Fate Music

Category: 1969

  • Eskimo Blue Day

    Just found Garcia at Heider’s (SF) on May 27, 1969 with the Airplane (Grace, Paul, Spencer, Jorma – very vew times I have found all of the Jeffersons listed on the same sessions!). What’s interesting is that, as far as I know, Garcia is only known to have contributed (pedal steel) to “The Farm” on…

  • That fiddle!

    https://archive.org/details/gd1969-08-03.sbd.miller.30652.sbeok.flac16 I can’t believe how great the guest fiddler is on this show, 46 years ago today. There’s also a sax and maybe a few other mystery players. Goddamn, I wish I could have seen a show at the Family Dog.

  • Seasons Of My Heart

  • Deadlists, Deadbase, GD19691003

    I understand that the Deadbase guys are making a 50th anniversary print edition. I doubt I’ll get it, because I already have Deadbase I, II, III and IX, and though they promise updates based on the wave of information that has emerged in the digital era (starting with Deadlists, and moving through LLD, LIA’s work,…

  • “Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”

    So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…

  • GD at Gold Rush Festival, Lake Amador, CA, October 4, 1969 – CXL

    “Tribe Pushes Gold,” Berkeley Tribe, September 12-18, 1969, p. 13. “Gold Rush is on – 24 hours of rock-folk-blues on the shores of Lake Amador, a private lake resort miles from anything. ” Scheduled for October 4th, planned acts include Ike and Tina Turner, Sons of Champlin, Taj Mahal, Grateful Dead, John Fahey, Cold Blood,…

  • NRPS (formerly The Murdering Punks) – August 7, 1969

    There has long been a tape identified as New Riders Of The Purple Sage (NRPS), Thursday, August 7, 1969 at the Matrix in San Francisco. Corry has found corroborating evidence for the dating, though of course the tape cannot be tied to the Ralph Gleason “On The Town” listing he found, which bills the band…

  • The Common: September 5-6-7 ish, 1969

    Berkeley Tribe, August 8-14, 1969, p. 3. Regular readers will know that I have been chasing the idea of “Jerry and the Jeffersons” in my head for a good long while. It narrates the arc of Garcia’s life as a process of gradual privatization. I started it years ago, have picked it up and put…

  • Thelma

    Paul Liberatore has a good review in the I-J. Looking forward to checking this one out.

  • GD at University of Utah, April 12, 1969

    The University of Utah’s daily campus paper, the Chronicle, had very few little fragments on the GD show held in the Union Ballroom on campus on Saturday, April 12, 1969. Taboot, I couldn’t get access to a decent scanning arrangement, as you’ll see. So, no page details, etc. Scans below, here’s what I find. SDS…