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Category: 1971

  • NRPS 19710820-21: Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning calendar of events, August 1971. Courtesy of Mark Braunstein. The August 1971 calendar of events for the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, shows The New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there on Friday, August 20, 1971 and Saturday, August 21, 1971. These dates are…

  • more on the keyboardist change, ca. 1971

    We have been going around on the various blogs about the engagement of Vince Guaraldi and Howard Wales with the GD/Garcia, and especially about Weir’s recollection that Howard Wales had a tryout as GD keyboardist. LIA has wondered aloud whether some of the 1970 “Hartbeats” gigs, e.g., in late July, were, effectively, the Wales tryouts.…

  • “Can’t you all see how beautiful this is?” GD/NRPS: Saturday, April 24, 1971, Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC

    I am intimately familiar with this show. It was in that first batch of ____________ [fill in blank: 10, 20, however many] great tapes I got from _____________ [fill in name, e.g., “John Smith” or other best description, e.g., “freak I met in the record store in Santa Barbara to whose Lompoc address I mailed…

  • GD19710903-4: Harding Theater, SF, CA

    Here’s another one that puzzles me. This scan from the Berkeley Tribe v.6 n.4 (issue #110) (September 3-9, 1971), p. 13 advertises a benefit for Marin County Head Start featuring Grateful Dead, Howard Wales and Shades of Joy on Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, 1971 at the Harding Theater in San Francisco. Why post? A few reasons.…

  • GD/NRPS: April 19, 1971, Gymnasium, Hofstra University, West Hempstead, NY (CANCELED)

    Corry and I have been documenting some of the GD’s early 1971 logistical difficulties. GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA GD: March/April 1971, Norther Illinois University, Dekalb, IL GD: March 19, 1971 The Syndrome, Chicago, IL (LLD) GD: April 2, 1971 Kent State University, Kent, OH…

  • HWJG19710801 question

    A little while back we had a whole series of things related to Howard Wales / Jerry Garcia Hooteroll? Hooteroll?–When Was It Recorded?  — LLD, Jan. 6, 2011 Response to LLD’s Hooteroll–When Was It Recorded? — JGMF, Jan. 7, 2011 Hooteroll? Next Part — JGMF, 1/13/2011 In that last one, I mentioned Blair Jackson’s information…

  • Response to LLD’s Hooteroll–When Was It Recorded?

    Corry has an important and rich post over at LLD on the mystery that shrouds the recording of Howard Wales / Jerry Garcia, Hooteroll [deaddisc entry]. I started to reply in comments over there, but began to write more than I thought suitable for that little sub-medium (a minimum?), so I thought I’d just let…

  • JGMS: October 3, 1971, Frost Ampitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutcherson – Harold Land Quintet. Love that jazz billing. Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few…

  • NRPS, January 1971

    update: NRPS now confirmed for all three of these shows I have had some uncertainty about whether NRPS played with the GD during the handful of January 1971 shows. The New Riders’ official tour history from 1971 has listed these shows: 1/21/71, Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA 1/22/71, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR “1/25/71”,…

  • Jerry Garcia at the Matrix, 1970-1971

    As I noted a little bit ago, Ross Hannan sent some wonderful info on Matrix gigs. In this post I respond to some of his listings with questions, additional or different information, etc. I was just going to email this, but one never knows when someone else might see this and be able to weigh-in.…