Fate Music

Category: 1976

  • On Tours and Marketing Records

    Over at Jerrybase, we have begun grouping events not only by “runs” (consecutive nights at the same venue), but also “tours”. It turns out that the notion of a tour isn’t quite as crystal clear as one might want it. I wanted it to be at least three out of town gigs in at least…

  • What It Is All About: Jerry Band Monday at the Keystone, August 16, 1976

    I love love love the mid-1976 versions of “After Midnight”, with Donna seconding on “what it is all about”. (Happy 73rd birthday to DJG the day of this post, BTW!) I also like the “Stop That Train”s from this era, both imprinted on my brain from some tape I played the hell out of. This…

  • What is the Opposite of a Bat Outta Hell? JGB at Keystone, September 10-12, 1976

    I am not a huge fan of the syrupy tempos of 1976 JGB, the ultimate comfort band for Our Hero. There are some great sounding tapes, the occasional killer show (4/3/76b), and some spectacular specific songs (“Right Mighty High”, “Moonlight Mile”, “Who Was John” and others are some of my faves), but the overall vibe…

  • Tighten Up

    The “Tighten Up” jam has always been a favorite. I am partial to the 1/2/70 and 10/31/71 versions, always wondered where the heck that last one came from since it’s so well-developed while not having been played in well over a year (and never before with Keith, AFAIK). Just here to note that the wonderful…

  • Linear Dead Listening

    I am a bicycle commuter (19 miles a day), and I generally listen to Dead shows while pedaling. Awhile back, I did the whole E72 tour consecutively. Earlier this year, I ran sequentially through 1974. So much good music. I don’t really retain too many specific memories, so just a few observations. The February Winterland…

  • Keystone Hardware, ca. 1976

    For the gearheads out there. Billboard, March 13, 1976, p. SF-19, via http://americanradiohistory.com/. Oh yeah, the idea of a 15 minute drive from the City to Berkeley, at anything other than the dead of night, sure sounds quaint!

  • Dull as Dishwater in a Classic Art Deco Movie Palace: JGB, Astor Theatre, Reading, PA, September 20, 1976 late show

    zzzzz LN jg1976-09-20.jgb.late.aud-peters.138205.flac1644 The rooms sounds fantastic, but the show bores me to tears, except for some nice flowing guitar work in “Catfish John”. My copy of the band itinerary lacks the pages after Ithaca College (9/18), but for that gig they flew in and out of Teterboro, coming back to the St. Moritz and…

  • GarciaLive 7: JGB from Sophie’s, 11/8/76

    Fresh tape. Tracklist, via Nick: http://www.jambase.com/article/donna-jean-godchaux-find-leads-garcialive-volume-seven Sneak preview of one track via David Browne: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-jerry-garcia-bands-jubliant-live-mighty-high-from-1976-w431440. At dead.net. a commenter says In today’s Relix magazine they interview Donna Jean who found some more tapes in a box in one of the Godchaux houses. It’s a Betty board. This is November 8th 1976 at Sophie’s in Palo…

  • JGB at Freeborn Hall, November 12, 1976

    Sometime in the afternoon or thereabouts of Friday, November 12, 1976, Garcia, John Kahn, Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, probably Richard Loren hopped into sedans being driven by monitor mixer Harry Popick and roadie Bill ‘Kidd’ Candelario to Davis, California, about a hundred miles east of San Francisco on I-80. Thus began a little weekend…

  • Nick on the Dead’s July ’76 Orpheum shows

    http://deadthinking.blogspot.com/2016/01/orpheum-theatre-july-1976.html Great write up, wet your whistle for the forthcoming Dave’s Pick.