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Category: 1971

  • August 1971 Crosby super session / double album project to end the Vietnam War?

    update: Never Trust A Prankster 🙂 via GIPHY Bruce Rostenstein was an ouststanding rock columnist for the American University Eagle in the early 1970s. That paper has been digitized, and like so many other college papers, offers up all kinds of goodness for the intrepid researcher. His October 29, 1971 column brings forth something I have…

  • Dating the September 1971 Lion’s Share Gigs

    Consider this a throwback post, in that it does what the blog started out doing, and that’s just trying to correct and fill out metadata around Garciavents. Here, I argue that the material we know from circulating tapes as 9/24/71 is actually from the next night, 9/25/71, also at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo. The…

  • The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast: Season 3 – Episode 9: Skull & Roses 50: Garcia

    All about Jerry’s first solo record, Garcia, recorded 50 years ago last month. Great stuff, and then also a little pedantry from yours truly. The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast is a national treasure!

  • Rolling Thunder Data

    Rumor has long had it that Mickey has a massive trove of tape and information related to recordings made at his barn studio, a.k.a. Rolling Thunder, at 2495 Novato Blvd. between about 1971 and sometime in the early 1980s. As usual, Corry has done outstanding work pinning some of this down, but there’s probably oodles…

  • New-to-The-List from the Digitized Chronicle

    After spending X hours over X years spinning microfilm to try to find the needles of unListed Garcia gigs in the haystack of the Chronicle, the paper has been digitized. Je ne regrette rien! That said, I was able to find a few listings for The List. At this point, I cannot imagine we are…

  • 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.…

  • A Party For Mother Earth

    It’s actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining “A Party for Mother Earth”, benefiting the Bear Commune, Friends and Relations Hall, 660 Great Highway, June 3, 1971.

  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • Scotty’s Jam

    Does anybody have the state-of-the-art understanding of what the “Scotty’s Music Store 5/14/70” / “Jetty’s Music Theater 12/7/71” NRPS jam session really is? TIA. update Looks pretty certain to have been 12/9/71 at Scotty’s Music Store. Here is some info from JGBP (thanks!). Jerry plays a Zane Beck D-10 pedal steel and also Lloyd Green’s…