Category: 1974
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GASB/GAMB: mid-June 1974
update 20140907: June 12 was Lion’s Share, June 13-14 was Keystone Berkeley. This post mostly deals with stuff that has been clarified by Elwood (1974), but there’s still some good analysis of things other than date/venue in the old text /update The Great American String/Music Band is one of my favorite Garcia-involved aggregations. It was…
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Jerry with Merl and/or Martin, ca. 1974, The Sand Dunes
We know that Jerry Garcia was playing around outside the GD to a varying, but always non-zero, extent throughout the career of his most famous band. We have a sense that this was happening more, and more loosely, in the early days (at least pre-1976) and less, and in a more routinized/institutionalized way after that.…
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The 1974 Garcia/Saunders instrumental previously listed as “Bags’ Groove”
UPDATE 1/24/2015: Commenter Nick has determined that this is actually “Darben The Redd Foxx“. For fans of Jerry Garcia’s pre-1975 excursions beyond the Grateful Dead, one of the great fun things is to hear Jerry trying on really unusual material, seemingly without much preparation. I think of the instrumental versions of “Day By Day” (from…
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JGMS, August 24, 1974, venue confusion
August 1974 is one of Jerry’s greatest months. Between the killer GD shows at the star of the month and all of the incredible Garcia/Saunders shows (8/31/74 is right at the top of my desert island list), it really is incredible. But I am confused about a few of the details from this month. I’ll…
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GD: July 4, 1974, Titan Stadium, Oshkosh, WI (CXL)
A mention in the Chicago Tribune of June 20, 1974 (1) notes that tickets are still available for the GD’s July 4th show at 10,000 seat Titan Stadium in Oshkosh, WI. I had though Corry had written this up over at Lost Live Dead, but I don’t see it there so I thought I’d at…
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JGMS with Jack Casady and Stephen Stills? July 14, 1974 at the Great American Music Hall
Merl Jr. said that the tape to find would be Garcia/Saunders at the Great American Music Hall on a day that Crosby, Stills and Nash had played a Day on the Green. He says that Jack Casady and Stephen Stills came over after the CSN gig and jammed with Jerry and Merl and that it…
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Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival
Gotta whole mess o’ discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff. There’s a four CD version going around, but there’s more material that I’ll try to get moving around. There’s a post at Keep on Truckin‘ with the setlist of the circulating material. edit 8/22/201: now going…