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Category: 1974

  • Sole Star at Paul’s Mall

    For the JGMS gigs November 12-13-14, 1974, Paul’s Mall in Boston, two shows a night booked by one Fred Taylor. MERL SAUNDERS AND JERRY GARCIA CONTRACT RIDER 3. MERL SAUNDERS & JERRY GARCIA shall receive 100% sole star billing in any and all advertising and publicity, including marquee … Does this mean that things should…

  • LN jg1974-11-09.jgms.late.aud-slabicky.8661.shnf

    I guess I’d say I see that as a rather loose and very good show, maybe above average for the time. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Capitol Theatre 326 Monroe Street Passaic, NJ 07055 November 9, 1974 – 11 PM Late Show Slabicky shnid-8661 shn2flac –(9 tracks, 85:20)– l-t01. band introduction (1) [0:26] l-t02. Harder…

  • LN jg1974-11-10.jgms.all.sbd.98704.flac1644

    Not much to report. The tape has got some issues, but as has been the case in the past, this show mostly doesn’t move me. update: A little tape archaeology. I seem to recall that this tape exists because it was Harvey Lubar’s birthday, and it was spun for him. Talking to him early in…

  • GSCBF18: whole weekend schedule

    Here is what I believe to have been the running order of the whole weekend. This is pieced together from schedules, tape lists, and all manner of published info (see REFERENCES). I am about 90% confident in the sequencing. The times are mostly made up, though we sometimes to have stuff to go on (one…

  • Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…

  • David Nichtern and the Nocturnes

    http://www.concertvault.com/david-nichtern/record-plant-november-09-1974.html What an interesting looking little fragment. I wish I could hear it. In All GSCBF All The Time news, I suspect that Nichtern hooked up with his band, including Hot Band pedal steel player Hank Devito, as well as Nicolette Larson, through the GSCBF. They were all there.

  • JGMS: June 11, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – new to The List

    So here’s a new one for The List: JGMS at Keystone on Tuesday, June 11, 1974. But note, too, that Merl is playing Sand Dunes on Monday the 10th – this could very easily be a Monday on which Garcia sat in. The fact that Tony Saunders played with Merl and Jerry the week prior…

  • JGMS: October 11, 1974 – Chateau Liberté, Los Gatos, CA

    Unlike 3/22/74, a date for which I found no trace of a Garcia-Saunders gig at the Chateau Liberté, the Friday, October 11, 1974 gig there, for which we have some wonderful recollections from Michael Parrish, yielded a few paper remnants. Ironically, I believe that tapes circulating with this date are mislabeled hodgepodges of 1974 soundboard…

  • JGMS March 22, 1974 – Chateau Liberté

    The McNally-Arnold JG List included Garcia-Saunders on March 22, 1974 at the Chateau Liberté. I presently list the address as 22700 Old Santa Cruz Highway, Los Gatos, CA 95033 [map | JGBP | JGC | Cryptical Developments | see also LLD]. I know of no documentation of this in the public realm, just the listing,…

  • Finders Keepers: JGMS with Jim Nelson on Drums, Keystone, October 5, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-05.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8665.shn2flac I have no idea who Jim Nelson, the drummer, might be. There are some tempo issues all night long. I really like this period for JGMS. “La-La” and “Freedom Jazz Dance” are standouts to me. “Finders Keepers” is also pretty good. When these tapes came into the light, back before 9/11, they were…