Category: 1976
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Context: September 1976 BAM Listings
Up to three pages, lots of ads. Well done, hip young capitalists! p. 25 finds the usual stuff. I am a little confused about address of the Green Earth, here listed as 1810 Market, with another place, the Omnibus, at 1821 Haight. I assume this is a typesetting problem, need to double-check. Some Country Joe…
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Context: August 1976 BAM Listings
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Context: July 1976 BAM Listings
I intend this stuff for future historians, not to take up Corry’s precious time! BAM no. 5 sees the live music listings expanding to two pages. Probably the same quantity of listings, but now there are ads to go along with them. The publication is doing some business! Lots of interesting stuff here, as always.…
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Context: June 1976 BAM Listings
Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…
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Context: May 1976 BAM listings
More color. May 21, 1976, Garcia Band plays Orpheum in San Francisco, while Garcia’s erstwhile bandmate, Merl, is stuck playing Fonzie’s in San Jose, the latter mostly still orchards and low riders rather than silicon and Teslas. And other fun stuff. Oh, and it looks like Mingus didn’t play Keystone Korner in May ’76. I…
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Context: April 1976 BAM listings
So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…
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Checking Donna Out While Jamming With Her Husband: JGB, April 2, 1976
VN jg1976-04-02.jgb.late.video-youtube-Deadvids I’ll tag this “VN” in the title, for viewing notes. B&W Monarch Entertainment video from the Cap in Passaic. Not even a crusty aud in circulation, and low-gen video of the complete show drops from the sky, 38 years later. Wow. Viewing notes below. One of the most interesting things for me is…
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JGB 9/15/76 S.S. Duchess, New York City Harbor, New York, NY
The relationship between the Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels has been pretty well discussed, though I am sure there’s tons more to say. That’s for others to do. Here I’ll just note that Garcia also worked with the Angels outside the GD framework. I have made a few posts with Hells Angels content. I…
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Nicky after JGB
Under the rock and jazz heading, you’ll see Terry and the Pirates, featuring John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins playing the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley on Friday January 2 and Saturday, January 3, 1976. I had never really picked this up before. After flaming out of JGB on New Year’s Eve 1975-1976, two days later Nicky…
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JGB April 2, 1976 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
Wow. Earliest known JGB video. Wonderful. Hopefully there’s more video from the Cap yet to emerge! Thanks to whomever unearthed and shared this. Great, great stuff.