (Ruth), restaurant at 399 1st street and home at 121 Amazon 1942: Jos (Ruth) liquors, same addresses 1951: Ruth (wid Jos), bartender, home at 56 Harrington These are neat documents, sitting on shelves next to the world class microfilm scanners on the 5th floor…
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Concert Vault
My goodness, I don’t really follow what all comes online –or maybe it’s new, so effectively I do– but there is some 1980 and 1982 JGB (and snippets of 4/10/82 Garcia solo acoustic) online at concertvault.com. I need to investigate some of this more. Here’s “Let It Rock” from 6/24/82: http://www.concertvault.com/jerry-garcia-band/video/let-it-rock_2147002982.html And “Deal” from 7/26/80,…
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Reading Notes: Jackson and Gans 2015
Jackson, Blair and David Gans. 2015. This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. Flatiron Books. Blair Jackson and David Gans, like Dennis McNally and David Browne earlier in my reading year, exceed my very high expectations. I don’t generally do book reviews, and won’t here, either, but I…
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oh my
https://archive.org/details/gd1978-01-11.135498.sbd.miller.flac16 Check out the Let It Grow.
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Reading Notes: Browne 2015
Browne, David. 2015. So Many Roads: The Life And Times Of The Grateful Dead. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press [a member of the Perseus Books Group]. I stand by my initial assessment – this book is the real deal, chock full of great tidbits, fluently written. This is a great addition to the canon, standing…
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NGC: Van Morrison and Toulouse Ta Truck
Via the Facebook page of the amazing Jake Feinberg, which is a treasure trove of text snippets from Jake’s radio show, which you should listen to and support. Too Loose to Truck, By Steve Mitchell I was playing with a piano player 4 nights a week at a club called “Shipwreck Pete’s.” It was John…
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If These Halls Could Talk
If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios – by Heather Johnson (2006). Has anyone ever seen a copy of this? I would like one, but it’s $170+ at Amazon and not really available at my usual on-line used book haunts.
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Garciaverse Musics
I’ll just throw this out there for comment, spitballing, and eventual dismantlement as a putative mapping (for Garciaverse purposes) of Musics that Garcia directly and quasi-publicly performed. Here are a few design principles (such as they are). 1) minimize the sum of the squared errors of the distances between where it’s mapped and where it…