Fate Music

Category: 1969

  • Dawn of the NRPS

    I am sure you have already pre-ordered, as I just did, but just in case, here’s link to the upcoming Owsley Stanley Foundation (OSF) release called “Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage”. I cannot freaking wait to hear this! https://owsleystanleyfoundation.org/bears-sonic-journals/dawn-of-the-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage/

  • Jerry Garcia and Friends, Sanpaku at the Matrix: May 20-21, 1969

    Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes skimming cream is worth the price of later anticlimax. Jerry Garcia and Friends and Sam Paku [sic: Sanpaku] at the Matrix, Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 1969. Garcia’s first understood public…

  • Magic at the Edge of the Western World

  • Picture of the Murdering Punks at the Inn

    A little piece in the from the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat on the tenth anniversary of the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati notes that “A picture spread in the Pacific Sun featured Jerry Garcia and the New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there in their early days”. Great – now I *have* to track…

  • Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)

    The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of the January 17, 1969 gig. The gig was absent from Deadbase, is listed as Unknown Venue chez Deadlists, and circulates from Vault -> Latvala -> world tape as “Civic Auditorium, Santa…

  • Altamont Dreams

    I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin’s Altamont, among other things. With that in mind, I did want to put down this little tidbit I found in the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC concerning the…

  • Green Green Grass Of Home

    This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…

  • Investing in Marmaduke

    Some notes-to-self. Corry: The Grateful Dead family was interested in turning John Dawson into a recording artist as early as 1968, and willing to spend their own studio time to do it, even though nothing ever came of it, so the New Riders project can be seen as a solution rather than a random idea.…

  • Bear Tracks and Bear Drops in the Bear Republic

    “Slewfoot” was a great selection for the Dead’s Santa Rosa shows June 27-28, 1969: “Bear tracks” in the Bear Republic. date venue city state 6/11/69  California Hall  San Francisco  CA  6/21/69a  Fillmore East  New York  NY  6/27/69  Veterans Auditorium  Santa Rosa  CA  6/28/69  Veterans Auditorium  Santa Rosa  CA  7/3/69  Reed’s Ranch  Colorado Springs  CO  7/4/69 …

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1969

    update: changed title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972  Moving through the Garciaverse, I pick up lots of pieces that are more degrees of separation out from Jerry than I can ever have real occasion to…