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Category: 1973

  • OAITW: September 1-2, 1973, Blue Grass Park, Camp Springs (?), North Carolina

    This is why I pick up old copies of Muleskinner News and such whenever I can. It appears based on the image below that Old and in the Way played the “9th Labor Day Weekend Original Blue Grass Music Festival” in Camp Springs (?), North Carolina on September 1-2, 1973. The only thing standing in…

  • OAITW: June 6, 1973, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

    update 20230704: I can’t go back and revise this post 13 years later. It’ll show up in Fate Music, believe me. With a LOT more specifics on Tex Logan, Peter Rowan, Boston, John Scher, and so much more! Old and in the Way did a small east coast tour in June of 1973, the band’s…

  • JGMS: July 10, 1973, Keystone, Berkeley, CA

    I have just parsed out the officially released material by release: Live at Keystone, volume 1 datings; Live at Keystone, volume 2 datings ; Live at Keystone, volume 3 (encores) datings Turning it around, here’s the perspective from the shows. This info based on most complete circulating copies. Key is below. Jerry Garcia and Merl…

  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 3 (encores) datings

    Keystone Encores Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release : 1988 Fantasy FCD 7703-2 *Hi-Heel Sneakers (Robert Higgenbotham) [7/10/73] *It’s Too Late (She’s Gone) (Chuck Willis) [7/10/73] *I Second That Emotion (William Robinson / Al Cleveland) [7/10/73] *One Kind Favor (Traditional) [7/11/73] *Money Honey (Jesse Stone) [unknown, presumed to…

  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 2 datings

    Live at the Keystone, Volume 2 Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release : 1988 Fantasy FCD 7702-2 * That’s Alright Mama (Arthur Crudup) [7/11/73, album comes in @ 5:19] * My Funny Valentine (Rodgers / Hart) [7/11/73] * Someday Baby (Sam Hopkins) [7/10/73] * Like A Road Leading…

  • JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 1 datings

    Seeing a new torrent for 1973-07-10 at Lossless Legs reminds me that deaddisc.com has not included the information on dates from which the different performances derive. So I will post them. Here’s volume one (CD release). Live at the Keystone, Volume 1 Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release…

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, Ash Grove, May 1973

    There has been a lot of confusion over the years about the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders shows played at the Ash Grove (8162 Melrose Avenue, Santa Monica, CA) in May of 1973. The Jerry Site has listed a pair of shows (early/late) on 5/23 and a pair of shows (early/late) on 5/30. I believe…

  • new OAITW

    Seemingly new-to-circ OAITW show via Matt Smith and the Pacific Northwest crew running at Lossless Legs. Fun stuff. Richard Greene is there, which puts it to April-May ’73, in all likelihood. It’s also in a goodish sized hall, not the Keystone or Boarding House or whatever. My own guess is either Santa Barbara 4/12/73 or…

  • Taking a Shit is a Political Act

    Carol Brightman’s Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure offers the thesis that Garcia and the Grateful Dead were “apolitical” and should be condemned to that extent, having failed to stand up (as the Berkeley radicals did) to the injustices and corruptions of American and international politics in the 60s and 70s. The GD/San Francisco/Merry…