Category: 1971

  • Jerry Garcia Sometime Before Christmas

    Night Times, published out of Berkeley for about a year (as far as I know) in 1971-1972, is a treasure. I found a review of Chez Panisse just shortly after it opened, but it’s loaded with great music, art, etc. content. Anyway, I liked this one, from the December 23, 1971 – January 3, 1972…

  • John Kahn video, December 1971

  • Keith. And, Modernity.

    Introduction: A Document In my post “Keith Speaks”, I threw out some raw materials on Fall 1971, Keith, FM broadcasts, as illuminated by a great little piece in the Chicago music mag The Now Sound. But I didn’t really add any value. Well a new piece has just come across my brain, and I wanted…

  • Fall 1971: Keith Speaks, records, FM broadcasts

    van Matre, Lynn. 1972. The Grateful Dead Haven’t Changed Much. Now Sound 1, 4 (January): 4, 14. Very brief little piece, the text of which I reproduce in full, à la Dead Sources, below the fold. Here, just a few bullets, I’ll also file under “reading notes“. The interview material with Phil Lesh and Keith…

  • New to The List

    I’ll be posting some new-to-The-List dates ad seriatim. JGMS: Wednesday, December 9, 1970, Matrix San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 1970, p. 62.  JGMS: Wednesday, January 6, 1971, Matrix Wasserman, John L. 1971. A Talent Bigger Than Her Name. San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 1971, p. 38. NRPS: Monday, January 11, 1971, Lion’s Share JGMS: Tuesday,…

  • Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders – February 22, 1971, Matrix, San Francisco

    Wasserman, John L. 1971. The Big Sound At Lake Tahoe [“Something Else” subhead], San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 1971, p. 40. The Chicken’s Matrix list  doesn’t show a few of these Matrix gigs, so I’ll throw them out there. Monday; February 22, 1971; Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders Tuesday; February 23, 1971; Larry Coryell Wednesday;…

  • From Family Dog to Friends and Relations, 1970-1971

    http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/FD%20Shows.htm Does anyone know the story of the end of the Family Dog, and the re-emergence of 660 Great Highway as Friends and Relations Hall? I am sure it’s out there, but I don’t recall seeing it and I know nothing other than what I see in the listings. I am presently going through some…

  • NRPS were best when Marmaduke was focused and sober (LN jg1971-10-27.nrps.all.fm-weiner.18357.shnf)

    The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead for most or all of its October-December 1971 touring. Happily, a lot of the shows were broadcast and there are pretty good tapes. This one, from the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, NY on October 27, 1971 is an above-average tape of a…

  • NRPS 19710121 Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA

    My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong. California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. Here’s…

  • JGMS 19710920 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, USA. What a fantastic spot, and a review of the calendars and other materials so presciently and conscientiously preserved and generously shared by former employee-then-proprietor Mark Braunstein highlights its importance in the whole thing, *that* whole thing, as well. (I didn’t see any evidence…