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Category: 1974

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  • GarciaLive vol. 9: JGMS at Keystone, 8/11/74

    GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – set for 7/28 release. I have done listening notes on the Falanga-Menke aud, and beside the Four Tops’ “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)” –and the tape– it doesn’t slay me. That said, I’ll happily buy it – an uncirculated soundboard to support the…

  • Two Pauls in Boston

    LN jg1974-11-14.jgms.early-1.aud-warburton.16461.shn2flac LN jg1974-11-14.jgms.early.aud-alt.135968.flac1644 Garcia-Saunders, with Paul Humphrey drumming, Paul’s Mall in Boston, late 1974. What’s not to like? Jimmy Warburton‘s tape (shnid-16461) blew my mind when it came out – a revelation. We were still erroneously calling “Valdez In The Country” “Bossa Martin”, and wearing onions on our belts, which was the style at…

  • Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You?

    A little over a year ago, I found a review of a unique-sounding Garcia-Saunders gig, backing Maria Muldaur at the Berkeley Community Theatre on October 12, 1974. While unique at the gig level, it turns out that JGMS backing John Kahn’s then-“old lady” Maria Muldaur, still flying high from a hit record or two, was…

  • The real dates of the “September 1, 1974” material

    Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band, Pure Jerry 4: Keystone, Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (Jerry Made JGCD0004, 2004). We always knew that this was a hodgepodge of dates (there are several set/end-of-show announcements, in weird spots if we have a continuous show from 9/1/74). But what little evidence we have suggests that things are more…

  • James and the Mercedes demos

    The great Stephen Barncard has posted some snippets of 1974 James and Mercedes demos from Weir’s place. I had never heard these before. http://media.barncard.com/audio/history/james-mercedes/ No Garcia Content (NGC). 

  • Great American String Band – May 5, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley

    Sunday, May 5, 1974 found Garcia at the Keystone (typical), but in the background, picking some banjo in the Great American String Band behind its featured front line of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), and David Nichtern (guitar and vocals). Rather remarkably, we know a fair bit of very interesting stuff about this gig,…

  • Walkin’ One and Only: JGMS backing Maria Muldaur, BCT, October 12, 1974

    updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review Well, well, well … just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, October 12, 1974 in the Berkeley Barb (Wikarska 1974). Maria worked with three bands this night. 1) David Nichtern (I presume “and the Nocturnes”): Nichtern, Hank DeVito on steel, Larry Jones on…

  • JGMS Marx Meadows video

    Wow. That is a four-minute black and white video, with sound, of JGMS playing “Sitting In Limbo” at Marx Meadows, Golden Gate Park, September 2, 1974. There’s an equipment malfunction and the snippet ends on Big Steve coming out to fix some things. Beyond the fact that this video exists, what amazes me most is…

  • GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton

    Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…