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Dropping the Banjo
4640 What I was trying to do was basically mathematical, mechanical. It was basically like a dead end, it stopped being interesting. I never really decided, it was just ‘I can’t play this thing anymore’. … LSD made me want to hear longer sounds, be freer, not be restricted, musically, and not be such a…
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Garcia on The Tubes
Q 2145 Have you seen the Tubes? Oh yeah. You like The Tubes? Oh yeah. We were … my band, we were rehearsing over at SIR and the Tubes were in there rehearsing. Their rehearsal scene is like more stringent than a Broadway play. They rehearse like a bar at a time, their moves, they…
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May 5, 1982 should be June 5, 1982
Perhaps the most bootlegged Garcia-on-the-side gig is acoustic Garcia and Kahn, attributed as the Oregon State Penitentiary, 2575 Center St. NE, Salem, OR 97301, May 5, 1982 [JGC | JGBP | map | etree showid-48429] Lots of these have been liberated into freely-circulating lossless formats (shnid-4423, shnid-11463, shnid-17900), which are all pretty much the same…
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12/15/73 post updated
You might want to put your good eyeballs in for my updated 12/15/73 post.
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Free Caravaggio
There are a bunch of Caravaggios in Rome, but the stunning thing is that four of them can be seen for free. I am certainly no art critic, but I don’t let that stop me, strolling from north to south. On the Piazza del Popolo is Santa Maria del Popolo, which is just bursting at…
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NRPS 12/15/73 Winterland w/ guests
Uhhh, wow. The amazing NRPS archivist Rob Bleetstein not only responded to my query about the source for the NRPS official concert history listing that shows Garcia (guitar) and Sandy Rothman (banjo) sitting in with the New Riders on “Glendale Train”, 12/15/73 at Winterland (see also Corry). I say, he not only responded to my…
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Lurid Nightclub Atmosphere
https://archive.org/details/gd66-12-01.sbd.sirmick.26968.sbeok.shnf Garcia, after Minglewood: Welcome to another evening of confusion and high frequency stimulation. And, Sucrets, cold beer on tap, lurid nightclub atmosphere, and Beatniks … more Beatniks than you can count on two hands.
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Spork: Jerry Garcia Band with Nicky Hopkins- Let It Rock
Spork: Jerry Garcia Band with Nicky Hopkins- Let It Rock: With the possible exception of his work with David Grisman , this first iteration of The Jerry Garcia Band was totally unique because it i…
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Zimmy at Sans Souci
Many counter culture luminaries found their way to Sans Souci in those days. On one memorable occasion, Grisman brought Bob Dylan along for a rehearsal at the house. “It was kind of exciting,” [Mountain Girl] remembered. “I baked chocolate chip cookies, and they all seemed to be having a rousing good time, playing together in…