Fate Music

Category: 1973

  • Just Like Wolfman Jack

    Man, the Dead’s 3/26/73 show in Baltimore is the cat’s meow. Hearing Garcia grin behind his beard during Ramble on Rose, after Wolman Jack had just come out on stage and done his thing, is worth the price of admission — which, due to the miracle of Deadhead ingenuity and the internet happens to be…

  • Old And In The Way at the Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara

    Several years ago, Richard Greene was kind enough to work through some of his old datebooks with me over the phone. He showed himself at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 12, 1973, a date for which no Old And In The Way (OAITW) gig has been listed. I thought it was…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share

    I see that 7/5/73 is slated for official release as (per B&N) Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/garcialive-6-july-5-1973-lions-share/29919624;jsessionid=D74E41C2738E4500EC4D90119172BE33.prodny_store01-atgap05?ean=0880882255220  http://www.amazon.com/Garcialive-July-1973-Lions-Share/dp/B01F73YZZ0 See my post now titled “Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share” if you want to learn more about the very interesting songs, the great performance, the mysterious trumpet…

  • Friday Night at the Boarding House

    edit: well, this is a first – turns out I had already posted a version of this. Heh heh. Presumably, this one is better. April 13-16, 1973 saw Garcia “Four Nights at the Boarding House”, two with Merl Saunders and The Group (JGMS), two with Old And In The Way (OAITW). So much about these…

  • Grateful Dead, 9/11/73, William and Mary

    One of the early Deadbases, maybe the original, had a little review of the September ’73 Dead shows at William & Mary (né College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences, chartered in the Virginia Colony in 1693 by, you guessed it, William and Mary), special shows, maybe second night was a…

  • One Kind Favor

    I presume this is 9/6/73.

  • “Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”

    So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…

  • Reading Notes: Dupree 1974

    Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…

  • Vassar’s Debut With Old And In The Way

    Listing for “Old And In The Way” featuring Jerry Garcia, Richard Greene, David Grisman, John Kahn and Peter Rowan, Tuesday, June 5 at the Aquarius Theatre”, Boston Phoenix, May 29, 1973, p. 27. Mention for “Jerry Garcia, Richard Green [sic], ‘Old And In The Way’, June 5th, 8 PM at the Orpheum”, Boston Phoenix, June…

  • OAITW at Homer’s Warehouse – March 4, 1973

    This started off, and can still function, as a post with the setlists for the 3/4/73 OAITW gigs at Homer’s Warehouse. But now there are a few other fragmentary thoughts. Jerry Garcia lived an idyll at Sans Souci (18 Avenida Farallone, Stinson Beach, CA, 94970, map). It was his most domestic period, living with MG…