Fate Music

Category: 1970

  • drive-by: GD 4/15/70 jam: hottest six minutes of the decade?

    I don’t have time to go full chapter-and-verse on this one: what I know is at Jerrybase. I give you what’s laconically labeled Grateful Dead’s “Jam (with Guests)” 4/15/70 at Winterland. https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-15.132734.sbd.reel.latvala-eaton-wise.flac16/t10.flac or https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1970/04/15/jam-with-guests?source=88717

  • 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/

  • ca. November 1-2, 1970 fragments

    Having just posted on Janis’s wake, which is said to have taken place on 10/26/70, I find myself wanting to at least take a stand on a few other gigs which have left me a little befuddled over the years. The first involves a “First Annual San Francisco Halloween Marathon Festival of the Performing Arts”,…

  • Pearl’s Wake

    Around November 3, 1970 the Associate Press (AP) had an item in lots of papers noting that Janis Joplin had left $2,500 in her will for a big ol’ celebration of her life after her passing. Invitations went out reading “The drinks are on Pearl”, and it happened at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo.…

  • Dangerous-Looking Young Man at the Edge of the Western World

    Anyone know who the dangerous-looking young man is? I know I should know, but I don’t know. See also, of course, Corry.

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972

    In addition to the tantalizing May 20-21, 1969 Garcia gigs at the Matrix, the newly-digitized Examiner has yielded a good number of previously unlisted, mostly-midweek Garcia gigs. A little list  from 1970-1972 follows. update: see also a subsequent list from 1973-end 11/2/70 (Monday): Jerry Garcia / BBHC / Ice / Cleveland Wrecking Company. Harding Theater.…

  • GD Fillmore West April 9, 1970

    https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-09.137104.aud.cousinit.flac16/gd1970-04-09-d2t03.flac What a hottie this Good Lovin’ jam is! These shows are only represented in imperfect audience tapes, but they are crucial documents from a period relatively underrepresented on soundboard tape. 7/12/70 at the Fillmore East is another one of these shows that has gotten too little attention because of soundboard snobbery. For this period,…

  • Lenny Hart’s term of employment

    I had never quite seen this much specificity on the dates around Lenny Hart, but in combination with some other factors (Gar talking about the situation with Rakow at the Family Dog, which the GD were playing through 3/1/70), this really seems pretty precise. Hart was arrested July 26 in San Diego on a Marin…

  • New blog: Mickey’s Gong

    https://mickeysgong.wordpress.com/  the idea is i listen to every single recording of the grateful dead’s 1970 performances and then write about every single one Sounds like a winner!

  • Sound Storm Echoes

    The Grateful Dead played a legendary gig at the Sound Storm festival on Mrs. Irene York’s farm near Poynette, Wisconsin on April 26, 1970. As ever, Corry is on the case, as is LIA over at Deadsources. I have a couple of obscure followups. First, three years after the fact, a program called “Studio None”…