• Prolly gonna slow down again

    Ebb, flow, ebb, flow. Blogging is likely to be like that, for awhile. In the meantime, regarding 46 years ago today: did the Dead play Hippie Hill?

  • GD: August 19, 1970 at the Fillmore West

    ! R: field recordist: Gene Taback ! R: field recording gear: Sony TC-124 with Sony stereo mic ! R: transfer: Master/1st generation cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard (96Mhz/24 bit)> HD. My goodness, I love love love love love this acoustic set. The recording really captures a feeling.…

  • A Perspective on Deadhead Philanthropy

    Joop Rubens, Senior Director of Development, Library UC Santa Cruz, “Without love in the dream it will never come true,” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/without-love-dream-never-come-through-joop-rubens, consulted August 20, 2015.

  • Berkeley Barb Archive

    http://voices.revealdigital.com/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=BFBJFGD&ai=1&e Available online: 13 August 1965 – 24 April 1980 (527 issues) Can this really be? Oh my goodness. see also my earlier post on Independent Voices.

  • Lost Godchaux-Muldaur Era JGB

    New to The List:  Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnold JG List, and there is tape), but also Sunday, August 13, 1978. The latter would be new to The List.  ! listing: Stanford Daily, August 11, 1978, p. 7.  Still Uncertain? 11/4/78 and a…

  • Public to Private

    Proposition 13: “Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah,” URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2015/06/grr-ah-grr-ah-grrr-rrrr-rrrr-ah.html Public libraries: “San Diego Public Library, and Public Libraries,” URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2014/11/san-diego-public-library-and-public.html. Sesame Street: Winter, Jessica. 2015. Why Sesame Street’s Move to HBO Is Both Great and Extremely Depressing. Slate.com, August 13, URL http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/13/sesame_street_goes_to_hbo_practically_it_s_great_symbolically_not_so_much.html, accessed 8/15/2015.

  • more Garcia summer 1991 cancellations

    Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991, but July 11th announced that Citing “mounting health problems,” Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater. This ended up being canceled. I had earlier noted that that summer’s…

  • SF Sessions 1970 updated

    I have updated my post on 1970 SF Sessions, more rumination on the various filmings, a few other points straightened out. updated again 8/11/2015 0830 Mountain Daylight Time

  • On lead guitar and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia

    Bill Graham: Good evening. We welcome you, on behalf of the group. We should introduce … We should thank United Artists and Mr. Ron Rakow. I should make it official. Mr. Rakow is the President of Round Records. He asked if I could be here this evening, and I said ‘I’d like twelve dollars and…

  • The Humanity

    Video of “So Many Roads” from 7/9/95 below the fold.