Fate Music

  • Valerie Needs a Bath, ’cause she is GRUNGY: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, February 26, 1983

    I have a stack of listening notes that don’t really say much, but I do like to post them just to keep track. 2/26/83: nice tape, good performance, nothing that absolutely slays me, except that “Valerie” absolutely KILLED in this period. I know the esteemed David Minches favors the 3/5/83 version, which I have revisited…

  • Does anybody know how to reach Matt Kelly?

    I am hoping to find dates for the 1973 Record Plant session work, with Jerry, that ended up on Wing And A Prayer. Email me if you have email for him, or point him here. TIA!

  • ’88 Bridge Benefit is Good

    A lot of good material at the Bridge Benefit, 12/4/88 in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. It’s not like 15-20 minutes was very demanding, but Garcia sounds much more enthusiastic belting out the backing vocals here on “Wang Dang Doodle”, and giving “Friend Of The Devil” a sprightly run-through, than he did on either of the…

  • We Need A Jerry Garcia Interviews Project

    Jerry did many hundreds of interviews over the years. He had a lot of interesting things to say about a lot of topics. There are also lots of quotes and so forth that circulate without any proper metadata. So, we, and by we I mean the community, need a Jerry Garcia interviews project. Collect ’em…

  • You Know What’s Crazy? I Have Never Listening-Noted a Garcia-Grisman Gig

    So I will do the January 12–13, 1994 Warfield shows together. The performances are delightful, and I don’t have tons of comments at that level. They play a number of rarities which had been relatively recently released on Not For Kids Only (Acoustic Disc ACD 9, 1993), and I am a huge fan of that record,…

  • I need to post the relatively indifferent notes, as well: JGB, November 6, 1991 – Cap Centre, Landover

    jg1991-11-06.jgb.all.aud-Brotman-Metchick.151224.t-flac1648 Skimming the cream is a natural tendency – who doesn’t like cream? But I need to post a more representative sample of things. Generous benefactors have recently put together and circulated the integral collection of Dave Brotman / Jeff Metchick‘s FOBs of the November ’91 Garcia Band tour. Every show, same tapers, very nice…

  • Garcia and The Great American Songbook

    Per wiki, The Great American Songbook is “the canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards and popular songs“. It is put out by The Great American Songbook Foundation, fittingly enough. I have so damn much to learn about this stuff. It’s just a gaping hole in my (admittedly limited) musicological understanding.  I just fell into…

  • Not For Kids Only Deluxe (Acoustic Disc DLACD-09, 2020)

    https://acousticdisc.com/product/jerry-garcia-and-david-grisman-not-for-kids-only-download/ This happened without my noticing at the time (whenever it was in that accursed year, just passed, that shall not be named). But Acoustic Disc has remastered the Not For Kids Only (Acoustic Disc ACD 9, 1993), added four bonus tracks, and offered it up for download. I am spinning the high-def (24bit / 96…

  • updated bibliography

    I have just posted an updated bibliography as a blogger page linked to the top-right and as a pdf. 114 pages, and I have made no effort to gather GD stuff, though some has snuck in.

  • The Romanesque Church Design Was Based On The Roman Basilica: Discuss (JGB at the Knick in Albany, November 3, 1993)

    I just marveled at the almost 90-minute second set offered up on 12/22/90, and got to wondering about post-coma others that might match or beat it in duration. I recalled some long sets on the 11/93 tour, recalled that I had unposted (because not very informative) notes on 11/3/93 (my 23rd birthday, though I was…