Category: 1975
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Garcia Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, ca. fall 1975
jg1975-xx-xx.interview.ben-fong-torres.gdao-379555 Garcia, Jerry, 1942-1995, “Ben Fong-Torres interviews Jerry Garcia. Interview recorded circa 1975 for the documentary radio program “What was that?” broadcast on KSAN-FM in San Francisco [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed November 10, 2013, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/379555. The interview is given as 1975, at least some of it takes place at His Master’s Wheels,…
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Garcia-Hunter Originals
Somehow, I had never pinned down in my mind that Jerry played none of his original tunes before the advent of the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975. Pure covers before then. Hm. You all probably knew this. And at some level I did, too. But it has come into sharper focus for me with this…
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Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace
Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…
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Good Old Boys at Margarita’s Cantina!
https://homegrownmusic.net/store/cd/good-old-boys-live-2cd John Cutler taped these shows from February 20-21, 1975, and they are now up for official release. Wow! Cryptdev saw one of these shows. See also: Corry, “The Good Old Boys: Jerry Garcia, Producer (and some banjo)“ My goodness, can’t wait to hear these.
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The Group Probably Will Be Short-Lived, Because Hopkins Has Other Contractual Obligations
The titular line comes from an interview Garcia gave ca. November 22, 1975 to a Twin Cities journalist, Jon Bream, and references JGB #1. It could be that this was true all along, and the plan was just to monetize the Jerry Garcia name in the new Band, as well as Nicky’s name, for the…
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Catholics listing the Legion
The very Catholic USF Foghorn mentioning the LOM gig 3/14/75: “yes, that’s the Legion of Mary“. http://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15129coll8/id/7748 ! mention: San Francisco Foghorn (University of San Francisco), March 14, 1975, p. 8. ! seealso: “By the Grace of the Lord: Legion of Mary at the Masonic Temple, Scranton, April 12, 1975” h/t Yellow Shark
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Dating the Legion’s Demise: A Revisionist Account
The demise of the Legion of Mary, Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Garciaverse. The “why” is the biggest mystery of all. After almost five years of steady gigging and recording Garcia is said to have walked away. I…
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Reaching for the Gold Ring
Uncle Bobo comes on about three minutes in, introduces the band, and they drop into a sublime “Crazy Fingers”, one of my favorite songs.
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JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)
LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…