Category: 1969
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Grateful Dead at Olompali, ca. June 1969
I was just sniffing around Olompali a little bit. It’s a powerful place. I need to write a lot about it. Anyway, sniffing around, as I say, and I come across this image: And it comes from this blog post: http://www.thedoctorweighsin.com/so-who-needs-state-and-national-parks-anyway/ I only infer June 1969 because that’s how the picture is dated. The I…
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RN Sandy Troy’s One More Saturday Night (1991)
Troy, Sandy. 1991. One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Reading Notes “by the fall of 1974 the band’s business ventures began to unravel” (Troy 1991, 27). #business JG and MG moved in together early 1967 (Troy 1991, 68). #women #v-Carousel as described…
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NRPS: November 26, 1969, Poppycock, Palo Alto
A few years ago Corry uncovered a whole trove of previously unknown NRPS shows in 1969. Among others, these included gigs in their old Palo Alto stomping grounds, playing the Poppycock (135 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94301) on consecutive Thursdays in November (November 13, 1969 and November 20, 1969). I am still hiatus, so…
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Jack and Jorma – Matrix – July 22, 1969 (Tuesday)
Sometimes to contemplate a piece of data requires going at least one degree of separation back. Here’s a case in point: I was listening to Garcia play the “3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds Jam” [a.k.a. “Turnaround, per the 6/28/69 official release] with Jack Casady. And I want to know how this version relates…
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On hiatus until ca. March 2013
But, in the meantime … Some years ago, I posted about the Grateful Dead gig on Friday, May 16, 1969 in the gymnasium of Campolindo High School, 300 Moraga Rd., Moraga, CA, 94556. I posted a wild-sounding story about the gig which may contain some actual truth. There were comments and such. At some point…
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Where Was the Grateful Dead on Sunday, August 24, 1969?
Here are the listings from the great San Francisco Express Times, vol. 2 no. 32 (August 21, 1969), p. unk. There’s lots of interest here, of course. But I have circled the item that interests me most greatly. It’s under the listings for Sunday, August 24, 1969, and reads as follows: Hippy Hill: Trans-Cultural Rip-Offs,…
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LN19690219 High Country “2/19/69” Matrix, San Francisco, CA
LIA’s argument that the GD set circulating under the date of 6/19/68 is actually the 2/19/69 GD show is totally persuasive to me. Of course that probably implies that the 2/19/69 dating of the High Country set from the Matrix, with Garcia and Nelson joining Butch Waller and Rich Wilbur, is probably mis-dated. (A Wednesday…
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Marmaduke and Jerry: unknown Bay Area “resort”, ca. mid-June 1969
Gene Sculati, in a very insightful little piece written ca. mid-June 1969 (1): Recently “a local resort featured Dead accomplice Marmaduke singing country (and playing guitar) to the accompaniment of Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar.” Anyone know of a Marmaduke-Jerry gig, ca. mid-June 1969, at a resort? REFERENCE (1) Sculati, Gene. 1969. What’s Become…
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Reading Notes: Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35 .
Just figured I’d post my random scribbles about stuff as I read. Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35. This article is based on discussions that appear to have happened in January 1970, since Tom Constanten is present. Recall that there have been various discussions of this timeframe online:…
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Where were the NRPS in late 1969 – early 1970?
Light Into Ashes notes the following about the April 17-18, 1970 NRPS billing: these were the first known shows Garcia had played with NRPS since November ’69 NRPS shows were advertised for March 12-14, and March 18, 1970 (see), while the NRPS concert history lists 2/7/70. The latter seems very unlikely (see comments to this…